Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits.  Okay, a lot about biscuits.  This week we have a Full House with John, Gary, Em and Tim, the four Admins of the Apocalypse. We talk about our Discord server.  In fact, we talk about it a lot!

How Em went from wannabe personal trainer to a train asset builder.

How Tim went from leaving education to..oh, err, not leaving education!

How rubbish Gary is with Discord, but he’s getting better

How John is our recruitment agent

How much Gary likes “Nodening” people

Women in Games Events

Swedish Games Camps for Women

Some quick questions.

NDA’d info - yep, nothing to see here.

How our discord is growing exponentially.

Affinity Designer vs. Illustrator!

GREGGS!!

And a shocking biscuit result!!

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits.  Okay, a lot about biscuits.  This week we are lucky enough to have a student on the podcast. At 16, we did have to have permission from his parents, which we received, but Gary already knew him as he did his school placement in the company he used to work at.  During this podcast, we chunner about:

FORMATT and how brilliant it was

If you want to do anything, do well at your GCSEs.

Access College in Manchester and how comprehensive the course is.

How young Oli is.

How old Gary is.

Two old guys talking about the Good Old Days…

Quick questions, two ways!

A bit about Blender, no, really?  Oh yes.

Oh and…

SPECIAL: We’re talking about doing a live show!

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits.  Okay, a lot about biscuits.  This week is just the two of us…we can make it if we try, just the two of us…John and I!

We discuss...

Epic's Unreal pricing.

Unity price backstep.

Our Discord Server!

David Stirzaker (again) and chocolate.

Genvfx Tutorials used in colleges?!

John was travelling the nation with work.

FE Colleges or Higher Education.

A bit about Blender, no, really?  Oh yes.

Even more about our Discord server.

Live podcasts?

Blatant plugs for a couple of ex-students.

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits.  Okay, a lot about biscuits.  We are lucky to have with us this week Thomas Butters, Lead Weapon & Prop Artist at Facepunch Studios Ltd.

We talked about a lot of things including:

Thomas’ early years as a student of 3D.

What some Universities deliver and what they don’t.

How Faith is sometimes all you need.

The Importance of Real Criticism.

Creating the work of The Creator.

Skill progression through “Just Doing It.”

The power of “Twitch.”

To AI or not to AI, that is the question.

What the education pipeline needs to bring to the table today.

Fundamentals.

Stil no USD.

A real twist in the biscuit question.

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits.  Actually not a biscuit mention in sight this week!

We will discover

We talk about a lot of things including:

The weather

The End of the Academic Year

About putting a calendar on the website - which we have done since this recording

The Develop Show in Brighton

It’s getting colder in Maya - the growth of Bifrost in the newer users

Meeting fans - yes an actual fan!

Me reviewing an amazing Lenovo PC

My Deep Water Phobia

The Internship Film Project we are creating!

Oh, and “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI”

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

In the course of this podcast, both Gary and John ramble on a bit, chat about education, industry and the increasing role of open source software in the industry as well as, did I mention rambling?

Welcome to The Graphter's Podcast - an audio journey around the subject of CGI on industry and education and also general rubbish.

This week, a lot of general rubbish followed by a very fun interview with the lovely Chris McFall, the person behind Hollowpixel Studios, the wonderful Blender Clinic and is a full time fabulous Blenderhead.  We also discuss:

1. The Winter Olympics!

2. Spurious nonsense about something or other.

3. Blender being top

4. The education system being a bit on the shonky side at times.

5. Muppets.

6. Electric Cars.

7. Stuff!

8. A tiny amount of biscuit talk.

Take care and stay safe.

Gary and John

Join Gary and John, two yet-to-be jaded individuals who have both been involved in teaching and creating 3D stuff for Commercial and Broadcast clients for over 20 years.

More info about Chris McFall can be found here: http://blenderclinic.com/and here: https://twitter.com/hollowpixels as well as here: www.linkedin.com

In the course of this podcast, both Gary and John ramble on a bit, chat about education, industry and the increasing role of open source software in the industry as well as, did I mention rambling?

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits!

This week John and I are joined by Paul Coulthard, Senior Storyboard Artist at Axis Studios and a round nice guy.

He was so lovely that we talked for way too long, so this is the first part of two podcasts!

We talk about a lot of things including:

80s Cartoons

Discovering Manga and Japanese animation

School Careers Advisors

Getting into Storyboarding by a chance meeting.

Mentorship, how important it is and learning on the job.

The power to add life to a script without always "Panning."

Plus the usual twittering on.

Ooh, and you'll find out what biscuit Paul likes on the next one. Yes, you'll have to keep waiting. I will say he does come up with a couple of different biscuits that made John and I both go "Ooo..." and "Yum!"

Speak soon.

Gary and John.

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits!

As you know, this week is the second part of our podcast with Paul Coulthard od Axis Studios. We will discover

We talk about a lot of things including:

How long it takes to get from storyboard to an actual piece of work

Best practice of how to get into the industry today

That you need to keep drawing and keep learning

As with Owain Street, we get to those pesky Fundamentals.

How to watch a film to help with storyboarding.

And we ask that crucial question, "Where are the Storyboarding Courses in Education?"

All this as well as biscuits.

Oh and then we return to influential stuff from our youth again.

Plus the usual twittering on.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits!

This week John and I are on a chatty natter; a One To One if you will. Talking about everything Except Biscuits!

We talk about a lot of things including:

Holidays.

Seeing in the Dawn with coffee, croissants and a heavy fog.

Is Education ready for emerging technologies in CGI and Games?

The USD and AI pipeline and software agnosticism.

I mention Lost In Space, again!

"Not Now" moments.

Not Wacom...what is out there for us to use?

CG Software History and a reminder of what Lightwave has achieved and is achieving.

FMX 2023 before John went to it.

A big hint about what we have planned for the future.

Plus the usual twittering on, my dog, work, life and the importance how to not pack a breakfast int a rucksack.

Speak soon.

Gary and John

Hi there!  Yes, John and Gary are back talking about the Games Industry, the VFX Industry and even occasionally about biscuits!

This week we are happy to be joined by Motion Graphic Producer and Artist, Owain Street. Owain has been creating beautiful work for TV and Corporate clients for well over 2 decades. He has been running his company, Design Hutch for over 10 years and has produced work for CBBC, the BBC, Natwest, DeMontfort University, and the Discovery Channel to name only 5!

https://www.designhutch.co.uk/

We talk about a lot of things - this is a long podcast, but it was so much fun we didn't want to chop too much out - including:

The Swiss Army Knife of MGFX.

Studying Motion Graphics now to back when you were taught Graphics.

Principles over Technology.

Motion Design over Designer.

Adobe still ruling on Motion Graphics.

A bit of reminiscing about an office we all worked at AT THE SAME TIME!

Plus the usual twittering on, my dog, work, life and the importance of a good work lunch.

Speak soon.

Gary and John