Month: August 2020

Wakanda Forever!!

August 31, 2020

A gentle soul and brilliant artist has passed from our ranks all too soon. Chadwick Boseman was taken from us last week after a four year battle with colon cancer. His silent struggle through it while giving back to so many is beyond words. The world is mourning the loss of this great man. I’m still reeling from the news as the year 2020 keeps delivering so much heart wrenching anguish.

There have been many many wonderful articles of the man that will be forever remembered in hearts so I won’t go on on.

I would like to reach out and beg people, please get tested. Statistics show there are even more reasons to get tested earlier than most doctors tell us. Cancer in all it’s forms is one of the vilest of vile villians out there. Do not hesitate to get tested. Spread the word.

FIGHT COLON CANCER!!

FIGHT ALL CANCER!!!!

New3dge 3D Animation & VFX shorts out!

August 15, 2020

Like I said in my New3dge VFX Graduation Projects 2020 blog entry, I am so excited to finally share the New3dge Students projects! All are amazing and dazzling to see.

Here is a trailer of all the projects:

Check out each link below by clicking on the Short’s poster. Each short has wonderful breakdowns of how the students created them. Unfortunately you can’t still watch the short in there totality but you do get to glimpse everyone’s outstanding work. You can reach out to the school if you’d like a private link.

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At the end of each project’s website, you can look at every student’s Artstation links for more information on each student and they’re work (as they all are looking for jobs currently and want to join us as peers in our amazing profession).

New3dge VFX Graduation Projects 2020

August 3, 2020

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I had the incredible honor of being part of VFX Graduation Projects 2020 for the Senior Projects at New3dge school.  It was supposed to take place at the school in Paris, France, but with Covid totally makes sense to cancel the in person gathering. The school was able to allow us access to the students’ work, breakdowns, and face time with the groups.  The Senior Projects are a bunch of shorts that a small group of students work on as team replicating a mini pipeline as they execute a highly caliber of work. The students of VFX/Animation graduation projects for 2020 were very impressive and produced really outstanding quality! So much great work and inspirational to see!

It was a great pleasure to interact with each team and talk about their projects and questions. The excitement of each team  was infectious and reminded me of my days back at school. New3dge school is doing an amazing job teaching their students to be ready for professional careers in VFX, Animation and Games.

Unfortunately I can’t share the projects that the students worked on yet. The School has them submitted to various festivals. Once I am allowed I’ll share the works with links.

What I can say is these shorts are worth checking out when I do! Below is a demo reel from the school with a sampling of what the quality of work the students there produce. You can watch previous Projects on it as well.

Sincere thanks to Fabien Roumazeilles and New3dge for allowing me to be part of this experience, and my friends Ryan Prestridge and Brian Lafrance for recommending me.