Eric Woods
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Can you post a link as an example?
EricWoodsFX.com
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Emily,
I would agree that going the route of a Masters Degree would not benefit you. School’s are a great way to learn broad Design concepts and techniques, but they lack real world application. Your best bet in trying to enter this field is a multiple part answer.
1. An internship is a very useful way to see exactly how a company works. You’ll most likely not get paid, but what you will leave with will be invaluable compared to what you’ll learn from paying for an extra few years of college. You will also leave with a better understanding of the workflow, business, and hierarchy of a company. The contacts you meet will be vital and so will the Resume addition. Some places require you to be in school, but not all do.
2. Networking is very important as well. More than anything show people that you are interested in what you do. In your free time find conferences, meetings, software support groups etc. There will usually be big industry names attending or speaking and at the very least you’ll be surrounded by people with similiar interests that are moving up in the business at the same time as you.
3.Create Create Create… Don’t let the excuse that you have no time or nothing to work on stop you from experimenting with new techniques. The first thing you should work on is the thing you’ve thought you were incapable of. Figure out why you can or cannot do it. Don’t take on 10 minute long short films when experimenting. You will either never start it because you are too intimidated or you will start it and get bored with it after you learned what you wanted. Work on short projects with specific constraints. A perfect example is GreyScaleGorrilla’s 5 second Projects.
4.Last thing: Don’t listen to people that hate their job. You already have a one up on them because you are interested in yours. And don’t be afraid to change the direction of your career to something you are more excited about.Eric Woods
https://EricWoodsFX.comEricWoodsFX.com
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Have you solved this problem? I dealing with the same situation. No matter how complicated the comp is it only plays at about 6 fps. Even if it is 3 seconds of solid. How did you solve your problem?
EricWoodsFX.com
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I answered my own question. I don’t know how to get the offset cache option to appear, however there is a work around. After you duplicate the object go to the Duplicate and turn off Cache Mode. Go to the Tag Tab and uncheck “Auto” under the Cloth Engine option. If you change the start frame to (in this tutorial’s case) 75 the flag will not change out of its initial state until the 75th frame. Therefor when you use the PoseMixer it work correctly for the rest of the tutorial. Also a Side Note. My PoseMixer was under the MOCCA tags menu not the Character Menu as in this tutorial.
GREAT tutorial though. Thank YOU!
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I was following your Tutorial and it has been incredibly helpful. However, my cloth tag does not have the offset cache option. What version are you working with and is there away around using the offset cache method?
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Have you found a solution to this yet? I am still struggling.
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Trevor I am having the same problem. I have already installed the 6.5 Mac Pluggin from C4d into the Plugins folder of AE CS3. I have restarted AE. And AE will still not recognize the .aec file. also when you created your .aec file did you render the entire project or did you click the save button next to the after effects compositing option under the Save menu in the Render Settings. (C4D). What version of the plugin from the C4D extensions did you install and what are you running?