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3D VFX
MARK SPEVICK
Job title at Escape Studios : Head of Industry Training Industry experience : 24 + years Teaching : 11 + years
Top companies include : digital effects companies : Peerless Camera Company , MPC , DNEG , Framestore / physical effects companies : BBC and Artem
CV includes : Casino Royale , The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus , Angels & Demons , The Golden Compass , The Legend of Zorro and Moon Knight
Speciality : all things 3D and VFX for movies and camera tracking
3D production is a huge umbrella term for many skills within the CGI industry ; skills are as diverse as modelling to writing computer code .
Software of choice : Houdini and Maya Favourite film : Spirited Away
WHERE WE SEE IT
You see 3D in most feature films , series and commercials . For example , most car adverts do not feature a real car , in fact they ’ re usually modelled by a 3D Artist .
JOBS
There are jobs to cater for everyone . If you ’ re an artist , there are careers to be found in texture painting or digital sculpting and modelling . FX Artist and Technical Director ( TD ) are for those with more of a technical background where scripting and computer simulation skills are important .
INDUSTRY BACKGROUND
Some of the film world ’ s first CGI was created for the 1982 movie Tron . Other milestone movies that broke new ground in special effects included The Matrix ( bullet time ), Lord of the Rings ( motion capture ), Avatar ( motion capture and CGI ), and Gravity ( 3D ).
STUDIOS
London is home to many of the best VFX studios in the world such as DNEG , MPC and Framestore . There are also specialist VFX companies that focus on one part of the pipeline , for instance The Third Floor who works on previsualisation .
WHAT IT TAKES
3D is so large and diverse that sometimes people find themselves doing a bit of all the roles . It is certainly exciting and challenging and not for the faint-hearted !
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