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Cloud Storage: Why Artists Should Use Online Backup to Keep Their Data with...
Image Source: google chrome We have all had it happen at least once. The fatal hard drive crash will make industry hardened artists weep for their fallen files, and lost preferences while cursing...
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Composition of a 3D Rendering: Using Centuries Old Techniques to Enhance Your...
Image Source: thegnomonworkshop.com Composition, composition, composition. It has probably been drilled into your heads through school, but composition is what makes or breaks your work....
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3D Animation Keyboard Shortcuts: Hot Keys! Get Your Hot Keys Here! Using...
Image Source: Photo by Daniel Fleming There is an old adage in the design industry that there are three sliding factors that are involved with producing work, but you can only give the client two. The...
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Hobbies for 3D Artists: How a Hobby Can Help Feed Inspiration For Your Career
Image Source: financefemme.com What are hobbies? Many of us may remember them as the way we got into this industry. Drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, all these things started out as...
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Digital Art Production Flexibility: Using Non Destructive Workflow in...
A workflow consists of a sequence connected steps. In the VFX and 3D animation industries artists tend to develop certain habits or methods of completing their work. Workflows change from artist to...
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Light and Color Through the Eyes of Jeremy Vickery: A Gnomon Workshop DVD Review
The 3D artist, with hands raised in the air declared “Let there be light!” and it was so, because otherwise everything would have been dark. Light is the very method in which we visually see...
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3 Tips for Better VFX and 3D Project Management
Good project managers are a desired commodity. Great project managers will have companies lining up and bidding for them like crazy. The Visual Effects, Video game, and Architectural Visualization...
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CG Artist Reference: Drawing From Reference Improves Skill and Productivity
Reference, reference, reference. Drawing from reference of some type is highly encouraged when in art school, and really by all established artists. Reference can be photographic or live, and when...
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Light for 3D Animation, Globally Illuminating the Job of Lighting Artists
“AZIZ! LIGHT!!” Much like the professor in the Fifth Element needed light to see the hieroglyphs, audiences need animated characters to be lit in order to see their performance. Light is the physical...
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CG Artist Reference: 3D Modeling Using Reference Increases Quality and...
Drawing isn’t the only medium that artists use reference for. In fact it is used in every facet of creating art, and especially in the creation of video games and visual effects. Reference is an...
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Why Are Great Project Managers Important? Great Project Management is...
Project management, a necessary part of any production process. From manufacturing fighter planes, to the snacks you nibble at throughout the day, they have all had a project manager involved at some...
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3 Keys to Improving Collaboration for Video Games and Film Production
Image Source: relationship-economy.com Collaboration is at the heart of all film and game projects being produced and completed. Because of peoples’ different opinions, ideas, and methodologies for...
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CG Artist Reference: Make Better 3D Textures Using Photo Reference
Reference! Reference! Get your reference here! So far we have talked about artists using reference for 3D modeling and drawing, and how it can improve productivity and accuracy. Well surprise...
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CG Artist Reference: Lighting References Improve Quality of 3D Illumination
Yep! More reference! You all are going to start thinking that I made a similar deal for “reference” that cranberries made with the other juices. We have already had reference for 3D modelers,...
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Environment Sculpting with David Lesperance: A Gnomon Workshop DVD Review
Having previously watched David Lesperance’s Gnomon Workshop DVD; Environment Production Workflow: Tips, Tricks and Concepts I was very interested to see his other instructional video on environment...
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LAGOA: Change the Way You Interactively Render in 3D With Cloud Computing
Image Source: home.lagoa.com The world is becoming smaller and smaller. I don’t mean physically smaller, but rather through new technologies people are able to work together and collaborate on...
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Structure: Guidelines and Restrictionsfor 3D Artists to Increase Productivity...
We have all been there. Trying to figure out what you want to create next. The seemingly unlimited number of directions that you can proceed can be very intimidating and smothering to productivity....
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Painting with Watercolor and Gouache, The Techniques of Erik Tiemens: A...
Erik Tiemens is an award winning movie concept artist and landscape painter extraordinaire. He has worked on TV series like the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Star Trek Voyager, as well as...
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A Model Employee: Why Performance Evaluations Can Make You a Better 3D Artist
You have done it! You finally landed your first industry job. You are working for a studio, doing what you love, but there are corporate culture processes that you don’t really understand, or take...
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Crowd Simulation Software: Creating and Analyzing Populations For Better...
The human race is roughly 7.089 billion strong as of 2012 estimations! That is a lot of people walking this earth. Then think that insects out number humans roughly 200 million to one!!! That is...
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