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Show & Tell: Brooke Brigham’s Custom Bike

Posted by Erik Even in I Design Your Eyes on December 8, 2009

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This is the first in a series presenting the personal art, crafts, projects and creative endeavors of people in the Zoic Studios community. If you’re a Zoic artist, freelancer or staffer, and want to share your creativity with the IDYE community, let me know!

Brooke Brigham, Zoic’s Scheduler, has built her first bicycle, from basic parts. She’s been tinkering with bikes for a while.

I built it from the ground up myself, so all the parts came from different places; the frame’s from Santa Cruz; the front rim is from Colorado; the seat and the handlebars are from New York via Japan. I built the whole thing myself so I’m just really proud of it. That’s what makes it cool – I used my hands.

It has no brakes, and Brooke uses the bike to commute to work. She says this isn’t a problem:

You usually skid — you use your feet and your legs to put pressure down on the pedals, and that‘ll usually lock up the back wheel a bit, because you’re locking up the crank and the cog. But I haven’t had any run-ins where I have to stop on a dime yet.

Brooke is particularly fond of “Bob’s” (that’s the bike’s name) color scheme (red, yellow and green), which is intentionally “Rasta,” although her friends call it the “Christmas Bike.”

Bicycles are extremely popular at Zoic. Many employees bike to work — Creative Director Jeff Suhy is an avid cyclist, and Executive Producer Erik Press participates in the Fireflies West charity ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

More info: Brooke at Halloween on Flickr.

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‘Another Day at the Office in the VFX Industry’: A Film By The Zoic Interns

Posted by Erik Even in I Design Your Eyes on November 6, 2009

Another Day at the Office in the VFX industry

Zoic has posted an excellent short video created by members of its 2009 Internship Program: Another Day at the Office in the VFX Industry.

Here’s the press release:

Zoic Studios is proud to host the Zoic Internship Program, an innovative course of study that combines real-world experience with professional mentoring. The program, based out of Zoic’s Culver City production facility, has been training the next generation of aspiring VFX artists for the last seven years.

Interns receive the same kind of instruction they would from a college curriculum, but in an actual digital production studio with weekly lectures by top industry talent and lessons that include hands-on experience. During the course of the curriculum each intern is assigned a mentor: an experienced Zoic staff member who provides professional advice and guidance.

Zoic interns will produce projects using the latest in equipment, software and production facilities. Each project is supervised by Zoic professionals who guide interns and the project from start to finish, exposing interns to real-life production issues.

The Zoic Internship Program allows each participant to produce professional work to anchor their demo reel; experience working on client projects; and mentoring by some of the top-talent in the entertainment industry, including producers, supervisors and lead artists.

This video, Another Day at the Office in the VFX Industry, was produced by a team from the most recent Zoic Internship class. It features live-action mixed with CG effects, and humorously presents a typical day at the Zoic offices – a train passing through the hallway, black lava flooding down the stairs, hologram keypads, hover seats, and armies of cloned interns.

The Zoic Internship Program is an unpaid, 16-week commitment held three times a year: January-April, May-August, and September-December. College credit may be available.

For further information or for application information, contact Brooke Brigham by email or fax: 310-838-1169; or visit the Zoic Studios Website.

For more info: Watch the video on the Zoic web site.