Graduate opens VFX and animation studio

Animation & Visual Effects graduate, Roland Gauthier (Class 10), along with two colleagues, Michael Kuehn and Alex Tysowsky recently opened a full-service 3D animation and visual effects studio, Hinge Digital, in Portland, Oregon. Read the full article at Animation Magazine.


Founders: Michael Kuehn, Alex Tysowsky and Roland Gauthier.


MGD grad creates looks for CMA artists

MAXON, maker of the 3D software CINEMA 4D, featured an article on their site detailing the ways in which artists use their software. Included in the story is Ex’pression College alumnus Christopher McCard (Class 58).

Christopher, one of 10 artists at New York-based Mantra Studios, builds over-the-top performance looks for the Country Music Association Awards (CMA) show with the help of CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects. He and the studio have created these looks for 13 different artists, including Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker.

See Mantra’s reel: www.mantradesign.tv

Read the full article.

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MGD grad creates looks for CMA artists

MAXON, maker of the 3D software CINEMA 4D, featured an article on their site detailing the ways in which artists use their software. Included in the story is Ex’pression College alumnus Christopher McCard (Class 58).

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Graduate opens VFX and animation studio

Animation & Visual Effects graduate, Roland Gauthier (Class 10), along with two colleagues, Michael Kuehn and Alex Tysowsky recently opened a full-service 3D animation and visual effects studio in Portland, Oregon.

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Students work with Coraline animator

Justin Kohn (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach), along with cameraman Peter Williams (Coraline and others), brought their current project, a stop-motion film adapted from H. G. Wells War of the Worlds novel, to Ex’pression College to begin production on a trailer for the film.

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Left Coast Live

Ex’pression College was recently a proud sponsor of Left Coast Live, a music festival and conference in San Jose, CA, June 21-26th, 2010.

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