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News: TrickOrScript’s Custom Brush plugin for Adobe Flash

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Custom Brush is an amazing new plugin that’s recently been added to the incredibly useful series of  tools made by Trick or Script for Adobe Flash that lets you create custom brushes like never before!

In about one minute I managed to create a rain cycle which worked pretty damn well! You can create groups of brushes and then have the brush use them all at once to allow for randomness. You can draw text or anything you like on an editable spline we well as create flappable objects like a tail with little effort  Things like chains, or a row of flowers is easy as heck now with this $30 plugin. TOTALLY worth it if you still use Flash! Check Custom Brush and the 15+ other essential plugins out at TrickOrScript today!

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Emilie Goulet

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Emilie Goulet, Animator at Reel Fx.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? 

Working in a cheese store. It’s not that crazy, but it’s probably the job that is the most different from animation. And yet, I worked with some people that were so passionate about cheese that it rub on me.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 

Without a doubt, my favorite project is the one I am working on now: Free Birds. Not just because the animation is wonderful and hilarious, but the people that I met on this project made me want to push myself like I never did before. The motivation and support not only came from my leads and director, but from my peers which is incredibly  precious and gratifying.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I am from Montreal, Canada and started as a clean-up artist for traditional animation in television  at Ciné Groupe around 2000. I was incredibly excited to the point that Continue reading

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News: The future of digital drawing?

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Yesterday, Sony unveiled their new 13.3 inch Digital Paper prototype which supports flexible displays and is quite possibly a peak into the future of the 21st century artist. While initially for books and print as of this writing you can write and draw on it.

From the Engadget site:

At 13.3 inches, the panel is larger than your typical e-reader’s, but it weighs just 60 grams. That light footprint comes courtesy of E Ink’s TFT tech, which allows for larger, more rugged devices without the extra weight. The Digital Paper’s form factor matches the size of a sheet of A4 paper, and the on-board digitizer lets users scrawl notes on the electromagnetic induction touchscreen.

Catch that? Scrawl notes! I’m sure right now it’s nothing more than black or white without pressure sensitivity but I’m wondering if they’ll change that. It seems to make sense.

So is this the “Cintiq Killer”? Perhaps, in the future,  it might be for a number of reasons… First off they will be significantly cheaper which studios and artists will drool over. Second, you’ll only need one connected to a sever via wifi to generate the same amount of work from a much smaller, lighter and possibly even portable piece of tech. Thirdly, while it is only a display showing one page, it’s logical to assume that they might one day add a hard drive and an operating system on it as well. Android? Windows Mobile? iOS? It seems the most likely would be Windows Mobile if only because they’re the ones who need to reinvent themselves. IF THAT happens, it’s likely to assume it could become mainstream.

Another interesting aspect of this is the possibility of doing the same thing to cloth. Imagine your art or portfolio on a slideshow as you walk the Comic Con? Quite a calling card wouldn’t you say? Add to that the fact that E-Ink has a ridiculously long battery life and it’s a pretty exciting possibility.

Now granted, all that said… E-Ink is strictly black and white so you wouldn’t be putting full color on it and all, at least not for now, but who knows what the future will hold since color E-Ink DOES already exist.

Is this the next wave of what a digital artist will draw on? Sound off!

Engadget

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Jean-Dominique Fievet

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Jean-Dominique Fievet – Head of Animation at MPC Los Angeles.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Never had another job, unfortunately

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
A Gentlemen’s duel, Hotel Transylvania, The Golden Compass

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
From France. I did a (generalist) computer graphics school, then Continue reading

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Jobs: Black Mast seeks VFX Supervisor

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Black Mast

Black Mast Studios is looking for an all around VFX Supervisor familiar with roto, compositing, matte painting, lighting and animation for a long term partnership on a gig by gig basis.

We have an influx of projects that will be distributed on the web over the next year that will require some level of VFX ranging from minimal compositing to fully rendered green screen matte paintings.

Pay will be on a project by project basis, with the possibility of becoming a partner in a growing Transmedia company.

We are currently accepting resumes for any and all departments, and are open to someone just out of college, looking to build a resume.

2+ years of experience with the following software is preferred:
After Effects
Final Cut Pro
Element 3D
Maya

Consistency, reliability a positive mindset, and a quick turn around are our top priorities in a candidate. Must be able to stick to agreed upon deadlines. Our work is mostly in the sci-fi realm drawing inspiration from comic books and video games, and even working on large recognizable properties, so familiarity with this genre is also preferred.
More Info: http://www.blackmaststudios.com

Apply to: Ramon

NOTE: Animation Insider.com has nothing to do with this job or the studio itself and only provides this to it’s readers as a courtesy. You CAN NOT apply for the job by leaving a comment. You MUSt click through to the site and apply there. Good luck!

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Kevin Sullivan

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Kevin Sullivan Staff Writer for Fairly Oddparents & TUFF Puppy.

 
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I worked at Walt Disney Imagineering for years. I started as an assistant. On my first day, the show producer I was working for asked me to get him a helicopter. He was making a film for one of the parks, but he didn’t want the helicopter for that; he wanted it to take him home to Saugus so he could skip the traffic on the 5 freeway. Before that, I was a Production Assistant on the Academy Awards, and spent Oscar night in a tux in the green room, hanging with celebrities and holding their Oscars. That was a super fun job.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I am super proud of everything – I think all of Butch Hartman’s shows for Nick are a blast and I am proud to have been a part of them. For me, I’d say I’m most proud of TUFF Puppy. I think it’s not only funny, but really clever and smart, too. But FOP and Danny Phantom were where I really learned to write animation so I’ll always hold a special place for both shows. FOP has a zaniness I never get tired of. And I’d never written action before Danny Phantom, so that was a learning curve. I went from writing too vague sequences like “Danny and the Box Ghost fight” to descriptive paragraphs so overwritten I hold the record for the longest single script of Danny Phantom ever written. (And yes, I’m proud of that, too…)

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I grew up in Connecticut, and studied communications at Gannon University in Erie, PA. I moved to LA with my college roommate. He got here two months before I did, but Continue reading