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...
by admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Nicks Rants and Raves
Finding life balance as a digital artist “One Step…and then the next gets you where you’re going.” – Sister Creep When I was younger, people would ask me what I wanted to do for a living and I always had the same response; “I...
by Nick | Sep 25, 2017 | Nicks Rants and Raves
Advice from VFX industry veterans CGM students get to do a lot of cool things. We tour production studios, learn to shoot, discover all the interesting disciplines of 2D and 3D production, but none quite as awesome as this. 5 CGM students were invited to the set of...
by Nick | Sep 20, 2017 | Nicks Rants and Raves
Why Overtime in VFX and Animation is a Really Bad Idea. I can’t help smiling (on the outside) when I discuss this topic with certain visual effects production people, especially the managers who haven’t had to do 12 – 18 hours straight busting their brain at a...
