Hasta La Motion!

New London Studio, Animagine, requires a senior 3D character animator for long term contract beginning July 1st 2010.

You must be at the top of your field, ideally you will have experience working on big budget features as a character animator, even better if you have been the lead artisit.

Typically, you will have had experience at a large house such as The Mill, MPC, Framestore, ILM, Weta, Pixar etc. You will also have experience working in high end commercials. Experience of animating photorealistic characters would be a definite advantage.

As well as being a dedicated 3D character animator you will also have a comprehensive knowledge of other disciplines such as modelling, rigging and to a lesser extent texturing, lighting and rendering.

This job would suit someone looking to work in a more creative role within a small team of very talented 3D artists since we actively encourage a collaborative spirit within the team.

Animators with directoral experience would be an added bonus.

Please e mail andybrass@hotmail.co.uk with a current showreel and cv.

Interviews to begin the week beginning Tuesday 2nd June

Dear members,

I checked out a new Andrew Kramer tutorial yesterday called 3d Ledge:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_ledge/

He’s using a Script for AE which extracts a single 2d Track to Maya or 3ds Max Cameradata. Quiet useful I think. Is there anything similar for shake?

Cheers,
Michael

Hello people of the vfx world!

We know of all of the blogs that have different gizmos, all of the artists the give their python out, and the tutorials that are out there. Sadly, these things are never connected the way we want them in the world of production and learning.

In comes pxTools.
What is pxTools? It is a single community-driven toolset that standardizes plugins, and not in the give-us-your-money way.

The main aim of pxTools is to support itself. When you use a gizmo, and theres a bug, theres a place to report it. When you need help with said gizmo, theres a button linking you to a video tutorial. When you watch said tutorial, its presented in a standardized way.

A full release of pxTools will come out twice a year. Why? Because a tool in pxTools may be good, but somebody may come along and make version that is GREAT. This introduces a propellant to keep pxTools alive: competition.

Contributors to the pxTools project will have individual artist pages and the ability to have direct donations per tool. So when your tool is released in pxTools, you have direct exposure to the industry professionals using the tools.

There are already a lot of artists involved and lots and lots of neat tools and tomfoolery ready to be released. Panels, sample scripts, gizmos, python, tutorials and all sorts of things will be released with each new version. (Grooveshark, nukeChat, lots of other neat things as well.)

Whats left? You!

If you want to get involved with the future of pxTools, email pxtools@gmail.com

Hi folks,
I’m a amateur film maker and amateur motion graphics artist from Turkey. i’ve been working on a star wars fan made web series for 4 years. and finally i ll release the first webisode. There will be 6 webisodes and each webisode will be publish monthly.
i’ll be glad if you check out the trailer and webisode 1. and leave me your feed backs.

www.riseoftherebellion.com (web site)

http://vimeo.com/11782328 (direkt link of webisode 1 )
http://vimeo.com/10671449 Direkt link of the trailer.

About Project : Rise of the Rebellion is a fan made web show, made in Turkey. Its completely non – profit production. It’s not sponsored or authorized by Lucas Film Ltd. The purpose of the project is sharing the love of Star Wars myth with the fans around the world.

Synopsis : Story is set up in the era between episode 3 and 4. Newly formed Rebel Alliance seeks opportunity to gather supplies and information about Emperor’s “ULTIMATE WEAPON” . In the meantime last remnants of the Jedi hide in outer rim planets hoping Emperor’s oprression will never find them. In the course of odyssey 2 rebel spies travel with faithfull friends,to an Empire occupied planet Eison where they meet new allies,alien creatures and evil machines.

Executive Producer / Director : Can Akdağ

Visual Effects supervisor : Batuhan Çokmar