Fuil Sail is a School that teaches the entertainment arts ( computer animation, sound, lighting, and entertainment busines and law.
Their web site has to be the best I have ever seen. Its cutting edge all the way through.
Here is a link to the computer animation section: It shows a hand drawing concept to wire frame to texture fill and then to lighting FX.
Enjoy! (and look at the rest of the site while you are there to get ideas on the lastest in web site design)
My son has a degree from Full Sail, and now he works for me at Monumental Design doing the 3D CNC and extreme sign design. Looks like he is going to have to help me update my web sites!
[ January 04, 2007, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Dave Draper ]
Posted by Bill Modzel (Member # 22) on :
Wow, if we were just 20 again. I'm worn out just looking at the stuff.
Posted by Mike Faig (Member # 6104) on :
I've printed out their pdf "brochure" to take home for my son, a high school junior. I just want to see what kind of response I'll get.
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Looks like an awesome place. Your son is lucky, I'd love to go to a place like that...
***Just wondering... I've never been to design school.. but how do you have an airplane in a logo with the name "Full Sail"??***
Your son might know, is there some significance there???
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Sail planes..
they soar..
[ January 04, 2007, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: Curtis hammond ]
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Ok, I do know about airplanes... and a DC-3 does not qualify as a sail plane, unless both engines quit, which would briefly qualify it.
Posted by Mark Sheflo (Member # 3608) on :
Jon, Perhaps the owners came up with the design after one too many of these!
They use the plane for symbolic reasons. That particular plane, DC-3 I think, has the most flight time of any plane ever made. It is meant to symbolize the hands on training that the students get.
They use the name Full Sail to sort of describe the way they educate with a “balls to the wall” kind of attitude. As soon as you get there they stick you in front of some very expensive equipment and start cramming knowledge into every orifice of your body. On many occasions I would be at the school for over 30 hours straight working on projects. But in all honesty, I think it is a goofy name for a school. Anytime I tell someone where I graduated from I always get that the same confused look, like “wtf are you talking about?”.
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Hey, Steve...
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense, I guess. They probably also have it to make their students question the reasoning behind the logo and then see how you don't always have to use the obvious in designing...
And Welcome to Letterville. Hope to see you around here and please post pics and links of your projects. I hang around here and learn tons from the old-school sign-makers, but enjoy learning and seeing the new technology as well.
Congratulations on your degree...
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Back when I was graduating high school there were so few resources for me to learn my craft. I had no money, my parents weren't into paying for more education and probably not art school if they were. The one art school I did look at was heavy into abstract art something which didn't hold any interest for me. I decided rather to get my education in the real world on my own while making money too. I purposely set out to learn each day while I did projects. I read everything I could get my hands on. I also broke the mold with each project I did from the very start always pushing the boundaries of what I knew - a life tradition I continue to this day.
I wonder just what direction I may have gone had today's resources been available to me back then. Even computers back then would have opened up a whole world I never knew existed for I grew up in a small remote town far from any city.
I have no regrets however for I have been able to chart my own path through life for the most part. Often when I was afforded opportunities I had more than one choice.
Todays youth have many more learning opportunities and certainly a wider selection of tools. Even so, I believe the very best must have the very same PASSION required in past times in order to rise to the top of whatever field they choose.
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(and look at the rest of the site while you are there to get ideas on the lastest in web site design)![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)