Pixologic, VFS’s official partner, is offering emerging animators, modelers, and visual effects artists a chance to experience VFS’s Animation & Visual Effects Summer Intensive program. For five days (July 19-23), students will learn leading techniques from a faculty of industry professionals and discover whether VFS is the right educational choice for them.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Scholarship Competition, sponsored by Pixologic, will see one scholarship (worth $1,285) awarded to one talented artist.
How to Enter
Creatively express what you’re dreaming about this summer with visual sketches or digitally sculpted images of an original character in an environment of your choosing. Once completed, upload your work to the VFS “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Flickr Group. Submit up to 5 images!
All submissions must be uploaded no later than 11:59PM (PDT) on June 22, 2010. Click here to read the competition’s terms and conditions before you enter.
Visit vfs.com/summer2010 to learn more about all nine of VFS’s 2010 Summer Intensive Programs.
The ZBrush Image Gallery has just been updated. We would like to congratulate the following ZBrushCentral artists for being included in this round: stumpf, Big guns, aridiel, Jelmer, rahmserg, metamesh, and alterton. Thanks for sharing your art and keep up the amazing work!
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Hosted and organized annually by the filmmaking/visual effects, animation, game development non-profit, A Bunch of Short Guys, and this year in association with The Guildhall at SMU’s premiere graduate-level video game education program in the country, and the Texas Film Commission, Industry Giants 2010’s first day features a series of lectures that conclude with a panel discussion. The second day features exclusive Masterclasses, taught by the leading experts in various fields of art and technology. The distinctive lineup of presenters work in all areas of animation and visual effects for film, television, and games.
Click here for additional info.
A new webcast has been added to the ZClassroom. This week’s guest artist is Jesse Sandifer, co-founder of Green Grass Studios in Texas. Jesse currently serves as Art Director where his main focus is character design, sculpting, and illustration.
Jesse’s podcast features layers and the many ways he utilizes them for sculpting and texturing. Learn his tips and tricks and ZBrush like a pro!
View the webcast at the ZClassroom.
New artists have been added to the Turntable Gallery! ZBrush would like to welcome Adam Johns, Oluf Hartvigson, Louis Ishii, John Strieder, and Chris Korn to the turntable family. Congratulations guys and we hope to see more from you in the future.
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New webcast section of ZClassroom brings you interviews and tips from the Pros in the industry. Want to ZBrush like a pro? You might want make some room on the bookmarks toolbar for these webcasts.
Michael Defeo is this week’s guest for the ZClassroom webcast. Learn how Michael works with ZBrush and how it has helped him transition from the traditional to the digital. View the webcast here.
Storm Studios recently did some environment work for a Subaru commercial. Check out the thread on ZBC to see a few of the sculpts and visit their website to see the final commercial. Poster Ardox may have said it best when he wrote “nowadays it’s getting harder to discover what is real and not.” We agree, Ardox.
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View the commercial.
ZClassroom has now expanded to include tutorials on our most popular ZBrush Plugins.
Decimation Master and UV Master are free downloadable plugins or installed together with ZBrush 3.5r3.
Click here to view the tutorials.
ZClassroom has a new look and more tutorials than ever before. With the new format of ZClassroom, it will be easier to navigate and bookmark your favorite tutorial sections. Notifications of new tutorials will be snap if you sign up for updates of our ZClassroom. Click here to experience ZBrush online.
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We’ve just added a few new artists to the ZBrush Turntable Gallery. Congratulations to artists borden, sagiarts, lapaev, goldbooth16, and Gordon Freeman for being added. Keep up the great work and we can’t wait to see more from you in the future!
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