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Summer Internship 2011

2 May 2011

Hand Turkey Studios is looking for a 3D computer graphics intern for the summer of 2011. This position will be responsible for working with and assisting on real-world projects that utilize 3D computer graphics. Applicants should have moderate to good skills in 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, and texturing. Preferred software competencies are in Blender, GIMP, and Inkscape. Knowledge of Python is a plus.

This is a paid internship. Applicants should be local to the Richmond area.

Update: This summer’s internship application period is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied.

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VPA Presentation Slides – Storyboarding for Film

2 December 2010

Storyboarding for FilmTwo days ago, on November 29th, Hand Turkey’s Jason van Gumster gave a short talk on storyboarding for film at the monthly meeting of the Virginia Production Alliance as part of their ‘Reel Ed’ educational series. As promised in the presentation, we are happy to share the slides from that talk. You can retrieve them at the following link: VPA Storyboarding for Film slides. And as an additional bonus, we’re also providing the storyboard template (in PDF format) shown in the presentation so you can start putting together your own boards. Have fun!

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Hand Turkey’s Jason van Gumster Interviewed

22 October 2010

Hand Turkey’s Production Monkey, Jason van Gumster, was recently interviewed at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, California. In the interview, he speaks of his background with Blender, some the new developments coming in Blender’s next release, and his upcoming new book, Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition. Watch the video on YouTube below.

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Singularity – An Animated Short

15 October 2010

Hand Turkey Studios recently completed an animated ‘microshort’ entitled Singularity. Watch it below!

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TV Commercial – Entrust Federal Credit Union

1 October 2010

Recently, Hand Turkey Studios worked with Silent Partner Media to complete a television commercial for Entrust Federal Credit Union, airing in the Richmond area. The commercial features Entrust’s mascot character, Gary, acting on screen as the narrator describes the benefits of banking with Entrust. The commercial is available for viewing on the Entrust YouTube channel and it’s embedded below for your convenience.

3D animation, compositing, and editing for this television spot was all done using Blender. GIMP and the GIMP Animation Package were used for the hand-drawn animation and cleaning up the masking on individual frames. We had a pretty quick turnaround time for this (about 2 weeks to produce the whole thing, including shooting the hand, recording audio, composing music, and creating the final animation and composite), but it was a ton of fun to produce and we’re quite happy with the results.

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