Meet the 3D artists of Bioshock and Cops: High Speed Pursuit during our Open Houses on December 18th and January 29th.

Gavin Goulden has worked in the games industry for over 5 years contributing character and environment art to multiple titles including Dead Rising 2, Dragon Age, The Bigs 2, Damnation, F.E.A.R. 2, Rock Band 2 as well as many casual and hand held games. He currently works for Irrational Games where he is a Character Artist on the upcoming title, Bioshock Infinite. Gaving will be at GAIF on January 29th from 12:00 PM -1:00PM speaking about his career, his work and the industry. Gaving will be teaching the students of GAIF how to create stunning realistic 3d characters.

Call 506.450.4243 or email info@thegaif.com to reserve your spot! Limited Seating!

eMentor Alex Hicks - who has worked on Cops: High Speed Pursuit for the iPhone, as well as a number of other projects soon-to-be-released - will be on December 18 at GAIF to teach "making 3d levels and in-game props" to our students.Meet Alex Hick during the open house from 12pm to 1pm. Alex will sharing this experience on making mobile games, give advice on how to land job in mobile game industry and show his art work. 

Call 506.450.4243 or email info@thegaif.com to reserve your spot! Limited Seating!

Meet eMentor Alex Hick - Mobile Game Artist

eMentor Alex Hicks - who has worked on Cops: High Speed Pursuit for the iPhone, as well as a number of other projects soon-to-be-released - will be December 18 at GAIF to teach "making 3d levels and in-game props". 

Meet Alex Hick at the open house from 12pm to 1pm.

Honorable Mentions for GAIF instructor

our Modelling instructor Kyle Brewer got Honorable Mentions again for the modelling competition by the Shiflett Brothers Sculpting. He won a copy of the new Gnomon Workshop DVD they just put out.
Contact GAIf for his clay sculpting workshop


See his work at: http://www.shiflettbrothers.com/forum/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=4183


more info about the contest
http://www.shiflettbrothers.com/forum/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=4202

Ubisoft artist at GAIF teaching the students

On Saturday Nov 20 Ubisoft artist Brad Waddingham gave a full day workshop to the students how to model 3D head for in-game and movies. Brad is original from Fredericton and nows now in Montreal for Ubisoft. As an employee of Ubisofts, Waddingham has designed 3D environment and character  for a number of popular games, including Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and the short film series Assassin's Creed: Lineage.

Read more at:
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/front/article/1318472

Women playing catchup in Canada's video-game industry

read the full article at http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/balance/article/1303811

March Break Workshops

March Break Workshop info: March 7th to 11th, 2011

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2D Drawing for Animation Workshop

Do you like to draw? Ever wondered how to make your drawings come to life? Join us this
March Break, March 7th to 11th, 2011 for a crash course in drawing and 2D animation!
This workshop takes you through drawing basics, simplifying objects and characters for
 more organic and natural styling, and of course, animation! By the end of the workshop,
you will have learned the basics of professional drawing and traditional animation techniques.
You will even have animations to take home! The workshop runs all week, 9am-3pm, with
 a lunch break from 12pm-1pm.The cost of the workshop is $75.

3D Gaming and Design Workshop

Do you dream about making your own games, about creating your own virtual worlds?
Welcome aboard! This workshop takes you on a virtual ride to create 3D characters in
your own virtual world. Using the same software that is used at leading animation and
 gaming studios including EA, Ubisoft, and 2K Games, you'll be able to create your own game!
By the end of the workshop, you will have:
• At least one completed 3D character.
• Your own first person or third person treasure game, yours to take home and share with
your friends on the Internet.
• A basic understanding of how to create and design your own games.
This workshop runs all week from 9am- 3pm, with a lunch break from 12pm- 1pm.
The cost of the workshop is $75.

How to apply?

Fill out the registration form on the back of this brochure then return it, along with payment, to
the Gaming and Animation Institute of Fredericton. You can also register by calling 450-GAIF (4243)

registration form: http://www.thegaif.com/GAIF%20-%20March%20Break%202011%20brochure%2015Nov2010second.pdf

Social, mobile games attract new gamers...

GAIF has a strong focus on teaching making mobile and social game for artists which is the growing market and for getting a job! 

Read the article:  http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/1307995

Jesse Schell

Today I (instructor Carl) I had to luck to meet Jesse Schell. He was the key note speaker at Unite 2010 in Montreal. His lecture on the future of gaming was a real eye opener in our future and how much gaming and our virtual companion (~ Avatar) will be part of real/virtual life. Check out his website: http://www.jesseschell.com/ and read his book! 
Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pittsburgh’s largest videogame studio, Schell Games, and the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association. In 2004, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he was the Creative Director of the Disney Virtual Reality Studio, where he spent seven years as designer, programmer and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and Disney Online. Before that, he was a software engineer at IBM and Bell Communications Research, and a writer, director, performer, juggler, comedian, and circus artist for both Freihofer's Mime Circus and the Juggler's Guild.

Instructor Carl attending a lecture at Unite2010 (the game engine Unity conference in Montreal) on how to create stunning 3D level in Unity with Autodesk pipeline specialist David. David and Carl both graduate in the same year. I learned a lot of new elements on how to create a fast workflow for quality textures in the game Unity. Unity is a game engine used also by EA. :-)

eMentor Stephane Desmeules who works at Ubisoft and lead 3D instructor Carl Callewaert are at the International Game Summit in Montreal. Stephane at Carl were the judges at the Autodesk Students competition.

Assassins Creed Artist at the GAIF Nov 20

Meet the 3D artist Brad Waddingham who worked on Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell and Assassins Creed at GAIF November 20 from 12pm to 1pm. Call 506.450.4243 or email at info@thegaif.com to reserve your spot to meet Brad Waddingham. He currently works for Ubisoft where he is a Character Artist. Brad will be speaking about this career, this work and the industry. ! Limited Seating!

GAIF recruiting adventures, day 1

Today, The GAIF began visiting school trade shows to recruit our next batch of artists for next year! Today we hit Harvey High school, and St. Stephen High, and we made quite a splash! We got a lot of buzz and interest (giving out lots of cool swag and having a great booth setup certainly helped!) But I think the biggest difference between our schools and the others was other schools had flyers, and for lack of better term, salespeople. We were making a difference not only had more than mere flyers and brochures, we put exactly who our students would be seeing on the frontline, how else would you even hope to answer some of the questions that these eager young minds had to ask us! We came, we saw, we interacted, and it's only going to continue as we go on! Join us tomorrow at the Saint John career fair, where GAIF makes its debeut!