– Story or the Character? Well, Story and Character strengthen and support each other and are created in parallel during the concept development stage. A good character can be developed from a story. A good character can in turn inspire a story. While Story is the important element in animation films (or live-action for that
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Thumbnails are drawn thoughts. These small sketches, combined with brief notes, capture ideas for a story or character so that the memory is not lost. Thumbnails can be worked up into a finished drawing at a later time. Always work rough before going clean. Do not render or model final drawings at this stage. Draw
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Producing any Commercial, TV Show or Movie is like building a house. There are many elements to be design! And in order for the house to stand, all the elements need to work together. Every house needs blueprints before it can be build and blueprints are the architect’s vision. You can tell someone what kind
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This is the omnipresent question every animation wannabe faces. Being enthusiastic about animation is the first step. It helps in the long term for your animation career. Now let’s be clear that there are essentially two parts to this, the first one is theory and practical being the latter. Like any other study subject, animation
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What we’ll suggest is that find an industry professional, who practices in the relevant field for quite many years (5 years at least) and has the appropriate know how to teach you in that. But before committing to learn from one here too you should be able to go through the person’s work past and
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There are times when you meet people who doesn’t like your art. How ever good it might be. YES you read it right. There are people out there who you feel from their talks that they want a spectacular piece of artwork. But interestingly end up approving a mediocre one for the final piece. After
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When it comes to crafting a video for your business, we realize there are plenty of production companies out there to choose from. Since we launched Magic Elements Studios nearly three years ago, it seems like the number of studios offering explainer videos has increased ten-fold. And while we can’t tell you how we compare
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Vasudeo Gaitonde… An artist of great significance and impeccable integrity. An artist of the 1950s Progressive movement, who veered away to find his own expression of abstraction. An artist so deeply distrustful of labels that he refused to title his artworks. An artist who said he thought of paintings in terms of music….”i hear colors.”
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Scripts are developed from whatever might inspire you to express and communicate something in visual and dramatic terms. All the following sources can serve as the basis for a dramatic or documentary project: Ideas Dreams Images Real events Characters Fantasies Concepts Memories Historical events Real-life experiences Places Social issues Adaptations from short stories News stories
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Most of the enthusiastic people in the CG industry always have this in mind. While its good to compare your work with those that are the icons of the Global CG Industry, there are more than a few things you should keep in mind while doing. Even though every other Pixar movie is an “overnight
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