Digital Domain comes to Vancouver
October 6th, 2009
VARIETY reported the following news today:
Visual effects studio Digital Domain is expanding, opening a branch in Vancouver, B.C. Hiring begins immediately at DD's Vancouver branch, with 50-60 artists coming onboard and more than 100 by year's end...
Click here for the full article.
Rob Oliveira - Art Director/Founder, United Front Games
Rob has over 18 years of experience in the gaming industry, starting his career with 6 years at Radical Entertainment working on platforms for the Nintendo NES. From there he became the Co-Founder of Black Box Games and served there for over 3 years hiring & training their artists. When Electronic Arts bought the company, he contined there as Art Director on NFS Most Wanted and directing the character department on Skate. Since 2007, he has been the Co-Founder and Art Director at United Front Games, where he directed Modnation Racers for Sony.
Grads hired at Anthem FX
September 23rd, 2009
Congratulations to Game Art graduate Andrew Bain and Visual FX graduate Belinda Fung, who recently got hired at ANTHEM Visual Effects studio in Vancouver!
VanArts on Twitter
August 24th, 2009
VanArts is now on Twitter so follow us to get the scoop on everything that's going on: course updates, grad news, guest speakers, workshops, events, classroom activity, and much more!
Follow us at twitter.com/vanarts
SIGGRAPH in Vancouver: 2011
June 24th, 2009
The annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference for computer graphics, art & technology is coming to Vancouver from August 14-20, 2011, which is the first time the conference has ever been held outside the United States.
VanArts welcomes Larry Bafia
May 25th, 2009VanArts is pleased to announce the addition of Larry Bafia to our management team at VanArts as Vice-President of Faculty & Business Development. With Larry's tremendous background in the animation and entertainment arts business over the past 30+ years, we know that he will bring great added value to our school and the programs we offer.
Welcome aboard Larry!
Rohan Oka (India)
Sudarsan Varma
VanArts UC Students
Check out these interviews from three of our Game Art graduates at GameArtisans.org's Unearthly Challenge!
Bob McAfee
Maya & ZBrush Instructor
Bob holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation from the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, and a Diploma in Digital Animation. Since 1999, he has worked as a Cinematic Director, Lead Character Modeler, Technical Artist and Animator, and a Maya and Zbrush instructor for the Art Institute of Vancouver, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Radical Entertainment and Vancouver Institute of Media Arts.
