Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Substance News Livestream: this Wednesday at 1 PM

If you are bored from sitting at home, you could learn something about texturing.

This Wednesday, the Substance team will livestream news on all current and upcoming developments in the 3D and Substance world at Adobe.

As student you can get a free personal license and give it a try!

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Oscar Worthy Animations

Looking for something to watch while confined to home? How about this, reported by OpenCulture.org: Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada

This includes the full version of Chris Landreth's Ryan:

You can of course also go straight to the source, the YouTube playlist by the National Film Board of Canada, which contains both animation and live action actually, or their website

Here is a stop motion animation (with some real eyes) favorite of mine that is a bit on the long side to show in class: Madame Tutli-Putli, directed by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski, from 2007:

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Free for now: Unity Leaning

Sitting at home and wondering what to do? How about leaning some Unity?

In response to COVID 19, Unity is "e;providing all users three months of complimentary access to Unity Learn Premium."e;

Visit learn.unity.com to take advantage of this opportunity

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Songs of Comfort

Started on Titter by Cellist Yo Yo Ma, Songs of Comfort can offer solace in these times of self isolation

Fundamentals of Animation Course

With the COVID-19 crisis roaring, aome on-line resources have been made free of charge, like this Fundamentals of Animation Course

Red Giant After Effects Plug-ins now free for students

Red Giant Complete is now free for students and educators at a high school, university, or college. Complete includes Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite, and Shooter Suite. Read the article on No Film School