May 25th, 2010
MMD teachers at TypoBerlin 2010
Mette Agerbæk and Lise Agerbæk in TypoBerlin 2010 outfits on Berlin Hauptbahnhof
May 1st, 2010
“Big Typography” – new web design style at MMD Odense
“Big typography” literally means huge typography – the use of giant letters in webdesign. This is seen in more and more places on the net. Look at e.g. DesignMag or Smashing Magasin.
At MMD-Odense design teacher Mette Agerbæk has introduced “task force typography”.
Students work intensely with different fonts – among other things by drawing them by hand. Mette calls this “typography croquis”. The idea is to develop a close relationship with different fonts. We want students to leave MMD-Odense with a design-style-toolbox, so they may offer clients many design options. Big Typography is just the latest of the design styles, we introduce students to.
The illustration shows Big Typography used in a web design.
April 29th, 2010
3D Experience workshop
With our 1.sem Multimedia designer classes for web, we have just finished our first 3D experience workshop, and with great success.
3D Experience Workshop Website
In this workshop our students visualize different kind of buildings based on the tools Photoshop, Maya and Unity 3D.
Check it out.
miko
April 13th, 2010
MMD Project – Nominated between the top 20 in Europe
The Professor’s Laboratory is now gone – south – to Spain.
Link to blog from Spain
You can follow the project in Spain above.
The group is nominated in Spain to be one of 20 best new and innovative projects in Europe.
Thursday this week they will present the project for the judges.
We congratulate here from MMD Odense and hope that the group will win.
miko
March 27th, 2010
Escape Studios
Vi har i London besøgt Escape Studios.
Vi fik set et professionelt kursus-sted, som dels leverer unge talenter til f.eks MPC og andre produktionssteder i UK og dels leverer hardware og software til firmaerne også.
De studerende kan komme ind i deres job-agency og på den måde få et job i UK.
En 12 ugers uddannelse på stedet koster godt. 8000 GBP, men så er man også så godt som sikret et job i branchen.
miko
March 27th, 2010
moving-picture
Så har vi været på besøg hos:
http://www.moving-picture.com/
Det var en stor succes. De arbejder dels med show-reels og dels med film-reels. De har 600 ansatte i London og kontorer i LA (Show reel stedet) og Vancouver (Film stedet nu)
Vores studerende var begejstrede.
MPC arbejder dels med Maya og dels med Adobe pakken og endelig andre pakker herunder Nuke.
De fortalte at de nu vil skifte helt til Nuke, som main applikation sammen med Maya.
Derudover har de en R&D afdeling, som laver plugins til Maya.
Deres ansatte er studerende som vores, som kommer fra hele verdenen. Hende vi talte med kom fra Brasilien.
De studerende fik også tips til hvordan de kan ansøge om at arbejde som “runner” på 4.sem. Altså en person som laver te, kaffe, kopierer etc. og så får chancen til at vise sit værd, når projekterne har tidsproblemer. Masser af ansatte komme ind på den måde.
Hvad de studerende havde lavet tidligere og hvilke papirer de har var ikke så vigtigt, men de skal have en fed show-reel (video), som klart viser hvad de vil. Den skal være kort og præcis. Det kan godt være få sekunder, men til gengæld skal man klart kunne se potentialet.
Vi fik visitkort med hjem fra firmaet
miko
March 25th, 2010
2 semester F&A is in London for the studytour
Our studytour for London is up and running.
Today we visited MPC – http://www.moving-picture.com/
We saw all the new show-reels they are creating. Great stuff.
They use Maya like we do and also AE. We got a lot of tips of how to become “runner” and apply in the company. I think that all students and teachers were very happy.
miko
March 14th, 2010
One of our students came home from New York
Recently one of our fourth semester students came home from a 4 month practical internship in New York. Welcome home.
Here is the pdf – (only in Danish – sorry).