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DeserkeR
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[2010-11-21 07:17:07 +0000 UTC]
"Car/Yacht Digital Sculptor"
(Sweden)
# Statistics
Favourites: 558; Deviations: 19; Watchers: 62
Watching: 56; Pageviews: 21144; Comments Made: 1149; Friends: 56
# Interests
Tools of the Trade: Autodesk Alias & VRed, Photoshop# Social Links
https://www.behance.net/jmcampagnahttps://www.instagram.com/jm_campagna/
# Comments
Comments: 163
thanks a lot for the fave and for the watch. i really appreciate it.
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No problem. You have great sketching abilities and a lot of potential. Your line weight and quality are superb but you need to work on proportions. Looking forward to see your future works.
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Nice to hear that you like my work.
A comment from a professional is priceless.
But you are right. I often find myself exaggerating some of the proportions unintensionally.
I have to work on that.
Thanks a lot for the advice.
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It's alright, you'll learn to detect them and fix them the more you train.
Right now, your proportions are a bit 'toy-ish' and your perspective is slightly inconsistent. Some of your cars look really right while some look twisted or really odd-shaped.
You need to sketch everyday though. I didn't and I never became good at it.
Doesn't matter too much because my goal was to be a digital sculptor but if you intend to become a designer you need to sketch constantly.
Good luck.
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thanks a lot. i really appreciate your help. i will do my best to improve.
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Is there anyway you can send me your HDRI image backplate? I saw the post where you got it from the artist but that link is dead now.. I would really appreciate the help!
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Hey. I am thinking of applying to RCA. and the portfolio thing is starting to scare me a bit. i have no idea how good my portfolio have to be for me to get in. and frankly i don't know how to make one. or witch program or file format i have to make it in. and what shall i put in it? just drawings/ sketches? do i need to put some info on it. inspiration to the sketches or designs. do i need to be good in photoshop or 3ds max? what do the school expect of a student? sry for the trouble
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RCA is a Masters-only establishment, which typically takes people with Bachelors degrees or previous professional design experience. You can still try to apply but I'd rather suggest you apply for a Bachelors degree at another school. Whichever school you're applying to, 90% of the focus is put on raw drawing skills and maybe 10% on all other skills which include Photoshop, 3d software, engineering and stuff like that. Make sure you have loads and loads of good quality pen/pencil/marker sketches. Recruiters (usually design lecturers) are more impressed by traditional media than Photoshop. Good luck!
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i just discovered that i asked about the wrong school (AGAIN)
i meant Coventry
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i had some experience with the genuine design posses in the school, the one I am currently in. I know the design posses from sketches to the final product. if I show that would that help? i have had some design projects when i started with some rough sketches. then some finer ones. computer ones and blue prints. and after some welding the final product. if i show that i understand the posses. would that help? i don't know if i could get in to any school to take a Bachelors degree. my grades are utterly terrible. maybe not that bad. but not that good either. and i cant get in anywhere with just my practical skills.maybe if i could send you some sketches. it would help me a great deal to have some with experience to judge them. if they are utterly terrible or adequate for RCA. Sry for the urgency. i hope I am not to much trouble
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Like I said, 90% of the stuff recruiters want to see is sketches. If you know the design process, that's good, but they don't care that much. Use 2-3 pages of your portfolio to show the evolution of your project and showcase your understanding of the process, but really keep most of the emphasis on sketching, trust me. The thing that will make it a yes or a no is your sketching. I'll send you a private message with my e-mail if you want me to review some of your work.
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Hi, you've got some good stuff here, I do however have a question for you. How is Coventry University? I hear it is one of the best in the world for automotive design. I do have good feelings about it and have an appointement for the open day the next saturday. Cheers and sorry for the randomness.
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Hmm not as good as I expected. You need very high self-motivation because you get very little support from the lecturers. I arrived at the Uni in a bad moment though when the quality had dropped to an all-time low, but they're currently working to make the programme better.
If you're there to learn 3D, this is not for you. If you want to learn advanced ergonomics, or design History, you'll need to read books by yourself. If you wanna get good at sketching, they'll show you how but you'll have to kick yourself in the ass and sketch in your free time because they won't ask you to do it, they'll only suggest it.
You won't get a very personalised experience either, since its the biggest Automotive Design course in the world with over 100 students per year. Lecturers simply can't spend enough time with everyone. The uni accepts shit tons of students because they need the money, but it kinda affects the quality.
The very good points about the course are not what one would expect: it's the contacts and peer feedback. Being part of the course allows you to get instant feedback from 100 other students daily and being able to progress with them. Many of your classmates will be part of world-class automotive design studios which is a great load of contacts right there. During 3rd year, many very prestigious companies take interns for the summer, including Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, etc. so if you work very hard during the first 3 years, your chances of getting your dream job ARE good. This is why Cov Uni has the best undergraduate Automotive Design course in the UK.
If you're not good at drawing and are not self-motivated, this course is not for you. A diploma will never get you a job alone, you also need to have the best portfolio. If you need more support and pressure while studying, you'd be better off outside Britain (ACCD, CCS, IED, ISD, Pforzheim).
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sorry for delay in response, this is now the third time ive tried to reply without deviant art going crazy on me lol. thank you ever so much for the thorough response and i did have a longer one for you both times before but if it happens again i fear i might just go crazy. Well i have to say after having the open day last saturday i'm more obliged to got and in combination with you help i will definately come up with a balanced decision. I am however conserned about my portfolio and would greatly appretiate any tips or examples of good ones.
Thanks again for your help and really appreciate it
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You're welcome. About the portfolio, it's not complicated. I know how you feel because I had the same question back in 2009 but you'd be surprised how simple it is. One trick: show many sketches. This is what they wanna see. They don't care if they're pen, pencil, marker or Photoshop sketches, they're all good. Put your best ones first to catch their attention, then back them up with roughly 20-30 pages of sketches after that and you're almost certain to get accepted. If you're going for Automotive Design, dedicate at least 90% of your portfolio on cars and the rest on random drawings. If you're going for Transportation, dedicate 90% of it to buses, trains, aircrafts interiors, etc. You get the point.
If you still need examples, there are loads on Coroflot, which is probably the biggest Industrial Design community on the web.
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Good luck.
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Sorry to jump in this bus like this. But even I am considering Coventry University as a place for Automotive Design and I'm pretty close to settling on it for 2013.
But since I'm also trying from outside England (I'm from India). Could you suggest me alternatives (in different countries)? Also is there anything I should know about how Cov University treats foreign students?
You can also email me at: rd.design@live.in
Thanks
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Alternatives depend on your budget and languages you can speak. I converted prices to the same currency but prices may be wrong. Just putting what I remember.
ACCD Pasadena - English (~ $30K/year)
CCS Detroit - English (~ $30K/year)
Lawrence Tech - English (~ $30K/year)
Academy of Art San Francisco - English (~ $32K/year)
Coventry Uni - English (~ $15K/year)
Swansea Uni - English (~ $15K/year)
ISD Valenciennes - French (~ $12K/year)
Strate College - French (~ $12K/year)
Créapole Paris - French (~ $12K/year)
Umea Sweden - Swedish (IDK)
Pforzheim Hochschule - German (IDK)
München Hochschule - German (IDK)
IED Torino - Italian/English (~ $12K/year)
SPD Milan - Italian/English (IDK)
Nothing particular to know about foreign student policies, there's nothing good or bad really from what I experienced.
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Well budget matters a lot for me as my parents don't exactly agree with my line of thinking at the moment. Plus I can't speak a lot of languages. I've heard many good suggestions of trying for Padadena (which is also impossible to get into), but like most of the places in the US, its too expensive
Anyways, what made you pick Coventry University among the rest of the colleges/unversities on the list? Also, do you feel the Coventry was worth the money ... especially compared to the American universities?
Feel free to reply to me via email btw. My id is : rd.design@live.in
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Chose it because it was cheaper than the US and had better international recognition and reputation than French schools. I didn't really want to try German, Italian and Swedish schools because I didn't have time to learn the language.
It's decent quality education but it's not worth nowhere near the $60K it cost me for the 4 years. There was a massive drop in quality when I got in but the Uni's working hard to get things back in place, but for me it's too late and they won't give me my money back. Should be OK in 2013 though.
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That's sad. I'm sorry it went that way for you... especially since that's an insane amount of money lost.
Besides that I've heard that automobile the market is down too. So what do you think are the chances of getting a decent job in a designing firm or a car company after graduating from Cov? And more importantly .... how long do you think it would take you to recover the money you spent on this course?
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Chances are always low to get a job, no matter what school you graduate from. Automotive Design is an industry where hundreds of people want the same jobs so it's extremely competitive. If you're confident you can be one of the best 50 graduates on Earth when you finish, you probably have good chances.
To pay back for my studies, it all depends what job I'll get. I'm currently training to become an Alias modeller (3D CAD) and it's possibly the best paid job you can get as a design graduate. I'd like to be a contractor, meaning I get hired by companies for 3, 6, 9 or 12 month contracts at the time. It means I'd have to move between every contract but the money is worth it and I reckon I could pay back everything in less than 5 years. If I land a permanent job, it could take longer but I'd like to get every debt cleared within 10 years no matter what happens. There are still many questions left unanswered even for myself, so if you're afraid of risk I'd suggest you choose a safer industry.
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Thats pretty depressing man. I knew it was pretty competitive, especially with the market down but then again why are these courses so expensive. Expensive enough for you to find it very difficult to pay off the loan you've just got yourself into just to afford fees
Well I'm not really scared of the risk, I'm more scared of the burden I'd have to undertake to afford these classes. Thanks anyways Jean. Its nice hearing a honest opinion on these things, especially since a lot of people didn't reply lol
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Yeah most people are really busy and some are forgetting they were in the same situation a few years back.
These courses are expensive because the majority of them are held in private schools and institutes. The public ones are cheaper but only domestic students have access to the domestic fees. The only cheap way to study is to study in your own country, cause as soon as you exile you end up paying shit tons of money for your education, no matter what you study in.
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haha thats true. Thanks for the suggestion, but I guess I can't study in my own country.
Infact, only a year or so back an institute was launched here by a major Indian automobile designer. Yay? Not at all .... despite the fact that the place is quite new with NO placement statistics or info (their first batch is graduating this September), when I went to find out information about the place they were like its 9Lakh Rupees a year (16000USD). So clearly I'm not better off here either
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Btw, what currency is that in? Canadian dollars or American?
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Thank you very much for you help, it is immensly appreciated. Fingers crossed all goes well and perhaps I might even bump into you in the future.
Cheers
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Glad I could help! Automotive Design is a fairly small industry in which everyone knows everyone, so our paths might cross at some point!
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Thanks for the fav too. Car designers unite!
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Hi there !
It is nice to see that you like my artworks and thanks for the +fav !
Do not hesitate to add some comments in the future. I would love to read them.
Greetings from Slovakia !
Rado
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Merci d'avoir ajouté mon Capitaine Québec à tes favoris!
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De rien, j'ai bien aimé le concept.
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