NAB 2012

Las Vegas, Nevada

April 14th-19th

Working on behalf of its radio and television membership, NAB provides members with exceptional advocacy efforts, legal expertise and timely communications and opportunities for career growth, professional development and networking with other broadcasters.

At the NAB Show®, NAB members are eligible for discounted exhibit space. In addition to discounted registration for each member station staff, NAB members enjoy a Members Lounge where they can relax, plan for the day, utilize access to free wireless internet and arrange meetings in a private conference room.
NAB member benefits programs provide members cost-savings programs including media liability insurance, property and casualty insurance, disaster recovery, electricity and utility savings, tower leasing, shipping, office supplies, equipment and furniture

Every industry employs audio and video to communicate, educate and entertain. They all come together at the NAB Show® for creative inspiration and next-generation technologies to help breathe new life into their content. No matter where you are in the Content Lifecycle – from creation to consumption, the NAB Show is a must-attend event if you want to future-proof your career and your business.

2012 MIPTV MEDIA FESTIVAL

April 1st-4th Cannes, France

MIPTV is the greatest gathering in TV & Media.
It’s where the industry makes deals that will shape the future, from inspiring new projects to buying next season’s hits. Together, the entertainment community creates bridges across the diverse and expanding industry, united by a passion for TV, making new connections and unlocking new business opportunities.

What does MIPTV has to Offer you?

Showcase and acquire programmes in every genre and for all platformsMeet with key decision-makers from the entire entertainment industryFind innovative financial models and coproduction opportunitiesDiscuss the future of the industry and explore new trends and technologies

Enjpy their Comprehensive Program

Media Mastermind Keynotes Co-Production: Co-Production Summit, Co-Production for SuccessThe Connected ConsumerScreenings: World Premiere Television Screenings, Fresh TVBranded Entertainment: Branded Entertainment Showcase, Brand of the Year AwardKids: The new animation talent showcase, The Global Animation Marketplace

FLUX!
Digital Design and Worldbuilding For Narrative Media

 

A 3-part discussion into design as the backbone of digital narrative media, and to address the changing role of the designer in storytelling through Worldbuilding practices.

With this first in a series Worldbuilding Summit, the 5D | Institute and the USC SCA will use their unique access to frame an investigation into the language and practices of digital design methodologies, applying learning from thought leaders in core media industries to an interdisciplinary discussion space within and across media.

Worldbuilding is the new metaphor for the creation and actualizing of the story space in narrative media and will be the theme of the Summit. It addresses narrative design thinking, the immersive process and the experience of creating new worlds. It expresses the full arc of the role of design in Storytelling.

SAVE THE DATES

March 13–15th, 2012 | 7–10 pm
Panel discussions, audience participation and networking receptions over three evenings at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles.

LOCATION

The Ray Stark Family Theatre (in the George Lucas Building)

USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCA 108
900 W. 34th Street
Los Angeles, California

Cartoons on the Bay

March 22cnd-24th Rapallo, Italy

Cartoons on the Bay 2012 will be held from March 22nd to 25th. The 16th Edition of the Festival will take place in Rapallo, Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. The guest country will be India and the main theme of the year will be Sport in cartoons, to celebrate 2012 London Olympic Games.

The first day of work will be devoted to a series of meetings in which the the major animation companies will attend and a retrospective of the best products of featured and animated films in recent years.

In view of the London Olympics, the festival will focus on cartoons and sports with the celebration of the second edition of the Premio & Sport Cartoons produced in collaboration with the Circolo Sportivo della Rai. Among the novelties of the birth of the new Harlequin Award dedicated to the best cartoon taken from comic book (which is added to the Harlequin Award dedicated to cartoon and cartoon and videogames and books) and Pulcinella Award dedicated to Live Action sitcom and series for children not in animation.

With the birth of the Pulcinella Awards, we also wanted include today's growing attention to hybrid products made of flesh and blood actors and animation support.

Roberto Genovesi, artistic director of Cartoons on the Bay-concludes the process of transforming the festival that today can be considered a full member of the European reference point for cross-media animation.

5D GOES TO THE 2012 BERLINALE TALENT FESTIVALFEBRUARY 13TH BERLIN, GERMANY
The 5D Institute is excited to announce, for our second year, a unique event at the Berlin Film Festival. In partnership with the Berlinale Talent Campus, 5D will curate a panel discussion and masterclass on the nature of design process and the practice of world building for digital narrative media.After the success of the 5D ”Play as Process” panel and workshop at the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus, the 5D Institute will again be part of the Talent Campus, curating 2 panels for the 2012 edition.

This illustrious panel of designers and artists will explain how screenwriters, filmmakers, designers and producers can create unique visual worlds as the settings for their films.  Our world is the product of millennia of visionary designs, inventions, and creations by imaginative thinkers who have envisioned the possibilities beyond the limits of current reality. Designers who are tasked with creating entirely new worlds and alternate universes must be able to think freely and into the unknown in order to imagine and render these narrative worlds. The discussion will connect a holistic conception of immersive design to a new process of creative collaboration, using the powerful link between the digital workspace, a non-linear work flow, and a new understanding of virtual production.

This month we are adding a special online story workshop: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 3D! We will be teaming up with the makers to give you an opportunity to learn some important things about the platform and to ask question you have about the product and the benefits it gives to the artist.

 

Crash Course on Tooboom Storyboard Pro 3D!

When: Saturday January 28, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio Paez and Toon Boom Cost: FREE! Length: 60 minutes

Learn the latest tricks in digital storyboards using Toon Boom Storyboard pro 3D. We will have a guest presenter from Toon Boom to guide us through their latest awesome software version. It’s highly recommended to download the free trial version before attending to get familiar with what Toon Boom has to offer

 

Sign up today!

http://www.instantpresenter.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EA52DC89884C

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 will be held from 12 to 15 December at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

After successful runs in Singapore, Japan and South Korea, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) brings digital innovations from around the globe to Hong Kong, in Asia’s biggest gathering of artists, designers, researchers, scientists, manufacturers and developers.

Over four days, the computer graphics and interactive techniques communities in Hong Kong and the world over will have the opportunity to interact and discover the best innovations, ideas and inventions from top names in the digital arena.

These are brought to audiences through much-anticipated programs such as:

Art GalleryComputer Animation FestivalCoursesEmerging TechnologiesSymposium on AppsTechnical PapersTechnical Sketches and PostersTrade Exhibition

Visit www.iafistanbul.com for more information.

The 4th annual 2011 Machinima Expo (MachinExpo) will take place on the weekend of the 19th and 20th November 2011 in the virtual world of Second Life™ (www.secondlife.com) and live on the web (www.machinima-expo.com). The Festival celebrates the art of Machinima, which is 3D animation created in real-time. The MachinExpo will feature screenings, panel discussions, interviews and opportunities to meet and learn from machinima filmmakers all over the world.

191 machinima films were submitted to this year’s Expo. Four films will be selected by a handpicked jury, One film will win the Grand prize and 3 will win Jury prizes. The prizes will be announced during the weekend events. A selection of the other submitted films will be screened during the expo as well as the week running up (and the week after) to the event. All films will stream 24/7 at the Expo web portal (www.machinima-expo.com).

There is no cost to attend the Expo either within Second Life or to watch via the live steam web portal. If you’ve never been to Second Life before, we recommend you download the free software and try it out before you attend.

The weekend event is being sponsored by Muvizu (www.muvizu.com), Reallusion (www.reallusion.com) and the machinima filmmaker Anim8tor Cathy (www.undisclosedstudio.com). They all have made generous donations to help provide with the running costs and prizes at this year’s Machinima Expo.

Earlier this year, it was announced that the MachinExpo is collaborating with the New Media Film Festiva (www.newmediafilmfestival.com), a real-life festival taking place in Los Angeles in May 2012, the Expo’s films selected by the screening jury will be also screened at the New Media Film Festival.

For more information see http://blog.machinima-expo.com/ and http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/

3D, Eric Roberts,  Joan Osborne & Tom Shadyac Join this year's 2nd annual New Media Film Festival’s San Francisco festival lineup!

 

The Best in New Media… Honoring Stories worth Telling.

 

San Francisco CA-- Sat. Nov. 5, 2011

 

This year’s program at the New Media Film Festival stars actor Eric Roberts in “Vegan 101” and band Linkin Park in their lunar odyssey music video “Iridescent.” There will be World Premieres for Joan Osborne’s “love and hate," “Sesko” by Carlos Florez, and short film “Hollywood Tales” by Ethan Black. We also have the 2011 Emmy nominated PSA “the power of you” for Big sisters of RI, and award winning short films “Three fifty” and “The strange tale of Billy Barker.”

 

We are also proud to be screening the existential documentary “I AM” from filmmaker Tom Shadyac, the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura," “Bruce Almighty," “Nutty Professor," and “Liar Liar” as he explores two central questions:

 

What’s Wrong With the World? and What Can We Do About it?