Education

Lightcraft Announces Free Previzion VFX System Classes

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Lightcraft Technology, a developer of real-time visual effects technology for the film and television industries, announced that it is offering free training classes to help filmmakers, production personnel and anyone else who is interested in learning how to use its Previzion VFX system.

Does Self-Promotion Really Work? The Results Are In for My Experiment In Self-Promotion

Emmy-winning writer Jeffrey Scott reveals the results of his experiment in self-promotion...

Media Design School Students Put Love into Rotting Hill Short

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It’s not easy to find love, especially if you’re falling apart, stinky and a little bloody around the edges. Welcome to Rotting Hill, where the extinction of humanity has led to the rise of a new species – zombies.

Putting Creative Transformation into Practice

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We are in for a revolution and it can’t come too soon - otherwise the young will continue to be inadequately prepared for the rapid changes we are experiencing and which accelerate every year. Who can predict what the world will look like in five years, let alone through multiple career paths unknown territories?

Your Career is Limitless

Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Education and Training, Jobs & Recruiting
Figuring out what you want from what you don’t want when the choices are not always abundant or exciting, may make you feel like you are forced into a corner without too much wiggle room. When you are faced with the inevitable challenge of choosing a job when the choices are limited, make room for yourself and move the borders. Knowing that there are limitless choices in the Universe of Jobs makes it easier for you not to feel like you are sorting fact from fiction in your quest for your next career adventure.

Six New Animators Join Animation Mentor

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Animation Mentor (AnimationMentor.com), the state-of-the-art online animation school founded by animators for animators , today announces six new professional animators.

The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation: Visual Effects - Part 1

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Site Categories: Education and Training, Stop-Motion
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In the latest excerpt from The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation, Ken A. Priebe shows readers how to bring visual effects to their stop-motion work.

IAMA to Offer Animation Masterclass

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According to last year‘s success the International Academy of Media and Arts (IAMA) is holding the innovative project EAMprofessional in 2011 again.

Time For A Career Cleanse

Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Education and Training, Internet and Interactive
Spring is the time to get rid of the old to make way for the new. Flowers do it. Birds do it. So why don’t you do it? It’s okay to take stock of what’s not working in your life. But do you ever focus on what is working in your life and do you take it for granted? Purging the past to make way for the new doesn’t mean just going through your closet to see what does or does not fit. Accepting what does not work and heralding what does work makes your career cleanse an easy process.

Academy Announces Medal Placement for 2011 Student Academy Award Winners

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Fifteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored tonight (June 11) as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition.

Animation Mentor Releases Student Showcase 2011: Back To Basics

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Animation Mentor, the leading online character animation school created by animators for animators, has released Student Showcase 2011: Back to Basics featuring creative work from its students around the world.

Escape Studios Unveils New Compositing & VFX Animation Courses

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Education and Training, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: CG, Education and Training, Visual Effects
Escape Studios, the leading CG training academy, has today announced two new classroom courses aimed at aspiring VFX artists looking to further their careers.

The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Posted In | Site Categories: Acting, Education and Training
Ed Hooks (Acting for Animators) discusses the willing suspension of disbelief in theatrical transactions.

Poser 8 Revealed: Creating and Applying Materials - Part 1

Posted In | Magazines: VFXWorld | Site Categories: CG, Education and Training
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Kelly L. Murdock begins the discussion of creating and applying materials from Poser 8 Revealed.

Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 23

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Special Guests: RISD Senior Animation Students 2011 Live, from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating senior animation students take over the show and grill the very Alan Foreman and Joel Frenzer on their animation information. Topics: jobs in animation immediately after school, maintaining your own art practice while working in the studio, secrets of FFAF podcast production, beatboxing, general fears, and the rapture. Refereed by RISD Animation Professor All-Stars, Amy Kravitz and Bryan Papciak.

Gnomon Founder, “Avatar” Creature Effects Artist Releases the Making of “Dirge” Video

Posted In | News Categories: Education and Training, People, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: 3D, Education and Training, People, Visual Effects
From the mind of "Avatar" creature effects artist Alex Alvarez, founder and president of the Gnomon school of Visual Effects, The Gnomon Workshop today announced an all-new instructional video for download and DVD formats titled The Making of 'Dirge.'

Career Coach: Life Lessons

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach | Site Categories: Education and Training, Jobs & Recruiting
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Pamela Kleibrink Thompson celebrates the teachers that made a difference.

Ivy Flores Of CalArts Named WIA Animation Scholarship Winner

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The Phyllis Craig Scholarship Award Committee of Women in Animation International has announced its 2011 Scholarship winner to be Ivy Flores, a graduate student at the California Institute of the Arts.

Does Self-Promotion Really Work? Let’s Try It And Find Out

Emmy-winning writer Jeffrey Scott tests self-promotion to find out if it really works

Cinesite Announces Inspire Internship Program Winners

Posted In | News Categories: Awards, Education and Training, People, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Awards, Education and Training, Jobs & Recruiting, People, Visual Effects
Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, today announced that it has awarded places on its 2011 Inspire internship program to four exceptional candidates – Luke Armstrong, Ruairi Twohig, Eleanor Bond and Tom Flavelle.