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Robin Cooper joined Pixar Animation Studios in February 1995 as a digital painter on the studio’s first feature film, Toy Story. She painted on the studio’s subsequent feature films, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc. Robin moved into Art Direction and Texture Design for Finding Nemo.
Robin also worked on many Pixar shorts including painting on For the Birds and Art Direction on One Man Band. Prior to joining Pixar, she worked as a set designer, scenic painter, muralist and art teacher.
After earning her B.A. in Set Design for theater from San Francisco State University, she worked as a scenic painter at many venues in the Bay Area including The San Francisco Opera, A.C.T, Childrens Musical Theatre and The Zellerbach Playhouse. Robin also worked on the feature James and the Giant Peach.
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Creating Textures
with Robin Cooper Course starts 10 April 2006.
Registration: Closed
In this eight week workshop Robin Cooper will draw on her skills as an analog and digital painter to demonstrate techniques required to create exceptional 2D texture paintings for use in 3D environments.
Working entirely within 2D painting platforms Robin will draw on over ten years of experience at Pixar Animation Studios to help students develop an eye for detail and understand what potential employers look for in a portfolio.
What makes a painted texture look real? What makes it look luminous? How can you effectively simplify and characterize it for animation backgrounds?
Using tips from traditional Scenic/ Trompe L'Oiel painting as well as digital painting techniques students will begin to build an exceptional, portfolio of quality texture paintings.
Students will be challenged to create stylized texture designs and will receive critique from a professional texture painter/designer/art director experienced in the world of cutting edge 3D animation through a list of credits with Pixar.
Students will learn to take their paintings to a new level using dirt, grime and distressing techniques. This class will also explore texture matching and dimensional architectural painting. The result should be the creation of several solid digital art pieces ready for a portfolio.
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