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It’s @designival tomorrow and open studios start. Due to a few last minute projects, building works and un-expected bits and bobs… we’re not going to have a full compliment of staff to answer any questions… but we’ll still be here for 2 hours putting on Coffee, cakes and towards lunch time a nice bit of pulled beef taco’s!! And if theres a pressing matter we can make you an appointment to pop back on Friday. We can talk CG & post production and will review portfolios if required. Generally we’ll just be having a natter and a cake!!
Cakes for the Sparkle studio will be provided by www.sixandthreequarters.co.uk
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
We’re giving a little back in the form of portfolio reviews to help out recent graduates, students and freelancers breaking into the moving image industry. Check out www.sparklevfx.com for further details and see if we can be of any help. This is a trail project, so lets see how it goes. More news as soon as we get it.
Showreel Pre-viz. #animation. Only just saw this and had to post it, hats off to @stevenvfx for doing a great job on this character animation… Its all part of new showreel which will be out first week of January.
We’re on the move!! New 3,500 SQ FT office for the sparkle* HQ in Liverpool. The refurb starts this week and we hope to be in by mid November. The new office is located in the new creative quarter in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. As well as expanding to new premises we’ve partnered with Liverpool’s premier Digital Consultants Focus Innovation to join us in the new building. Sparkle* have worked with Focus on Several projects this year and will now continue the relationship by working in this joint creative space. We’re also really excited that Liverpool’s Smiling Wolf have come on board to help us brand and create a really exciting work space. www.smilingwolf.co.uk
The new space will continue to house the CGI and video end of Sparkle* with new onsite elements added such as training and Stereo 3D viewing facility.
Thanks to everyone who has helped out, we’re looking forward to sitting down with Focus and Smiling Wolf to create a new and exciting digital hub taking us into 2012.
@maxon3d @3DWorldMag & @3DTotal team up to produce 228-page #CINEMA4D training guide. ow.ly/6fFRh #C4D with our very own @stevenvfx
Steve covers some rigging basics in Maxons Cinema 4D
3D World and 3DTotal team up to produce 228-page CINEMA 4D training guide.Inside, some of the world’s leading illustrators and motion graphics artists reveal their trade secrets, enabling readers to build up their skills in easy stages. Separate sections cover environments, characters, vehicles and dynamics simulations.
The guide contains 12 complete tutorials, while the accompanying DVD provides project files for each tutorial, including over 14 hours of video training
Contributing artists include Tim Clapham of Luxx, Steven Maguire of SparkleVFX, Lino Masciulli of Rainbow CGI and freelance illustrators Adam Benton, Anders Kjellberg, Piko and Niki, and Fredi Voss.
CINEMA 4D Essentials is available from stores in the UK from 1 September, price £14.99. To order online and get your copy delivered anywhere in the world, visit www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/design.
WIP - T-Pose cardboard man waiting to be rigged #c4d #cinema4d
CV’s, DON’T SEND THEM!! Harsh but fair
Every day we get lots of CV’s sent into our office, I don’t read a single one.
Harsh your thinking but i have very good reason. I’m quite dyslexic and most of the words mean nothing to me, we work in a visually medium, we have the opportunity to create images that only your imagination defines. So why bog things down with a list of jobs since you where 12 and have no relevance of where you are right now?
If your applying for a job at a bank, then you’d expect the CV.. but i expect a portfolio, i’ve been doing my job for about 15 years and sometime I see just one image from someone and it’ll say more than any 3 page CV ever will.
One line emails also don’t work, speak to people as if there in the room.. not “Hi, here’s a link to my work, i’ll take any job you have going”. Introduce yourself, say hello!!!
Most of the CV emails and letters come across as begging letters, when all it takes is a simple introduction and a link to some work. Theres no point telling me how good you are in a 1000 word email, show me. Its not how much work you can produce, a few pieces, a little work in progress and some breakdowns go along way.
Look into the company your applying to, we get a lot of people applying for jobs in areas that we don’t cover and never did, web design, tv production, runners and yes.. fork lift truck driving.
We’re very approachable people in sparkle* HQ.. by all means send us your work, introduce yourself.. ask for feedback, we’ve some great talent in our office and we’re quite happy to help people out on your way to be a rising star. BUT… don’t send us CV’s, they go in the bin. Send us exciting images, send us exciting WIP, send us exciting breakdowns or just ask for advice.
Be creative, make pretty pictures.
Glenn
FREE ZBRUSH TUTORIAL: UVMaster http://tinyurl.com/3kzeud3. Glen Southern takes you through the ZBrush UVMaster #zbrush #pixologic
Check out some of our tutorials on the CG Channel http://bit.ly/oGRtrJ. Free Zbrush tutorials from Glen Southern
When not to use 3D #slayer. When it can all be captured on film don’t use 3D, great video from Slayer using great close ups of thick gooey treacle. It helps when Slayer have also been my fave band since in my teens
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