Work Experience ~ The Office of John Cheese

First of all let me start of with a link to their youtube page: 

http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficeOfJohnCheese

So ~
where to begin ...
well, i've been at John Cheese for 5 days now from 9.30 till 5 everyday ~

On monday, I mainly took notes ~
because i was being shown a software called Smoke ~ its a software made by Autodesk, and its a compositor and editor ~ so, in other words, it's sort of like Premiere Pro and After Effects smooshed into one.

(This isn't a shot from Cheese, this is just something 

i found when i typed in "autodesk Smoke" on google haha ~ 

just to give you an idea of what it looks like.)

Also on monday I was shown a few new things about Maya ~ they have a hair and fur plug in called Yeti and it looks pretty awesome ~ as well as a renderer called Arnold ~

These are the photos that Peregrine Labs (the place selling Yeti) has up: 

As you can imagine, i was given tons of advice on Maya and my modelling, lighting, texturing etc. I learnt Heaps on Monday haha

On Tuesday I was introduced to a software called Da Vinci Resolve ~
omg... i love this software ~
and the best part is ~ the lite version is free~! yay~!

Resolve is a basically a colour grading software that has a very very basic editing ability ~

Here's a shot of the software (another shot from google) 

For the second half of the day i re-did an add that John Cheese had done a while ago ~
it was for Collie ~ and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it ~ so instead ill post some screen shots so you can get an idea of what it looked like =P

I also learnt TONS of short cuts for AE on that day

as well as a few helpful codes/expressions =P 

On wed I was in Maya again, and was shown tons of things ~ 

but one thing that stood out was a studio I was shown called psyopn 

~ http://www.psyop.tv/ ~

I highly recommend giving their webpage a visit and watching their stuff ~ its awesome to say the least xP 

Thursday i got an opportunity to use a program called Mocha ~ apparently there's two types ~ one that comes with AE and another that doesn't =P 

and its basically a tracking/masking software ~ 

I got to remove two people from a concert =)

here are some screen shots ~ 

 (before)

(after)

Also, i got an opportunity to do some colour grading in Resolve ~ of my own ~ i was given an old clip and then let loose on the software ~ it was lots of fun haha

Unfortunately i don't have a shot to show =/ 

Friday was ... well, friday ~ and there wasn't really that much going on but i was given lots of tips on where to study, what to look for, where i could go with my career ~ some awesome artist's  

like this guy ~ 

(his website - http://www.minart.net/) 

Or this Guy ~ 

(his website : http://www.androidjones.com/)

So, in summary, 

This week I used After Effects, Maya, Smoke, Davinci Resolve and Mocha ~ 

I'm extremely happy and grateful for the opportunity ~ i definitely enjoyed my time at the office of John Cheese ~ and appreciate all the time they took to show me so many things ~ 

With that said,

Until next time, 

Ariane ~