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Pipeline Weight Bags: A Reliable Solution for Pipeline Stability

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  Animation and VFX Pipeline - Free Download Escape Studios has just released our  latest free download - the animation and VFX pipeline  handbook.   Understanding the animation, VFX and games pipeline is an important first step to making an informed choice about what area to specialise in.  The creative industries are increasingly complex and specialised. Before you decide whether to study animation, games or VFX - learn how the pipeline works, and what your role in it might be.  Creative Pipelines & Workflows Handbook What is Previsualisation? What does a Compositor do? What is the difference between the VFX, 3D Animation and Game Art processes?  A creative pipeline helps to organise each department so that production can move along smoothly within the allocated timeline. In these three helpful infographics (Escape Routes), we’ve mapped out the VFX, 3D Animation and Game Art pipelines that our students used whilst working on their projects a...
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Drawing with Tape: Part two Find below a few more tapes that can be bought on line. The fact that tape can be thought of as very long drawings means that certain types of associations gravitate around this common commercial product, from miniature roads to playful games about measurement. The idea I really like, which is the screw head tape; a tape designed to stick two surfaces together but to make the join look as if it was a screw fixed joint, is a simple illusion, but in its very uselessness it becomes poetic. The same designers (Richard Shed and Sam Johnson) came up with  Dovetail tape which is conceptually witty but not quite as poetic.  Centre Tape Tape measure tape Screw head tape Dovetail tape It's not just designers that have used tape in interesting ways, the  architect Bijoy Jain  of Studio Mumbai, has had to use tape to draw with because of trying to make drawings in a very wet climate. Studio Mumbai: Saat Rasta: Mahindra Unit Tape drawing, 2013. Pe...
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