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

The Mograph blog’s newest post about mastering the render queue is frankly amazing. I consider myself to be a pretty savvy after effects user and I didn’t know half this stuff. This is the kind of information that really helps me on a day to day basis. That’s why I’ve added The Mograph Blog to the Consigliere (or counsel) categories of links near the bottom of the sidebar.

Lost Project, or Craig Stouffer, motion director extraordinaire has some great and very recognizable work done with Troika. His reel is from 2007 but check out his NFL network and NBC Football projects. Super glossy, reflecting, lens flare goodness.

Some fantastic editing from DK. Great job.

Really cool Sprint NASCAR spot (what’s up with all these NASCAR posts lately?) but an even cooler case study. Complete with boards, animatics and pictures. You can learn a lot about the process of creating spots like this from case studies. Especially when they are as in depth as 3 Legged Legs. Keep up the good work guys.

Looks like Grid Iron’s new program Flow is coming out in the coming months for beta testing out now. Flow is content managing program. It’s not a plugin or something like that, seems like a really great way to keep track of all the assets one uses in after affects, photoshop, illustrator and many other programs.

Jason White and the team at Lift here in Chicago did a fantastic job with their show package for NASCAR Truck Series on the Speed Network. Very high energy animations, with great some great 3d. Thanks for the contribution.

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Some really great boards from Superfad’s CG/VFX Director Dade Orgeron. Sadly it seems these boards for ESPN College Basketball never got produced. But they sure are beautiful. 

Opening title storyboards for ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA championships. CG elements created in XSI and rendered with MentalRay. Final frames composited in Photoshop.

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Another cool one from National Television.

Sidenote, National TV did a great job with their site. If you’re familiar with this blog then you know that I absolutely hate flash websites. Rarely do they follow any of the logic that years of html has dictated and simple things like linking to a “page” gets left out of the coding. So, congrats National Television. For making a flash website thats actually a pleasure to visit and easy to share.

Ok, so wiping out isn’t really a sport. But damn this intro is slick.