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Ask an Artist:Develop Your 3D Career Path – How Learning on the Job Can...
Image Source: skuba3d.com How did you get to where you are in the industry? When you are working in 3D or VFX sometimes you are approached by prospective students, or professionals who are looking for...
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Ask an Artist: The Importance of Online Forums in 3D Artist Development
There are many ways that 3D artists get their education. Some artists receive training through formal education at a school, or through specific workshops that are held. Perhaps the most consistent...
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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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Motion Graphics: 3D and VFX Combined with Graphic Design for Exciting Dynamic...
When I went through school for 3D, at one point they had us choose a specialty. I chose 3D modeling, others chose animation, or concept design, and then there were a few who chose Motion Graphics....
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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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3 Art Tips from Professional Artists
Image source: Digitalartsonline.co.uk The folks over at Digital Arts put together 3D art advice from some big names in the design industry. The advice was so good that we thought we’d take a much more...
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The Importance of Self Assessment for Growth as a Professional Artist
We recently talked about the importance of performance evaluations in the workplace, and the role they play in improving 3D artists. Part of what makes the performance evaluation effective is the self...
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Fundamentals of Perspective 1: One Point Principles and Concepts with Gary...
The Fundamentals of Perspective 1: One Point Principles and Concepts with Gary Meyer is the first DVD in a three part series. The first DVD covers the basic principles of how to construct a one point...
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5 Tricks for Overcoming Writer’s Block (and Artist’s Block, Too)
Image source: Indiereader.com Writer’s block — it’s a problem that’s plagued artists for as long as anybody can remember. It has a rather unfortunate name, though. Writer’s block isn’t exclusive to...
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3D Printing Miracles: A Model For Saving Lives
3D printing is an industry expanding into seemingly every other industry. Architects are beginning to create 3D printed buildings. 3D artists are able to have their figurines and 3D doodles printed...
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The Future is Here and Now: 5 Tech Gadgets VFX and 3D Artists Have Inspired
Image Source: whaculture.com “Great Scott!” Is what Doc Brown always exclaimed in the Back to the Future franchise, but now it seems that it is the future that is catching up with us. Many times...
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3 Tip for Being a Better Team Player On Group Art Projects
Image source: Pavetech.olhblogspace.com Teamwork — you either love or you hate it. I’m fairly extroverted, so I like working together with a group of like-minded individuals to create a finished work...
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Basics Perspective Form Drawing, the Techniques of Scott Robertson: A Gnomon...
Perspective! I recently reviewed Gary Meyers first DVD on the principles of one point perspective (LINK), and as I stated it was incredibly humbling to be able to learn, even if it’s through a...
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Burned Out? 3 Steps to Handle Work Exhaustion in the 3D Industry
We have all had those tired, groggy, not particularly productive days of work. For many of us we call that Monday! Sometimes the lack of focus and low energy carries on for more than the start of the...
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3D Artist’s Dream Job: 5 Metrics for Measuring Good Companies to Work For
I have written before about the dream job, what it is and ways to try and get into said dream job. Nowadays there seem to be online reviews for everything. From a movie to the hotdog cart around the...
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3 Card Games with Different Art Styles for CG Artists: Is THIS Your Card?
For many of us a standard deck of cards is the gateway game in which we are introduced to so many other games. It is such an incredibly versatile “toy”. Magicians can make your chosen card appear,...
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Anatomy Workshop: Volume One Structure and Proportion with Charles Hu – A...
Anatomy is one of those crucial foundation skills necessary for any 3D artist. I have talked before how anatomy is a building block from which all artists should start in order to make better art. In...
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