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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 touched on recent work for Floyd County Productions in creating background art for their hit series on FX “Archer.” GROWTH […]

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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 PLE for Personal Learning Edition) there would be a lot of interest in using Maya 3D software with little helpful documentation […]

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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 DOS-based version (and the new “3DS Max” requiring Windows NT, a 3D accelerated video card and considerably more resources) this […]

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