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Me: Eric Keller

Hi and welcome to my Blog. This is a hastily compiled record of my digital art and computer graphics experiments. I am a freelance CG artist living and working in Hollywood CA. I have written several books on Maya and ZBrush. Below my blog you'll find links to the books and tutorials I have authored and co-authored. I also occasionally teach at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood.I named my blog "Bloopatone" in honor of my first dog "Blue". She passed away a few years ago and I still miss her even though she was very grouchy and liked to bite me!

I'm proud to be an instructor at The Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Take a look at the work of our students and instructors on the Gnomon School Blog and the Gnomon Workshop Blog

Here is a link to my Artstation Page

Here is a link to my Demo Reel:

Eric Keller's 2016 CG Demo Reel from Eric Keller on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

My new video lecture for the Gnomon Workshop is now live




Just completed a new lecture series on using Viewport 2.0 in Maya 2015.  Here is the official description:

In this lecture, Eric Keller explores the new features and functionality of Maya 2015's Viewport 2.0. Starting with advice on how to optimize your workstation in order to take advantage of the new features, Keller then goes into an in-depth discussion of the special Viewport 2.0 Shader FX and DirectX 11 materials. The described techniques allow you to view transparency, environment reflections, ambient occlusion and translucency, all in real-time, without the need for expensive renders. By taking advantage of the hidden power of Viewport 2.0 you can create better previews, stunning animatics, faster 3D illustrations, and higher quality game textures and assets. The lecture demonstrates techniques on a wide variety of example scenes including environments, props, and creatures. Keller then describes his own techniques for creating realtime render passes that can be composited in Nuke to create amazing results with minimal render time. You'll learn how to create and edit Shader FX networks, use multiple UV sets, create real-time animated textures, generate environment reflections and apply them to surfaces, use IBLs, create real-time displacements with the Direct X 11 shader, and tricks for generating glow and translucency effects that can be viewed within Viewport 2.0.

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