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Let Your True Light Shine in Computer-Generated Animation
Become a lighting expert and put your creative talents to work with a career in computer-generated animation.

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Voiceover Acting: An Animation Career Worth Talking About
Love to be heard but not seen? Try a career in animation as a voiceover actor.

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Video Game Design Schools Turn Around Poor Students
Teachers are finding that video game design schooling is a good way to reach students reluctant to learn.

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Video Game Design in Advertising
Now video game design is making its presence known in advertising. Companies are finding that video games are an excellent way to keep young potential customers interest in their offerings.

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Video Game Design Schools Need Power
As computers become more powerful, video game design becomes more elaborate. All good video game design schools must keep with the program.

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Nintendo's Wii May Shake Up Video Game Design
Nintendo's new joystick may open the door for new types of video game designs. Some of them may come out of video game design school projects.

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Clay Animation: It's Malleable Magic
Clay is the basic medium for creative conception. Remember Gumby and Pokey? With a clay animation degree, you could be inventing your own characters.

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Live Your Animation Writing Passion
Are you yearning to pursue a career in animation as a writer? Stop dreaming and start living.

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Break into the Screenplay Industry Today
screenwriter, screenplay

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Bring Character Animation Skills to Life
Bring the animal kingdom to life with solid, yet quirky character animation.

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Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Become an Animation Producer
Become an animation producer and help teach our youngsters valuable lessons about life and laughter.

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Video Game Design as Art
Video game design is quickly becoming a recognized art form. This makes sense. Video game design school curriculums often resemble those found at art schools.

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Use Video Game Design School To Attract New Gamers
A nice project for video game design schools could be to come up with games that would appeal to women, the largely forgotten segment when it comes to gaming. A good place to start would be The Sims, a favorite game of teenage girls.

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Anthropomorphizing: The Computer-Animated Craze
The computer-animated business is booming. Check out a great career as an animator.

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Go "Wild" With Computer Graphics
Computer graphics have revolutionized the character animation industry. Find out how you can become part of the revolution.

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Internet and Multi-Platforms: Latest Trends in Video Game Design
Online gaming and the expansion of portable game players are just two of the last trends that students at video game design schools can be paying attention to.

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Plasticine Animation: Let Your Creations Come To Life
For animator Nick Park, plasticine animation is what it's really all about.

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Modest Beginnings Translate to Rewarding Animated Marketing Career
Ever wonder how brand character "Mr. Peanut" came into being? Check out a magnificent career in animated marketing.

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Discover Your Directing Passion
If you've always dreamed of becoming a director, now is the time to make that dream come true.

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Game Design: The Future of Animation
Online games have become game designers� "pot of gold."

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Wal-Mart and Video Game Designers Work Together
Wal-Mart has great influence in what video game designs make it to shop shelves, and not just Wal-Mart shelves.

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Become an Animator and Enjoy the Career of a Lifetime
The life of an animator can be utterly fulfilling. If you have what it takes, you too can enjoy a great career in animation.

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A Star Marketer Pushes George Lucas Video Game Design
A results hungry marketing executive is trying to push LucasArts video game design to the top, without simply relying on Star Wars.

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The Polar Express: A Computer Animation Masterpiece
Learn how you can blend fantasy and reality with a great career in computer animation.

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Hollywood is Ailing, Animation to The Rescue
Hollywood heavyweights increasingly promote animation careers to boost morose box-office results. Animation jobs everywhere should flourish.

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Anime Cartoon Fair Celebrates Japan's Signature Style
Tokyo's anime cartoon fair is the year's biggest anime event, celebrating the signature cartoon style and its influence on animation careers the world over.

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Career in Animation: The Challenge Awaits
The future of computer animation is truly beyond the realm of imagination. To learn more about this exciting career, read on.

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Drawing For Animation
Are you an aspiring cartoonist? To learn more about how to draw for animation, read on.

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Discover the Animation Magic of Narnia
Think you have what it takes to make a blockbuster animation film? Find out how you can become an animation director.

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Animation Bound - Find a Resort The Whole Family Will Love
Ready to experience the family vacation of a lifetime? Think animated characters and get ready for fun!

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Become an Animated Artist: Let Your Inner Child Free
Pursue a career in animation as an animated artist, and let your life experiences create an animation masterpiece.

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Set the Scene: Become an Art Director
From the Central Park Zoo to the African wilderness, Kendal Cronkhite accomplishes an art director's masterpiece in Madagascar.

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Animation Career: More than Just a Job
Love animation? Follow your passion today and discover true career happiness.

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Animation Jobs Replicate Real Life
A major part of any computer animation career is replicating real life as closely as possible. New movies such as X-Men 3 or V For Vendetta should demonstrate that.

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Become A Writer: You Can Do It!
Still coming up with reasons not to be a writer? Turn things around and get started on your career in animation writing today.

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Army Computer Game Offers Vivid Depictions of Soldiering
Learn how the Army developed its popular free computer game, America's Army.

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Video Game Design Goes Indie
Recently, two Los Angeles neighbors launched an avatar-based video game Web site that already boasts thousands of registered user. Is independent game design the next big thing?

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Playing Video Games Can Make You Money
With the actual purchasing of items created within video games, virtual game design has become valuable in the real world.

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Special Effects Can Boost Your Directing Career
Love special effects? Then you'll love Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

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Create "Magic" With Animated Designs
If you love creating animated design treasures from old trinkets, a career in animation could be the one for you.

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Animation Looks Like A Zombie, Not A Human
Animation designers have to be sure not to creep out audiences with their human renderings.

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High Definition Movies Available For the PS3
DVD wars to take place in video game consoles.

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PS3 and Xbox 360 Look Beyond Video Games
game consoles offer plenty of options beyond gaming.

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Let Your Voiceover Talents Shine
Voiceover acting might just be the perfect animation career fit for you. To find out why, read on >>>

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Animation Oscar Picks Displays New Found Variety
Small animation companies struggle to enter the feature length business.

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Animation Is Art: Pixar Gets MOMA Show
The MOMA opens its door to Pixar to celebrate twenty years of animation innovation.

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Hoodwinked Takes a New Approach to Producing Computer Animation
Hoodwinked defies odds and demonstrates a new way to produce children's entertainment.

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Schwarzenegger Leads Fight Against Video Game Indecency
Politicians legislate against violent video games.

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Disney And Pixar To Team Up Again
An animation company created only as a contract ploy will probably fold soon.

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Hiring Frenzy Engulfs Animation Industry
Knowing that the need for trained recruits is great, Pixar animators have started their own animation school.

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Animation Oscar Picks Display New Found Variety
The animation Oscar nominees reflect a changing and globalizing industry.

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Small Video Game Designers Delay New Game Designs
Will the small video game design companies survive the new consoles?

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Education in Video Game Design Is Front Page News
Video game design programs make it to the big time.

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Electronic Arts Cuts Prices Anticipating Xbox And PS3
This is it. The next generation of gaming consoles is about to arrive to a store near you. And to celebrate, Electronic Arts, the video game designer, is cutting prices on a selection of their games.

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Computer Animation Opens On Broadway
Computer animation makes it to the great white way.

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Pixar and Disney Close to Tying Animation Knot
Animation giants Pixar and Disney poised to make a deal.

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Schwarzenegger Leads Fight Against Video Game Indecency
Politicians legislate against violent video games.

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After Lord of The Rings and King Kong, It's Halo For Jackson
Peter Jackson to adapt Halo to the Big Screen.

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Animation Hit "Family Guy" Rankles Decency Advocates
Fox animation series rankle conservative decency group.

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Studio Fire Mars Wallace and Gromit Triumph
A fire destroys a warehouse at Aardman Studio, creator of Wallace and Grommit.

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In Case You Didn't Know, Yoda Is a Stud
Find out how animators created the famous Yoda fight scenes in Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith through the magic of 3D computer animation.

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What Can a Quality Portfolio Do For Your Animation Career
Are you thinking about embarking on an exciting career in animation art? If so, a quality portfolio can help you get an interview and land a great animation job.

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Catch Beetle Mania with Disney's New Animated Herbie Movie
Disney releases its first Herbie movie in 20 years. Check out an adventurous piece of animation history.

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New Disney Boss Must Revive Animation
Bob Iger, Disney's new head, is expected to focus on reviving Disney's animation division independently from Pixar or any other outside company.

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Microsoft, Game Designers Prepare To Launch Xbox 360
Microsoft hires a Wal-Mart executive and prepares to launch the new Xbox.

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Animation World Mourns Pixar Story Guru
Animation story guru dies in car accident

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Bring Reality or Fantasy to Life with 3D Graphics
Creating 3D graphic images serves many needs from the most practical to the most frivolous. Either way, 3D graphic design is big business and 3D animations jobs are plentiful to those with 3D animation courses.

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India Emerging As New Animation Jobs Hotbed
India is emerging as a new animation market for both production and audience.

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Animation Humans Become Less Human
New technology should make humans in animation look more like humans.

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DreamWorks Makes Deal with McDonalds
As trouble mounts, DreamWorks enters a two-year marketing pact with McDonalds.

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3D Animation Programming Jobs:
Some of the most exciting advancements in 3D animation in the past decades have come from those using their 3D animation training at gaming jobs. 3D animation jobs are exciting opportunities for anyone artful enough in their use of 3D animation programs.

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Animation Legend Dies, Creator of Disney's Story Department
Any animation class will teach a thing or two about Joe Grant. He was a key figure in turning animation from a novelty of three-minute shorts to the feature length art form (and academy award category) it is today.

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As Usual, Animation Legend Miyazaki Delivers Greatness
A new Miyazaki release is always a special event for animation fans.

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High Tech Is Future of Textile Jobs and Careers
As China increasingly dominates the textile business, the future of the business may be in high tech.

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Make Yourself a Special Effects Professional
You can turn yourself into a special effects professional if you've got the right mix of natural ability, training and experience.

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Monster Alert! The Big Business of Special Effects
The ever-changing movie industry needs talented special effects people to keep it moving forward.

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Make Yourself a Special Effects Professional
You can turn yourself into a special effects professional if you've got the right mix of natural ability, training and experience.

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Computer animation - More than just drawing!
A computer animation degree can lead to a wider range of career options than you might think.

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Drawing in the 21st Century
Computer animation skills have a purpose beyond the movies. In a good computer animation course you'll gain the skills you need to take advantage of the broad range of job opportunities available.

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Modeling for the Future
Computer animation has many uses outside the entertainments industry. A computer animation degree could be the beginning of a career in computer modeling.

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Computer Animated Special Effects - A New Twist on an Old Tale
Special effects are becoming ever more spectacular thanks to the use of computer animation. You could be part of the future of special effects in the movie industry with the skills you learn in a computer animation course.

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Japanese Animation Art - What's all the Fuss?
I am sure that you have heard a lot about Japanese animation art but what is it that sets it apart?

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Cell Phone Graphics to Boost Your Graphic Arts Business
Get your business' name out there with a multitude of cell phone ring tones and graphics

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Visual Effects & Motion Graphics Degrees
The knowledge and skills you'll gain on a visual effects and motion graphics degree have a broad application in the many industries that make use of visual designs and graphics. What you learn in a visual effects and motion graphics degree program will be your entry ticket to a rewarding career that will give you the chance to use your technical skills to explore your imagination, and get paid for the privilege.

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Bring Reality or Fantasy to Life with 3D Graphics
Creating 3D graphic images serves many needs from the most practical to the most frivolous. Either way, 3D graphic design is big business and 3D animations jobs are plentiful to those with 3D animation courses.

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Packing a Punch: Interior Design Programs for the Computer Savvy
This week, we review an interior design computer program; Punch! Can it stand up to real interior design jobs, or will it get sand kicked in its face?

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Toon Boom Studio v2.5 released
Toon Boom Studio v2.5 for PC is Available Toon Boom Animation announced today the customer release of Toon Boom Studio v2.5 for PC. Similar to the Mac 2.5 version, Toon Boom Studio for PC now includes a number of exciting...

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Animation Software sends Toon Boom on World Tour
Toon Boom Animation announced today its calendar of launch events for the release of Toon Boom Symphony. Already started in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 16th 2004 with great success, the world tour continues with two events in China, the...

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Graphic designing - career profile
Do you have an interest in art, computers and problem solving? If so, graphic design might be the career path for you. Graphic design basically aims to create something that is pleasing to the eye, and gets the attention of...

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Animation software for students
Chapel Hill � Animated Communications introduces 3d Chor Video Effects Studio (VES) a software package for adding special effects to home movies. 3d Chor VES can be used to create student projects, presentations, video email cards, special announcements, or tales...

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PC Animation Software from Toon Boom debuts
Toon Boom Animation recently announced the Beta release of Toon Boom Studio v2.5 for PC. Similar to the Mac version, Toon Boom Studio V2.5 for PC includes a number of exciting features, including: Support for scanning Ability to draw in...

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Rejoice! Animation Tools for Mac users
Toon Boom Animation announced today that Opus and Concerto on Mac are ready to ship. OPUS and Concerto are the most advanced solutions for the production of traditional and digital animation, providing customers with an integrated production workflow, powerful 3D...

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Concerto Service Pack 1 Now Available
Toon Boom Animation announced today the release of Concerto Service Pack 1, along with Opus II. This release includes several exciting new features, and enhancements. Highlights of the new features include: The ability to render a QuickTime movie in Linux...

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Toon Boom releases Opus II
Toon Boom Animation announced today the release of Opus II, along with Concerto Service Pack 1. This major release includes several exciting new features, and enhancements. Highlights of the new features include: The ability to render a QuickTime movie in...

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Animation Tools for Morphing, Basic Inverse Kinematics, & "Glue"
Toon Boom Animation announced today the release of Symphony. With powerful features - such as morphing, basic inverse kinematics and "glue" - that enhance the paperless animation production process, Symphony enables studios to produce digital animation of the highest quality....

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Gerald Scarfe takes on "American Dream" for "Miss Saigon"
King Camera has just completed work on a 90 second take of the famous show-stopping production number, "American Dream", created and designed by highly acclaimed Pink Floyd's "The Wall" illustrator and satirist, Gerald Scarfe for Sir Cameron Mackintosh's new touring...

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Toon Boom Animation Software used on Street Football
Toon Boom Animation announced today that Street Football will be produced with USAnimation. These 26 half-hour episodes are a co-production between T�l� Images Kids, Demas & Partners, FR3 and RAI Fiction. Caribara, the Paris-based studio, will also be involved in...

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Toon Boom's advanced 2D animation system used on new Paul McCartney animation venture
Sir Paul McCartney has produced a new DVD titled "Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection", which includes the critically acclaimed new film, "Tuesday". The film is produced by Sir Paul and directed by Geoff Dunbar. The colour work and...

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Toon Boom Software used by Director Michael Dudok de Wit
(Montreal, September 9, 2004) - King Camera has just completed, "A Life", a stunning 60-second animated commercial, currently airing on United Airlines flights. It was directed by prominent, Oscar Winning Director of "Father and Daughter", Michael Dudok de Wit in...

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Toon Boom Studio for Teaching
It can be an overwhelming task to choose a software solution that fits your needs, with myriad products available for the digital animation market. One must consider if the product is an advanced enough solution for your specific animated projects...

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