The University of Hertfordshire release their 2008 - 2009 showreel.

[Chrisp-3DT]

The University of Hertfordshire release their 2008 - 2009 showreel which showcases work from all of their digital animation programs

- VIEW HERE - (http://uhanimation.co.uk/2009/showreel-2d3dvfxgamesart-digital-animation/)

[littleclaude]

Thanks for posting :)

The University of Hertfordshire has a BA & MA Games Art, VFX, 3D & 2D course, here is our showreel.
http://uhanimation.co.uk/2009/showre...tal-animation/

Any question please feel free, also you can talk to our students and Lecturer staff here www.3dhit.co.uk

And here are the course details.
BA Games Art http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/3D-Games-Art.cfm
BA VFX http://www.herts.ac.uk/gsa_courses/Visual-Effects.cfm
BA 2D http://www.herts.ac.uk/gsa_courses/2D-Digital-Animation-BA.cfm
BA 3D http://www.herts.ac.uk/gsa_courses/3D-Digital-Animation-BA.cfm

Also MA Animation (MA, PgD) Masters
MA 3D http://www.herts.ac.uk/gsa_courses/MA-Animation-MA-PgD.cfm
MA Games Art http://www.herts.ac.uk/gsa_courses/MA-Games-Art.cfm

http://www.uhanimation.co.uk/wp-content/themes/f8/images/slideshow/image14.jpg

[Rogue One]

Very impressive. Just goes to show that if you provide a professional learning environment that teach the skills and techniques need to succeed in industry you can get decent output. Shame Abertay University cant even come close, maybe one day!

[Sol]

Thank you for the kind comments.
and thank you 3dtotal for the frontage.

Our students work extreamly hard on their short films and final year projects.
We are immensely proud of this years graduating class.
as the students have now graduated, we will be uploading and updating our website with the short films over the coming weeks.

[Munkybutt]

great stuff, some very nice pieces in there however some of the character animation is a bit weak in places which lower the overall wow factor. But I suppose you have to have work from all of the students.
Still tons better than the uni I went to...

[Rezdoggy]

Atm im choosing the choices for which uni im off to next year. Problem is, there are so many different courses in 3D that i dont know which one i want to take! Could anyone give me a little advice? My main interest is modelling, although most of the courses arent clear on what exactly you do in the courses. Looking at the hertfordshire demo reel it looks very promising, so im going to consider putting that on one of my choices :) Visual Effects and Games Art seem the most interesting, is anyone able to expand on what you do in these courses? Most of the courses just kinda give a genereal overview of the whole course but not much detail :(

[quicigspra]

Thanks! I really feel that that video is a big improvement to my other video game videos. The other ones seemed to drag on too much both in length and pacing. I think I'm getting closer to the formula I need to achieve for my videos but I still need as much feedbacks as possible to reach that point.

[littleclaude]

Hello

Just thought I would share some more 3D images the students have been making.

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1581-1294402788.jpg

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1581-1294402939.jpg

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1581-1294403032.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/306

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/306/7/7/Bistro_by_lost_artist89.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/306/d/4/italian_bistro_sunny_by_lost_artist89.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xOqNn.jpg

[littleclaude]

Hope you enjoy this students showreel, he has just graduated from the Games Art MA.

http://girishs.com/?p=219

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[littleclaude]

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http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1312-1295771341.jpg

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1312-1295771351.jpg

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[littleclaude]

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1312-1295772610.jpg

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http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1312-1295772441.jpg

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/uploads/post-1312-1295956945.jpg

[littleclaude]

Atm im choosing the choices for which uni im off to next year. Problem is, there are so many different courses in 3D that i dont know which one i want to take! Could anyone give me a little advice? My main interest is modelling, although most of the courses arent clear on what exactly you do in the courses. Looking at the hertfordshire demo reel it looks very promising, so im going to consider putting that on one of my choices :) Visual Effects and Games Art seem the most interesting, is anyone able to expand on what you do in these courses? Most of the courses just kinda give a genereal overview of the whole course but not much detail :(


Hello Rezdoggy

I hope you are well and loving making lots of art work, it sounds like you should be a Games Artist so you can learn how to model with stupendous edge looping skills and high to low resolution modelling that even the film industry love. Well come for an interview and we will talk to you for about 20-30 minutes and make sure you are going in the right direction.

Things for you to think about....

Put in just your best 3D models and if you can flesh it out with some wireframes, sketches, AO pass and maybe some research like a small mood board to make a double page spreed for every 3D model that would be great. That way you only need to show 6-10 3D models. If you are new to 3D then flesh out your portfolio with Art work, pastel, life drawing, Oil Canvas or anything that you have tried we are an arts based course "Games Art". The majority of applicants have tried 3D, at least at the modelling stage, so you would need extremely good traditional skills to stand out against them. We do still accept students without 3D experience if there art work is exceptional good and they are very keen but they are becoming rare cases.

At Hertfordshire we interview into May usually, but the May applicants have usually applied by the end of March - obviously by that point there are very few places left, so competition for them is rather fierce, last year we had over 800 applications for 90 and maybe double through email and forum enquiry and this year I am sure the figure will go up as the fees are changing the following year.

We interview everyone for 15-30 minutes to make sure we are taking on the right kind of student, last year we made an exception to the rule when an applicant with okay art skills for a 23 year old explained he has found it hard to fit in the time for his 3D and art skills as he has been on the UK Olympic Ice skating team since leaving school J so he found the tipping point.

Our point system has gone up to 280 points this year and we require a minimum level of GCSE English and Maths or our application system will automatically reject you. That's nothing to do with the animation courses, it's a filter put in place by the management who noticed we had gigantic amounts of applicants last year so then realised they could increase the requirements without worrying about whether we were going to fill the course or not.

We are happy to look at applicants 3D and Art skills if the system rejects you, lots of new applicant post up on our student forum www.3dhit.co.uk and the students and Lecturers are happy to give you feedback until you reach a level that is worth interviewing.

Of course if you are from outside the UK and the automatic filter rejects you because it doesn't recognise your qualifications (it shouldn't do this, it is supposed to send a query to a admissions staff member to check any non UK applicant manually) get in touch with me and I'll find out what happened.

If using Zbrush the default red wax shader is not the best for showing your work off - something pale grey with a slight specular or matte quality work well - that sort of shader can't hide errors in the mesh, whereas a lot of the fancy looking metallic / wax shaders make it hard to see what has been modelled. Also are you working from a supplied base mesh or is this being sculpted out of Zspheres, or are you modelling the base mesh yourself? If you make the base mesh yourself please show a screengrab of that next to the smoothed high poly version in Zbrush so we can see your edge topology / basic form. Assuming the character design is not Super Mario etc, you can put in the concept design with your work, but label it as someone else's work clearly - the reason for showing this is we can then see how well you were able to match the concept.

If you are interested in character creation then personally I love seeing good anatomical knowledge and one or two animal sculpts with a photo comparison next to the final render. Read up on George Bridgeman and practise his style.

If you are interested in Environment, Asset or Vehicle then go and do some location drawing, spend the day in the nearest large town or city and if it’s raining then go to the station, library, Pub, Cafe or any other sheltered building that you can draw inside the building or looking out the window while you have a hot chocolate....yum yum now where is my sketch book and hat I’m off out to do some drawing.

Best Wishes,
Neil Gallagher - Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader MA & BA Games Art.

Also for inspiration try these threads.
http://3dhit.co.uk/index.php?showtop...9&st=0&start=0

http://3dhit.co.uk/index.php?showforum=136

And my favourite thread in the world.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

[littleclaude]

Hello

All our BA level 3 students are currently working very hard on their final major projects which will be finished by mid May 2011.

Here is an example of their final major projects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpMejgJQRY&feature=player_embedded

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If you would like to see how this film was made then click on the link below as we also ask all our students to make blogs and making of videos.
http://www.vincentch20.co.uk/

We hope you enjoy it and all the animation staff look forward to seeing the 2011 projects.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=236720

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=236741

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=236742

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=236743

[littleclaude]

Hello

This is a short film “War Dog” made by Level 3 students “Gary, David and David” at the University of Hertfordshire, we hope you like it.

For more information on the students you can find it here.
http://uhanimation.co.uk/2011/war-dog-ba-games-art-university-of-hertfordshire-2010-2/

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22298712?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=969696" width="580" height="326" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[littleclaude]

Here are some industry quotes about the UH Animation courses.

Hans Bacher, Art Director For Disney
“Great student films, and a great showreel! you have some very talented students”.
http://www.disneyanimation.com/

Shelley Page, Dreamworks.
"The animation students I met at Hertfordshire were both talented and articulate with some very good work - and I'm looking forward very much to seeing the completed final projects this year"
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/

Quotes from the Industry
Jolyon Webb | Art Manager | Blitz Games Studios
“We found the University of Hertfordshire students well-informed and focused; we were impressed with what we saw.”
http://www.blitzgames.com/

John Laws | Head of Art | Frontier
“UH is one of the few Universities teaching the correct fundamental skills required by the games industry – you have the right mix of traditional theory and cutting edge digital art creation, and understand that the tech is a tool rather than the end in itself. I’m impressed.”
http://www.frontier.co.uk/

Ian Yarwood-Lovett | Lionhead | Franchise Art Director | Microsoft Games Studio
“Visiting the UHanimation course was a real eye opener for me; the quality of work produced coupled with the enthusiasm of the students makes this course one we’ll be watching very closely in the future.”
http://www.lionhead.com/

Louise Ridgeway | Head of Animation | Rare Ltd | Microsoft Games Studio
‘What a pleasure it has been visiting the University of Hertfordshire for film day again this year. They again proved that they are one of the top uni’s for the industry at the moment, with another outstanding show of effort and commitment by a great bunch of enthusiastic students. A diamond in the rough.’
http://www.rare.net/

Tara Saunders | Studio Art Manager | Sony Computer Entertainment | London Studio'
"The University of Hertfordshire has provided our studio with some talented graduates in recent years. It's definitely one of the courses to watch for upcoming talent"
http://www.scee.presscentre.com/

Aidan Gibbons, Senior Visual Effects artist, The Mill London
"The University of Hertfordshire’s Visual Effects work really impressed us on the live projects we ran with them; we feel that their students are the ones to watch at graduation time."
http://www.themill.com/

Best Wishes,
Neil

[littleclaude]

Information on the UH Animation Course at the University of Hertfordshire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ytJjtKKxs4

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[littleclaude]

The University of Hertfordshire is one of the top universities in the World according to the latest Times Higher Education, World University Rankings - a global authority on Higher Education.

Out of all the universities in the World, the University of Hertfordshire ranks in the top 4% above Loughborough, Aston and Strathclyde. The rankings, compiled by the Times Higher Education magazine are based on excellence across teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook.

Tim Longden Director of Marketing, University of Hertfordshire says: “We are immensely proud to be rated so highly among the 18,000 universities around the World. This is an exceptional performance which is a tribute to the dedication and the huge support from staff, students and alumni.”

Out of the Country’s newer universities, Hertfordshire ranks in the top 3 worldwide making it the only new university in 19 years to have appeared in 2 world rankings*.

The Times Higher World University Rankings 2011-12 is an annual ranking for universities across the globe. This year, universities in the UK ranked second in the world overall.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/worl...12/301-350.html

[littleclaude]

Hello, just thought I would share with you a couple of students.

http://nazkozak.com/
http://vimeo.com/24187355

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AND

http://huang-3d.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VqoaGyecx0c

[littleclaude]

Hello Admin

Any chance you can rename this thread, just drop the date, thank you.

Here is an updated showreel.

http://vimeo.com/36073319

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[littleclaude]

This made the me happy today, a write up in the new 3dworld. Pitching us side by side with the best courses public and private in the world! Must admit I am a huge fan of Supinfocom's work.

http://3dhit.co.uk/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=32859

http://3dhit.co.uk/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=32861

[littleclaude]

Come to out animation festival, celebration and exhibition, 30th May, book now
http://uhanimation.eventbrite.com/

09:30 - Coffee reception & registration
10:00 - The Mill - Commercials
10:50 - Double Negative - John Carter Visual Effects
11:30 - Break
11:50 - Frontier Games - Next Gen gaming
12:30 - MPC - Dark Shadows Visual Effects
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Panel - Open Q&A Session with the industry
15:30 - Animation Short Film Showcase
16:30 - Break
17:00 - Awards Presentation

[littleclaude]

A short real time games trailer made with the UDK engine.

https://vimeo.com/45336955

http://s14.postimage.org/h81dxjqe9/NFL.jpg

[littleclaude]

Nile Hylton - UH Alumni Student

Showreel - https://vimeo.com/50341748#at=0

http://s10.postimage.org/8l1s2iuyx/Untitled_1.jpg

Senior VFX Technical Director
www.chunkified.com

Crowd TD @ Framestore
framestore.com

Founder and Lead Developer of TD-Toolkit
www.td-toolkit.com

Nice Alumni Showreel with final shots from Wrath Of The Titans, Sherlock Holmes 2 and John Carter

Wrath Of The Titans - Pyroclastic smoke and fire simulation using Flowline.
Shot 1 - Fire explosion
Shot 2, 3, 4 & 5 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud which creature interacts with
Shot 6 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud
Shot 7 - Swirling cloud coming out of volcano
Shot 8 - Pyroclastic smoke trails

John Carter and Sherlock Holmes 2 - Crowd simulation using MPC's ALICE

Siemens, Flying Fish - Developed a custom directable flocking solution in Maya using Python @ Smoke And Mirrors London

MTV 10 for 11 - Python based procedural rigging and animation system for Maya and pipeline tools

Welsh Rugby Union - Custom hair/shard system development in for Maya in Python, pipeline tools, particles, debris, dynamics.

Huggies - Procedural rollercoaster building developed in Houdini and pipeline tools developed for Houdini and Maya in Python.

More details and work available @ chunkified.com.

[littleclaude]

Thomas Lishman, Level 4 Student, The Penguin
http://s18.postimage.org/ffd1oh4yh/the_penguin_by_tlishman_d4ixtb3.jpg

http://s18.postimage.org/8e1ks2qu1/grumbel_by_tlishman_d4v07f6.jpg
And Mr Grumbel

[littleclaude]

Hello everyone

Here is our new real time showreel for our BA Games Art course, most of the work is from 2011-12. It was all made using UDK or Cryengine apart from the helicopter shots, enjoy.

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[littleclaude]

And here is our 3D modelling showreel

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/53612325?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=969696" width="580" height="326" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[littleclaude]

Hello

We just thought we would load up a high resolution image from 3D World mentioning that the University of Hertfordshire is one of the best places to learn Animation in the world. It was a very nice surprise for us to be pitched next to such great schools.

Best Wishes,
The Animation Team
http://s12.postimage.org/tcfliusql/3_D_World_Final_small.jpg

[littleclaude]

First year Challenge on our student forum, take a pre Christmas submission and make it better, no grades just do it for the love of it, simple :)

http://s17.postimage.org/hwrim8xf3/Capture1.jpg

[Liman3D]

wow, brilliant! :)

[littleclaude]

Thank you

55198000

[littleclaude]

First year Challenge on our student forum, take a pre Christmas submission and make it better, no grades just do it for the love of it, simple :)

http://s8.postimage.org/i82hscb1x/Capture.jpg

[littleclaude]

NEWS - Frank Victoria joined the UHAnimation team this week
after 12 years at Weta http://www.wetanz.com/frank-victoria/

Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit and lots of other cool stuff

http://s4.postimage.org/49nihi3zx/Frank_Victoria.jpg

[littleclaude]

Arnold Showreel January 2013

We teach this new render for Maya and we have a render engine running on a 200 PC render farm, soon expanding to 800, boom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sYPelZW8mMQ
http://youtu.be/sYPelZW8mMQ

[littleclaude]

New UH SHowreel 2012

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/55198000?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=969696" width="580" height="326" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[littleclaude]

Still Falls the Rain - A short film, final year project

https://vimeo.com/54004198#at=0

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/54004198?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=969696" width="580" height="326" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[littleclaude]

UHAnimation degrees get fully Skillset approved!
Welcome to Creative Skillset - Skillset (http://www.creativeskillset.org/)

http://uhanimation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/SkillsetApproved_600px-570x165.jpg

The University Of Hertfordshire has received full Skillset accreditation.

University Of Hertfordshire Ba(Hons) 3D Animation
University Of Hertfordshire Ba(Hons) 2D Animation
University Of Hertfordshire Ba(Hons) Games Art

To say that we are proud of this achievement is an understatement. To gain such a high recognition for all of our programmes is down to the hard work and dedication of the Staff, the enthusiasm and quality of our Students, and the support of our amazing Alumni.

Its worth mentioning the the Ba(Hons) Visual Effects was mentioned that if they were accrediting these types of courses yet, it would pass without a doubt and we are working with them to set it up for the future.

[littleclaude]

Come to the UHAnimation Exposé 2013 | Festival, Exhibition & Celebration 5/6/13
Talks from Framestore - Iron Man 3 VFX, Crytek - Next Gen Gamining, Arnold Rendering and more

http://s24.postimg.org/lkd5591xx/UH_Animation_Advert_Header600x.jpg
Book here if you would like to come - http://uhanimation.eventbrite.com/

http://s17.postimg.org/xu8me7bxr/66697_10200367445421370_1795641828_n.jpg
http://s21.postimg.org/vvbawvfw7/Leander_screencap_1.jpg
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http://s24.postimg.org/doy0cp2xh/Character_Concept_003.jpg
http://s24.postimg.org/or33b4x05/Environment_Concept_000.jpg
http://s21.postimg.org/eebsfi4hj/Wong_Fang_Fang_Wong_Portrait_Drawing.jpg
http://s21.postimg.org/93skzlz5j/Wong_Fang_Fang_Wong_Beauty_Shot_001.jpg

[Michael620]

Thanks! I really feel that that video is a big improvement to my other video game videoshttp://mpe.cmisoftware.com/6.jpghttp://mpe.cmisoftware.com/7.jpghttp://mpe.cmisoftware.com/8.jpghttp://mpe.cmisoftware.com/9.jpg