Category: Blog
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CGMA Rigging Workshop
Super excited to have completed this intensive yet illuminating course with the CG Master Academy with Nico Sanghrajka! I’m so inspired I can’t wait to redesign my own rigging class to reflect the new information!
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14 Steps to Handle Graduating with an Animation Degree
Once the grueling process is over and you have officially collected that coveted degree in Animation, life can suddenly seem full of possibilities and yet utterly petrifying. The level of petrifying depends on how optimistic a person you are but I think it is common to feel a little lost. Having been through this process…
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Beginning Animation: Pre-production and why it’s important
Story-boarding is the art of making sure issues of timing, cameras and composition are sorted out. These are important decisions to make to ensure the readability of your animation. Remember, a story is no good if nobody can make sense of it. Placing a character into a scene is an art, but the bigger challenge…
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Rotation Orders and Gimbal Locks
This has been picked up directly from a really nice post I found at this blogger’s site: http://thinkanimation.blogspot.com/2007/03/maya-rigging-gimbal-big-no-no.html So the video isn’t attached (and it wasn’t there on the site either)
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Shader Recap
Shaders are more commonly known as shading networks, because they rarely ever include one item (node). What a shader network is, is a shading group which has a surface material connected to it. The shading group engine is what’s actually connected to your model, or, more specifically, the shape node of your model (this is…
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A novel approach
Check this out: Read more about this at http://www.behance.net/gallery/DOORS-Installation/471863
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Must-see Animations
Some of these are really popular but I think you’ll get a kick out of the rest! http://machoarts.com/15-amazing-animated-short-films
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Quirky stuff
I added this just because I couldn’t resist. And I think my students are starting to feel this way! Click and enjoy! http://www.devastatingexplosions.com/
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New Heights of Concept Art
And to see the actual artwork, please follow this link: http://aurelien-predal.blogspot.com/2011/11/un-monstre-paris.html