Graphics Mafia » News http://www.graphicsmafia.com A place for those who create sports graphics Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 GrayMachine’s Attributes of a toxic office http://www.graphicsmafia.com/2009/04/29/graymachines-attributes-of-a-toxic-office/ http://www.graphicsmafia.com/2009/04/29/graymachines-attributes-of-a-toxic-office/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:46:37 +0000 Brian McCauley http://www.graphicsmafia.com/?p=528 What a timely and uplifting article by our friend GrayMachine. As Baseball season starts up and the Hockey and Basketball seasons wind down, keep in mind some of Harry’s advice. I really like his line about good design needing negative space, just as your life needs negative space from your job. Don’t overwork yourselves guys.

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http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/28/mlb-is-about-to-make-a-million-dollars-off-an-iphone-app/

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Trapcode Particular V2

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Daily Planet Ltd. is looking for freelance 3D artists and animators for upcoming commercial projects. Candidates must be experienced in either Maya, 3D Studio Max, and/or C4D.

Candidates must also be able to work with quick turn-around times and client revisions. We are looking for 3D artists who can animate realistic characters and backgrounds, as well as texturing and lighting.

Freelancers would be able to work remotely and/or in our offices depending on the projects needs.

Email samples or links to:
jon@dailyplanetltd.com

www.dailyplanetltd.com

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provideocoalition.com

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http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=121

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Let me put it this way, I’m sure we’ve all been working in after effects and our editor or 3d guy was busy when our boss needed a short edit or 3d intro. It becomes apparent that you’ve got to learn a little bit of some of those other programs. Maybe you’ve even taken a Avid or Cinema 4D crash course online. So, I can understand a scout, looking at the FCP interface and thinking “I can do this”. They may not be the best Editor in the world, but they don’t have to be. It’s just game footage spliced together right? Maybe, but expanding your skill set beyond the obvious program updates and cool new plugin to more substantial skillsets like management, scouting and maybe typography is a great way to be ready for those new hybrid jobs in sports that technology will reveal. Look around, there may be an office in your stadium with a rack of DVR’s, 8 Macbook Pros and you didn’t even know it.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-kobevideo31-2008dec31,0,3226134.story

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Wordpress, the blogging software we use here at GraphicsMafia was updated to version 2.7 recently. I haven’t installed it on GraphicsMafia yet, but on some of my other blogs it is running great. The back end interface is gorgeous.

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Nice spot from Mode here in Chicago. Also, turns out they work with Sol Sender to come up with the 2008 Obama Campaign logo.

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So consider GraphicsMafia no longer a pretentious mac supporting blog (if it ever was) and welcome the much cleaner and less tampered with theme to the site.

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