Studio Arts is a school of fine art located in Los Angeles that offers training for studio artists in the entertainment industry. With a faculty of experienced production artists, state-of-the-art equipment, and a world-class curriculum, Studio Arts aims to enhance the skills of professionals and provide them with the latest technology and techniques.
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Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
This ONE-WEEK, intensive class introduces new users to Nuke. Nuke is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivaled in the desktop market. If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is a production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline. This...
Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. Continuously evolving to serve not only its original purpose as a state-of-the-art game engine, today it gives creators across industries the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds. This introductory class will cover the basics needed for understanding Unreal. Instruction will begin with the assumption...
Ever had a great idea but didn't know how to develop it to pitch it to the networks? Animation development is big business but you need the right tools to pull off a successful pitch. Let teacher Mike Milo who has had 10 development deals to date with various studios such as Warner Bros, Cartoon Network, Universal, Hanna Barbera and Nickelodeon guide you to success as he goes over how to put together a presentation for pitching including springboards,...
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In this foundation course students will begin learning the collaborative process of previsualization to create virtual environments that explore creative ideas, help plan technical solutions and communicate a shared vision for the production of narrative media. Among the subjects covered will be the uses of various digital tools to previsualize story sequences and shots for production. Demonstrations include 3D asset preparation, camera placement...
This 8-week basic-to-intermediate level Blender course will be focused on understanding the fundamentals of animation and how to implement them into Blender. From blocking to polishing their animation pieces, the course will also have students creating poses each week that convey motion or an emotion in order to build their understanding of silhouettes and to push them further. Students will also be working towards an understanding of Blender's constraints...
Studio Arts @ Virtual Classroom
Lighting is essential for the creation of compelling scenes in 3D just as in live action cinematography. Maya provides the artist with lighting and rendering tools that greatly enhance the look and feel of a scene with styles ranging from photorealistic to phantasmagoric. Using ARNOLD, a renderer included by default with Maya 2020, Students will learn about shaping light and shadows, lighting and rendering workflows, depth of field, caustics,...
Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
The Unity Engine is powering a new revolution in media convergence. Already a leading tool for video game and cross-platform app development, Unity is becoming an industry standard for the next generation of games, virtual reality, augmented reality and motion picture pre-visualization. From iPhone and Android to Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, Vive, HoloLens and GearVR, Unity3D is pushing the newest frontiers of immersive media and interactive entertainment....
Studio Arts @ Virtual Classroom
Maya 101 introduces new, beginning or basic users of CG to the world of Autodesk Maya. Each lesson is conducted to acquaint the student with the interface, controls, drawing tools, modeling, animation and graphic toolsets of the latest version of the software. This introductory class is a prerequisite for all other Maya classes, (except where students can demonstrate proficiency equal to that of the Intro class.) The Maya 101 class contributes...
Studio Arts @ Virtual Classroom
Breathe life and personality into a 3D character in Maya! This class will have multiple detailed assignments that cover the principles of animation mechanics that provides a basic, but very thorough introduction to CG animation. Learn how to how to approach animation, develop appealing poses, and create both action and acting scenes that have personality. A nice expressive rig will be used for the class and animation and will be suitable to use for...
Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
This beginning, entry-level SketchUp course teaches students this deceptively simple but amazingly powerful tool. SketchUp PRO was developed for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media. Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software is ideally suited for Art Directors, Illustrators,...
This class is a direct continuation of the overview class and covers more advanced subjects including system monitoring & maintenance, basic scripting & automation and a peek at the underpinnings of OS X and some simply commands to make the most of them. Now updated for using OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Mac OS X is the most technologically advanced operating system Apple has ever released, but don't let that scare you. While there's a lot...
Blackmagic Design caused a major stir in the industry recently by incorporating Fusion directly into DaVinci Resolve. For the first time a fully capable finishing system is available to anyone with a modern Mac or PC. The combination of Resolve's world class color-correction and editing tools with Fusion's visual effects and motion graphics capabilities creates the potential for high-end workflows previously only available using Smoke or Flame suites....
Designed for intermediate and advanced users, this power Photoshop class is taught from the perspective of a commercial photographer using features, tips, and concepts to produce composites. This class will also restore damaged photographs. Power Photoshop, the RAW Workflow All students will spend time working on projects that can be taken home for further study and application. Skin-smoothing, displacing realistic textures, compositing, masking...
Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
Students will learn the latest techniques in CG creature creation, from basic modeling to texturing to advanced finishing techniques. Current pipeline practices will be thoroughly explored. Make your creature designs come alive! Create highly impressive 3D creatures for everything from concept art to finished, rig-ready CG models. Not for the faint of heart, this intensive class is meant only for those with 3D modeling and/or 3D painting and textures...
This class is for After Effects users who already have basic familiarity with the program and are looking to expand their use of special effects. The course will cover several of the more complicated Effect filters, including Shatter, Particle World, Fractal Noise, Turbulent Displace, and the new Cineware effect for incorporating 3D content from Cinema 4D into your After Effects projects. Students will learn how to create effect recipes combining...
Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
The rapidly changing digital design world can be very challenging for many concept designers, illustrators, animation artists, set designers, costume illustrators, FX makeup artists and others who work primarily by hand to create their sketches, drawings and paintings. The class will focus on digital concept design and Illustration from thumbnails to finished concept and will combine both characters and environments to make one cohesive concept...
Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA
This class will explore the skill sets necessary to conceive and execute art direction to ensure a successful project... (in the example used here - of a photo shoot.) Examined will be the process of ideation, research, mood boards and client sell-in. Being that art directing is equal parts creative inspiration as well as team management and this class with enhance all the tools necessary to art direct top level photography for both marketing and...
At the end of this course, students will have the skills to create a brand identity. Using mostly Adobe Illustrator and some Adobe Photoshop, we will explore the basic principles of design and apply those principles into practice. Together, we will inspect how these principles of design are used to create a logo that embodies a business' essence. You will learn to create basic branded materials that all work in harmony for one unifying concept. ...
This advanced Illustrator workshop will cover these topics over the course of two days: Masks and Brushes: Go deeper into Clipping and Transparency Masks. Learn to create, use and modify the different kinds of brushes available in Illustrator. Make Calligraphy, Scatter, Art and Pattern Brushes. The Perspective Grid and 3D: Use the Perspective Grid tools in Illustrator to create simulated 3D space in one point, two point and three point perspective...
This class focuses on look development and production workflow for photoreal props and characters, the class will explain the terminology and tools related to the look development area, we will discuss the different approaches to both Organic and Hard Surface texturing called surfacing. The Concept of Surfacing embraces texturing and shading with obvious interrelations with Lighting and Compositing. Some Modeling instruction related to UVs will...
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