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+  "text": "Hello and welcome to the Anatomy for Sculptors course. My name is Christian Bull and let me give you a bit of my own backstory to put this course in context. So I was born in 1984 in a town called Vetticon in Switzerland to an Italian mother and an English father. We moved to England. And that was the worst case of hemorrhoids I think that I'd had. I've had flare-ups since then, but it's mostly been fine. So after that I went to university, studied animation there, and then went to the Florence Academy of Art, where I studied sculpture, and then went to visual effects. I've been in visual effects for about 15 years and started teaching anatomy about 10 years ago when I was working as a lead modeler in Double Negative And so I was teaching then to guys within the industry who had to use anatomy within their work. And since then I've continued to teach anatomy at CG Masters Academy. I teach it at the Barcelona Academy of Art and I do workshops at studios still. For example, when a frame store were doing the Hulk, I went in-house to teach anatomy there. And the more that I use anatomy in my own work as a creature concept artist, as a creature supervisor, and the more that I teach it, the more I realize that our natural instincts to the way that we study anatomy and approach it is in most cases misguided, I think. And that's the reason for this course is to go, the things that I'm thinking about that are actually useful to me when I'm studying anatomy are X, Y and Z, right? The concepts that we cover here. And what most of us do, what I did, you know, I initially taught myself anatomy and to do that, I opened up an anatomy book and I just copied all the drawings out of it. With the hope that after that, I would have somehow acquired a skill that would make my work better. But that magical connection generally doesn't happen. And often it can actually make your work worse because you memorize all of these forms and you put time into learning all of these forms. And so then you want to show that to the world. You want to show the world another difference between the extents of copied radio Alice and the extents of copy on that and the palm artist longer. So whatever it is. But in reality, these forms may not show themselves. And so then in using your anatomy in that way, you end up with these forms that don't feel naturalistic and that actually your work can get worse through studying anatomy in that way. So what this course is really is a collection of the lessons that I would say to the student version of me studying anatomy or even to the lead model of version of me when I first started teaching anatomy. Because when I first started teaching it, I taught it in the way that you would expect. These are all the muscles, this is what I call this is where they originate and insert. All of these things that are important and will never not be important, but they need to be underpinned by concepts that we can apply directly in our work and that will help us make our work more descriptive and to tell stories better with the body. So this course is not, let's go through the body and study every muscle, every tendon, every bone, every bit of cartilage. That's beyond the scope of what we're looking at here and that takes a lifetime really. I'm still going with my own studies in that. When I teach it at the Barcelona Academy of Art, it takes us three trimesters, that's part of a year. If I teach it at CG Masters Academy, that's 10 weeks intensive, so it's its own thing. And it's also not how to sculpt. That is also beyond the scope of the course. It also takes a lifetime to do. But what this course is, is how to connect those two things. It's a really important subject to consider. It doesn't take us that long to talk about, but so much of the time we miss it. We have our anatomy study and we have our sculpting and we can imagine that those two things will connect themselves and they don't or they connect themselves in a way that isn't useful. So what I'm aiming to equip you with in this course is what are the tools you need and what are the questions you need to ask to make your anatomy study strengthen your sculpting.",
+  "language": "en",
+  "confidence": null,
+  "duration": 263.06
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