We have returning guest, James Bennett. James has been working in the animation industry for over 15 years and has worked at some of the top studios and blockbuster films during that time. He has worked on such films as Godzilla, The Hobbit, Avatar, King Kong, Tin Tin, How To Train your Dragon 2, & Madagascar 3. James has been teaching in our Creature workshop division helping students achieve the amazing quality found in our recent creature student show reel, but will also now taking on a new workshop here, Pre-Visualization. In this podcast we talk to James about his experience working in pre-viz for films like How To Train Your Dragon 2 and what one can expect from the workshop he'll be teaching. It's always lively with James, making this an interview you won't want to miss.

Pre-Visualization page | Previous Podcast with James | 2015 Student Creature Reel

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David spent almost 4 years as a developer and supervising animator on Evolve. During production, David and the entire team worked tirelessly to push the experience taking risks to create a unique and refreshing game for our players. His main areas of focus during development were the look and feel of the monsters, creatures, and first person hunters which he's now sharing his experience with his students at iAnimate.net

Creature Animation Student Showreel 2015 | Creature Animation Page | Podcast Interview with David Gibson

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a recently release game and was greeted with raving reviews. Many of our instructors and previous students contributed to the 80 minutes of cinematics found in the game. In our 40th episode, we sit down with David Hubert (Cinematic Director) and Darryl Purdy (Senior Animator) of Eidos Montreal to discuss the development of the game, as well as some of the challenges and joys of working in gaming in this generation of systems.

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We are SUPER excited that the annual CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, CA is less than two weeks away (Nov. 20-22). It's a fantastic event to get together with other artists who are just as passionate about this industry as we are! We'll be at Booth B8.3 & B8.4. Please stop by and say hello, have your reels reviewed by industry professionals, and network with our amazing & passionate team.

Pixel was an unique event in the beautiful city of Quebec, Canada where the audience had access to meet and learn directly from industry professionals. Being the program director, it was key for me to give the same love and attention as we do at iAnimate, hence why it was only natural to have some of our instructors participate.  Audience had a chance to hangout with the all of the speakers coming from Pixar, Disney, Blue Sky, ILM, Pixomondo, Blizzard, CD Projekt Red but most importantly came out learning and more inspired than ever!
- Ric Arroyo