Comments on: Online Animation School http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: EMMANUEL SAMUEL http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-252725 EMMANUEL SAMUEL Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:39:01 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-252725 HELLO my name is emmanuel samuel, i live in nigeria, i have dream to be an animator and i search for the best animation school in google , i found your school and am intresting to study in your school. i we like to know the nesecary things it take's to be won of your student, pls i want you to help make my dream to be fullful my dream. thanks for your co-operation as i look forward to your reply THANKS YOUR SINCERELY EMMANUEL SAMUEL HELLO
my name is emmanuel samuel, i live in nigeria, i have dream to be an animator and i search for the best animation school in google , i found your school and am intresting to study in your school.

i we like to know the nesecary things it take’s to be won of your student, pls i want you to help make my dream to be fullful my dream. thanks for your co-operation as i look forward to your reply

THANKS
YOUR SINCERELY
EMMANUEL SAMUEL

]]> By: epon http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-42367 epon Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:48:27 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-42367 it seems atm, only flash is allowed to use "You will need Flash Player xx to enter this site." how about sometimes, "You will need a browser have a better support for CSS 2.0 above to view this site." i might as well add "*.swf" on the Adblock plus sorry my badd it seems atm, only flash is allowed to use “You will need Flash Player xx to enter this site.”
how about sometimes, “You will need a browser have a better support for CSS 2.0 above to view this site.”

i might as well add “*.swf” on the Adblock plus

sorry my badd

]]> By: Sympodius http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Sympodius Thu, 25 May 2006 15:18:30 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3113 @Mantar No, the Flash Search Engine SDK allows search engines to pull all the text from a compiled Flash file so that it can be indexed. Google definately uses this system. The above command just makes sure it only checks for the text in SWF files, not other document types. @Mantar

No, the Flash Search Engine SDK allows search engines to pull all the text from a compiled Flash file so that it can be indexed. Google definately uses this system. The above command just makes sure it only checks for the text in SWF files, not other document types.

]]> By: Mantar http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3112 Mantar Thu, 25 May 2006 15:02:17 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3112 Err... wouldn't that simply be finding a flash file on an html webpage, rather than indexing the contents of the file? The latter is (one of) the objection(s) to using flash to display a website's content, instead of html. Err… wouldn’t that simply be finding a flash file on an html webpage, rather than indexing the contents of the file? The latter is (one of) the objection(s) to using flash to display a website’s content, instead of html.

]]> By: Sympodius http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3079 Sympodius Thu, 25 May 2006 04:14:49 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3079 @panzi Actually, Flash files are not invisivle to Google since Macromedia released the Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK. For example, type "Casino Games filetype:SWF" into Google. @panzi

Actually, Flash files are not invisivle to Google since Macromedia released the Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK. For example, type “Casino Games filetype:SWF” into Google.

]]> By: Nitefyre http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3078 Nitefyre Thu, 25 May 2006 04:12:36 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3078 @panzi Type in 'animation mentor' to google and the homepage is the first hit. The portal page is not flash for this reason. @panzi

Type in ‘animation mentor’ to google and the homepage is the first hit. The portal page is not flash for this reason.

]]> By: panzi http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3050 panzi Wed, 24 May 2006 22:59:44 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3050 Linux here, too. Flash-only pages are not only invisible to Linux users, they are also invisible to Google, wich is a realy bad thing for the page! Linux here, too.

Flash-only pages are not only invisible to Linux users, they are also invisible to Google, wich is a realy bad thing for the page!

]]> By: alt http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3026 alt Wed, 24 May 2006 15:58:57 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3026 Linux is platform for most professional tools (like Shake, XSI, Maya and so forth) because it is UNIX style and resembles IRIX from Silicon Graphics. Many studios made their in-house tools for IRIX back in the days and it was easy for them to port them to Linux too. Artists don't need to know the OS they're using. Packages look and perform similarly regardless of the platform and they are usually launched from in-house asset management software anyway. It's all pretty much custom made AFAIK. I remember Ton mentioned that possibly around 90% of studio software is proprietary and not available outside that particular studio.. they have big code departments and lots of clever people figuring things out for production specific problems. As for the animation training, I'm happy education is free in Finland. But that course gets a big plus as it does not force a technique (like 3d) upon people - animation principles are the same regardless. I also think physical location, daily talks with other artists and face-to-face critique are good to have. Linux is platform for most professional tools (like Shake, XSI, Maya and so forth) because it is UNIX style and resembles IRIX from Silicon Graphics. Many studios made their in-house tools for IRIX back in the days and it was easy for them to port them to Linux too.
Artists don’t need to know the OS they’re using. Packages look and perform similarly regardless of the platform and they are usually launched from in-house asset management software anyway.
It’s all pretty much custom made AFAIK. I remember Ton mentioned that possibly around 90% of studio software is proprietary and not available outside that particular studio.. they have big code departments and lots of clever people figuring things out for production specific problems.

As for the animation training, I’m happy education is free in Finland. But that course gets a big plus as it does not force a technique (like 3d) upon people – animation principles are the same regardless.
I also think physical location, daily talks with other artists and face-to-face critique are good to have.

]]> By: Drew http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3009 Drew Wed, 24 May 2006 10:28:16 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3009 @Sympodius As far as I can tell, Renderman should work equally well on Macs as on Linux. I'm pretty sure that Pixar doesn't even do most of their rendering on Mac, but has a mixed renderfarm somewhere that does the heavy load. And even looking at some images from inside Pixar (specifically this one from Victor Navone's website: http://www.navone.org/PhotoGalleries/Pixar/source/victor_navone_with_moose.htm), it doesn't even appear that all of Pixar's animators use macs...and I *know* that Dreamworks uses mostly Linux/Unix (if you watch the "Making of..." thing on the Shrek DVD they talk about that at least a bit). So yeah, it's not nearly as Mac-centric as it might seem (I type as I'm looking at a G5 tower running blender and 2 G4 cubes as servers...) @Sympodius

As far as I can tell, Renderman should work equally well on Macs as on Linux. I’m pretty sure that Pixar doesn’t even do most of their rendering on Mac, but has a mixed renderfarm somewhere that does the heavy load. And even looking at some images from inside Pixar (specifically this one from Victor Navone’s website: http://www.navone.org/PhotoGalleries/Pixar/source/victor_navone_with_moose.htm), it doesn’t even appear that all of Pixar’s animators use macs…and I *know* that Dreamworks uses mostly Linux/Unix (if you watch the “Making of…” thing on the Shrek DVD they talk about that at least a bit).

So yeah, it’s not nearly as Mac-centric as it might seem (I type as I’m looking at a G5 tower running blender and 2 G4 cubes as servers…)

]]> By: Sympodius http://www.blendernation.com/online-animation-school/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 Sympodius Wed, 24 May 2006 08:33:43 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/23/online-animation-school/#comment-3004 It's really cool that GNU/Linux is getting used so much in pro level animation, I honestly had no idea. I thought things like Renderman and such basically forced a lot of the major companies to work on Mac. Great news all round :) It’s really cool that GNU/Linux is getting used so much in pro level animation, I honestly had no idea. I thought things like Renderman and such basically forced a lot of the major companies to work on Mac. Great news all round :)

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