Re: 3d studios in Chicago?

["Gene Crucean" <emailgeneonthelist(at)gmail.com>]

Yeah Chicago is pretty much only games (3d wise). Studio Gigante is another studio btw. I think there are around 6-7 total if I can remember right and quite a few smaller joints like Matt said.

I wish 3d was bigger in Chicago because it's such a great city.

On 7/19/06, Marc-Andre Carbonneau <marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com > wrote:

Hmmm that's kind of not attractive for 3D artists then.
So unless you want to make 3d for games you're pretty much stuck
freelancing? No movie effects, cinematics or such?


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Subject: RE: 3d studios in Chicago?

Chicago!  great city.

Yes, I've cut my wrists staying employed there for years.  There's
basically
two types of studios: big games studios (Midway, EA, Dreamation, ...),
or
the 5-man-or-less variety (Sol Design, Digital Kitchen, ...).  Every now
and
then a mid-sized studio will start up, but it usually goes belly up or
gets
acquired by somebody else before too long.  In either case the studio
disappears.  The smaller studios are usually staffed with folks who have

been there for a long time and probably won't be leaving any time soon -
so
not too many openings.  The larger studios usually have a bunch of
openings,
but are located in inconvenient places.  So, you're either working in
the
heart of downtown or waaaaay out in the outskirts of the suburbs.  Not
much
inbetween.

The "chicago creative directoy" has a listing of places employing
animators,
but be careful as some studios have multiple companies under the same
umbrella (ie: 3 studio listings may actually only be one studio serving
multiple markets).  Might want to check out the back pages of Post
magazine
too.

Just to get a foot in the door of the market, I'd say start with the big

games studios and work towards other goals later. A lot of animation
work at
smaller studios is project-to-project and not year round.  Many
companies do
animation, but it's not their meat and potatoes.  Usually you'll need to
be
well versed in illustration or print work to justify your existence when

there's no animation projects on the plate.

Matt

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Matt Lind
Animator / Technical Director
Softimage certified instructor:
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Matt(at)Mantom.net
Mantom, Chicago



Date : Wed, 19 Jul 2006
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From: marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com
Subject: 3d studios in Chicago?

Hi,
A friend is looking for 3D studios in Chicago. Do you know of any? I
tried
google-ing but not much comes out!

Also, where's that list of all the studios Stefan had put up a while
back?
Thanks for any help.
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