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Leonard

07-02-2003, 01:04 AM

Hi everyone, here's the official press release for our partnership with Gnomon.

Render on,

The CGNetworks Crew

CGNetworks and Gnomon School of Visual Effects announce partnership
Leading digital visual effects school and online community join forces

1 July 2003 - Gnomon School of Visual Effects, a leading digital visual training facility based in Hollywood, CA, and CGNetworks, a leading provider of content and on-line community services for the professional computer graphic arts industry, has announced a partnership to deliver quality digital effects training material online. This strategic partnership between the two leading companies in their respective fields aims to provide quality educational content for digital effects enthusiasts on the Web.

As part of the on-going partnership, CGNetworks will provide the technological infrastructure for Gnomon Online, the online educational community for high-end digital production run by Gnomon at http://www.gnomononline.com. Videos tutorials, lectures and other training material from Gnomon will be delivered through the CGNetworks website at http://www.cgnetworks.com starting in July 2003.

“Since its inception in 1997, Gnomon has provided a solution for the lack of well-trained digital artists,” says Alex Alvarez, Director of Gnomon. “Our partnership with CGNetworks means that we can expand our training services worldwide. CGNetworks provides the infrastructure and user-base that will allow us to deliver quality visual effects educational content internationally.”

“This is absolutely what the international CG community has been waiting for,” explains Leonard Teo, Editor of CGNetworks. “Quality educational content, combined with the leading industry news coverage and the leading professional discussion forums. What more could anyone in, or wanting to break into the digital effects industry ask for?”

Related Links:
Gnomon School of Visual Effects – http://www.gnomon3d.com
CGNetworks – http://www.cgnetworks.com
Gnomon Online – http://www.gnomononline.com
Gnomon Workshop - http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/
CGTalk – http://www.cgtalk.com

About Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Gnomon School of Visual Effects is a professional institute specializing in training for visual effects for film, television and games. Located in the heart of Hollywood, they offer a full curriculum for individuals wanting careers in 3D, professionals in need of specialized training, and custom training for production studios. Courses include introductory to advanced digital 3D and traditional art classes geared toward 3D production The Gnomon curriculum has been approved by the Alliance for Digital Production Trainers (ADEPT) whose members include training managers from studios including Rhythm & Hues Studios, Cinesite, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures Imageworks. Founded by Alex Alvarez in 1997, Gnomon is located at 1015 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Suite 5430i, Hollywood, CA 90038. On the Web, they can be found at http://www.gnomon3d.com.

About CGNetworks
CGNetworks is the leading provider of content and on-line community services for the professional creative computer-graphic arts industry. They are pioneers in their field, responsible for the most successful websites, conferences, awards and books in this market space. CGNetworks provides quality content for computer-graphic arts professionals and enthusiasts, inspiring, educating and empowering their readers. CGNetworks provides companies with the resources to penetrate the computer-graphic arts market effectively, with an emphasis on qualified results and value. More information at http://www.cgnetworks.com/about.php

Wavesphere

07-02-2003, 02:19 AM

This is awesome!

Will these tutorials and lectures be released for a wide variety of apps? Or will it be centered around just one?

Leonard

07-02-2003, 02:43 AM

The aim for the material on CGNetworks.com is to be as generic as possible. We want to tackle the more fundamental stuff, rather than the software-specific.

Hope that clarifies it.

Best

Leonard

lebada

07-02-2003, 02:46 AM

ohh ok...lol..respoded b4 my question

Howzat

07-02-2003, 03:01 AM

Originally posted by Leonard
The aim for the material on CGNetworks.com is to be as generic as possible. We want to tackle the more fundamental stuff, rather than the software-specific.

Hope that clarifies it.

Best

Leonard
Glad to hear that, I was worried for a moment there that this was going to be Maya only.

JesterFX

07-02-2003, 06:43 AM

The aim for the material on CGNetworks.com is to be as generic as possible. We want to tackle the more fundamental stuff, rather than the software-specific. I've been a lurker for a long time but this is something nice to see. I am curious though, will there be a lot of content or is it more aimed at giving a little slice of the training to entice more people to pay for the training on gnomons site? Although gnomon has some nice content it is still pretty expensive for those not already in the industry, who are the ones who would most need the actual training heh.

It's also very nice to see the spirit of generousity that Jason Busby has shown at 3dbuzz is really starting to influence the rest of the community. It was pretty much impossible to find high quality, professional level training (besides a few short vids here and there) that were cheap, not alone free before 3dbuzz. Now it seems you can really find them everywhere and that is really a very cool thing for the creative community as a whole. We need to foster our own and with sites like 3dbuzz and now cgnetworks (among many others now) providing real education we are seeing a real difference.

Can't wait to see what you guys have in mind and get started on more learning.

PS are you going to be sending out cd's for those that have slow connections since this is going to be aimed on a global scale? Also, be sure to put up a donation link when it "goes live" so people who want to help out with bandwidth cost and such can jump in ;)

Leonard

07-02-2003, 06:47 AM

Hi Jester,

Again, this comes down to pure economics. We'll do what we can to give quality material given our limitations, but it will never be as good as paying for training and getting the real deal. We're not doing it to 'entice' people, but just offer something that's of value to the community.

Cool?

Leo

symantix

07-02-2003, 05:55 PM

Maybe I skimmed over it in the above article, but I didn't see anything that said that this service was going to be free. Am I missing something?

Whether it's free or not, it sounds really cool. Great idea, guys.

jturner

07-02-2003, 08:19 PM

I think it would be intensely cool to see some coverage of the ID class that Feng teaches over there in addition to the purely cg related stuff. Solid design skills are the fundamentals of fundamentals.

Leonard

07-02-2003, 08:26 PM

symantix - As mentioned above, we will endeavour to keep the content on CGNetworks free. There was no mention in the PR because this is subject to review as we see the popularity and just how economical it is to run.

jturner - Yup, we're looking at running more fundamental stuff such as design, lighting, texturing, etc. rather than the software-specific.

If you're after specific Maya training, get the Gnomon DVD's from http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com or try Gnomon Online at http://www.gnomononline.com.

L.

johngloid

07-02-2003, 11:17 PM

That's cool...but it still doesn't teach anyone what makes good art. The tech in my opinion is about %1 of the creation.

Leonard

07-02-2003, 11:56 PM

Originally posted by johngloid
That's cool...but it still doesn't teach anyone what makes good art. The tech in my opinion is about %1 of the creation.

What do you mean? Doesn't your computer have the 'make art' button?

L.

thecrow

07-03-2003, 06:31 AM

If you're after specific Maya training, get the Gnomon DVD's from http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com or try Gnomon Online at http://www.gnomononline.com.

Thanks for the tip, but let's not forget that for those who don't have the money to purchase the Gnomon videos, you can ALWAYS get specific professional-grade training over Maya and numerous other software packages at www.3dbuzz.com (http://www.3dbuzz.com)!

Hope this helps!

crow

Soulstorm

07-03-2003, 10:11 AM

lol i can see it now (literally), the gnomon banner :p

JesterFX

09-10-2003, 02:13 PM

Any updates or news on this? The industry could always use more training and I for one was excited to see how this was going to turn out.

Thanks :)

Leonard

09-10-2003, 02:22 PM

I'm working on the video and the first one will go up on Friday (fingers crossed).

Leo

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