HELP NEEDED: Looking for a great online creature sculpting class

Lifelover · Sep 2018

Hi, guys! I've been looking for classes that teach sculpting creatures digitally in the vein of Simon Lee and Skink Chen. It appeared to be quite the challenge to find such, so can anybody point me to any awesome tutor?

carvuliero · Sep 2018

I can think of few that you can check [some might be old and hard to find tho]

Binary Divinity - Birth of Creature

Creative Character Design Techniques with Neville Page

Pluralsight - An Immortal Design Character Design Theory and Development

Stan Winston School Creature Design - Jordu Schell

Uartsy - Creature Sculpting with Jordu Schell

Zbrushworkshop The Making of The Hunter by Jesse Sandifer

oglu · Sep 2018

Attending such sculpting classes is only a small part of becoming a good creature sculpter.
All of the great creature sculpter are masters in insect and reptile anatomy.
I would start with sculpting real live insects first, to build up a mental library of those real creatures.
If you dont have time to sculpt an insect a day start to draw them. You need to know how real animals work to design creatures.
And you need many many ours of training. An online course wont help at all without practice.

sacboi · Sep 2018

I find Arachnids the most challenging too draw, IMHO perhaps it's the eyes that are a particularly telling feature, like staring death in the face so lifeless and yet expressive at the same time - truly facinating creatures.

Lifelover · Sep 2018

carvuliero said:

I can think of few that you can check [some might be old and hard to find tho]
Binary Divinity - Birth of Creature
Creative Character Design Techniques with Neville Page
Pluralsight - An Immortal Design Character Design Theory and Development
Stan Winston School Creature Design - Jordu Schell
Uartsy - Creature Sculpting with Jordu Schell
Zbrushworkshop The Making of The Hunter by Jesse Sandifer

Thanks a lot!

Alex_J · Sep 2018

oglu said:

to build up a mental library of those real creatures......
.....You need to know how real animals work to design creatures.

This ^^^.

The tutorials will get you started off right for sure. If you watch a lot of shows about creatures big and small, and then dive into further research from there, you'll never lack for inspiration and cool designs.

Check out any of the great monsters in film history. They're usually based on some obscure organism(s) found right here on planet earth. So the great designers aren't working from pure imagination. They're more like Dr. Frankenstein, splicing together hideous creations from an assembly of parts.

PixelMasher · Sep 2018

https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/creature-modeling-for-production
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/3d-creature-design
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/building-creatures-in-zbrush

pretty relevant

Torch · Sep 2018

Stan Winston school is very good, Jordu Schell is a boss tutor as well as entertaining. Also recommend John Brown from Gnomon

Lifelover · Sep 2018

Torch said:

Stan Winston school is very good, Jordu Schell is a boss tutor as well as entertaining. Also recommend John Brown from Gnomon

Thanks, man! But aren't these tutors focused entirely on traditional sculpting, though?

HELP NEEDED: Looking for a great online creature sculpting class

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