by Nick | Jun 10, 2020 | Nicks Rants and Raves
How Junior VFX Artists Can Thrive in Production Tips for success from a production expert I’ve had an amazing path through visual effects these past couple of decades. Below are some of the many mistakes I made and lessons I learned along the way. I have also...
by Nick | Sep 1, 2019 | Nicks Rants and Raves
Be Cost Effective Be cost effective. This is, or should be, the core philosophy driving any employee in any company. When employees are cost-effective, in other words when they do something of value as cheaply or quickly as possible, the company’s profit margins...
by Nick | May 13, 2019 | Nicks Rants and Raves
As digital media artists and technicians, we deal with many different software applications daily. They vary in quality, from barely usable, unstable, unreliable, obsolete nonsense to generally reliable, mostly stable, modern and user friendly. In my experience, most...
by Nick | Mar 27, 2019 | Nicks Rants and Raves
Animators & VFX Artists Are Not High Tech Professionals A few years ago I wrote a blog article called Visual Effects Artists are Not High Tech Professionals. I did this specifically to deal with situations like what happened in Sausage party. Shortly after...
by Nick | Mar 21, 2019 | Animation, Nicks Rants and Raves, Visual Effects
A peak into the world of animation & visual effects. I am very excited to announce that, due to popular demand, CG Masters has added a new animation & VFX training program called “3D Foundations”. This short program was developed around discussions with...
by Nick | Mar 11, 2019 | Animation, Nicks Rants and Raves, Visual Effects
I am very pleased to announce that CG Masters is adopting Katana into its production workflow beginning May 2019. Katana is a lookdev and lighting management tool from The Foundry that radically simplifies the management of geometry, materials, textures, and image...
