Category: 3D Industry

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Rigging 3D Artists – The Digital Puppeteers

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What is Rigging? In terms of CG productions, rigging is the process of creating controllers to deform a 3D object or CG character.  Not unlike rigging in nautical terms, it creates ‘virtual strings’ that allow the animators to control the shape of its target with precision. Facial animation use sliders and customized UI to create a mix between different pre-planned shapes, and freely controlled animations.  Oftentimes, every kind of controller and rigging system can be […]

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2D / 3D Texture Artists – Digital Painters

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Texture Artists Texture artists are the digital painters of the virtual world.  They are used in everything from 3D animation films, TV series, visual effect sequences in live-action movies, commercials and video games.  They responsible for creating the overall colored look for 3D models, based on designs made by the ‘2D concept art’ department in pre-production. 3D models are a flat grey or uniform color, if any, when coming out of the modeling departments.  They […]

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3D Modeling Specializations for the Next Digital Age

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The Magic Behind 3D Modeling 3D modeling is the art of creating virtual objects made out of geometric shapes using 3D computer software.  There are different approaches to 3D modeling such as polygons, NURBS, SubDiv, Boolean and parametric…  but the most common technique is polygonal modeling.  The concept is to assemble quadrangles or triangles together by their sides to form the exterior surface of a 3D shape. The principle is very simple, but it makes […]

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3D Animation – Virtual Actors of the Digital World

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Virtual Acting 3D animators have one of the most important roles in the production of an animated film project.  Like actors in a live-action film, they have the most directly visible role in a film.  Their work is the content of the story itself, as seen by the audience. We see it on the screen without any other intermediary, but it can only be altered by editing.  It has a similar direct effect to the […]

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City Design: 3D Urban Environment Modeling

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3D Urban Environments Designing a city environment is a part of the work of the 3D environment artists, on a computer-generated or visual effects film project.  Creating 3D urban environments is not a completely distinct sub-category of artists, however.  It serves to describe an artist’s interest, experience or even a 3D project’s specifications, in opposition to natural environment modeling. In reality, most environments, computer generated of filmed, are a mix of both natural and city […]

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3D Layout & Final-Layout Artists – The Assemblers

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What is a Film Layout? During the production of an animated film, the layout department is in charge of preparing each shot of a film into a 3D scene.  The layout artists are responsible for setting up all the elements required for every sequence of a film.  In fact, they do most of the heavy lifting of assembling the shots into virtual scenes on a film.   They are like gnome assembling tons of pre-fabricated parts […]