Tips for Landing a 3D Animation Job
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in 3D Animation School | 1 Comment »Many students ask me about the 3D animation job market and whether we can get them jobs, where to look, how important is a degree etc. The first thing I address is the importance of a kick ass reel. Imagine being ...
3D Animation School: Creating Convincing Images
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in 3D Animation School | No Comments »We can only get so far by creating viable images in our animation program by using shaders and lighting. At some point we will need to take our files into a compositing package in order to finalize the look of ...
3D Animation School: Rendering Cars with Mental Ray
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in 3D Animation School | No Comments »When watching a car commercial one can safely assume that cg cars will be used for many of the shots. Depending of the location different kinds of lighting will be need to be represented, recreating reflections of the surrounding landscape, ...
3D Animation School Student Thoughts
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in 3D Animation School, Student & Alumni Activity | No Comments »For our 3D Animation group project, I am doing the character's motion in a number of scenes and making it realistic. At the beginning, it is not easy to make the character lifelike. I had to think about which part of ...
3D Animation Student Andrew Clendenen
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in 3D Animation School | No Comments »While studying 3D Animation at the New York Film Academy, Andrew Clendenen talks about a group project. Giving a computer animated character facial expression is done with blend shape deformers. They allow the animator to change the shape of an object ...
