The Gnomon Workshop has announced Gnomon Workshop Live! for Spring 2008. Gnomon Workshop Live! is a special event held twice a year that allows students and professionals from around the world to come together and share production experiences, techniques and artwork with highly accomplished artists in the entertainment industries. These artists will take you inside their own personal projects and processes to help advise and advance your career.
Saturday and Sunday, June 14th & 15th, 2008
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038
Sound Stage 15 (Next door to the Gnomon School of Visual Effects) Read more »
Best of Term Winter 2007/2008 Winners
Character Animation: Tom Heyerman
Character Modeling: Ioannis Karathomas
Hard Surface Modeling: Emil Besirevic
Environment Exterior: Ryan Calloway
Environment Interior: Nathan Boyd
Concept Design: Chris Garnaas
Visual Effects: Anggun Syaputra
View Winner’s Gallery
Whether you are an individual who’s thinking about furthering your education in computer graphics or a group from another country or school curious to see what Gnomon has to offer, we invite you to take a tour of our facilities.
Gnomon School of Visual Effects, located in the center of the famed Television Center Building in Hollywood, CA, invites you to make an appointment with our Admissions Counselor for a full tour of Gnomon’s campus including; our five state-of-the-art, production-like computer labs, our theater/auditorium, our three analog sculpture and drawing studios, the student lounge and library and our store where we sell the full library of The Gnomon Workshop DVD’s, industry books, class supplies and Gnomon branded t-shirts and hats. Read more »
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Gnomon and VES bring you an evening of enlightening commentary on the detailed visual effects work of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Special guests Colin Epstein (Compositing Supervisor) and Daniel Gregoire (Pre-visualization Supervisor) will share their experiences while working on this visually demanding film with shot-by-shot breakdowns. Read more »
Thursday, February 28th,
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the VES in welcoming the visual effects team from the Academy Award winning, The Golden Compass. This evening, Academy Award winner Michael Fink, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Susan Macleod, Visual Effects Producer, Bryan Grill, Visual Effects Supervisor for Digital Domain and Raymond Chen, Co-visual Effects Supervisor for Rhythm & Hues Studios will be will be discussing the planning and execution of many of the visual effects shots for The Golden Compass.
Susan Macleod will go through the production challenges from beginning to end, while Bryan, Raymond, and Michael will discuss how they created the effects magic. Topics discussed in-depth will be daemon creation and animation, bear creation and animation, environments, and lots of fun war stories. Read more »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
You’re invited to join us at this year’s live 3December event, presented by Autodesk’s community website the-area.com. It’s the only annual celebration of 3D computer graphics and the people who create them. Now in its ninth year, artists like you will celebrate 3D CG online and in person.
Special guests include: Sho Igarashi, Cloth and Hair Supervisor, along with Mark de Sousa, CG Supervisor, both of Sony Pictures Imageworks, will illustrate the flow of the cloth and hair work on the feature film by Robert Zemeckis, Beowulf.
They will cover costume and hair acquisition on set, procedural costume builds, hair builds and dynamics/rigs in addition to the character connect from animation to cloth and hair, and plenty of other work that brought Beowulf to life. Read more »
Join Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the VES in welcoming Apurva Shah, Effects Supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios. Apurva will give an in-depth discussion on the creation of the visual effects magic used in one of this year’s biggest animated features, Ratatouille. Read more »
