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SketchUp Basics: How To Record, Animate, And Export Animations

If you’re looking for a simple yet proven online solution in 3D modeling, SketchUp can give you your much-needed tools and space. You can instantly create, access, and update your projects with SketchUp Free through the web. It is also easy to use so learning SketchUp won’t be a major problem. How can you record, animate and export animations with …

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Suit Up! The Art And Magic of MoCap Suit

Motion capture suits are probably one of the best inventions created for movies and video games. It brings to life the characters we can only imagine in a fantasy world as it moves and strides like the real thing. Such technology helps in making a connection to the audience and conveys the story in a more effective way. How do …

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A Step-By-Step Tutorial In Unreal Engine 4 Basics

Video games have never been as popular as they are today. Game engines made this possible, more so with the improvements they bring to animation and game quality. Unreal Engine is one of the widely-used game engines that you can easily access, being an open-source and downloadable software for free.  How to jumpstart your Unreal Engine 4 journey? You must …

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Wacom Tablets And Pens For 3D Modeling: How Good Are They?

Wacom tablets and pens have always been the popular choice by animators and visual effects artists. They’ve been around for so long that they have become the gold standard in graphics tablets for their innovations, quality, and features. Choose between tablets without a screen, an on-screen drawing tablet, or a tablet computer, whichever you choose, there is definitely something for …

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Top 3 Best Countries for VFX Jobs

When you think about visual effects (or VFX), more often than not, Hollywood comes to mind. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to focus your career path there alone. With the significant demand for visual effects in movies, television, and games, visual effects artists are needed more than ever.  What are the best countries for visual effects jobs? …

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Can Animators Work From Home?

Image source: Canva With the unfortunate rise of COVID-19 cases these past few months, many industries have decided to shift to remote work to keep operations going. The animation industry is one of them. The animation industry, especially the animation giants like Disney and Universal Studios have an animation studio setup, where animators work 9 to 5 jobs in a …