3D Artist Interview Preparation Guide

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I would like to be a part of a company that is technologically driven and always looking towards the future. I would like to gain experience in an innovative business that has stayed ahead of the competition by foreseeing changes in the modern market.

I envisage myself in an art director position working in a progressive company like this one. I hope I would have earned promotion by demonstrating myself to be asset to the company and proving I am worthy of such as position.

☛ - GIF is a format of bitmap image.
☛ - It supports maximum of 8 BPP.
☛ - It allows a single image to be referenced as a palette.
☛ - Each palette has up to 256 colors to choose from.
☛ - The RGB color space is about 24 bits.

☛ - Ambient Occlusion is related to bright the light to shine on specific surfaces.
☛ - AO is based on the environment of the surface.
☛ - The calculation is done by casting rays in each and every direction from the surface.
☛ - The brightness is increased on the surface by focusing the rays from the background.
☛ - Points with little geometry will appear light on the visible hemisphere.

Animation:

☛ - Animation involves drawing of sketches of objects.
☛ - These objects are placed in various frames, so that it illustrates as if the objects are moving.
☛ - Animation is created by drawing series of illustrations in different angles.
☛ - Animation creation is difficult compared to creating a video.

Videos:

☛ - Videos are made by using video cameras.
☛ - The real movements of objects are captured by shooting the videos.
☛ - Manual intervention is not necessary to shoot.

☛ - GIF file has fixed size graphical area.
☛ - It contains one or more images.
☛ - Every image can be animated by placing them in animation frames.
☛ - Every part of GIF file is a frame.
☛ - All such frames make the complete graphical area or logical screen.
☛ - Every file starts with a fixed length header.
☛ - Every logical area consists of an image, the extension block and the trailer that is referred as the last byte of the file.

Logical Screen Descriptor has the following information.

☛ - Logical Screen Width: The width of the image that represents in pixels
☛ - Logical Screen Height: The image height in pixels.
☛ - Packed Field: The element of the image for animation.
☛ - Background Color Index: A value that is pointing to a color in the Global Color Table.
☛ - Pixel Aspect Ratio: The approximate aspect ratio of the pixel in the GIF image

☛ - Transparency, Compression , Interlacing, various colors palettes are applied
☛ - No plug-ins or supported software required.
☛ - No web server or server side includes or PERL scripting is needed.
☛ - Provides reusable and repeatable animations.
☛ - No need to download the animation constantly by modem, as the whole animation is loaded only once.
☛ - The size of animated images is compact.

I gained an honor Bachelor Degree from Academy of Arts in Fine and Digital Arts Studies. I have 5 years experience working in graphic arts, with the last 2 years as lead multimedia designer residing over a team of 4 colleagues. My achievements have gained me several promotions from my first position as junior graphic designer.

My weakness used to be that I accepted too much work in an effort to please everybody. I soon discovered that I was loosing my focus and not performing, as I well as I should. I started schedule my projects on a timetable base and I did not accept more work than I could complete on time.