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Bucks Animation Blog: Charlotte - a New Free Maya Rig!

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Monday, 6 July 2015. Charlotte - a New Free Maya Rig! Digital artist Ahmed Elmatarawi has just released his newest baby - Charlotte. To see how she works in detail, watch the video below. What are the terms of her license? Users may use the rig "for practice and for educational purposes". Students may use the Charlotte rig to "show your work in your demo reel, portfolio, on your website, etc." But, you may not use her "for financial gain". This includes "short films, movies, and commercials". Get hold of...

Bucks Animation Blog: Job Alert - Sheridan College Seek Professor of Animation - MA Required!

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Thursday, 18 June 2015. Job Alert - Sheridan College Seek Professor of Animation - MA Required! Sheridan College are hiring! Sheridan College in Toronto are looking for a professor of animation. The job is a well-paid post at one of the world's most prestigious animation schools. So what's stopping you applying? Most likely, it's because you don't have an MA in your chosen field. To teach in higher education, even in the arts, you need an MA. But where to get one? Advert for the post at awn.com. Subscrib...

Bucks Animation Blog: What Do Sales Agents Do, Exactly?

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Thursday, 2 July 2015. What Do Sales Agents Do, Exactly? Sola Media - Sales Agents with a focus on animation. Any animator with dreams to bring their own project to the big screen will eventually need to understand the business of making and financing animated films. This includes the question of who, exactly, is going to sell your film for you. Are you going to do it yourself? Or are you going to bring in experts who know the business? What is a Sales Agent? What do they do exactly? What else do they do?

Bucks Animation Blog: Calling All Bucks Graduates - Apply Now for the Aardman Certificate in Character Animation

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Thursday, 25 June 2015. Calling All Bucks Graduates - Apply Now for the Aardman Certificate in Character Animation. Aardman's Certificate in Character Animation. What is the deadline? The application deadline is 29 June 2015. What's in the Course? The course will take place at Aardman’s studio in Bristol and will be taught by practicing Aardman animators who have worked on many productions including Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Flushed Away, The Pirates! Why is it just 3 months? And why we give all o...

Bucks Animation Blog: Make Your Own RenderFarm With Backburner

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Make Your Own RenderFarm With Backburner. Render by Gilles Tran - Wikimedia Commons. Rendering, as my old tutor at Escape Studios used to say, "is where everything starts to go wrong". The answer is Backburner - the poor man's render farm. Autodesk Backburner is a free software application that comes free for users, packaged with 3DS Max, Flame, Maya and a range of other Autodesk products. What does it do? Why do you need Backburner? Even a short animation at high definition can ta...