Industry Sector - Serious Games & Simulation

Rheinmettal - Australian Simulation company

• Serious simulation company which mainly focuses on military equipment. 
• They do projects on pretty much anything military based.
• This can range from turret systems, to military trucks, "future soldiers," and all sorts of other military equipment.
• High Quality Develop

Holopoint

• A realistic simulation/games company.
• Founded by Ben Kilsby and Richad Taylor in 2007, it still stands as a 100% Australian owned company but has done international work.
• Alot of their work looks like simulations, scaling from 'T-cell growth in an alveolar", to flight deck hazards on a military flight deck. 
• Made some apps for the iOS app store which are more on the 'gamey' side.
• Quite high quality work

Industry Sector: Games

Oddgames

• Currently based in Adelaide
• Only released one game app called Monster Truck Destruction
• Currently don't offer any jobs.

Half Brick

• Based in Brisbane.
• They do multiple games on different platforms, from 2001 to 2014. They've made games from the PS2 to the iOS and Xbox One.
• Known for Fruit Ninja
• If you wanted to get a job there you should develop your skills in C++ as that is there programing language choice. They also use, Visual Studios and Apple's Xcode.

They would both have hired people for: 

• Marketing
• Texturing
• Modeling
• Sound
• Core Programming

Task: 3D Model Animation - Key Poses

Before getting started on animation, I had to work on my key poses, making sure they were strong. This is my blocked animation and now I'm getting started on the inbetweens and adding in the idle point where the character is mainly making eyecontact with the bug that will fly and make him lose his balance. What I found the most useful was a visual reference of videos.

Task: 3D Model Animation - Brief

The brief is to create a 12 second 3D animated piece.

"Your character is in the tree pose postion in a confident manner when he loses his focus because of a bug. The character responds by stumbling in a worried manner.

University Courses

Preference 1: Flinders Bachelor of Creative Arts (Digital Media)

2014 Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR): 60.00
Portfolio, written statement, curriculum vitae and referee details also required.  Short-listed applicants may be required to attend an interview.Guaranteed entry ATAR: Not applicableTAFElink: Not applicableBonus points: SEAS, RISAS Deferment: This course may not be deferred.

The range of core topics offered will develop and strengthen your skills in multimedia 

production, screen production, and 2D and 3D animation and effects, as well as providing a strong theoretical background in the creative arts and creative practice.

You will gain basic professional skills in digital media production including the operation of software and hardware, as well as the ability to plan, develop and complete a digital media product including production and post-production stages.

Graduates with these skills are able to pursue careers in a range of digital fields including in the local and international film industry, web design, interactive media, animation and the gaming industry.

Preference 2: Flinders Bachelor of Creative Arts (Screen)

2014 Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR): 60.00
Portfolio/show-reel, interview, written statement, curriculum vitate and referee details also required.
Guaranteed entry ATAR: Not applicable
TAFElink: Not applicable
Bonus points: SEAS, RISAS

At each stage of the degree you will develop your screen production skills, as you learn 
and strengthen the basic technical and intellectual skills required to produce screen-based media from conception and scripting to production, post-production and presentation. Alongside this, you can specialise in specific skills including producing, cinematography, directing, writing, editing or production management.

Preference 3: UniSA Bachelor of Media Arts

Part-time study available: Yes
SATAC Code: 444191ATAR (Internal): 60.20 (for 2014 entry)Prerequisites: None

Students choose to complete a Bachelor of Media Arts in one of these Professional Majors: 
Animation, Digital Design, Drama, Film and Television, Interactive Multimedia, Music Media, Performing Arts, Web Development. 

Interships:

BBC 

Internship Fall 2014 - Creative Services - On Air Promo (NY)

https://www5.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/BBC/PublicJobs/controller.cfm?jbaction=JobProfile&Job_Id=11018&esid=az

VOD Editor

https://www5.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/BBC/PublicJobs/controller.cfm?jbaction=JobProfile&Job_Id=10979&esid=az

Task: 3D Character Model - Rigging

There were parts in rigging that I found really hard, so I decided to try out miximo's auto-rig program. It did work and showed the animation properly but the program did not take into account my characters shape. The belly cause a problem in the animations and the armpit would break and stretch looking wrong. However the knees and elbows did bend properly. Maximo do take feedback and it'd be worth telling them to add in more things you could add in the beginning like waist line and where the neck starts etc. If there was also a way to fix the points with more detail, that would be helpful. The knees needed fixing, and after talking to Rob, I just had to treat them like the elbows, with a piece behind them for rotation.

On Miximo however, you can download animations. I found this one to suit my character well.

Editing/Screen Production Folio

I recently did a Marvel Cinematic Universe trailer on my channel and my sound editing has really improved since I've started this course. There are some points I was unhappy with but couldn't do anything about it because of the file, but I worked with what I had. I'm thinking of putting this video in my folio/showreel for the Screen Production course I want to go to. I did some research about what they look for in Film Folio's for Uni and it said they just want to see if you can show a story, which I think I have a few different videos that show that as well as some projects from this course.