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| May 12, 2008: |
| Site upgrades: Lots of new additions to the Best of the Best pages as well as a few new banners.
The summer modeling competition is starting off well with several entries. There is still plently of time to get involved but those that get started early will have the most time to work on their creations. Visit the forum thread here.
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| April 24, 2008: |
| Well this is it for the winter semester. Congratulations to every one that has completed semester four and graduated. Good luck to those that will be moving on to other endeavors in education or searching for jobs in the industry and we all look forward to seeing those that come back for post grad.
The Humber3D web board remains open for the summer and you are more then welcome to post work that you are doing or just drop in and say hi and chat a bit.
Tim will be running a summer competition for modeling so keep an eye out for that. There will be a new forum on the board where this will take place.
I'm still looking for new banners and best of the best images. Once again I have heard from pros in the industry that the work they are seeing on this site is some of the best they have ever seen from a college.
the-area.com will be looking for votes on who you believe deserves the title of Max Master. This is a world wide competition and the people that you can vote for have to be nominated. Yours truly, Paul Neale has been nominated this year. When the voting starts up in May at http://the-area.com from please drop in and vote for your favorite Max Master.
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| It is that time again, I'm looking for more images to update the site with. There has been some fabulous work done in the last semester by first and second year students as well as post grads. Below are links to the specs and where you need to post the images for them to be considered. Lets get some more work up on the site and show the world what we can do.
Best of the Best images:
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Banners and side bars:
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| April 14, 2008: |
| New arm twist solution video added at http://paulneale.com. This tutorial covers adding twist bones to the upper and lower arms using Expose Transform Helper, |
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| April 11, 2008: |
A new IK/FK arm tutorial has been added at http://paulneale.com in the tutorials sections.
Over the next few weeks keep an eye out for post on the web board about a summer contest. The general theme will be "Steampunk".
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| February 11, 2008: |
Feburary is here and talk of Siggraph is already in the air. If you are thinking of going I suggest that you sign up. There only a number of positions available for students to volunteer for. If you are lucky enough to get one of these possitions you get a free trip out of it.
Siggraph 2008
Paul Neale, Site Admin |
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| January 2, 2008: |
Happy New Year
2008
Welcome to winter 2008. This semester will see some new courses added to the already fantastic programs thanks to the efforts of Terry Posthumus. More changes and additions to this web site and the forum should also take place as I get time to work on the layout and content.
In the last month of 2007 you will all be glad to hear that Terry and I were contacted by no less then four top Companies showing great interest in the quality of the students that Humber 3D courses are producing. What this means to the students enrolled and those that are considering Humber College is a greater possiblity of jobs once you have graduated.
Corrected a bug in the best of the best pages that was stopping more then 19 thumbnails from being displayed at once. Please let me know if you find any other problems on those pages by emailing me here.
More colour changes to the forum buttons to bring it up par. Humber gold has been added to make all them pop out a bit more. Let me know what you think.
New images have been added to the best of the best pages.
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| December 21, 2007: |
Toronto's own Red Rover Studios is featured yet again on CG Talk with thier latest series of TV spots for Saskel. View the spots and read about it at CG Talk.
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Kosta Lavrinuk graduated in 2006 upon completion of Diploma program, and is now gainfully employed at Toronto-based animation studio Red Rover filling the position of a 3d generalist, leaning on texturing and modelling. Congratulations on your position at Red Rover.
You can see more of Kosta's work here http://cgmental.com/ |
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| November 30, 2007: |
An evening with Autodesk...
During the past eight years, 3December® has become a tradition. On, or around, December 3rd artists using Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder joined together -- either in person or online -- to celebrate 3D and the art they create. Now, in 2007, with 3December in its ninth year, what better way to again unite your community and welcome MudBox users too!
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| November 29, 2007: |
New additions to the Best Of The Best pages have been uploaded today. Congratulations to all that were picked.
Updates can be found here:
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| November 20, 2007: |
More changes to the forum have taken place. I'm pleased to annouce that there are now four new moderators of the forums. Brad Allen, Mathieson Facer, Felipe Nogueira and Corey Preston. They will be helping Terry and Paul manage the forum as it has grown very large over the last couple of years.
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Eric Harvey will be starting a new position at Key Frame Digital in Niagra Falls, Ontario as a technical director. Eric will be working along side several other graduates of Humber College. Eric graduated from the diploma program with honors.
All the best in your new position Eric. |
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| November 16, 2007: |
More additions to the best of the best pages in several categories. Please drop in and have a look.
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| November 2, 2007: |
| Additions have been made to the Best Of The Best pages. The current first semester group of 2007 have completed their hard surface project. This project was their first at modeling a complex surface. Congratulations on a job well done. |
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| October 23, 2007: |
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Mike Mendes has just graduated from the Post Graduate program and will be starting at Toronto based animation studio Core Digital Pictures as an animator, and will be working on an upcoming television series.
You can see more of Mike's work at http://www.mikemendes.com |
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| October 22, 2007: |
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Namit Lavekar completed the post graduate course and has started working for Magellan Interactive as a 2D-3D Game artist developing games for 'DS','WII' & mobile phones.
To see more of Namits work please visit http://www.namit3d.com |
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| October 12, 2007: |
Paul Neale is working on a texture tutorial based on the Control Panel that was taught in 3rd semester Production 3.
Photoshop was used to creat all the shapes and overlays were used to create the textures.
This element is now ready to be used in larger textures just placed on small objects.
Visit the Resources page for more Tutorials.. |
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| September 7, 2007: |
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Mathieson Facer has just completed the post graduate program at Humber and has been snatched up by Niagra based Keyframe Digital. Mat will be working as a TD, effects artist and anmiator on an up comming TV series as well as other projects. Mat was the project manager and effects artist on Down On The Farm which has been featured on sites like CG Talk and CG Total.
You can find out more about Mathieson on hit site at http://www.mathiesonfacer.com |
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Stephan Perreault graduated as well from the post graduate course at Humber and will be starting at Niagra based Keyframe Digital as a character animator on a childrens TV series and other up comming projects.
You can see more of Stephans work at http://www.stephanperreault.com |
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| August 27, 2007: |
- For those returning students you will find some changes to the courses and class rooms. New systems are being built for J127 and will be put in place in the first few weeks of the fall semester. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause in the class rooms.
- A whole new group of students will be starting their first semester in the diploma course as well as new students in the 3ds Max Modeling and Animation Certificate and 3D Modeling & Visual Effects Production. Keep an eye out for them on the web board and please make them all feel welcome.
- Paul Neale will be joining us again this semester but this time as a full time faculty member. Paul's office can be located in J 120, and his office hours will be posted on the door.
- Tim Johnstone will be returning but this time as part time faculty. Tim has just completed the Post Graduate program.
- Back by popular demand, Terry Posthumus will be continuing the roll of course coordinator. Terry can be located in the J 122 offices.
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| August 14, 2007: |
- Several of the students and Terry Posthumus returned from Siggraph with lots of news about the industry and possible job opportunities.
- Some of the highlights includes rave reviews on the work that was shown by the Humber students to the companies that were hiring, Mudbox was acquired by Autodesk, and Bobo is a real person. You can read more about it on the forum in this thread.
- After some concerns about their project, Frantic Films has finally told Jason Labbe his start date. He found out today that he flies to Vancouver Thursday Aug 16, tomorrow, and starts working on Aug 17 on a feature film. When things happen in this industry they happen fast.
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| August 10, 2007: |
- Added help pages for assisting new users of the site.
- Also preformed some house cleaning on the forum, removing unused accounts. If in any way this has affected your account please let Paul Neale know as soon as you can.
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| August 3, 2007: |
- It is Siggraph time again. Many of the graduate students are attending this year to either look for work or to meet and greet with industry professionals. Good luck to all those that are looking for work and are ready to move onto the world of production 3D.
- Best Of The Best pages have had a major update. Many more images are still to come as well as links to animations and final projects from the post graduate students.
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| July 26, 2007: |
- The forum is back on line. Looks like it didn't take as long as I thought it might. I have had to do major colour changes to the template that was used so some things might still be hard to read. If you see anything strange in a post please let Paul Neale know so that the changes can be made.
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| July 25, 2007: |
- Humber3D forum will be down for a week or two for maintenance. All accounts should still be available once it is back up and running, however if you have a problem please email Paul Neale and I will see if I can get you account running again.
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| July 24, 2007: |
- We would like to welcome two new faculty members to Humber3D.
- Paul Neale will be returning again but this time as a full time professor. Paul brings with him 12 years of production experience working with companies from around the world and 10 years of teaching experience at several colleges. Paul has taught master classes at Siggraph and the Game Developers Conference and been hired by many major production companies to train their staff including Walt Disney Animation.
- Tim Johnston will be teaching at Humber for the first time this fall as part time faculty. Tim is a recent graduate of Humber College and has Much to offer the program. Tim graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2003 with an honours B.A. in fine art with a studio specialization in sculpture receiving a number of academic and societal awards for works created during his undergraduate degree.
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| July 9, 2007: |
- Most of the site is now complete as far as structure and code goes. Content will now be added as I get it and pages updated. Please let Paul Neale know if you see any errors on the pages or they don't load as you would expect.
- A new Downloads pages has been added, this is where all links to external resources will be moved to once they are off the features lists on the right of the page. If you have any great tutorials or sites that you think should be featured please let Paul Neale know and I will add them to the lists.
- Best Of The Best pages are code complete and just need content. If you are a past graduate and produced excellent work can you please email Paul Neale at paul.neale@humber.ca and let me know about it. I will be needing images and animation. More information about the sizes can be found on the private forums.
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