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Apply Now!
September's workshops are coming fast and places are limited! Don't wait till the last minute. Apply now and pick your instructor and available time slot. Learn more about all of our available workshop:
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Leading the Industry
Sony Picture Imageworks released a video providing animation show reel tips with mostly shots from iAnimate students. Congratulation to all our students whose work has been noticed and praised by the industry.
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Podcasts Interviews
We've got a new podcast for you guys! Brent George, our new Motion Capture instructor, has an impressive background. He's worked as Animation Director at Warner Brothers Games and Ubisoft, and has experience in television, commercials, and films. Here's our conversation with him about his new motion capture workshop and it's use in the industry.
You can find all our podcast on our website as well as on iTunes. If you like what you hear, share them, rate them, and write a review on iTunes.
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New rigs to play with
Last month we unveiled Hugo, now it's time to announce two new rigs ready just in time for our September's workshop. Meet Shadow and Dragon. Perfect for flying and quadruped locomotion exercises. Check out all our other rigs available to all our students over here.
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New Modeling for Animators Instructor
iAnimate.net would like to welcome Sean Callan to our roster of professionals who are teaching here. Sean will start in September teaching our Modeling for Animators workshop. Sean is a Certified Maya Instructor and has been modeling for 15 years with practical experience creating both hard surface and organic models for TV/film and real time simulations. He's just finished up co-modeling four new character car models for Hasbro on the upcoming Transformers 4 feature movie. If you've ever wanted to spice up your animation scenes to help really "sell" your shot, come join our Modeling for Animators workshop!
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Feature Instructor Spotlight
Mike Safianoff joined Dreamworks a few years ago and in that time has worked on Puss in Boots, Madagascar 3, and mostly recently Turbo. He's currently working DreamWorks Happy Smekday. He's had a wide range of animation experience before coming to Dreamworks; working at such studios as ILM, Tippett, and EA, and on such films as Iron Man 2, and the Spiderwick Chronicles. Check out his reel and come learn from him in our Feature Workshop 2: Body Mechanics class.
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iAnimate Student spotlight
After 14 weeks of hard work, it's always rewarding to look at our students progress. We are often blown away by the quality of their work and it deserves to be shared to the world. This month we are showcasing the work of Alla Aldeen Afifah from Dubai. Solid body mechanic, good acting, entertainment... it's all there.
Booty - Feature animation workshop 6 with Ken Fountain
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Student testimony
Being part of our students success is what makes it all worth it. Visit our new testimony section on iAnimate.net where we'll post all the latest success stories and feedback from our students. Here's the latest one from Terry Chiem
"I got the internship! I was a little worried about my interview, but overall they were very impressed with my work from iAnimate. I definitely couldn't have done it without your help."
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Joining the team
iAnimate is proud to announce that James Cunliffe, a veteran in the animation industry and currently an animator at Valve Coorporation, is joining our all-star team of guest instructors for the new Creature workshop starting in September.
His background in both games and feature animation is pretty impressive. Working at world renowned studios like Valve, Crytek, MPC, FrameStore, and Animal Logic, we are privilege to have him share his passion for animation and knowledge with our students. We had the opportunity to discuss with him about his journey has a professional animator, his view about the industry and what he will be presenting for this new workshop.
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