Interview with Jean Bolte, Viewpainter at ILM / Eragon
Submitted by admin 21 12 06
This is a really good interview with Jean Bolte, you can understand the kind of effort and detail the film industry requires when it comes to texture painting for creatures such as Saphira, the dragon in the film Eragon. Here is a short excerpt, be sure to head over to CGTalk.com to read the whole interview!
Even so, she turned to natural substances to ground the creature in reality, one of director Stephen Fangmeier’s mandates, and Bolte’s preference. “I like taking texture and color from nature,” she says. “Nature is astonishing; we can’t improve on it. It’s better if we don’t change it too much to keep the essence real. So, viewpainting is like
