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Jim started Trinity in 1994 as a service that provided illustrations and animations using 3D Studio for DOS. Over the years, the company has grown to provide hyper realistic imagery for a variety of uses to clients worldwide. Jim enjoys finding new and creative applications for 3D animation and visualization. Jim has co-written 4 best-selling books on 3D animation for Pearson Publishing, including the popular "Maya Fundamentals" series.

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KCUR Radio Interview – Movie Special Effects

KCUR radio interviewed Trinity Animation founder and President Jim Lammers along with VFX wizard Bruce Branit on the topic of visual effects in movies. This show has a page on the KCUR web site. Current...
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Jim Lammers

July 20, 2013
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ECA Isle Product Renderings

NOTE: HD ANIMATION AT BOTTOM, or CLICK HERE to view at Vimeo. Product Renderings & Animation for ECA’s Isle Electri-Cable Assemblies (or ECA) had a new tower base for USB/power/ethernet product called Isle. The first order of business...
  • Furniture
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

June 17, 2013
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Underwater Cable Laying Animation

Makai Ocean Engineering creates very specialized software for cable laying by boat along the ocean floor. The issues of submarine cable laying and the solutions offered by this software are somewhat complex, requiring a thoughtful...
  • Energy and Power
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  • Technical Animation
Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

June 2, 2013
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Aircraft Interior Renderings

Trinity Animation is of particular value to the aircraft interiors industry. There are many choices for interior layout and design, but visualizing color combinations or the human-scale friendliness of a design will be difficult for...
  • Aircraft
Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

May 22, 2013
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Cutaway Illustration, X-Ray And Exploded Views

  Cutaways vs Technical Animation One of the first applications of 3D animation was technical animation – to explain and illustrate the inner workings of something. It’s possible, though expensive, to cut up a physical...
  • Marketing Animation
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

May 3, 2013
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Uncrossing the Wires: Technology Discussion at UMKC

Trinity founder Jim Lammers is a graduate of UMKC’s school of engineering, and was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of technology for UMKC’s “Perspectives” magazine for an article titled “Uncrossing the Wires” which...
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Jim Lammers

March 12, 2013
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Brochure: Creative Advertising Agency Animation

Download Creative Advertising Agency Animation PDF 6 MB Trinity has been providing advertising agency animation and imagery for a wide variety of marketing visuals. Everything from pasta to washing machines, cars, and barbecue sauce. If it...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

February 1, 2013
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Car Commercial – Animated ’67 Corvette Rebody

WATCH THE FULL HD CAR COMMERCIAL MOVIE AT BOTTOM – OR DIRECT LINK TO VIMEO! Classic Reflection Coachworks  (CRC) company was designing a complete “rebody” for a modern Corvette to make it look like a 1967 edition...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

December 10, 2012
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Brochure: Architectural Visualization

Architectural Visualization: Build your ideas with us. Photorealistic 3D renderings Download the Architectural Visualization Brochure [8 MB]   * all images are completely computer generated except for Wendy’s and Regal final construction photos. Commercial Building...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

October 3, 2012
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Car Animation Goes Viral!

About the Car Animation 3D Model Design To date, Trinity’s 3D car animation on YouTube has garnered over 500,000 views. Thanks to Jalopnik, Motor Trend and Yahoo News for making our C7 previz a front page item!...
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Jim Lammers

September 16, 2012
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Hi5 Furniture Renderings

In 2012, Hi5 Furniture began production on a new full color catalog of their product line. They would use all architectural 3D interior rendering rather than photography, so many unique environments and many detail close-ups...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

July 9, 2012
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Animation Backgrounds: 3D for 2D with Archer

(As written by Jim Lammers for Animation Magazine, November 2011) ©2011 All rights reserved. Building a Multi-Dimensional Spy’s World Mixing traditional animation with 3D-generated backgrounds allows for cinematic directing in FX’s animated hit series Archer....
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  • Cartoon Backgrounds
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

November 19, 2011
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Sunlighten Saunas Product Visualization

This 3D product visualization project for a sauna manufacturer had many goals: a series of stills displaying individual white room “beauty shots” realistic still images depicting the saunas in a variety of popular settings exploded view animations which...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

March 9, 2011
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KC Studio Article on Trinity Animation Studio

[An article from the magazine KC Studio from Jan/Feb of 2011, featuring Trinity Animation Studio in Kansas City and their history and work on the Archer series.] BEING REALISTIC TRINITY ANIMATION: BUILDING A NEW DIMENSION...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

January 7, 2011
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Brochure: Aircraft Interiors

DOWNLOAD AIRCRAFT INTERIORS BROCHURE PDF [1.5MB] AIRCRAFT INTERIORS – PHOTOREALISTIC 3D RENDERINGS If you can think it, we can make it. High realism aircraft interiors rendered to your exact specification. Benefits of 3D Renderings Images can...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

December 5, 2010
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Kansas City Animation Studio Draws Growth

The Kansas City Business Journal wrote a feature on Kansas City Animation Studio Trinity Animation in 2010, discussing the company’s history and recent growth, in a section of the newspaper called “growth strategies.” The feature also...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

May 9, 2010
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3D Imagery and Rendering Services Brochure

[Download 3D Imagery PDF brochure, 5 MB] Creating 3D Imagery is what we do. Some call it virtual photography or photo simulations. We call it art. We offer the finest production services in photorealistic 3D architectural rendering, animation,...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

May 18, 2009
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Surfacetech 3D Furniture Photography

This is the Training And Conference Catalog created for Surfacetech (a/k/a Surface Technologies Furniture) – a Kansas City based manufacturer of premium design tables. To produce a broad spectrum of furniture photography on a limited timeline...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

May 5, 2008
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Forensic Animation with 3D Computer Graphics

Note – This is an article on forensic animation written by Jim Lammers and published in the Kansas City Metro Bar Association’s magazine KC Counselor in September of 2004.   Powerpoint presentations, excel graphs and...
  • Legal Animation
Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

September 18, 2004
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3D Printing Service for New Mizzou Basketball Arena

As the design for the new basketball arena for the University of Missouri took shape in 2003, R&D Prototype asked Trinity Animation to help develop a model that could be made to a physical “rapid...
  • Exterior
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

October 23, 2003
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It’s a virtual world now for Disney museum

[Note – this article describes an early attempt to create a virtual world for interactive game-engine style online viewing, circa 2003. The virtual tour had to work on a web browser on a MAC or PC,...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

January 19, 2003
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Maya 4 Fundamentals book published

Trinity Animation Founder Authors Maya 4 Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Alias|Wavefront’s Maya version 4 with Lee Gooding in 2002. Lammers noticed that with the new, free, learning edition from Alias|Wavefront (called...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

February 19, 2002
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Starship Troopers and Trinity Animation

The Kansas City Star’s Robert Butler featured Trinity Animation on the front page of the Kansas City Star Arts section for Trinity’s work on the just-released Sony/TriStar film Starship Troopers (wiki). Technical background: With no...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

November 8, 1997
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3D Studio For Beginners Book Published

Trinity Animation Founder Authors 3D Studio Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Autodesk’s 3D Studio version 4 with Michael Todd Peterson in 1995. Partly due to 3D Studio 4 being the last...
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Jim Lammers

Jim Lammers

September 21, 1995
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