Animation Master Class June 21th with Ted Ty, Cameron Fielding, Richard Lico and Brett Pascal.

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Check out this recently released short from iAnimate instructor Luke Randall. Reach screened at film festivals all round the world and has collected over 20 awards.

Our friends at Rhino House just released part one of an interview they did with our very own Jason Ryan, discussing the use of reference. If you have checked out our 'About iAnimate' page and seen in the "Things we offer to all our members', then you know our members receive a generous Rhino House discount.

Have you ever wondered how those characters, sets, and props in your favorite films are created?  As an animator, have you been afraid to venture out into the unknown territory of computer modeling. Then this class is for you! We'll be showing you beginner's techniques, how to's, and tips so that you can now learn to sculpt simple to moderately sophisticated objects in Maya.  With this course, you'll learn how to make your own props, create a simple set, and remove the mystery of all of those tools and buttons in the polygonal model tool set.  You can listen to an interview Jason Ryan had with Larry Whitaker (modeling instructor) during one of Jason's live weekly demos, as well as visit the Modling for Animators page: HERE

Nice interview article with Peter Ramsey, director of Rise of the Guardians: Peter Ramsey interview: revisiting Rise Of The Guardians

Are you wanting to join iAnimate, but new to animation and/or Maya? Well...our very own Head of Character Animation, Jason Ryan, has now designed an awesome 8 week series that is extremly affordable. He'll be going through everything he knows about Maya as it relates to animation. This webinar series will be live and take you from the very basics of animating in Maya, including navigating the interface, preferences, useful plugins, parenting, referencing, hot keys, graph editor, editing shelves and tons more. You can find out more about it by visiting the Series 3 page on his jasonryananimation.com site.

"Let's talk about Games" is a series of short interviews produce by iAnimate Games with key players from the video game industry. In this video we talk with Lead Cinematic Animator at Naughty Dog Studio and iAnimate Games instructor, David Lam.
Check out the entire series: vimeo.com/album/1967625

Check out this cool trailer that iAnimate Games instructor, Darryl Purdy, is currently working on: Batman: Arkham Origins.

We had the opportunity to chat and learn a little more about iAnimate Rigging instructor Jonah Austin.

Hey Jonah, tell us about your experience on Beowulf and Benjamin Button as a technical animator and what led you to those great production.

Yeah, well first I went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I focused on experimental and traditional animation.  I took many figure drawing and anatomy classes which would be crucial later in my career. Then I moved to LA to study at Gnomon School of Visual Effects to learn Maya. Fortunately I had a great instructor, Rick Grandy, who turned me onto rigging. I had no idea what it was, but the dual technical and artistic aspects of it intrigued me. I worked hard in class and got my first job at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a technical animator (rigger). First I had to learn MEL scripting in about a week. I had very little scripting experience but the senior guys helped me a lot and I picked it up out of necessity.  While there, I was also trained in Sony's proprietary facial rigging solution. That’s when I became a facial TD on Beowulf, which was a great education in the Uncanny Valley. After that I moved to Digital Domain and work for Steve Preeg on the Curious Case of Benjamin Button for 2 years.  That was an amazing experience with amazing results. I feel like that was probably the most elegant rigging solution in production. Then I transitioned onto Tron:Legacy and rigged over 80 assets from Rinzler's digital double to giant floating rocks and everything in between.  It was on Tron that I switched from rigging to animation, it led me to land a Lead Animator position at MPC (The Moving Picture Company).

"Let's talk about Games" is a series of short interviews produce by iAnimate Games with key players from the video game industry. In this video we talk with Animation Director at Warner Bros Montreal and iAnimate Games instructor, Darryl Purdy.
Check out the entire series: vimeo.com/album/1967625

Do you want some solid character animation tutorials, but at a ridiculously low price? One of our feature instructors, Ken Fountain, has just release parts 2 and 3 of his 'Attitudes & Acting Beats' series. Get them and his other tutorials at: http://splatfrog.com/ and get a taste of what you can expect from Ken as an instructor here at iAnimate.net

We had a chance to gather some top professionals in the gaming industry (many of them whom are our instructors) for our very own GDC (Game Develolpers Conference) event, where we were able to discuss how animation pertains specifically with in that area of the field.

"Let's talk about Games" is a series of short interviews produce by iAnimate Games with key players from the video game industry. In this video we talk with Lead Cinematic Animator at Ready at Dawn Studios and iAnimate Games instructor, Kevin Rucker.
Check out the entire series: vimeo.com/album/1967625

Check out our new 3 part interview with DreamWorks animation supervisor Pierre Périfel and his work on Rise of the Guardians.