August 28-30, 2010

Orlando, FL 

Renaissance Orlando Hotel at SeaWorld

 

Perfect your TV pitch in this 3 day pitch crash course.

 

1-on-1 expert review of your show and materials.

High-profile expert guests

Break-out group sessions

Improve your concept

Discover who, how and where to sell your show

Live pitch practice

Sample treatments

Catered meals

…and much more

 

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Now in its 37th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2010 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to Los Angeles, California

Who

The SIGGRAPH conference attracts the most respected technical and creative people from all over planet Earth. The SIGGRAPH community includes people everywhere who are excited by research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web. SIGGRAPH 2010 is sponsored by The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges.

What

The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience including a three-day commercial exhibition that attracts hundreds of exhibitors from around the world. SIGGRAPH is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. In addition to SIGGRAPH's leading-edge technical program, the conference's installations provide close-up views of the latest in digital art, emerging technologies, and hands-on opportunities for creative collaboration.

The conference also hosts the international SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, showcasing works from the world's most innovative and accomplished digital film and video creators. Juried and curated content includes outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. Since 1999, the festival has been an official qualifying event for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Animated Short Film award.

Where

Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

When

Conference: 25 - 29 July (Sunday through Thursday)
Exhibition: 27 - 29 July (Tuesday through Thursday)

FLORIDA SUPERCON: South Florida's Comic Book, Anime, Animation, Video Game, Fantasy and Sci-Fi Convention returns June 18-20, 2010 to the Doubletree Miami Mart Airport Convention Center in Miami, FL.

Florida Supercon is a 3 day festival dedicated to Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Video Games, Fantasy and Sci-Fi featuring celebrity guests, comic book creators, voice actors, industry guests, cosplayers, artists, writers, panels, Q&A's, films & shorts, costume & cosplay contests, vendors, parties, anime, workshops, video gaming and more! 2010 is the 5th annual Florida Supercon.

 

The Florida Supercon Film Festival is a festival dedicated to films that would be appreciated by our diverse genre audience. We are looking for Animation, Horror, Horror Comedy, Documentary (about genre subjects), Comedies with a genre twist, Fantasy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction and Spoof. American films will be screened side by side with international entries the weekend of June 18-20, 2010 in Miami, FL. at Florida Supercon: South Florida's festival of Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Sci-Fi and Video Games.

Films will be judged in the following specific categories:
1)  Feature Films (over 50 minutes)
2)  Short Films (under 50 minutes)
3) Internet / Web Based Short (Short Made for Internet distribution and exhibition)
4) Documentary Film (Full Length or Short Format Documentary Film)
5)  Student Competition (Films made by students who are either enrolled in a school, or were enrolled during the films’ production.)
 This section will be broken into the following categories
(a)  High School: Films directed by students attending high school, generally stretching from ages 15-18
(b) Undergraduate: Films directed by students enrolled in a college level program
Graduate students may enter in the regular Feature Film or Short Film categories

A BUNCH OF SHORT GUYS and
SMU Guildhall
Host INDUSTRY GIANTS 2010: Creative Alchemy  
Visual Effects, Animation and Game Forum

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DALLAS/FORT WORTH – 

A Bunch of Short Guys, in association with SMU Guildhall and the Texas Film Commission, are proud to present to you with the golden opportunity of this year’s Industry Giants 2010: Creative Alchemy, the Visual Effects, Animation and Game Forum. The two day conference features Weta Digital 3D Special Effects Supervisor, Guy Williams, with a presentation on the making the film Avatar and Creating the world and characters of Pandora, along with many other presentations from creative professionals around the world. The ninth annual event takes place Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010 at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center of Southern Methodist University, 3140 Dyer Street, Dallas, Texas 75205. It’s open to the public, students and industry professionals. 

Hosted annually by the filmmaking/visual effects, animation, game development non-profit, A Bunch of Short Guys, and  this year in association with SMU’s Guildhall at Southern Methodist University’s premiere graduate video game education program and the Texas Film Commission, Industry Giants 2010 features Masterclasses and a one-day forum and panel discussion. The event features a distinctive lineup of speakers working in all areas of animation and visual effects for film, television, and games. Schedules for the Masterclasses, forum and ticket information are available online at www.industrygiants.org.

Artists Include:

Guy Williams – Visual Effects Supervisor, Weta Digital - “The Making of Avatar and Creating the World of Pandora”

David Schaub – Animation Director, Sony Pictures Imageworks - “The Making of Alice in Wonderland”

Kenneth Scott – Senior Art Director, Mircosoft - “The Inside the Biggest Industry Games”

Stephan Martiniere – Art Director, i.d. Software – “Creating Science Fiction and Fantasy in Today’s Entertainment”

Jeff Dates – Visual Effects/CG Supervisor, The Mill NY – “Breaking Down the World of Commercial Production”

Joseph Gilland – Artist, Author of Elemental Magic - “The Alchemy of Elemental Magic”

Rita Street – President, Radar Cartoons - “Interviewing the Industry Giants”

Paul Gaboury – Technical Director, Pixologic – “ZBrush Workflows”

Dan Kuenster – Creative Director, i-Station – “The Basics of Storyboarding”

Brad Gabe – Senior Technical Animator, Janimation – “Simulations in ICE (Softimage)

Johan and Norma Klingler – Animation Instructors, The Art Institute of Dallas – “From Storyboard to Production”

Brad Clark – Co-Founder, RiggingMentor.com – “Bones to Animation” 

Mary Morgan – Actress, “Voiceover for Animation”

Michael Mentler – Artist, The Dallas Figurative Arts Society – “Modern Life Drawing”

A Bunch of Short Guys now offers three levels of membership to attend their events. Membership levels include $25 for Professionals, $20 for Students, as well as a Free Membership. Free members will not receive discounts on tickets or merchandise.

Industry Giants 2010: Creative Alchemy ticket prices are:

1-Day Forum for Student Members - $35

1-Day Forum for Professional Members - $40

1-Day Forum for Free Members - $50

2-Day Masterclasses for Student Members - $75

2-Day Masterclasses for Professional Members -$80

2-Day Masterclasses for Free Members - $100

Questions? Please contact Amy Cass at 512-659-3705 or by email: secretary@abosg.org.

The International Animation Film Festival will take place in Annecy (Haute-Savoie, France) from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 June 2010.

On a parallel, the Mifa will be held from Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 June 2010.

As for the Creative Focus and the conferences, they will be held from Tuesday 8 to Friday 11 June 2010.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary the Festival will be reserving you an ­exceptional programme of retrospectives, exhibitions, great names from the industry, a special screening theatre... why not come along and ­discover it all for yourselves! It is likewise the perfect occasion to take a look behind the scenes of films and their production secrets.

The Festival: the world’s top reference for animation films

The world’s largest event entirely focused on animation, the Festival (founded in 1960) is a fun and friendly way to discover the latest in animation masterpieces, meet major players and young talents, check out new trends, and find ideal business partners, all in one place.

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The International Animation Film Market (Mifa)

The Mifa is held side by side with the Festival. With more than 3,000m² of exhibition space, it is the animated film industry’s foremost showcase in terms of co-producing, purchasing, selling, financing and distributing animation content for all broadcasting platforms.

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The Creative Focus

The Creative Focus is an incubator for projetcs and a privileged exchange forum for animation professionals and the talents of tomorrow.

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The Conferences

They help to better anticipate changes in the sector, from artistic, business and technological points of view. For 4 days running, the Annecy conferences serve as a forum for information, reflection and exchanges, furthering an understanding of challenges and deliberating on suitable practices.

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The Festival in a few figures

6,700 accredited professionals from 66 different countries
1,647 companies enrolled
350 exhibitors
230 international buyers
300 journalists
239 films in the official selection
525 films screened
9 theaters for 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. viewing
1 giant outdoor screen,
120,000 tickets sold throughout the week.

CGTEXPO organized by CGTantra is India's Largest Expo on Animation, VFX & Gaming Industry & has been a tremendous success witnessing footfalls as good as 4500 people turning up for the 2 day exhibition in 2008 & 2009 each.

The line-up of activities included a Job Fair for Placement Agencies, Studios and Production Houses as well as an Education Fair for all institutes and Animation Schools, Technical Exhibition, Master classes, Showcases, Seminars, Student Competitions, Art Galleries, and Entertainment Zone covering all possible activities in Art and Technology.

Previs 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Sofitel Los Angeles
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
 
$40 for Previsualization Society members
$100 for non-members
Reserve tickets in advance on www.previssociety.com.

Hosted by the Previsualization Society, Previs 2010 brings together a wide spectrum of professionals who use and interact with previs for an exploration of current previs approaches, workflows and new work.  The program will highlight recent motion picture previs, as well as interdisciplinary round tables that encourage input from all vantage points of pre-production, production and post production with an emphasis on previs in relationship to the creative process.  Event begins at 2:00 pm, with a dinner-and-drinks reception to follow from 7:00-9:00 pm.  Full details on www.previssociety.com.

Convergence is upon us. Multi-disciplined thinking draws cinema, television, computer, console and mobile screens even closer, reinventing them to remain competitive.  

FMX is part of this process and introduces for the 15th time the world’s leading experts in the creation, production and distribution of digital entertainment and interactive visualization.

Connect with artists, specialists, scientists, producers, recruiters, trainers and new talents on the 2010 hot topics 3D Stereo, Hybrid Imagery and 360° Media.

Check out the program, purchase your tickets, subscribe to the newsletter and find out what else will be going on at www.fmx.de.

FMX 2010 is an event by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in cooperation with VES Visual Effects Society, AIAS Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, 5D: The Future of Immersive Design and ACM Siggraph.

As the primary European event for international experts, FMX 2010 is perfectly complemented by the 17th Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS). The Festival starts simultaneously with FMX on May 04 and ends on May 09 with a prestigious Award Ceremony. ITFS 2010 screens the best animation films from all over the world to an enthusiastic audience and countless international guests, having a permanent spot on the international animation map and being one of Germany's outstanding cultural events.

FMX is an event in cooperation with VES Visual Effects Society, AIAS Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, ACM Siggraph and 5D Conference. It is hosting the Animation Production Day 2010 (APD), a joint venture with the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS). FMX is funded by the Ministry of State and the Ministry of Economics Baden-Wuerttemberg, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg Public Film Fund & Public Innovation Agency for Information Technology and Media, and the FFA German Federal Film Board. It is an event by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, organized by the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction.

Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics constitute the visual media that promises a huge growth opportunity for talented young people in India. NASSCOM announces a series of power packed workshops for those already in the industry and those who want to enter the industry. These workshops are meant to provide the participants insights into the range of skills that the professionals need to acquire, the technology that enhances the art and how to practice it as a craft.

You will get to interact with the practicing professionals and the industry leaders during the workshops. They will share their experiences and their vision of the direction the industry is headed, along with their expert-presentations on the specific topic of the particular workshop. The series is planned to provide one workshop every 4th Saturday of the month for the next 6 months.

The first workshop is "How to make a Showreel". When an employment opportunity is sought with an organisation, the applicant sends a personal profile in the form of a resume document. The resume that is sent in this field is the "show reel", on a CD or online. It contains some visual content created by the applicant so that the prospective employer understands the capability of the applicant. Most organisations receive a huge number of such content. If you want to get noticed in this clutter, you have to bring out yourself clearly and strongly. This workshop is meant to help you understand how you can and should do that. In the workshop the experts will take you through various illustrations of how it appears from the other side when they look at the showreel and conduct you through various stages of the process with explanations for different specialisation. The "Dos" and "Don'ts" plus examples of live show reels from the workshop will help you make appropriate show reels.

CG CON — The White Conference

"The White Conference" will be held April 24-25, 2010 and is projected to host more than 500 professionals and recent graduates from visual effects for film, game and broadcast graphics.

The conference will take place in Montreal and it will bring together renowned experts, top professionals and cutting edge students from around the globe for a thrilling two day event that will make an impact throughout the industry.

Three programs, each featuring a total of 8 lectures in Digital Animation, Digital Modeling, and Digital Painting/Concept Design.

SPECIAL OFFER (Now until January 24st, 2010) Regular & Student Registration $199

From February 1st 2010 to March 28th: Regular Registration $299 Student Registration $249

After March 28th, 2010 and On-site: Regular Registration $399 Student Registration $329

No refunds or exchanges are available on ticket orders. If you require assistance please email info@cgcon.net or phone (310) 774-0207.

Special rates are available to groups of 10 or more. For more information call us at (310) 774-0207 or email us at info@cgcon.net