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UFO Over Santa Clarita from Aristomenis Tsirbas on Vimeo.

This is a CGI exercise in photorealism. The piece was done at Gnomon Studios with a crew of students from the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in association with MeniThings Productions.

Credits

Direction, Camera, Lighting
ARISTOMENIS TSIRBAS

Produced by
ALEX ALVAREZ, DARRIN KRUMWEIDE & ARISTOMENIS TSIRBAS

Visual Effects
WAYNE HOLLINGSWORTH

Environment Model, Texture & Setup
STEFANO FARCI & ADAD MORALES

Car & Mothership Models
GUILHERME RAMBELLI

UFO Scout Model
JOSE TRUJILLO

Hand Model, Texture & Rig
TIFFANY YUNG

Smoke VFX, Flock model & Animation
BERK HAKGUDER

Mothership Texture
JEFF LUND & TIFFANY YUNG

UFO Scout Texture
CHIKA SAITO

Additional Modeling
BEN SARTORY

Mothership Concept
LEONARDO KRAIDEN

UFO Scout Concept
YURI BLAGOVESCHENSKIY

Created at
GNOMON STUDIOS
MENITHINGS PRODUCTIONS, LLC

Artist team from
THE GNOMON SCHOOL OF VISUAL EFFECTS

GNOMONSCHOOL.com

C 2012 Aristomenis Tsirbas & MeniThings Productions
MeniThings.com

Great source for ZBrush tutorials.

Human Male Muscular from Nick Zuccarello on Vimeo.

I created this video to explain some of the features that you can use with the human male muscular zbrush model that I created. We will take a look at subdivision levels, layers and polygroups.