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Rockley Bonner

Ive found a few; for instance.

http://www.cgma2dacademy.com/environment-design-digital-painting.html

http://courses.gnomonschool.com/courses/course/environments_for_games_online

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/zbw-masters/

Are there any others one might recommend? Im thinking about taking some after I finish the folio.

Torch

http://www.digitaltutors.com/

https://www.3dmotive.com/

http://www.cgma2dacademy.com/

MagicSugar

I seriously recommend 3dbuzz. Their legacy stuff is laughable now (outdated). But if you're on a tight budget and a green as grass beginner their offerings are pretty cost effective in my opinion. Hate their site's UI reboot though.

Re: zbrushworkshop, they have cool stuff but I'm just out of their pricing schemes.

If everyday was Thanksgiving sales day, I'd definitely patronize these sites more.:)

Jeremy Lindstrom

www.schoolism.com is pretty legit as well.

maximumsproductions

http://eat3d.com/

Nysuatro

https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.udacity.com/

I am addicted to these sites

slipsius

just to help the thread, it might not be what you`re looking for but if any animators / character artists / riggers have a look, there are these.

www.animationmentor.com - animation only
www.ianimate.net - animation / rigging
www.animschool.com - animation / rigging / feature quality character modelling

Kbrom12

http://www.polycount.com/

OrganizedChaos

http://www.cgcircuit.com/

Torch

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I figured since we were asking questions about direction, etc. I would ask a quick q rather than start a new post.

I personally have been trying to get more into drawing/painting and feel I can draw ok-ish when copying, but want to know more about design principles, e.g. how to come up with solid design ideas, good silhouette, costume design, etc. Could anyone link me some good resources? Books/sites, etc? Thanks!

maximumsproductions

Torch wrote: »

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I figured since we were asking questions about direction, etc. I would ask a quick q rather than start a new post.

I personally have been trying to get more into drawing/painting and feel I can draw ok-ish when copying, but want to know more about design principles, e.g. how to come up with solid design ideas, good silhouette, costume design, etc. Could anyone link me some good resources? Books/sites, etc? Thanks!

I'd like to add on this as I have a similar question because I want to learn how to sketch for myself so I don't have to steal peoples concepts. I'm not looking to make art with my traditional 2d stuff but more so have functionality to draw on top of my 3d models to further develop detail.

Only thing I can think of that would benefit me is perspective so would this do? http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/1014/#.UcGoy_mHt8E

MagicSugar

@Torch, maximumproductions


http://www.floobynooby.com/ICG/artvalues.html

http://floobynooby.blogspot.ca/2011/12/tips-on-character-and-costume-design-by.html

Oldie but goodie, from the legendary Arne Niklas Jansson http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

http://autodestructdigital.blogspot.ca/ If you've never been to this site don't be scared by the NSFW warning. Dig his archives for art info gold.

Finally, before you spend money...learn all you can from ctrl paint's freebie videos (if you're into 2D). If you can't learn from them you're not gonna learn much from paid content.

Good luck. Practice EVERYDAY. But relax, you'll not really learn all "fundamentals" in a short period of time even if you watch it explained to you in a video or book. You'll need time to absorb and digest.

Torch

Wow nice links, thanks - been watching the CTRL+Paint videos and they're gold!

maximumsproductions

MagicSugar wrote: »

@Torch, maximumproductions


http://www.floobynooby.com/ICG/artvalues.html

http://floobynooby.blogspot.ca/2011/12/tips-on-character-and-costume-design-by.html

Oldie but goodie, from the legendary Arne Niklas Jansson http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

http://autodestructdigital.blogspot.ca/ If you've never been to this site don't be scared by the NSFW warning. Dig his archives for art info gold.

Finally, before you spend money...learn all you can from ctrl paint's freebie videos (if you're into 2D). If you can't learn from them you're not gonna learn much from paid content.

Good luck. Practice EVERYDAY. But relax, you'll not really learn all "fundamentals" in a short period of time even if you watch it explained to you in a video or book. You'll need time to absorb and digest.

Thanks, definitely not as easy as learning a program but this'll def help shorten my running distance when someone like me has very basic traditional knowledge to begin with.

MagicSugar

Here's another good one for learners: http://www.youtube.com/user/moatddtutorials

Don't be turned off by his cutesy drawings. Checkout his older drawing tutorials. He's currently making his own indie game too.

I consider this guy a mad genius. Watch enough of his videos/ rants you might reach this conclusion too.

Torch

Think Feng Zhu's vids were already posted in another thread but wanted to re-post here, these are great: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yKxY0KKrak"]EPISODE 30 Character Silhouettes part1 - YouTube[/ame]

ponjarphy

http://www.gc-academy.net/ this is more like the animation mentor model. .. though their rigging is modular aswell.

Wahlgren

Anyone know any good drawing courses or what not online? Looking into something for the end of the year / autumn-ish to do after work and such.

Prefferebly something that hammers in the basics in a good way so you can continue learning on your own. I'm looking into gnomons dvds atm but it would be nice with a living person talking aswell.

alicia32

I individually have been trying to get more into drawing/painting and experience I can sketch ok-ish when duplicating, but want to know more about style concepts.



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