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Social Media Marketing II: How Social Media Can Establish an Artist and Lead...
Social media marketing can help artists get their name out there, get their foot in the door, and can even help in improving their own work. Looking at a few artists in different visual fields we can...
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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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3D Visual Effects and Film: VFX Make Movies Better Whether Obvious or Not
Image Source: beforevfx.tumblr.com With so much static between the film industry and the visual effects industry these days, more and more conversations pop up about the part that VFX play in films....
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The Key to Breaking into the 3D and VFX Industry; How to Get the Skills for...
Image Source: turbosquid.com As with any industry, if you have been working in the 3D or VFX industry for any amount of time you will be asked by someone how you got into that industry. It seems to...
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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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Love Video Games and Visual Effects? Here’s 3 Factors for Choosing your CG...
There are a few questions that CG artists are commonly asked by people interested in learning more about the VFX and 3D trade. What software do you use? What kind of computer do you have? One of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Sabbaticals and Career Breaks: Stefan Sagmeister and the Power of...
We all know the feeling of exhaustion that comes from working long hours on a project day in and out. Weeks of crunch time turn into months and before you know it you have been working a crunch...
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Quality of Life of a Video Game Designer: Reevaluating CG Industry Standards
A couple months ago I read an article on the Penny Arcade website about a game company that was trying to change the status quo of what it takes to develop a video game. The article drew a lot of...
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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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