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Night with the Pros a Success!
We had about ninty people show up for the first Night with the Pros. From what I can
tell every one had a great time and learned a lot. I would like to once again thank
Dimitry Kachkovski, Richard Rosenman and Shawn Hendriks for taking the time to come
out to Humber and share years of knowledge with every one. It is great to hear from
people that want to share what they have learned from working in and around productions
for so many years.
Thank you to every one that came out as well, without you there wouldn't be much point
in doing it at all. Also thanks to the game programers for joining us and sharing the night.
Terry managed to get some better pictures so I will try and get those posted as well.
These are just off my cell phone.
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
Humber College, 3D Animation program presents, A night with the pros.
The event will take place October 13 at 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the main lecture theater at Humber College. There will
be door prizes for any student that attends. One of them might even be a major software package.. more on this as I
find out. This is open to any Humber College student in any semester. Recent graduates from summer of 2009 are
also invited to join in. but are not eligible for door prizes. If you want to hear it from the pros and
make some connections you should be there.
Speakers at the event come to us from three different areas of the industry and each have unique perspectives
on what they need in graduating students and out looks on how the industry is evolving.
Speaker Bios:
Dimitry Kachkovski
comes to us from Frankfurt, Germany where he is a Technical Artist at Crytek.
Dimitry realized his dream of working in the animation industry after graduating from the diploma program at Humber
College in 2007 and moved straight to Germany to work for Crytek, one of the worlds leading games developers.
Dimitry will be discussing the work done at Crytek where he worked on Crysis, Crysis Warhead, an unreleased project
and is actively working on Crysis 2. Dimitry is also responsible for creating rigging pipelines, tools development for
artists and animators, assisting in technical aspects of character design such as deformation, and general art
production pipelines and their improvements.
Richard Rosenman
has over 12 years of work experience in the national and international classical and computer
animation industry. He has produced over 50 commercials for both film and broadcast, many award winners, and most
of which have been directed by himself. Richard has extensive experience in all formats of animation including
short form, long form, series, gaming, effects, web and film. Additional experience includes live-action shoot
supervising, computer graphics programming, art direction, storyboarding, conceptual design, character design,
broadcast design, print and web development.
Shawn Hendriks
has 15 years experience in the 3D animation industry mainly on the software development side.
Shawn has been working for Autodesk for about ten of those years as an application engineer, presenter at all
the major trade shows around the globe and managed http://the-area.com. Because of this Shawn visits companies
world wide in every area of the business from Game development, feature film, broadcast, architectural and
every thing else in between. Shawn will be discussing his view of the industry as a whole, where it is and
where he sees it going in the future. Autodesk is the leading developer of software for the 3D engineering industry's.
Speakers will start at 7:00pm and run to 9:00pm.
Host: Paul Neale
Dimitry Kachkovski
7:00pm to 7:30pm
Richard Rosenman
7:40pm to 8:10pm
Shawn Hendriks
8:20pm to 8:50pm
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
Felipe Nogueira - Character TD Reel 2009
One year and one month after graduating from the Humber 3D Animation graduate and post graduate programs
this is what Felipes demo reel looks like now.
Reel..
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
Kalamazoo Animation Festival 2009
These are the results from the KAFI competition in Kalamazoo that happened this past May.
The five of us, Daniel Gillison, James Murchison, Stephen Smith, Warren Sloper and Michelle Ryan had four days straight to create a short based on a given theme from scratch.
Thats four days to come up with a "story", design, storyboard, model, texture, rig, skin, facial, render,
composite, voice recording, music.........
http://kafi.kvcc.edu/
Michelle Ryan / michelleryan.ca
April 24, 2009: Starz Animation is Hiring.
Starz Animation is hiring in all positions, it looks as though our industry isn't being hit as hard as others.
Starz Animation is located in down town Toronto and has just completed work on the film 9.
Read mode about it at www.starzanimation.ca
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
April 22, 2009: Blizzard is Hiring.
Well it looks like the 3D industry is bouncing back a bit from the recent down turns in the economy and companies
are starting to hire again. Blizzard is one of the major players in the business and is in a position to hire
around 100 people in various positions from writters, 3D artists and programmers.
Read more about it at www.blizzard.com
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
April 1 2009: Warning, Conficker Virus!
Today is the day that the Conflicker virus is set to hit. Make sure that you manually update your virus checkers
and that they are running. One of the results of the virus is it will disable your virus checking software
and stop it from retrieving updates. Also make sure that you check all jump drives and portables before you start
pulling data from them onto your home machines. Humber is notorious for getting viruses from students that are
not practicing safe computing;)
Paul Neale, Forum Admin.
March 31 2009: Forum back up and running!
Please advise me of any issues that occure when using the forums. Looks like it is all back up and
running.
Paul Neale, Forum Admin.
March 31 2009: Forum Problems
As many of you know the forum is having problems. Looks like we have had a corruption of the data base. I am
currently working on the problem to see if I can recover data and solve the problem. Hang in there and
I hope to have it up and running soon.
Paul Neale, Forum Admin
March 11 2009: Faculty offices have moved!
The offices for the 3D Animation courses and under Terry Posthumus have moved to the K wing. Terry's office is
now in K 113 and the rest of the full and part time faculty are now in K 117. Office hours for the full time
faculty will be the same as they were.
Nov 13 2008:
Added two new tutorial page links on HDRI lighting. This us used when working with real world lighting setups for set extensions,
live action CG effects shots or any time that you need a global lighting solution that feels more like the real world.
www.xedium3d.com
www.trinisica.com
Oct 28 2008: The Making of Dawn.
James Murchison posted this link on the forum and I think that it out lines the steps for modeling an interesting
character very well.
Oct 28 2008: Best of the Best Updates.
Several images have been added from the 3rd Semester Set Modeling class. Please drop in and have a look at the work that has been done.
New Banners Needed!
We are in need of new images to replace and or add to the banners at the top of evey page as well as the right hand banner
on the home page. Visit the forum for information about how to create these images and submit them for consideration. You can
find the forum thread here.
Oct 27 2008: Where are they now updates.
After completing the Post Graduate Program Wendy was hired by PEN Productions Inc as a character modeler and has worked on
multiple projects for TV commercials and TV series.
Felipe completed the Post Graduate Program at Humber and was immediately hired by Red Rover Studios as a technical director and 3D generalist.
After completing the Post Graduate Program at Humber College Michael started working at PEN Production Inc as a character modeler.
Michael has been working on TV series and commercials.
Corey Hayes completed the post graduate course and has started working
for Digital Extremes as a environment artist developing games for the
PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Oct 24 2008: Autodesk aquires softimage/XSI
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 23, 2008 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that they have signed a
definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million.
This is a major change to the industry that you are becomming part of. Read up on what Autodesk and Softimage are saying before you hear from
sources that are only speculating.
Read more about it here
Admin.
| Oct 10 2008: General Site Updates. |
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Several updates to the general look of the main site have been done. Please let me know if you find any errors or it is not
displaying correctly on your favorite browser.
A few new concept art sites have been added to the Resource page as well as the Featured Sites links to the right.
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I have finaly started to get the computer specs page formated for the site. It is partially up at..
Computer Hardware..
Thanks, Paul Neale
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| Sept 22 2008: Web Board Updates. |
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I have had to make data base changes to the web board so that I could add all the new students. This may have caused problems
with recent posts. If your post has gone missing please just post again as it is lost forever.
All new students that created proper user names have been let into the Humber3D Web Board. Every one else will have to email me at
my humber account and let me know which account to delete so that you can recreate a new account. You can't just create a new account
as your email will already be in use. Do not just create a new dummy email account as you will be contacted from time to time using the
email that you signed up with.
Thanks, Paul Neale
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Please welcome all the new students for the fall semester of 2008. We have one of the biggest groups joining us
this time with 68 new students.
As we get this semester under way I would like to ask all the new students to make sure they create a properly formated
login to the humber3D forum, once this is done it will take me a couple of days to register all the new accounts so please
be patient. Creating a new Forum Login
Welcome back to all the second year and post graduate students. We are looking forawrd to seeing the work that you will
produce once again.
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"Felipe Nogueira has been capable of applying his skills at many
different 3d projects,
constantly learning and growing as an artist. He was able to take on a
junior position right after
completing his schooling and demostrates a very good base knowledge of
the 3D field. He is a talented
artist with a bright future."
Ben Pilgrim
Technical Artist
Redrover Studios
Commenting on Felipe Nogueira, graduate of the Diploma Program at Humber.
"We hired David as a student from Humber as an Intern for the summer. We knew Humber had a reputation for quality and high standards when it comes to their graduates.
Nevertheless, we stunned by the level of competence this student had. Not yet in his final year, David was able to jump on any task we threw his way. 3D animation,
modeling, flash animation, layout - were easily accomplished by him because he had already learnt the programs and understood the language of the industry.
He is a creative person whose work ethic is exceptionally positive. Humber College has helped create an individual with not only the perfect skill set for the industry,
but the attitude and ambition as well. When it comes to hiring artists in the future, we will continue to seek out individuals from this institution."
President & Co-Founder, KeyFrame Digital
Commenting on David Emirzian, graduate of the Diploma Program at Humber.
"Dimitry was able to wrap his head around this stuff, and is now doing real work on real projects in no time.
Dimitry hit the ground running and became a productive member of our team in no time. Usually there would be more of a training period."
"I'm glad we have him, he is really productive after hardly any time, and now that he knows the pipeline more, he makes informed
comments about stuff, and it helps a lot."
Chris Evans: Lead Technical Artist , Crytek, Germany.
Commenting on Dimitry Kachkovski, graduate of the Diploma Program at Humber.
Dimitry was hired as a Technical Artist at Crytek.
"The students I have hired from Humber are the most knowledgeable I've come across. They have an acute understanding of not
only what makes great 3D, but what makes a great 3D artist."
David Feltham: Senior Designer, Bioware, Edmonton.
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