Re: 3d studios in Chicago?

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

To give you guys an idea, 6-10 games shops, maybe even less,
is all the entire Bundesrepublik has to offer for it´s reputation.
There´s of course several dozen shops doing some sort of
3D, a handful of postproduction facilities and a couple of
film shops doing a film every now or never. Plus architecture.

There´s more jobs posted on vfxpro.com in a week than
what I have seen (not gotten) in the last two, three years...

Sometimes, I could hate you guys for having so many options :-)

Cheers

tim




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Crucean" <emailgeneonthelist(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:53 PM
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.
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> I wish 3d was bigger in Chicago because it's such a great city.
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> 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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