It seems no box office record was safe from "Star wars: The Force Awakens" which premiered to a record shattering $247 million debut. Not to mention it also broke the record for the highest opening day of $120 million. Iain McCaig served as a concept artist for the film while Christian Alzmann designed the new fan favorite, BB-8. Check out Iain McCaig's tutorials on character design and Christian Alzmann's tutorial on digital painting

A new trailer for a sequel 20 years in the making has been released today. We look forward to seeing work from Francesco Corvino on screen as he was a concept designer for the film. Independence Day: resurgence is set for a summer release in 2016.

Check out Francesco Corvino's tutorial on matte painting techniques for concept design

The Gnomon Workshop is pleased to announce the release of "Creating a Sci-Fi Alleyway, Detailed Environment Techniques with Devon Fay".

In this lecture, senior environment artist Devon Fay takes you through his process of creating complex and believable CG environments. He starts at the very beginning with the development of an idea with research, reference and exploration. Devon then discusses how to expand on your ideas with clear steps towards working efficiently and creatively. Topics include reference gathering, blocking-out scenes through effective layout techniques, modeling, lighting, texturing, painting, rendering and the exploration of new tools...

The holiday themed horror comedy, Krampus, performed stronger than anticipated it's opening weekend, coming in #2 domestically behind Hunger Games Mockingjay part 2 which was #1 for the 3rd weekend in a row and bringing it's worldwide total to $523 million. Aaron sims was a concept designer for both films. Check out all of his tutorials on creature design.