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Check out this month's short film:
Distraxion by Animation Mentor alumnus, Mike Stern. Read further to discover Mike's process of his short film from conception to completion.
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If you or a friend are thinking about applying for Animation Mentor, now is a good time. If you apply to Animation Mentor, get accepted, and pay your deposit for the Winter Term 2010 by Friday, October 23, 2009, you'll lock in the 2009 tuition rates and save $450! Winter Term 2010 starts January 4, 2010.
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Following in the success of the award-winning Behind the Characters: Professional Animators: Job Satisfaction, Career Outlook and Salary Survey Report, Animation Mentor is now releasing another new eBook and Industry Report. The eBook, How to Become an Animator: Your Guide for Evaluating Animation Jobs and Schools, is packed with facts on the different types of animation jobs that exist in the industry, tips on clarifying your personal goals, and helpful tools about what to look for when you research schools and training programs.
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If you want to learn more about Animation Mentor, sign up for the webinar "Behind the Scenes at Animation Mentor with Bobby Beck" on September 17, 2009.
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Animation Mentor:
What inspired you to learn character animation?
Mario Pochat:
Back in 1994 (when I was young and beautiful), I was a Softimage demo artist transitioning to a production environment to make what I thought would be cool computer graphics in motion. We started getting production work that involved character animation, and throughout these projects I realized there was always something funky about our computer characters...Later, I found out that character animation was an art form by itself, with its own challenges and very satisfying results. I started admiring classical animation and felt intrigued by it, so I left my sophisticated computer world and traded it for a pencil and paper.
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Matt Strangio, an animator at Pixar Animation Studios, is a graduate from Animation Mentor's first class. In this video, Matt talks about his animation journey, what he learned at Animation Mentor and how he got a job at Pixar.
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If an animator has a really strong feeling for a change (in the pose or something like that), is there a format to express concerns and ask to make changes? Or is that not appropriate?
This is a really good question, and something that we deal with all the time at Pixar. There are many things to take into consideration before asking to change something, and many factors that will affect what the answer is.
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Did you know the movie 9 is based on a 2005 student short film by Shane Acker which was nominated for an Academy Award and won "Best in Show" at SIGGRAPH? When Tim Burton saw the film he approached Shane to direct a full feature which was released on 9/9/09.
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The Animation Mentor Newsletter is your inside guide to U.S. movie and game releases and the visual effect companies who make movie magic.
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