Special Guest: Singkham Khamnouane Character Modeler

Special Guest: Singkham Khamnouane

So its been a while since I posted, been dealing with some personal and family issues. But I would like to take this chance and post about our special guest we have on March 30, Mr. Singkham Khamnouane from Reel Fx. Sing, as some of his friends call him, is a character modeler at Reel Fx. I have known Sing for some time now as we were classmates at UTD in the Arts and Technology program. I got to watch him grow as a talented artist. After graduating with his Masters, Sing went on to work for Disney. He discussed how great it was to work there, but how skilled you have to be to stay on. Sing was one of the modelers for the movie Tango, which by the way is one my family's favorites and I have to say they did a wonderful job on it - it reminds of of the old classic animations.

Sing, showed some of his portfolio work and how he constructed his demo reel that fit the needs of the type of job he wanted. He showed the work he did at Disney from the movie Tango and a short animation that they worked on.

After working for Disney, Sing landed a job at Reel Fx. He has worked on a variety of projects but most notably at the studio is the Looney Tunes shorts that have been released over the past 2 years in front of full length features. Mr. Khamnouane gave a wonderful demo on using Zbrush and the process he goes through to create a character. First doing a low poly model in a 3D program such as Maya and then moving it into Zbrush and adding the finer details there.

Some of the highlights of his talk, were how important it is to network and to play nice where ever you are at even while you are at school. Because the industry is such a close nit community, everyone knows someone.

In Photo: Nick, Anil, David M. Sing, Richard S. David R. In Frontl: Richard W.