What You Need To Know For Computer Graphics
There are so many interesting jobs in the world that you don't even know where and who to go to. We've decided to ease the flour of choice. Every week successful professionals from different fields tell teenagers about their work. The first interview was given by Pavel Smirnov, a young talented computer graphic designer who has lived and worked in Japan for years.
PAVEL MSYRON, computer graphic designer
Studio LiNDA, Tokyo (Japan)
Pasha, please tell me what you're doing. computer designer?
Visual special effects. Remember the Avatar movie? To make him so red and mature, a team of computer graphics worked on him. I'm doing 3D in advertising and movies. In fact, there's a division in this field into different professions: the moteler, the animator, the artist, the ribbon, etc. My specialty is light and ribbon. Render is a miscalculation of the light, its reflections and its fractures, so that the character, for example, is as realistic as possible.
If you have to do some object, say, 3D stuls, it's simulated first, creating a grid. Then they do things that are hard enough to tell people who are not on the subject. And then I turn myself in to work: I create, build, or designate a chair for it - for example, a tree or steel - to make a chair as close as in reality. You just touch him or you can't sit on him.
How difficult! How did your interest in this area start?
Ten years ago, I read an interview with the guys from the AriOrH studio in the "Igromania" magazine. The location of the school was the computer graphics where they taught. I've got the idea of going to school with them. Now I'm doing this interview, too, and I'm happy if my example inspires someone.
Of course it will inspire many! Tell me what you like most about your job?
Drive. There's always new challenges that no one's ever solved before. There's something new to study all the time: physics, mathematics, cat skeleton construction, cloud behavior, anything. Nothing compares to the terrific feeling that you've solved a task that you didn't know how to deal with.
