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#581

So, i´ll be the guinea-pig for the Animation mentor, heheh:D .

In portuguese the name of the animals for scientific test is “cobaia” (not a name of a specific animal, can be used for all). Hey new avatar

#582

hahahahaha :slight_smile:

#583

No, I am thinking more like re-rigging in messiah. From previous posts, the rigs don’t really sound that complex and it doesn’t seem to matter how the rig is setup as long as they more or less work the same way. But we’ll see what happens, maybe there won’t be a need for me re-rigging maya rigged models for messiah.

Cheers,

#584

ah ok well if they put out some kind of info about how the rigs are setup it should not be to hard to set it up in messiah. I bet if its simple the autorig would even work pretty well. Then I could just tweak the rest. Well that would all depend on how much the classes are.

#585

I’d not worry about rigs, people will redo them fast in every package they use.

I am going to redo it in a package I’ll be using at that time.

Alexandre, show your parents Nemo credits or Monsters Inc. credits. It should be better recommendation than any paper :).
I do it everyday, but I show it to my daughter hehe.

#586

I am on my way…

#587

I just got the newsletter, and I usually try to go to Siggraph, but this year the conference dates are too close to when I have to go back to school (If I went, I would have to get back from Siggraph, drive 8hrs. to Florida, and move my stuff from storage to my room, all in the same week).

If I had known the AM guys were going to be there, I would have really tried to go. Will there be an AM booth/table/party at Siggraph next year? Probably not. Arrrgh. I wish I lived in California, then I could go to Siggraph almost every year. :rolleyes:

What ever happened to moving the conference around? I mean, sure, most of the industry is in California, so I guess it makes sense. But they were planning to have it in Atlanta one year (which didn’t happen) and it would have been really nice to have been able to drive to Siggraph and not have to factor a 4 hour flight into the time or the cost involved.

#588

Hola,
I noticed that someone else didn’t get that newsletter AM sent out. At first I thought that I mistyped my email on their site, but I went back and put in again. Is there any new info on there that is not on this thread.

Also, I wonder if that means that their box is full or something and not accepting any new “early registration” people :cry:

I’m sure it’ll work out… :thumbsup:

#589

Gee, that was disappointing. Waiting around for the newletter, and the news is … “no news”. Well, nearly no news.

I would have thought animators should know big anticipation, small payoff = not good animation(mentor).

Just kidding. Well sort of. I’ll be joining if the dollars aren’t out of my orbit.

#590

Kay, I have one more question and it’s not about the price. I think you wanted to hear something new :smiley: Here it is

animboom,
I might sound less enthousiastic, but how about the second course? I subscribed to you guys and I’m really enthousiastic about this and I’d love to do it, depending on some of the detailed info ($$$ :stuck_out_tongue: )I understood I’ll be one of the first to know when AM will enroll, but what if I waited to hear how other people liked it? You must understand that it’s quite some investment being a student and it might be an idea to wait for next “year” (I have no idea how to call this, since it can’t really be compared to school) It might be good to get some good feedback on how the first students actually felt about it and experienced it. I suppose that the courses might have some flaws too. I know you work really hard to prevent this, but at my school they do that too and the e-mail server doesn’t work a lot of times dispite of the hard work. (I assume they work hard on it :p)

What I mean is:
I assume that it won’t be really cheap and it’s the first try to do this,
it hasn’t done before,
it’s not tested with students for as far as I know (I’ll be happy to test it. I live in the Netherlands, we could test some connection posibilities… please … :p).
So what if I enroll later, will I still have a little bit of privilage since I subscribe super super early?

Second question, despite of telling you guys I’d ask only one ^.^
What about 2d animation? I’ve seen only 3d and some drawings of a ball with legs, but do we actually make 2d animations? Since you stressed it so much, but I didn’t see any.

(>_<) I’ve searched the whole web for a good 2d animation software package which gives you the traditional animation possibilities and not the flashstuff, just drawings, inking, cleaning up, xsheet etc. I found it!!! It’s this really great 2d sofware package called Flipbook, it’s trully traditional, but then with a wacom, I totally loved it, it was great, fantastic, I was like w000000t!!!, I seriously had stars in my eyes, until I found out it was over 400 bucks :banghead:

Do you use any good and affordable software? Or do you just use a scanner and a free software called VideoMach. Yes that’s the way how I do it. Scanning in 157 drawins isn’t cool and then you find out the arm might drag some more. re-adjust 38 frames and scan them in again. Damn, to much drag. Software, that’s the sh*t!

thanks
-shiroii

#591

With my situation, I was told by the AM higher ups to resubmit my e-mail and not to worry. The list isn’t closed or set up for first come first serve.

I am very impressed at the attention these guys are giving this, btw. These guys are really working to make this successful. And they have that drive. You always see in these DVD extras the impossibilities they’re asked to do in movie productions, and how they’re able to pull it off.

It’s their attention to detail that’s awesome. Don’t worry about the pricing. My guess is that they’re doing a lot of comparing to schools from all over, and are coming up with a figure that’s fair to both them and us.

cW

#592

I suppose you’d learn even more about animation than at school :bounce:
I saw on the Nemo DVD that the whole Pixar team was sent out scoobadiving :smiley: That’s pretty cool, but it was research, but still very cool. Bobby, did you go diving too?

#593

Hey, guys. Sorry if the newsletter didn’t detail too much information. the big point was to get it out there and to let people know that we’ll be at Siggraph.

When AM opens it is our goal to be at events like Siggraph every year. It is important to have “human interaction” as well so we totally understand this. Hopefully this will help bridge some of the gaps???

As far as “working the kinks out in the system” you will know more news about this after Siggraph. It is our goal to not launch AM until we feel we can successfully beta it with many students in it. We are currently working on this with great success and will let more info out soon.

2D animation Software for AM. We are teaching the ART of animation at AnimationMentor.com. With this in mind we are not specific to any medium. We are, for the most part, 3D animators with Stop Motion, and Traditional animation backgrounds. We understand that 90% of our students will most likely want to do CG animation. And although I can’t say too much about it, we have some fun things up our sleeves for our students. :slight_smile:

Suba Diving. Actually the animators didn’t get to go on that trip to Hawaii. it was more for the “Lighting and visual effects” gurus. However we did go to several aquariums and had experts on fish come to talk at pixar during the nemo production. All this stuff helps keep us fresh and inspired as animators. I personally don’t feel like you can ever get too much of this. hee hee. :wink:

-BOOM

#594

Bobby, It’s too bad you didn’t go to hawaii, it sounded like real fun :smiley:
I trust AM to be flawless with no kinks and I ecpects it to be perfect, but I’m just being cautioned, forgive me for that :wink:

If I understood it well, you’ll teach us the princeples and the art of animation and not specific teqniques of 2d, 3d, stopmotion or whatever other method. That sounds really really good. :thumbsup: I might have thought of it my self :smiley:

Damn I wish I’d go to siggraph :sad:
I think I’ll go and find work and earn a lot of money and shake your hand next year :smiley: I will of course need to find someone to go with me, since the trip to america is kinda boring on your own :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for the quick reply!

-shiroii

#595

Hey Bobby! I’ll be goign to SIGGRAPH for my first time this year, and i’ll defintely bechecking you guys out at the RV party and the booth :wink: sounds like it’ll be a blast. Will you guys have like a catalog or some things to show off at the boothes? Just curious. :smiley: My name’s david and I hope to see you there ;)!

#596

All of the lucky bastards going to siggraph please share all the information with me :slight_smile:
:cry: wanna go too, … maybe next year :bounce:

#597 
Great Idea, u guys and girls that are going to Siggraph could share things with us who live [b]far far away[/b]
#598

ReelFX RV at 10 AM Tuesday morning?

Oh that’s right, that’s where you’ll find agreenster!

#599

im far far away like allex!

pssss… hey! boom is from pixar… not from dreamworks… lol :smiley: we should put… only far… we dont want him to be upset! hehe.:thumbsup:

:slight_smile:

#600

Hey agreenster,
are talking about Reel FX Creative Studios in Dallas…Reason I ask is cause I work with there.
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