Artists and Their Work: Conversations about Mograph VFX and Digital Art

Course details

Rob Garrott, lynda.com's video content manager, got the chance to sit down with nine influential artists to talk about their work, their inspirations, their tools, and the industry as a whole. The series kicks off with a conversation with Kris Pearn, storyboard artist for Sony Animation, and one of the people "drawing the movement" behind movies like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. We also include interviews with the following industry pros:

Nick Campbell, motion graphics artist, photographer, and entrepreneur
Marc Potocnik, designer and 3d artist
Tim Clapham, VFX artist and educator
Alan Torres and Stephen Morton (Cantina Creative), design and visual effects artists
Aaron Limonick, concept artist
Mike Lowes, 3D animator and technical director
Lorcan O'Shanahan, motion graphics artist
Scott Keating, 3D artist and illustrator
Clear Menser, visual effects artist
John Robson, motion graphics artist and filmmaker
Grant Miller, VFX supervisor
Tomasz Opasinski, creative director and movie poster artist

Concepts

Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott

01 - Full Interview
02 - Part 1 - Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott
03 - Part 2 - Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott

Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott

04 - Full Interview
05 - Part 1 - Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott
06 - Part 2 - Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott

Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott

07 - Full Interview
08 - Part 1 - Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott
09 - Part 2 - Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott

Cantina Creative

10 - Full movie
11 - Part 1 - Introduction
12 - Part 2 - Avengers - Age of Ultron Breakdown
13 - Part 3 - Need for Speed Breakdown

Kris Pearn

14 - Full movie
15 - Part 1 - Finding and identifying fun ideas for storyboarding in a script
16 - Part 2 - Throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks
17 - Part 3 - Getting started as an artist
18 - Part 4 - Communicating through storyboarding
19 - Part 5 - Solving problems and pitching ideas

Aaron Limonick

20 - Full movie
21 - Part 1 - Concept design in Modo
22 - Part 2 - Basic polygon modeling in Modo
23 - Part 3 - Refining the idea in Photoshop

Mike Lowes

24 - Mike Lowes - VFX artist
25 - Part 1 - VFX background
26 - Part 2 - Houdini project breakdown
27 - Part 3 - Transition from gaming to VFX industry

Lorcan O'Shanahan

28 - Full movie
29 - Part 1 -
30 - Part 2 - CINEMA 4D XPresso rig

Scott Keating

31 - Scott Keating - Illustrator and 3D artist
32 - Part 1 - From fine art to 3D animation
33 - Part 2 - Building a simulation in Houdini
34 - Part 3 - Future challenges

Clear Menser

35 - Clear Menser - Visual effects artist
36 - Part 1 - Illustration to computer graphics
37 - Part 2 - Into the visual effects industry
38 - Part 3 - Houdini, tools of VFX

John Robson

39 - Full movie
40 - Part 1 - Epoch
41 - Part 2 - The filmmaking process
42 - Part 3 - Balance

Grant Miller

43 - Full movie
44 - Part 1 - Ingenuity engine
45 - Part 2 - The Pipeline

Tomasz Opasinski

46 - Full movie
47 - Part 1 - The Batman poster
48 - Part 2 - How it all started
49 - Part 3 - Tomasz's work