Unfortunately, Studio Gigante went under about a year
ago...fortuntely for us, a large majority of them decided to join our group and
its been a big positive for everyone. Those S.G. guys/gals are good
peoples.
_______________________________________
Marc Brinkley -
EA|Chicago
mbrinkley [at]
ea.com
312.661.7412
"[Fight Night] Round 3 on an Xbox 360 on a widescreen LCD TV is so pretty
it's the Jessica Alba of video gaming."
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Gene
Crucean
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:53 PM
To:
XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: 3d studios in
Chicago?
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?
-----Original Message-----
From:
owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
] On Behalf
Of Matt Lind
Sent: July 19, 2006 3:34 PM
To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
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
--------------------
Matt Lind
Animator /
Technical Director
Softimage certified
instructor:
Softimage|3D
Softimage|XSI
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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