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Career In VFX

Hello Good People.
I’m 20 and I’m from India. Since Childhood i was fascinated by the high end Visual Effects used in the Movies. I always wanted to be a visual effect artist.
I love computers and i believe I’m pretty good at understanding softwares.

I was looking for a good college for VFX + 3D training and my search ended on VFS but the fees was way too high for me pay – I’m not that financially strong.

So i have decided to study in India itself. The quality of work produced here isn’t that good but they say it’s not the schools it’s the greed of learning new things makes one a good animator.

All schools here are offering nothing but bunch of softwares packed into an year of learning and that’s what is confusing me. None of them has a legitimate course in VFX. So i planned to make my own customize VFX + 3D course.

After hours of goggling and searching forums i haven’t found any thing concrete.

Can someone please tell me what are all softwares one should consider learning to become a good VFX + 3D artist. Considering that one has to start from the scratch.

Thanks for reading.
Any help will highly appreciated.

Regards,
Diffuse.

2010 3D & VFX Showreel …. shorter version

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Try to find a good articles

do you know where can I find good articles about "why nowadays motion graphics & visual effects become something that needed in advertisement"?
I googled it, but it’s hard to find articles that related to my topic..

thx u…cheers

Anyone wanna help me to answer this Qs?

Hi there.

My name is Firman Prasetia,*I am a Mutimedia student in Limkokwing University Malaysia.
I have an assignment for my Research Methodology subject. My topic is "Motion Graphics and Visual Effects stand on The First Row recently in Advertisement".

I have some question that I hope u will feel free to answer it.

What do you think about the visual effects in advertisement (commercials), is it necessary to add visual effects nowadays in commercials? why?

Is the motion graphics / visual effects in commercial could deliver the message better to the audience?

When agency develop the idea, and want to put visual effects into it, do they discuss with the post production house about what kind of visual effects, or each agency have their own visual effects department?

How about the process of idea development, from the raw idea that agency get (from the client) into become the final idea?

Do you know what kind of famous softwares that industry use to develop visual effects for TVC?

could you explain a bit of the process until become the final outcome?

Lastly, I need to say thank you.
Cheers

Village Green

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Current London job climate

Hey Guys

Wanted some advice from you awesome artists out there. A lot of you guys are in the UK, and was wondering what the job climate would be say, Summer next year, for a Junior to progress into junior-mid. My wife and i want to be able to see the world ( a little bit) here soon, and it sounds like there is an endless queue for artists over there. Right now the junior arena is oversaturated in LA, and I feel like soon will be a good time to take it to London for a year or two.

Pay, hours, contract lengths, etc, what info can you guys hook me up with?

Thanks in advance!

Donald

In desperate need of help :( PFTrack

Hey guys,
So we have our mid term coming up and I have this footage that needs to be tracked for it. I am a beginner in PFTrack and have successfully done tracks with 2 different videos that were relatively easy. This new footage that our teacher shot and gave us has nothing good to track and its blurry as hell :'(
Would someone who knows PFTrack mind taking a look at my track and maybe giving me some pointers? It would be much appreciated.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=36ORP16E

So it does solve, but the solve is HORRIBLE ;'(