Platt College Alumni Bryan Toomey collaborated with fellow classmate Austin Faure to create this 3D animated logo. Lipstick Surf Co. is a surf wax brand founded by Platt alumni Austin Faure and a lifelong friend of his, Noah Crider. This logo was originally designed by Austin and is used for several of their promotional projects. Bryan did a great job bringing it to life in 3D and adding some great… Read More
3D Project of The Week: 3D Animation Demo Reel by Thomas Higdon
Platt College 3D Animation alumni, Thomas Higdon, created this fun demo reel to show off a variety of projects he has created. Some of the projects were created for his current job working as the Creative Services Coordinator for the San Diego Padres. We also enjoyed seeing some of his class projects from his time at Platt make it into the mix as well. The following programs were used: Maya… Read More
Periscope Broadcast With 3D Animation Teacher Mike Smith
Watch Live! Concept Sketching In ZBrush Tune in at 10 AM on Wednesday, September 16th to watch live as our 3D Animation teacher, Mike Smith, shows off his concept sketching skills in ZBrush. If you’ve never tried 3D modeling in ZBrush before, or you’re a current 3D artist looking to add some new techniques to your arsenal, this live broadcast is sure to be inspiring! Make sure you’re following @PlattSanDiego… Read More
3D Project of the Day: Muklea, the Draconium Scout By Jennifer Holland
3D Project of the Day: Platt 3D Animation Student, Jennifer Holland’s Advanced Modeling Project Muklea, the Draconium Scout 3D Model from Platt College on Vimeo. This is Platt College 3D Animation student, Jennifer Holland’s final project for her Advanced Modeling class. She used Zbrush to sculpt the body, wings and some of the clothes. She also used Zbrush to paint the character. After that she took the character into Autodesk… Read More
Practice Your Art
A couple months ago we had an Unreal Engine workshop with Waylon Brinck from Naughty Dog Games (Uncharted, The Last of Us). During the course of his lecture he made the point that the people who just do the bare minimum in the industry don’t really go anywhere. And I was thinking that that advice applies to school as well. Those who do just the bare minimum to graduate, even… Read More
Top 10 Student & Alumni Designs from January 2015
Platt College Presents the Top 10 Student & Alumni Designs from January 2015 It’s time for another showcase featuring some of our most popular student designs according to Instagram likes and comments. If you follow us on Instagram you know that we like to share art, video production projects, 3D animations, and designs from our talented digital media design students and alumni almost daily! It’s a great way to show… Read More
5 Fun Adobe After Effects Tutorials To Boost Your Skills
Looking to try something new in Adobe After Effects? We compiled a list of these 5 popular tutorials from posts we made to our Facebook page over the past few months. Whether you’re just learning visual effects or you want to add some new techniques to your repertoire, we hope you will find these tutorials helpful. #1 – How to Replace the Sky in a Video: Sky replacement is a… Read More
Top 10 Student and Alumni Videos on Youtube from 2014
Top 10 Platt College Student and Alumni Videos on YouTube from 2014 You might have seen one of our most recent blog posts highlighting the Top 20 Student and Alumni Creations of 2014 we posted this week. For that particular post we noticed the vast majority were illustrations and graphic design related projects, which considering the rankings were determined from Instagram likes makes sense. Instagram is not quite the place… Read More
The Top 20 Student & Alumni Creations of 2014
The Top 20 Platt College Student & Alumni Creations of 2014 Star Wars, Marvel and Michael Jackson are just a few of the themes you will find among our popular student creations from last year. To kick off 2015 we decided to do a wrap up of the top 20 creations from our students and alumni from 2014. If you follow us on Instagram you know that we like to… Read More
Top 10 Design Tutorials from September to December of 2014
Whether you’re a student studying digital media design at Platt College or you’re a designer currently working in the industry, chances are you’ve used a tutorial to learn a new skill or technique. We enjoy sharing helpful and inspiring tutorials we find online through our Facebook, Twitter, Google + and Pinterest pages almost daily! Through researching our social media insights we compiled this collection of the Top 10 Design Tutorials… Read More