[AccessD] cool animation

My youngest daughter did three years of college at one university, paid via
scholarship, then worked a years, did one more year at a new university
college and finally completed her animation degree at UBC, in three more
years. It took over seven years of university to get her full degree. Last
year she won a further education scholarship, for a 5 minute video/movie she
produced, and used it to take further mentoring through a six months
training course at Pixar Studios. 

Now she works for a company that does 3D real-time animation for machinery,
mostly military hardware and works in her spare time free-lancing for a
variety of small companies who need short term specialty work. 

Related: The emphasizes today is producing graphics suitable for web based
deployment accompanied with real-time streaming. That is a whole new field
of mathematics and image management. The game companies are the leaders in
this new field. Their systems uses high end image compression, asynchronies
streaming, background/parallel processing, intelligent caching,
filters/overlays, with sparse-image-cells (only the parts of the screen that
are current animated are being transferred) and they are even developing AI
systems to anticipate user responses. It is interesting to see just how fast
mixed quality images can be transferred, through small to large band-width
and produce a good user experience. Also learned that Hadoop is not just for
distributive computing to support Map Reduce databases but to manage
thousands of online users in complex interactive game scenarios. This is
also one the reason browser makers have been working so hard to make their
browser's faster, smaller and run on every PC, tablet and Smartphone.

I took in a couple of seminars, at the professional animators convention,
over in Vancouver, a couple of months ago, with my daughters and that is why
I am such an expert....not; ;-) but for any young person looking for a
high-end career...there are so many fields of expertise needed in consumer
data and graphics distribution and production.

Jim   

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
Shamil
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] cool animation

So cool!

They seems to have the whole animation picturing process automated by MIDI-
events: 

http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCNCYsgxFtWZE?feature=relchannel 

"Unlike many other music visualizations, the music drives the animation.
While other productions might animate figures or characters to the music,
the animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed
to follow what the music "tells them" to. 'Solo cams' featured on the
Animusic DVD shows how each instrument actually plays through a piece of
music from beginning to end."

Has your daughter got professional education as an animator to work in an
animation studio?
I'm asking because my 11 years old son is "cooking" LEGO animations voicing
them in English with accompanying music and he is spending on that hobby a
lot of his free time.
He is using simple Canon PowerShot and a notebook or just Sony Ericsson
Walkman smart-phone with some animation apps - and I'm wondering where
should I look for for more information and tools for him to get his hobby
animations becoming more polished - maybe he will make that hobby his
profession in the future...

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:30:00 -0700 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>From my daughter who works for an animation studio, she says that is at
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least a months work for a single 3D animator.
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Jim
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:05 PM
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To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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It is a company that does these videos and you can buy the actual videos.  I
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do not own stock, it was just passed to me as something cool, which 'deed it
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is!
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John W. Colby
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Colby Consulting

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