Tuts to Consider

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Youtube!

Rigging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5nsVg2BlGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2QKUWK5HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4XRgmTynY
http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/335-Introduction-to-Character-Rigging-in-Maya
http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1669-Introduction-to-Rigging-in-Maya#overview

Adding Passes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inbrAywywcU
http://blog.digitaltutors.com/rendering-ambient-occlusion-passes-maya/

Camera Rig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeGco5tsCyU

UVs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeaOxwS3bnc

but why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y&list=FLg6NzQmWdV6EUatFjAMa1jw&index=1

Light Artists

Yayoi Kusama

Gunda Foerster

 Dan Flavin

 Robert Irwin

 James Turrell

Angela Bulloch

Cover Email Example

Dear Imaginary Forces,

I am writing for an Illustrator or Animation Internship position for

the coming summer in Los Angeles. I’m currently pursuing an MFA in

Animation and Digital Arts at USC.

I believe my work fits the qualifications of an experienced

illustrator and matte painter at Imaginary Forces. Your commercial and feature

work requires the highly detail oriented skills of a great background

artist who understands the technology behind creating each shot, which

I can bring to the table. Furthermore, my experiences in directing the

numerous films sampled in my demo reel affirms my ability and

understanding of animation and storyboarding.

Please visit my website at:

http://www.norematch.com/josephyeh/

Attached is my resume. I am available for full time work on May 28,

2013. I would like to schedule an interview sometime. Thank you for

your consideration!

Best Regards,

Joseph Yeh

(909)964-2522

josephslyeh@gmail.com

List of Studios

> 6 Point Media
> Activision
> Asylum VFX
> The Ambassadors
> Bethesda
> Bioware
> Blizzard
> Blue Sky
> Blur
> brand new school
> trollback company
> passion pictures
> Buck
> Buddy System
> Cartoon Network
> Chiodo Brothers
> Citizen Skull Productions
> Comen VFX
> Cookie Jar
> Digital Domain
> Digital Kitchen
> Disney (XD, TV, ABC Television Group)
> Disney Interactive
> Divide Nine
> Double Negative
> Dreamworks
> Duck Studios
> Electronic Arts
> Filaments VFX
> Frederator
> Giantsteps
> Golden Wolf
> Glassworks
> HUSH
> ILM
> i love dust
> Illumination Entertainment
> Imaginary Forces
> Infinity Ward
> Laika
Laundry!
> Lucas Film
> Luma FX
> Luma Pictures
> Method Studios
> Moonscoop
> Motion Theory
> Moving Picture Company
> Naughty Dog
> Neversoft
> New Deal
> Nickelodeon
> Paramount Animation
Pentagram
> Picture Mill
> Pixar
> Prime Focus
> Psyop
> RGH Entertainment
> R/GA
> Radium Real FX
> Rhythm & Hues
> Scarlet Letters
> Screen Novelties
> Shadow Machine
> Sony Animation
> Sony Imageworks
> Sprite Animation Studios
> Square Enix
> Stardust
> Starburns Industries
> Stargate
>Stoopid Buddy
> Superfad
> The Mill
> The Third Floor
> Tiny Inventions
> Tippet
> Titmouse
> Treyarch
> Warner Brothers
> Weta
> Wild Brain
> Yu & Co.
> Zoic Studios

Links from 9/16

Stromboli
John Frame
Starcraft Cinematic
Starcraft Cinematic Spoof
The Dot and the Line
Matthew Divito
Digitized
Porter Robinson Teaser

12 Animation Principles

The 12 basic principles of Animation from The Illusion of Life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfDEsNLg34

A nice site displaying short pieces of high level animation:

http://framexframe.tumblr.com/