A.Alvarez
08-03-2006, 14:19 PM
Last November, The Gnomon Workshop completed its first ever Gnomon Workshop: Live! weekend. This event featured artists from the gaming, visual effects and concept design industries, and attracted enthusiastic artists from around the globe. In addition to non-stop presentations, attendees were able to talk one-on-one with art directors, recruiters and artists from Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Electronic Arts, Blur, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Zoic sudios, Feng Zhu Design, Dreamworks Animation and Disney's Circle Seven studios.
Gnomon Workshop: Live! treated attendees to two full days of incredible presentations by artists who included Eric Hanson, Neville Page, Kevin Hudson, Zack Petroc, Dylan Cole, Scott Robertson, Ryan Church, Christian Lorenz Scheurer, Mayan Escalante and the legendary Meats Meier. Attendees were also able too purchase books and DVDs from our Gnomon Workshop store.
Saturday night brought a different kind of celebration, when Robochrist presented a fire-filled display of incredible remote-controlled robots, some with huge, clawlike teeth that collectively impaled, crushed and burned specially-built props as the audience cheered (and, in some cases, ducked!).
The benefits of the weekend extended far beyond the presentations. During their talks, artists brought attendees into their working processes, revealing the thoughts behind the brush strokes, the method behind the techniques. Many of these generous folks lingered beyond their presentation time, answering questions, and offering even more information for the curious. So many conversations and meetings generated from the weekend: those between people who came from opposite ends of the earth, to those who lived just down the road from each other...and it gave us a chance to meet all of you!
If any of you have photos you would like to share from this event, we would love to see them. In the meantime, we'll post some of ours, as well as a cool video of Robochrist in action!
-Alex
Gnomon Workshop: Live! treated attendees to two full days of incredible presentations by artists who included Eric Hanson, Neville Page, Kevin Hudson, Zack Petroc, Dylan Cole, Scott Robertson, Ryan Church, Christian Lorenz Scheurer, Mayan Escalante and the legendary Meats Meier. Attendees were also able too purchase books and DVDs from our Gnomon Workshop store.
Saturday night brought a different kind of celebration, when Robochrist presented a fire-filled display of incredible remote-controlled robots, some with huge, clawlike teeth that collectively impaled, crushed and burned specially-built props as the audience cheered (and, in some cases, ducked!).
The benefits of the weekend extended far beyond the presentations. During their talks, artists brought attendees into their working processes, revealing the thoughts behind the brush strokes, the method behind the techniques. Many of these generous folks lingered beyond their presentation time, answering questions, and offering even more information for the curious. So many conversations and meetings generated from the weekend: those between people who came from opposite ends of the earth, to those who lived just down the road from each other...and it gave us a chance to meet all of you!
If any of you have photos you would like to share from this event, we would love to see them. In the meantime, we'll post some of ours, as well as a cool video of Robochrist in action!
-Alex