Yesterday, I and my fellow animation/vfx students at Flashpoint got to take a tour of Sol Design, which is a design and effects studio in downtown Chicago. You’ve probably seen a lot of the commercials they’ve done. I recommend checking out their “before and after” reel, which is on the “works” section of their website. It shows their visual effects process, basically all the steps involved in going from raw footage to finished product. It’s pretty amazing.
The tour lasted about four hours. We got to talk to a multitude of employees who showed us what they were working on and answered all our questions. Overall, it was pretty inspiring to me to get to see the whole process and get a better understanding of how the commercials I see on TV get made, and it motivated me to work a little harder at school so I’ll be more up to snuff for employers like Sol Design by the time I graduate.
