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AI-Mazing 3D Christmas Card Animations
2023 Christmas Card from Trinity Animation on Vimeo. Setting the Scene This year, we set out to create a full animation in comparison to the usual Christmas card. While keeping budget restraints and deadlines in mind, it was clear that a traditional animation approach would be impractical. We sought out a solution that would avoid […]
Augmented Reality in Healthcare – Canine Seizure Signs | Trinity Animation
Trinity Animation has developed a variety of AR apps over the years but this was the first augmented reality in healthcare application that would include a living, breathing virtual dog! Trinity Animation has often developed trade show animations that appear on screens at the booth. This time, the presentation would be interactive via augmented reality. […]
Trinity Animation, Inc. – A Midwest 3D Animation Company
27 Years of Animation Experience I was a hobbyist first. I spent a lot of time learning watercolor during high school and then airbrush in college, to see how close I could get to a photorealistic image. Some of my early paintings were like early 3D renderings – spheres and tubes, planes and grids, shiny chrome and […]
2017 Trinity Animation Christmas Card!
This year’s Christmas card cover displays an immaculate closeup image of a 3D hyper-realistically rendered Christmas sweater, which features a pattern consisting of reindeer, Christmas trees, and the words ” Trinity Animation”. Trinity shows off their ability to create hyper-realism inside of 3D software by displaying a close-up shot that incorporates small details in the texture of […]
2016 Trinity Animation Christmas Card
Every year Trinity Animation develops a creatively unique Christmas card featuring each employee as cute 3D rendered avatar elves, interacting in comical Christmas activities. This year’s front cover of Trinity’s Christmas card presents a 3D model based on the actual company building, festively decked out in Christmas lights and decorations from top to bottom and surrounded by mounds […]
Certified Professional Animators at Trinity Animation
3 New Certified Professional Animators and Licensed Trainers Trinity Animation takes a very active role in mastering the software it uses for 3D animation and rendering. Several of Trinity’s staff has been awarded the status of Certified Professional Animators by Autodesk in relation to their mastery of 3ds Max software. Matt Tyree and Travys Keto […]
Trinity Welcomes New Animator, Mallory Dorn
Trinity welcomes Mallory Dorn to the animation team! Originally from Saint Charles, Missouri, Mallory graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in Animation and Art History. She specialized in traditional hand drawn animation which led to freelance work as a comic artist. She currently has two published comics including “Border Wars.” When […]
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 touched on recent work for Floyd County Productions in creating background art for their hit series on FX “Archer.” GROWTH […]
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 PLE for Personal Learning Edition) there would be a lot of interest in using Maya 3D software with little helpful documentation […]
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 DOS-based version (and the new “3DS Max” requiring Windows NT, a 3D accelerated video card and considerably more resources) this […]