A recently launched Vancouver based website for upcoming 3D artists, CGcritic.com, is proving to be a great first port of call for people first starting out in the industry.
MDS Creative Advertising graduate Matthias May has won the March 2009 Professional YoungGun of the Month award for ads he created alongside Steve Ogilvy for Stihl. Congratulations Matthias!
3D artists and autuers who graduate from MDS usually specialise in a particular medium of 3D animation. Animation itself is often one of the trickier specialisations to crack, it is a sophisticated skill that is essentially the illusion of life.
MDS stop-motion tutor Aleks Sakowski's 2007 'Crime Fighters' video for jocular Auckland hip-hop duo Coco Solid is rising high in the NZ Film Archive's excellent 'Ready to Roll' - 1oo Classic Kiwi Clips online voting poll timed to coincide with NZ Music Month.
Gameplay is the single most important element of game development. If you are making a game, it needs to be fun so it can attract people, retain their attention and get them to come and play the game again.
The Flaneur is a new blog launched by Auckland photographer Lydia Cowperwait. Lydia wanders the streets taking photographs of the colourful and creative fashions many Aucklanders don. Definitely worth a look.
American Graphic Designer Chris Glass has a diverse repertoire of clients and the sort of work he does perfectly illustrates how fine visual communication is such an awesome device for connecting diverse audiences with the intended message.
The findings of a research project undertaken by students studying the 2008 MDS Graduate Diploma of Advanced 3D Productions has been picked up by influentional High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography website www.hdrlabs.com.
The MDS Diploma of 3D Computer Animation class of February 2009 have recently completed their 7-week stop-motion project and will be screening the fruits of their labour at MDS, Level 10, 242 Queen Street, Auckland City from 1.00pm on Wednesday 22 April.
IRI5 is a multimedia artist who focuses on making non traditional media useful again through visual art. Clearly grounded by a sustainable ethic she takes discarded, donated and common objects she transforms them into new, visually intriguing forms.