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...
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...
