Carlos Huante Creature Sketching and Design Tutorial

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Carlos Huante: Creature Sketching and Design

Carlos walks you through the step-by-step design of a dynamic creature. Watch along as he draws with a wax based pencil. He leads you through the creative design process from start to finish and demonstrates how to bring your creature drawing to life by sharing his drawing and rendering techniques.

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Professional Creature Design: Learn from Carlos Huante, who has 25 years of experience in the film industry and has worked on major films like Men in Black, Hellboy, and Alice in Wonderland.

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Step-by-Step Process: Follow the complete creative design process from initial concept to final creature design, including techniques for bringing drawings to life.

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Traditional and Digital Techniques: Discover both traditional drawing techniques with wax-based pencils and digital cleanup methods in Photoshop.

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Industry Proven Methods: Learn the same techniques used by professional creature designers in Hollywood studios like ILM (Lucas Digital).

Tutorial Content

Duration: 2h 00m
Format: HD 1280x960
Software: Photoshop

Course Lessons

Lesson content available with subscription

Skills You'll Learn

Creature design fundamentals
Character development in design
Abstract-to-concrete drawing techniques
Traditional sketching methods
Photoshop cleanup techniques
Professional creature development workflows

About the Instructor

Carlos Huante was born in East L.A. He attended night classes in life drawing at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He first worked in the animation world at Filmation. Later Carlos worked as a character designer on the Ghostbusters animated series. His professional career in animation lasted for many years before he moved fulltime into working in the film industry. He's worked for Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Guillermo Del Torro the Chiodo Bros and too many more to mention - on such films as Men in Black I and II, Mighty Joe Young, Hellboy, War of the Worlds, Spiderwick and Alice in Wonderland just name a few. Today Carlos has 25 years of experience under his belt and works for ILM at Lucas Digital and is part of the creature development team.

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