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Free Houdini Simulation Download

Posted: February 24, 2012 in General Animation

You need to download this immediately for a play with some simulation.

Thanks to Liz for the heads up on this. Nice one!!

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Committed: Passion and Persistence in Contemporary Animation

Posted: February 16, 2012 in Lecture, Talk
Tags: lecture, talk

Committed: Passion and Persistence in Contemporary Animation, the symposium that we are holding on Thursday 15th of March.

It is going to be a fantastic day of talks by filmmakers including: Sarah Cox, Merlin Crossingham, Jonathan Hodgson and Emma Lazenby. We are offering this out to local unis and colleges, and requesting £5 per visiting student.

Guide to a career in CG

Posted: February 14, 2012 in General Animation

An Artist’s Guide to a Career in CG

Are you an aspiring artist who wants to make it in the CG Industry? Thinking about transferring your creative skills to VFX? Then our CG Careers Guide will help you make those tough decisions and shape your career as a CG artist.

Revealing the exclusive opportunities available to creative people in the VFX, Animation and Gaming industries, Escape Studios’ CG Careers Guide is packed with the vital information you need to get started. It covers everything from average salaries to the types of jobs available, so whether you’ve just graduated or are thinking about a whole new career move, this guide is the perfect place to start.

Regards,
The Escape Studios Team.

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Digital Sculpture

Posted: February 8, 2012 in General Animation

Sculptris Info and Download Link

http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Links

Concept Design

Sketches and practical sculpture

http://schellstudio.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=172&page=4

Official 3D Sculpture

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=079195

Unofficial 3D Sculpts

http://www.afisher.com.au/wordpress/?page_id=11

Turntables

http://www.pixologic.com/turntable/

Alternate Turntables

http://vimeo.com/user4025130

Demo

http://www.elfwood.com/~andren/Dragon-heads.3552370.html

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Sky Arts Competition – Win £30,000

Posted: January 26, 2012 in General Animation

Check out this amazing email I just got!!!!

As you may well know, last year we opened a fund in partnership with Sky Arts to give five young creatives the chance to win £30,000 each. We’ve already awarded funding to opera director Daisy Evans and visual artist Phoebe Boswell, and we’ll be taking applications for the remaining three bursaries until 24 February.

So if you know anyone who is creative, aged 18-30 and who’s working in visual art, theatre, performance art, film, music, dance or literature – this is for them!

The deadline for the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is 5pm on 24 February. You can find plenty of application advice in our online magazine, IdeasMag.

We’re keen to make this opportunity accessible to as many young creative people as possible, so please do pass this information on to anyone you feel might be interested.

If you’d like to find out more about IdeasTap and what we do, please visit us at www.ideastap.com. You can also contact us on Twitter using #FuturesFund and on Facebook too.

Best wishes,

The IdeasTap Team.

Amazing opportunity!!!!

Posted: January 13, 2012 in General Animation

Seat are holding a really cool competition which I know that all you animators, visual effects artists and 3D Visualizers will want to enter.

What’s it all about?

SEAT have come together with 10 UK Universities to offer a fantastic opportunity for students in order to collaborate on a real-life marketing project, experience the SEAT brand and build their CV’s.

In competition with the other 9 Universities a successful team of students from Leeds Met will work together in order to meet a brief set by the SEAT Marketing Department.

It’s an opportunity to produce a digital/social piece of brand communication for SEAT themselves and the winning pitch will be used by SEAT…

The first set of instructions from SEAT are…

We want you to think ‘size, scale and impact’ in order to produce something truly amazing. Whether it be a digital campaign, a short video clip or even an iPad App, we’re hoping to receive work that is so brilliant, we are compelled to show it in Cinema, on TV, projected onto the side of a building or released into the digital world. To be totally honest, the possibilities are endless so be innovative, relevant and think BIG!

Please see the breadth of the brief as an opportunity rather than a crisis – we selected you for the promise of creativity and we’re sure you can produce it! We will be there every step of the way if you need us and are more than happy to arrange meetings to review the progress. We’re excited to see what you come up with which is why we are trusting you with our brand!

The chosen team representing Leeds Met will get a paid trip down to the Head Office at Milton Keynes and hotel accommodation – plus the chance to drive some of SEAT’s cars on a day out – maybe even at their test track!

So, what do you think? Fancy working as part of a team, a marketing team, to develop a creative brief – with a focus on digital and social media – that supports their brand and reaches their core audience (young adults) with a production budget of £5,000 and the opportunity to produce something real? Of course you do!

How do you sign up? Thought you’d ask – here…

Nice one

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Keep Drawing

Posted: December 16, 2011 in General Animation

Just Watch it -> Thats Experimental Animation that is!!!!!!

http://vimeo.com/31956969

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Exciting freelance job / live brief to work on

Posted: December 16, 2011 in General Animation

Hi all of my lovely Leeds Met animation guys and girls,

I just received the following email from a chat, which sounds very interesting indeed. The idea seems to be that you could either do this as a live project brief (perhaps for your final project in L6) with a deadline of 3 Months from now, or you might want to tackle this as a side project.

Dear Darren

I hope that you can help me with my enquiry…

… I am part of a new venture, an ad agency/design and animation studio that will be starting up in York with a strong emphasis on forming training and educational links.

We have a live brief which we were wondering if one or two of your more able students would be interested in getting involved in. We will be able to fund the work produced but it will probably be in the region of three hundred pounds. We are looking for two or three one or two minute animation sequences of drawn animation of a small girl walknig through a woodland glade. The style wants to be somewhere between Disney, Tim Burton and Secret of Kells, with a bit of Arthur Rackham thrown in there.

We are also hoping to get a music score produced by students at the music college to use with this. The animation is to be used at our launch party in about three months time, which will be getting television, magazine and press coverage, and there will be some major celebrities at the launch, and as such it will be a great opportunity for a student to get a foot in the door so to speak.

If there are a couple of students who this may help out, it would be great to hear from you. You can see my work credentials on www.redshiftarts.co.uk

Best wishes

Ralph Shephard

So see what you all reckon and then let me know directly ASAP. I will inform Ralph and we will see what happens.

nice one

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