In Part 1 of AnimSchool’s Webcast Lead animator on The Lego Movie David Williams discusses the time he spent working on this movie. He shares his experience and motivation that led him to inspire life in Lego characters that are anything but simple.
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In this clip, Blue Sky animator and AnimSchool instructor Thom Roberts helps to figure out how the body mechanics on a side step work. Watch it below:
This is a clip from AnimSchool’s class Introduction to Animation, the first term of the 3D Animation Program. To find out more, go to AnimSchool.com and apply now!
AnimSchool announces today our three new gaming courses:
- Introduction to Gaming Animation
- Game Animation Pipeline
- Advanced Game Animation
Game animation students learn the animations, tools, and skills specifically required for working in games.
Students learn about game theory, interaction, working with game engines, importing animation into Unity, and working in game cinematics.
AnimSchool animation students can now choose a gaming emphasis, replacing animation classes 5,6 and 7, or take them after completing the program.
AnimSchool is known around the world for flexible, appealing characters. Over 20,000 people around the world use our AnimSchool Picker and “Malcolm” character, which has been used for commercials, short films, and to win dozens of animation awards.
AnimSchool students can learn modeling and rigging as well as animation.
Come join the over 200 students learning with us.
www.animschool.com
Today AnimSchool announces Marnie 2.0, a new version of Marnie with mix and match outfits, like the ones shown here, and other rig and model improvements.
Using AnimSchool Picker, students can turn on and off entire costumes or individual parts. You can even make her barefoot, since she has poseable toes!
AnimSchool specializes in appealing characters, from our world re-knowned “Malcolm” character to Coach to Scout.
Students have been using Marnie 2.0 in their animation assignments this term, and enjoying the many clothing options.
Marnie is exclusively for AnimSchool students. To use Marnie and learn
from our amazing instructors, apply to be an AnimSchool student. Come
join the hundreds of students and dozens of world-class instructors at AnimSchool!
http://www.animschool.com/Members/NewStudent.aspx
You can see lots of student examples on our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/AnimSchool
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In AnimSchool’s 3D Animation Program, instructor Mark Behm shows how to do simplified gesture drawings for planning your animation.
AnimSchool presents the latest animation student work! Congratulations to all the talented students at AnimSchool.
Look for a separate modeling/rigging Showcase later!
To apply to be a student, visit www.animschool.com.
For Immediate Release
Orem, UT United States – August 20, 2013 — Animschool
announces today their new character, Coach. Coach is a fully
articulated character rig, similar in quality to what a student would
find at top animation studios, capable of a wide range of expression.
Coach is exclusively for AnimSchool students.
Like all AnimSchool character rigs, Coach is designed for maximum
flexibility and appealing poses. Using the most refined, advanced
characters allows AnimSchool student
work to stand out among competitors. AnimSchool Character students can
use Coach to learn the arts of high-end modeling and rigging.
Coach has clothing options: shirt, collar, cleats, shoes, pants or gym shorts, and UV’s for textured rendering.
AnimSchool characters are used by more
than 15,000 users worldwide, and have been used to win numerous
animation contests and for commercial needs. AnimSchool is known as the
most trusted name for appealing 3D characters.
Now with over 200 students, AnimSchool
was founded in 2010 to bring character-focused 3D animation instruction
to students all around the world through live online sessions with the
very best film professionals.
Contact:
Isaac Nordlund
AnimSchool
admissions@animschool.com
560 South State Street, Suite F3
Orem, UT 84058
801 765-7677
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For Immediate Release
Orem, UT United States – June 10, 2013 — For Summer Term, AnimSchool is offering two new 11-week live courses Introduction to 3D Lighting and Environmental Modeling using Autodesk Maya software.
Introduction to 3D Lighting
For the introductory term, Introduction to 3D Lighting students are team-taught by TWO feature film
professionals in approximately 3 hours of live web classes each week, lighters Brandon May and Michael Murdock of Blue Sky Studios.
The class covers the basics of 3D lighting in Maya. Learn the principles of light, shadow, color, composition, and
staging. Learn how to render great images using Maya’s tools.
This
course is designed for AnimSchool animation or modeling students, and also for
students who may want to pursue lighting and rendering as a career path.
The instructors appear on a web camera and share their desktop, so
students are able to see the instructor explain concepts, and can
ask questions as they go.
Environmental Modeling
Environmental Modeling is AnimSchool’s new course to go deeper into hard-surface modeling and learn environments. Students learn how to make sets for their characters.
For this first term, Environmental Modeling is taught by Disney/Blue Sky Studios modeler Brien Hindman, Environmental Modeling Lead for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
In this new course, students learn best practices for production modeling, naming, breakout and asset management, and previs, cameras, lights, and resolution handling. Students learn the secrets of set modeling, with instruction in UV’s, Cloth
simming and particle distribution of elements, as well as working in a visual style.
Brien Hindman Environmental Modeling from Brien Hindman on Vimeo.
Introduction to 3D Lighting and Environmental Modeling are offered for Summer Term, July 1 – September 14. Prospective students should apply at:
http://www.animschool.com/Members/NewStudent.aspx
AnimSchool characters and tools are used by more than 15,000 users worldwide,
and have been used to win numerous animation contests and for
commercial needs. AnimSchool is known as the most trusted name for
appealing 3D characters and animation.
Now with over 200 students, AnimSchool was founded in 2010 to bring
character-focused 3D animation instruction to students all around
the world through live online sessions with the very best film
professionals.
Contact:
Isaac Nordlund
AnimSchool
admissions@animschool.com
560
South State Street, Suite F3
Orem, UT 84058
801 765-7677
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For Immediate Release
Orem, UT United States – April 18, 2013 — Animschool
announces today the release of the new AnimSchool Picker.
This is a new plug-in that incorporates all the capabilities from film studio
“picker” GUIs for selecting and controlling 3D characters.
The features are unparalleled, and it’s free to the public for most uses. (Some restrictions apply).
AnimSchool Picker is tightly integrated into
Maya, highlighting when you make a selection in Maya, as well as picking
from the buttons.
Users can zoom and pan using standard Maya navigation hotkeys.
Authoring a picker is very easy. Make single
or multiple object buttons–even vertices. Make script/command buttons.
Move buttons or groups of buttons with the control key. Nudge buttons
precisely with the arrow keys. Arrange and distribute buttons
horizontally or vertically.
Reuse pickers in an instant by switching it to
another character’s namespace. AnimSchool Picker automatically changes
all buttons and scripts to update to the new character.
The AnimSchool Picker has been released for Maya versions 2011+ PC and 2012+ Mac. Softimage
version likely to follow.
The AnimSchool Picker is offered to the
public with restrictions similar to the Malcolm rig: free for
most uses except in online animation classes in competition with
AnimSchool. It can be used by students of traditional in-person schools
and even by professionals and studios. (Other restrictions described here.)
“AnimSchool is committed to bringing the best animation tools to our
students and sometimes to the 3D animation community as a whole,”
founder Dave Gallagher said. “We’re so excited to offer this to
animation pros, students, and enthusiasts all around the world. Even
studios can use our new Picker!” (restrictions may apply.)
Now with over 200 students, AnimSchool
was founded in 2010 to bring character-focused 3D animation instruction
to students all around the world through live online sessions with the
very best film professionals.
Learn more about AnimSchool Picker at www.animschool.com.
Download AnimSchool Picker
Contact:
Isaac Nordlund
AnimSchool
admissions@animschool.com
560 South State Street, Suite F3
Orem, UT 84058
801 765-7677
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