REVIEW-Massive Black-El Coro Weapon Design

[Hooper]

Title: El Coro Weapon Design
Author: J Kaufman
Publisher: Massive Black
Website: http://dvd.massiveblack.com/
Cost: $23 (USD)
Skill Level: Advanced

Justin 'Coro' Kaufman has worked on literally hundreds of titles in his career as an Art Director and Concept Artist. This experience has made him someone who clearly understands that at the end of the day the goal of a concept artist is to provide a very specific visual solution for a client or game. While this demonstration has plenty of information about painting techniques and design philosophy, it always comes back around to making a deliverable asset. If you want to know what it takes to work in the games industry, this is is where it's at.

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Bottom Line: Great video for learning techniques of Photoshop (and some 3ds max)


El Coro can be downright vulgar at times, but you need to look past his silliness.
(If your easily offended then you shouldn't watch his stuff.)
His technique of blocking out, in this case weapon designs in Photoshop, should be the standard way of producing quick prototypes for any genre.


I use a benchmark for any educational video: If it makes me want to jump and start modeling or painting, then it's a good video!
And this one is no exception. I've watched it many times (got it in early 2008 I think) and each time I fire up Photoshop and max as soon as it's over!

The cost of this set is so small that you cannot lose!

Highly recommended and I also see he just came out with a new title which I will be ordering soon.

[Hooper]

Here's a preview of the dvd set:

Ego Media

[Joris Strickx]

Looks nice, he creates guns so fast with some simple lines.