World’s Top Animation Schools

Here’s a list of the best places to study 3D animation in the world.
This ranking table is from 3D World’s 98th issue.

1 Supinfocom
2 Filmakademie Baden-Wuertemmberg
3 Gobelins, L’école de l’image
4 Ringling College of Art and Design
5 Vancouver Film School
6 Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
7 Royal College of Art
8 Bournemouth University, NCCA
9 University of Southern California
10 Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
11 CalArts School of Film/Video
12 National Film and Television School
13 Ecole Emile Cohl
14 Savannah College of Art and Design
15 School of Visual Arts
16 University of Wales
17 Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques
18 University of Teesside
19 RMIT Univeristy
20 Rhode Island School of Design

I’ve got friends studying in Supinfocom and Ringling and I’m so happy for them!

I have been to Gobelins before and hence I’m so happy and excited for them to be amongst the top three! Gobelins, L’école de l’image has a superb learning environment, teaching force, and technical assistance such that I could focus thouroughly on character animation!

I have also always been very impressed by student works from Ecole Emile Cohl (EEC).
It goes to show that these 20 schools listed are really of superb quality!

I hope one day Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Interactive and Digital Media can be amongst these! Jiayou! (;

Click [here] to find out how they compiled this ranking ;)

Happy Lunar New Year 2010

花开富贵, 迎新年
恭祝大家, 虎年行大运!

It’s the Year of Tiger
Wish all a healthy and prosperous Lunar New Year!

Planning for Animation Sequence

This is the planning for a secret animation sequence. It’s an easter egg on this website. ;P
It’s done sometime ago already and I thought I’ll just upload the thumbnail stage here. Cheers! :D

3D Basic Bird in Maya

This is a long outdated video which I prepared almost 2 years ago.
It’s not fully meant to be a tutorial hence the fast foward, but it’ll be great if anyone finds this useful :P

I was modelling a basic 3D bird in Maya for a short film production I did in school called Gan Cheong Kin (GCK) Season 3.

It’s kept really basic because of the style of the film, but it can be brought futher for zbrushing or mudboxing. The model is available from the free downloads section

Have fun!