The Gnomon Workshop – Building Natural Environments using Gaea & Houdini 2024-6

Published on: 2024-07-29 01:16:25

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Description

Building Natural Environments using Gaea & Houdini course. In this comprehensive four-hour workshop, Rasha Shalabi takes environmental artists and matte painters on a journey from the initial idea to the final image. Using Gaea, Houdini, V-Ray and Photoshop software, he recreates the ancient Sinai desert in Egypt and the Red Sea mountains. This workshop is very suitable for artists who work in the field of special effects for film, television and video games. During this workshop, Rasha teaches step by step the complete process of building a natural environment based on a real place. This course will help artists to create highly realistic and highly detailed natural environments for various projects. By participating in this course, artists can improve their skills in environment design, texturing, lighting and rendering.

What you will learn:

Planning Environment: Learning how to plan and organize a project
Creating the initial idea: building the basic assets and creating the main camera angle
Asset development and texturing in Gaea: Using Gaea to create the terrain and its textures
Visual development of the environment in Houdini/V-Ray: Creating layered shaders in V-Ray to achieve the highest level of detail in the final renders
Final construction of the environment: creating the final environment and making final settings

This course is suitable for people who:

Looking to learn how to build realistic natural environments.
They want to get acquainted with Gaea, Houdini, V-Ray and Photoshop software.
They work in the field of special effects for movies, TV and movie games.
They want to learn the complete process of building a natural environment from start to finish.