For several years, the ArtFx 3rd year students have devored a Motion Comics workshop with me, surrounding the December holidays, just to prove once again that I can be Santa Claus and the boogey all in one…

< ** International Comic Book Festival in Angoulême **

The 40th edition of the International Comic Book Festival in Angoulême was held from January 31 to February 3, 2013. An ArtFx team was there for the occasion to share in some of the cultural experiences.

This is an important tool for our 4th year students who have been working on their films for several months. Two film teams are using Arnold, the rendering engine from Solid Angle society, which is an ArtFx partner. Below we discuss this software in detail with the students who have tested it.

In the framework of our compositing course and development of critical thinking around the creation of special effects, we developed an exercise which requires students to make three characters interact with each other. The challenge being that the three characters must be played by the same actor so the ‘interactions’ are completely staged.

** International Comic Book Festival in Angoulême **

The 40th edition of the International Comic Book Festival in Angoulême was held from January 31 to February 3, 2013. An ArtFx team was there for the occasion to share in some of the cultural experiences.