The Gnomon Workshop: The Techniques of Scott Robertson Industrial Design Rendering - Bicycle

On this DVD Scott walks you through the industrial design rendering techniques that he employs within Adobe Photoshop®. He quickly demonstrates draft view sketching before scanning one of the sketches that will be rendered to a photo-real level. During the rendering of a bicycle, Scott discusses basic lighting and reflection strategies to indicate a variety of materials and colors. Watch along, and by the end of the DVD, you will see all of steps taken in Adobe Photoshop® to transform the initial loose sketch into a very real looking object.




Instructor: Scott ROBERTSON
Formats: DVD/DVD-ROM

*The content on this DVD assumes a prior basic working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop®.

Product Code: SRO06


Design Sketches
Adding Marker
Two Layer Rendering Strategy
Making Paths
Making Layers


Rendering Form
Making It Shiny
Color Adjustments
Adding Texture
Adjustment Layers

01. Introduction
02. Design Sketches
03. Adding Marker
04. Two Layer Strategy
05. Making Paths
06. Making Layers
07. Rendering Form
08. Making it Shiny
09. Color Adjustment
10: Adding Texture
11. Adjustment Layers

Note that while this clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 720x480 with higher quality compression . View the stills to the right to see the actual resolution.

Scott attended Art Center College of Design where he graduated with honors with a B.S. degree in Transportation Design in April 1990. The day after graduation, Scott opened a product design consulting firm in San Francisco with friend Neville Page. While there clients included Kestrel, Giro Sport Design, Nissan, Volvo, and Yamaha. In 1995 Scott relocated to Vevey, Switzerland to teach drawing and industrial design at Art Center, Europe until the middle of 1996. Since returning from Europe, Scott’s clients have included BMW subsidiary Design-works/USA, Raleigh Bicycles, Mattel Toys, Patagonia, Minority Report feature film, Nike, Rock Shox, Universal Studios, Angel Studios and Fiat, to name a few. Today he continues to teach drawing at Art Center College of Design. Recently, Scott launched Design Studio Press, a publishing company dedicated to inspiring and educational art books and DVDs.