Saturday, March 29th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerMaster the art of Virtual Makeup Design with Neville Pagehtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The Gnomon Workshop has released a new two-part masterclass in designing practical makeup effects for movies and TV, recorded by leading concept artist Neville Page.The first part, Virtual Makeup Design: Volume 1 provides over three and a half hours of video training in digital sculpting software ZBrush.The second part, Virtual Makeup Design: Volume 2 provides a further three and a half hours of training, and also covers the KeyShot renderer, and image adjustments in Photoshop.Volume 1: Sculpting practical makeup designs in ZBrushIn the workshop, Neville Page shares his workflow for designing characters for practical makeup effects, used on movies like Star Trek and TV series like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.As well as creating a design to present to a director to show what a character will look like, he explores the materials that the makeup artist will use, like latex and silicone.Page begins with a 3D scan of his own head, demonstrating how to work on top of the scan in digital sculpting software ZBrush, as if working with a physical life cast.He then builds character makeup from the ground up, considering anatomical believability and practical feasibility while maintaining strong design foundations.Volume 2: Presentation of the final designVolume 2 focuses on the presentation of the final design for approval by a director or studio.Page explores how to texture and light the makeup designs, render them in KeyShot, and refine the renders in Photoshop.About the artistConcept Designer Neville Pages clients include Universal Studios, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Mattel and BMW. He has worked on feature films including Minority Report, Planet of the Apes, X-Men 2 and 3, Superman Returns, Avatar, Cloverfield, The Watchmen, The Hulk, and Star Trek.Pricing and availabilityVirtual Makeup Design: Volume 1 and 2 are available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials.Subscriptions cost $57/month or $519/year. Free trials are available.Read more about Virtual Makeup Design: Volume 1 on The Gnomon Workshops websiteRead more about Virtual Makeup Design: Volume 2 on The Gnomon Workshops websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon.Latest NewsLumion unveils Lumion ViewNew real-time design exploration and visualization plugin lets users generate photorealistic 4K renders in SketchUp. Now in early access.Sunday, March 30th, 2025Master the art of Virtual Makeup Design with Neville PageDesign practical character makeup for movies and TV with the leading concept artist's new tutorial series for The Gnomon Workshop.Saturday, March 29th, 2025Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.1Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including toon shading on GPU, and new HTML viewer for render statistics.Friday, March 28th, 20253DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on now lets you paint onto 3DGS data inside Blender, including through texture images.Friday, March 28th, 2025Adobe releases Photoshop 26.5Check out the changes to the image-editing and retouching software, updating workflow in the Adjustment Presets layout.Thursday, March 27th, 2025Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2026Update to the character animation and mocap-editing software extends USD workflows. Check out all the changes here.Thursday, March 27th, 2025More NewsAutodesk releases 3ds Max 2026Autodesk releases Maya 2026 and Maya Creative 2026Autodesk adds Golaem 9.2 to its Media & Entertainment CollectionZen Masters releases Zen UV 5.0Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2Check out new open-source 3D character generator CharMorphPolygonflow releases new free version of DashUnity unveils its 2025 product roadmapUnity previews Unity 6.1Character Creator to get new MetaTailor pluginNVIDIA unveils Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs with up to 96GB VRAM5 key features in Blender 4.4Older Posts