How often do we hear people that have careers complain about never doing the job they were trained to do? They did not realize when they entered into their chosen field that there would be many aspects to the job.

The same premise applies with the video game artist. Before really researching the subject many would be artists think it is just a matter of sitting down and designing a game and then putting it into production and it is ready to play. It does not quite work that way. If it did there would probably be even more games on the market than there already are. Video game artists have such a variety of jobs to do that many of these jobs have somewhat evolved into becoming specialties.

A good example of this is the concept artist. In other words the idea maker. It is his job to be creative and dream up the various characters and the types of atmosphere it will demand.. Once it is put to paper it is scanned into the computer and it is cleaned up using a software program with these types o Continue reading »

If you are a huge fan of Japanese cartoon features, you surely would be interested in finding unlimited anime videos. Currently, if you would patiently search through the Internet, you would find that there are numerous sites that are offering such unlimited access to the cartoons.

There are many sites that would require subscriptions and payments for such online accesses, making you further rave at the free downloads and unlimited anime videos proliferating online. Of course, you would readily infer that such anime videos’ unlimited distribution is illegal. You have a clear basis for that. Yes, most if not all of those sites offering unlimited anime videos for free are illegally operating.

You know for a fact that Japanese anime producers do not produce cartoon features in English language. For them, the Japanese audience would be the primary viewers of their motion features. Thus, all the animes you are enjoying these days through television, movies and videos are dubbed and re- Continue reading »

Today’s editing computers are a marvel in my opinion. Did you know that before computers, it took around one million dollars of equipment to stock a professional editing room? You needed multiple tape decks, a switcher, an effects generator, a character generator, an audio mixer, signal enhancers, multiple monitors and years of experience to operate it all.
To rent out all this stuff by the hour, it cost $500-$1,000 per hour to edit. A thirty second spot could easily take ten hours to edit, even a relatively simple one. That’s ten grand just for one step in the production of something that lasts half a measly minute!

Ouch!

We’ve got it great compared to that. Today, ten grand is More than enough to buy a total system and all the software you’d ever need to edit a lifetime of shows.

Computer editing is loads of fun and the creative possibilities are endless.

Computer editing revolutionized the entire television and video production indus Continue reading »