School builds on its success in training and placing aspiring visual effects artists with expanded curriculum and growing enrolment.
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As a young girl in Venezuela, Dally was inspired by two incredible women who helped to set her on her career path. One of her mentors taught her to paint. That teacher - a talented artist - was her grandma. The other extraordinary woman was her mother - a successful architect. Influenced by her grandmother's amazing art and her mum's creative skills, Dally
enrolled
at university to study architecture and follow her mother's career path. However, her
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Limited only by his imagination, the magic of creating and bringing anything to life on screen inspired a teenage boy to pursue a career in visual effects. It was during his high-school years that Joseph began developing his craft. Having access to XSI (a 3D package), Joseph and his friends would compete to see who could create the best and most creative 3D models. He soon realised that he could turn this ‘hobby’ into a career and after studying at CDW,
Rising Sun Pictures’ Managing Director Tony Clark has been presented the 2018 National Pearcey Entrepreneur Award Medal at the ACS Digital Disruptors Awards Gala Dinner held in Melbourne last night (Thursday 1st November).
Don't miss out on our next course! Find out what it takes to work in the VFX industry, or simply brush up on your current skills.
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A French rat with a flair for haute cuisine might seem like an odd inspiration for a career in movies… but it was Remy, the animated rodent star of the Pixar film Ratatouille, that helped set RSP’s Dilen Shah on the path to a career in VFX.
Or maybe it started even earlier, by osmosis: after all, Dilen was born in Mumbai, the largest city in India, and heart of the most prolific film industry in the world.
As a child, Dilen moved to Dubai in the
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RSP's Junior Matte Painter Josh Ellem developed an early passion for arts and movies, inspired by seeing behind-the-scenes footage from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But one does not simply walk into Mordor, as they say, or into a career in visual effects. Josh grew up in suburban Sydney, but began his career journey by enrolling in an arts course at a university in Melbourne, with the aim of developing his creative
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Christina Rzewucki is a Texture and Look Development Artist at Rising Sun Pictures. A 2016 graduate of the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Adelaide, she began her career with the game company Monkeystack. Since joining RSP in 2017, she has applied her diverse technical and creative skills to projects including the blockbusters Thor: Ragnarok and Tomb Raider. Next month, she will be teaching the texturing component of ‘Look Development
Studio expects to hire scores of artists as it ramps up for major film projects.
Spurred by growth in international film production, improved local incentives and a strong pool of talent, Rising Sun Pictures has launched a major, new expansion effort. The visual effects studio is adding significant space and technical resources to its Adelaide production studio and expects to grow its staff by nearly one-third over the next few months.
