Creative Reasoning and Character Development with Cameron Farn

Streaming Lectures + Live Weekly Crits + Downloads

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Course Overview

Prepare for 8 weeks of fantastic training with Cameron Farn where he'll lead you through the creative process and logic of character development. You will learn how to breathe life into believable characters living in equally believable and unique worlds. Cameron's insight into creative reasoning and distinctive perspective on character and creature design will be valuable life-lessons in your journey as an artist and professional.

You'll start off by building context for your creature, gathering reference images and compiling them in your Context Library. Once assembled, you'll be trained in drafting a Design Brief for your character and then move onto creating the silhouettes of two fully realized alien forms, with a focus on applying creative reasoning and delving into aspects of anatomical & physiological structure and purpose.

From there you'll learn to effectively pose, outfit and texture your character utilizing the specific Context Library you assembled at the start. Cameron will help you examine a designer's inner dialog and expose the work no one ever sees but wants to understand. You will explore a method of reasoning which will continually churn and influence your work as you sculpt, revealing latent skills to take advantage of each time an idea strikes, while giving your artwork a fresh and realistic quality built on the talents we expose and our desires for originality.

Course Summary

Week 1: Context Building

Function conditioned by environment and ecology
The fundamentals of Creative Reasoning
The beginning of Life -Forming.

Week 2: Live Silhouettes

Form driven by function
Create a Design Brief based on your Context Library

Week 3: Thinking Like and Alien - Skull

Creative Reasoning and the work you couldn't see part 1
The art of keeping it simple
Dissecting your decisions while building the underlying forms of the face.

Week 4: Thinking Like an Alien - Hands and Feet

Creative reasoning and the work you couldn't see part 2
Balance, touch and theory
Building the underlying forms of the hands and feet.

Week 5: Thinking Like an Alien - Thorax

Creative reasoning and the work you couldn't see part 3
Follow along with a guided dissection of available supermarket fair to reveal some internal forms you will be recreating.

Week 6: Posing

Building up the complexities
Crafting the details and pose
Injecting emotion

Week 7: Accessories

Gear, Tools and Clothes
Applying Creative Reasoning to the inanimate

Week 8: Paint and Presentation

Story telling in color
Using your context library build a color palette and final look
The last step in Life- Forming.

Course Software requirements: Adobe Photoshop and Zbrush 4R4 P2 / R5, and a digital camera

FAQ

What is a eight week program?


It is, essentially, an intense master classes that includes 8 learning modules and a full time support staff that is here to help you with your ZBrush questions. At ZBrushWorkshops, we feel it is the best way to learn from the master artists you need to learn from to grow as an artist.



Is course content downloadable?


Yes. We understand that you are a busy individual so we make sure that you don't miss a single byte of information. All class content is downloadable and yours to keep forever. That's how much we love you.



When does it start?


March 11th is our current start date.



Who is Cameron Farn?


Who is this dude? Cameron Farn is a Lead Creative Director for F&D Scene Changes. His feature film credits include 3D Modeller for 2008's Death Race; and head of props fabrication for F&D during construction of Kathryn Bigelow's K-19: The Widowmaker.



What if I have a ZBrush question? Who will help me with that?


So glad you asked. We have a full time support team that is available via email along with a supply of awesome mentors who help make the forums an amazing experience for you.

Lead Creative Director

Cameron Farn
Lead Creative Director at F&D Scene Changes

www.c77.ca

Cameron Farn was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where he currently works and resides. He is the lead Creative Director for F&D Scene Changes, and has worked on many diverse projects spanning from cinema to commercial design. His feature film credits include 3D Modeller for 2008\'s Death Race; and head of props fabrication for F&D during construction of Kathryn Bigelow\'s K-19: The Widowmaker. He served in the same capacity for F&D during the Broadway build of the multi-Tony Award winning musical Wicked and its touring productions.

Cameron's training and methodology of creative reasoning to make realistic and imaginative creatures and characters which are both unique and plausible is excellent! Mind-Altering and foundational for artists aspiring to stand out from the crowd with their work, and offers imperative ways of thinking through creative development for those more experienced and already working in the industry."

- Daniel De Leon

Cameron has an uncanny ability to be actively find creative inspiration. His distinctive take on creative reasoning makes character design easy, and has already had a profound affect on my work."

- Nate Portner