Clear the way for Mass Animation
Yes, if you are an animation fan, an animator or someone who just likes cool movies like Hancock, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Happening, please read on. Okay, the Happening was really a horrible movie but there were 1 or 2 phenomenal scenes like the car crash and lion attack.
Nonetheless, Mass Animation is a collaborative effort that combines the dynamic worlds of extreme animation, Hollywood and Facebook (yes, the social network). It is a contest whereby participating animators will have an exclusive opportunity to create individual scenes for a 5-minute, professional-quality short film to be debuted sometime in early 2009 -- stay tuned for more!
What's even more awesome is that the community of Facebook users view, vote and comment on their favorite scenes of the animation movie. Those who wish to participate in the contest will need to use Maya software (Autodesk is providing a free trial version for the participating animators); and there will be tutorials available through the Mass Animation's Facebook Page.
Maya software is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software that has been used to animate various scenes from the movies mentioned above as well as many others. The following is a show reel of some videos that used Maya software during production.
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Oct 21 | james said:
I went to the Facebook page and there is nothing on the skill level required to participate. I have used an older version of Maya in the past and I consider myself intermediate.
Can anyone participate?