MMD-Odense

“Passion” was the theme of the 2010 TypoBerlin conference, in which MMD teachers Mette Agerbæk, Merete Østergaard and Lise Agerbæk just participated. The logo of the conference was thus a heart in a tattooish style, which could be bought on tee-shirts, seen in presentation titles and put on your body as a disposable tattoo. The conference was a boost of inspiration. Candy Chang, a designer and urban planner working for among others Nokia, taught us to look at the street as a place that graphic design can interact with. Frank Schomburg from Nextpractice.de taught us to look at ourselves not as digital natives, but as either digital residents or digital visitors. He based this on a massive questionnaire survey. The findings show that how you populate the internet has nothing to do with age, but a lot to do with how you use the internet. Lastly König Bansah and Julian Zimmerman in a presentation wittingly called “The King is Customer” showed how a graphic design for a Ghanaian king from Ludwigshafen should look in order to make the king look both very royal and very exotic. Apart from that we as designteachers were very happy to learn of the new webfonts format called woff, which allows webdesigners to use a lot more fonts that the 3-4 installed on most computers.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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).

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At MMD-Odense we will be testing 3D stereoscopic video production in this semester!
Several students will test the 3D video opportunities inspired by the Avatar movie.
Some links to get 3d video inspired:
1) “Nosferatu becomes Orlok the Vampire in 3D!” – July 2009  (How to use AE + Mocha!)
http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/creative-cow-magazine-nosferatu-becomes-orlok-the-vampire-in-3d
2) “Perception and The Art of 3D Storytelling” – July 2009
http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/perception-and-the-art-of-3d-storytelling
3) “Low Cost 3D Video” example 3D rig!”
http://savi.weber.edu/~ron/projects/3dRig/

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MMD-Odense and Odense University Hospital are doing a huge Innovation Event.

See:
InnoEvent

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Since 1st of February the 4th semester Film& Animation-class has taken part in a Master Class.

The Master Classs holds 10 students from MMD, 10 students from Marketing Management (Film) and 10 students from Dundee College who are currently in Denmark with two of their teachers.

As a part of the Master Class these 30 students have had guest lecturers from the Animation, TV and Film Business: Representatives of STV ( www.stv.dk ) and of The Animation Workshop ( www.animwork.dk ) have been among the teachers.

The intensive dialogue with the business was also the ruling principle when the Master Class visited Copenhagen Thursday 4th to have a look into telecommunication compay Telia and their loyalty programme based on film and DVD.  The excursion to Copenhagen ended up with a very interesting visit to Anders Morgenthalers production company Copenhagen Bombay ( http://copenhagenbombay.com ).  During our visit here, we also discussed the possibility for MMD students to take internship in this production company that focuses heavily on cross media.

The Master Class will end Wednesday 10th where the students present their answer to an assignement they have been working with since the 1st Day.

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