Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 Posted by Jim Thacker

Come to Gnomon’s free sci-fi ZBrush sculpting workshop

ZBrush Sculpting Workshop: Sci-Fi Design & Development by Gnomon

Watch Gnomon’s ZBrush Sculpting Workshop: Sci-Fi Design & Development on Livestream.com. Improve your ZBrush sculpts with workflow tips and tricks from three ZBrush masters with distinctive styles and approaches: Eric Keller, Ara Kermanikian, and Steve Talkowski at Gnomon School of Visual Effects. Learn from their decades of experience!


Gnomon – School of Visual Effects, Games and Animation has announced a free workshop on sci-fi concept sculpting and look development in ZBrush at its Hollywood campus next Thursday, 17 August.

The event will also be Livestreamed worldwide: you can watch along via the player embedded above.

Practical tips and tricks for creating sci-fi concept models in a range of visual styles
The live event, which runs for three hours, features demonstrations from three separate artists, and covers the creation of organic, hard-surface and stylised models.

Concept artist Ara Kermanikian will kick things off with a session on how to set up an efficient ‘polysculpting’ workflow for creating hard-surface models like props and vehicles in ZBrush.

He will be followed by a session on designing organic characters and taking them from 2D to 3D using Maya, ZBrush, and Keyshot, presented by Steve Talkowski, creative director of Sketchbot Studios.

The evening will be rounded off by freelance 3D artist Eric Keller‘s session on biomechanical creature design, exploring how the new tools in ZBrush 4R8 can be used to create Giger-esque creature concepts.

Free to attend but register online in advance
ZBrush Sculpting Workshop: Sci-Fi Design & Development takes place at Gnomon’s Hollywood campus from 7-10pm on Thursday 17 August 2017. It’s free to attend, but you’ll need to register online first.

If you can’t make it to LA, the event will also be broadcast worldwide on Gnomon’s Livestream channel. You don’t need to register for the stream, and can ask questions via Twitter using the hashtag #gnomon.

Read more about Gnomon’s free ZBrush sci-fi sculpting workshop on the school’s website


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