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How to use Zbrush for life drawing and portraiture, and how to apply skills and concepts from traditional sculpting and life drawing in a digital medium.

Demian Moon Stevens

How to creatively integrate 3D models into Photoshop CS5 Extended to create concept art. This session focuses on how to import, texture, and build a mate painting with third-party 3D models in CS5.

Stephen Burns
The San Diego Photoshop Users Group

How to build, evaluate, and rig to create truly believable camera animation without tracking data. Imagine having a steady camera movement in 3D, or a 3D crane whose rig moves like a crane does in film. This session explains rigging and automation for real-world camera control in 3D.

Zeb Wood

This student-focused, interactive presentation delivers insights from a traditional and 3D animation artist to guide attendees on a path of discovery, knowledge, and sometimes frustration to a sense of completion when drawing and animating a dragon.

Graham Toms
NewTek, Inc.

Each camera model has different exposure responses as it performs accurate long exposures or combines exposures for HDR. For optimum results, it is imperative to know your specific camera’s sensor response. This presentation explains sensor response, sensor noise, and how to establish the appropriate sensor response for your camera. Topics include:

• How does a camera sensor work?
• What is sensor noise?
• How to evaluate your camera sensor.
• What does sensor noise add to your image exposure?
• How to build an exposure-gain chart for your camera.
• Post noise control.
• Determining image-sensors limitations.

Lee Peterson

My specialty in all software is the Dark Art of CG Lighting. I will illuminate CG lighting tools and techniques in ways that change artists perceptions of reality.

Nicholas Boughen

This is a continuation from the workshop, the Dark Art of CG Lighting I. I will illuminate CG lighting tools and techniques in ways that change artists perceptions of reality.

Nicholas Boughen

KeyShot breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models, so anybody involved with 3D data can create photographic images in a matter of seconds, independent of the size of the digital model. This exclusive, in-depth preview of the next version of KeyShot demonstrates how it can be applied to animation. With KeyShot 3, users can animate designs with a simple, interactive setup and easy manipulaion of components in a 3D, interactive, ray-traced environment. No complex key framing required. The finished 3D product can be played back in real time with ray-traced quality.

Brian Townsend
Luxion ApS

GigaPan Stitch stitches together hundreds or thousands of overlapping images to create a very-high-resolution mosaic image. Without correction, such mosaics can be marred by vignetting (darkening of photographs in the lens periphery). Fortunately, it is possible to infer the vignetting attenuation function from the image overlaps and apply correction during blending. This workshop presents an algorithm for vignette correction that is fast, robust, and automatic.

Paul S. Heckbert
GigaPan

Randy Sargent
Carnegie Mellon University

An overview of the basic function of timeline-based animation using Adobe After Effects for motion graphics. Topics include: interface, workflow, using the timeline, layers, integration with Photoshop basic type, and object animation.

Mike Ring

This system captures and stitches gigapixel-scale time-lapse imagery and explores the resulting gigapixel-scale video in four dimensions: 2D translation, zoom, and time. Workshop topics include: how to author content, how to explore, and how to define “warps” through gigapixel video and render them into standard, linear video.

 

Randy Sargent
Chris Bartley
Paul Dille
Carnegie Mellon University