Ever wonder what the PC Ballroom at UCSD would look like if gamers took it over for a weekend? Find out at this year’s Winter Game Fest! Tournaments include: Halo Reach, DoTA, Starcraft Brood War, Starcraft II, Call of Duty Black Ops, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Street Fighter 4, Blazblue: Continuum Shift. Over $7,000 in prizes. Free play area for the new or casual gamer. There’s something for everyone! For tournament sign-ups and more information please visit http://sctechcomm.org/

Sixth College Technology Committee proudly presents the 6th annual Winter Game Fest.

-----FEATURES-----
-$7000 in Tournament Prizes
...-Free Play
-Free Giveaways (RedBull, Popchips, bumper stickers, keychains, wristbands, coupons, vouchers, soundtracks)
-Raffles (XBOX360, Kinect, Blizzard Games, XBOX Live Subscriptions, and MORE)
-Live Streaming and Commentary

-----DETAILS-----
What: Winter Game Fest VI
When: January 22-23, 2011
10:00am - 9:00pm
Where: PC Ballroom A/B
Multipurpose Room (Saturday)
PC Ballroom East (Sunday)
Price Center Map: http://bit.ly/icmvk5
Campus Map: http://bit.ly/gQkxQ3
Parking is FREE on weekends. Park in the Gilman Parking Structure or the Hopkins Parking Structure. Check http://maps.ucsd.edu/ for locations.

-----SPONSORS-----
Microsoft
Blizzard Entertainment
Red Bull
Microsoft Store
Aksys Games
BestBuy
MadCatz
Ubisoft
WebSense
Play N Trade
Box Arena
Yogurt World
Popchips
Bombay Coast
Santorini

Sixth College Technology Committee
M.A.C.O.K.E.
Sixth College Student Council
Muir N.E.R.D.

-----TOURNAMENTS-----
This year we are featuring nine tournaments with over $7000 in prize money. Check in times and locations are as follows for tournaments:

Super Smash Brothers Melee (1v1 & 2v2) Saturday 10am Ballroom A/BSuper Smash Brothers Brawl (1v1 & 2v2) Saturday 10am Ballroom A/BSuper Street Fighter IV (PS3 1v1) Saturday 11am Ballroom A/BBlazblue: Continuum Shift (PS3 1v1) Sunday 10am Ballroom A/BHalo Reach (XBOX360 4v4) Sunday 12pm Ballroom A/BCall of Duty: Black Ops (XBOX360 4v4) Saturday 11am Ballroom A/BStarcraft 2: Wings of Liberty (1v1) Sunday 10am Ballroom EastStarcraft: Brood War (1v1) TWO DAYS. Saturday 2pm Multipurpose RoomDefense of the Ancients (5v5) Saturday 10am Multipurpose Room

All events are BYOC (Bring your own computer/controller/fightstick)
Make sure you pre-register online. We will not take at the door sign-ups unless otherwise noted.

-----REGISTRATION-----
Registration and rules can be found online at http://sctechcomm.org/ starting January 13, 2011. Sign-ups will fill up quickly. All events except for Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Smash Brothers Brawl are FREE TO ENTER.

For game industry professionals, students of game design, and everyone passionate about games, Vancouver Film School presents the fifth annual Game Design Expo, January 22-23, 2011 in Vancouver, BC. This year’s event features an incredible range of talks by leading minds in games, spanning everything from bestselling iPhone game Angry Birds to Dead Space 2 and beyond.

The Sunday VFS Game Design Open House, held in conjunction with Game Design Expo, is a chance to see inside the acclaimed one-year program, play student-created games, and take sample classes led by a faculty of game industry pros.

Tickets to Industry Speaker Day are $125 plus applicable fees. The VFS Game Design Open House is free. Register early, because the event usually books to capacity.

For schedules, tickets, registration, and up-to-the-minute news, visit gamedesignexpo.com.

With more than four decades of success, the International CES reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive.

The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy.

OPEN HOUSE HOLIDAY ART SHOW & SILENT AUCTION

Benefiting our Scholarship Programs - December 11th – 5pm to 9pm

 Come celebrate the holiday season with us!  You will be assured a fantastic evening of fabulous instructor and student artwork for purchase and a silent auction featuring an incredible list of gifts to bid on for the holiday season. Bring your pencils & paints for a complimentary uninstructed model figure workshop and watch our talented instructors; Douglas Kirk, Will Weston and Michael Siegel give insightful demonstrations. Enjoy music, refreshments and valet parking!

The 6th annualSouth African HORRORFEST Film Festival 28 October - 5 November 2010@ The Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Cape Town, ZAwww.HORRORFEST.info
Since its inception in 2005 the South African HORRORFEST Film Festival has been the Halloween event on the continent, showcasing horror, the macabre & the strange from around the world.The 6th installment of this exciting week of horrors will include a range of new movies, classics, fan favourites, sneak previews and premieres from across the globe, as well as several chapters of short films (international & local), Halloween dress-up prizes, and killer audience give-aways before each movie.  In addition there will again be a big Horror DVD collection (of several dozen movies) up for grabs for one lucky viewer.
Then of course there is the spectacular live movie soundtrack performance to the screening of a classic silent horror movie by THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE (created by members of TERMINATRYX, collaborating with members of LARK and violin maestro Matthijs Van Dijk).  
While this will be their 5th movie enhanced with a new, eclectic soundtrack, early-August 2010 THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE invaded S.A.'s biggest music festival for the 2nd year in a row with a live movie soundtrack performance (MACISTE IN HELL - Maciste all' Inferno).

International Animation Festival, FIA´10:

Universidad ORT Uruguay, organizer of FIA´, is pleased to invite animators, producers and specially students and graduates of animation schools to present works to be selected for an exhibition and subsequent awarding between the 25th and the 26th of October of 2010 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Objective:
Universidad ORT Uruguay aims to spread and to exhibit animations produced by students and graduates of animation, independent animators and international producers and also seeks to provide a space for artistic and technological reflection in this discipline.

Participation:
Any animated short movie, regardless its type or content may participate. The participation in the festival is open to students and graduates of animation schools, animation producers, advertising agencies and independent animators, in order to present works to be selected for an exhibition and subsequent awarding between the 25th and the 26th of October of 2010 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The deadline for reception of all materials is going to be the 30th of September of 2010.
Sign up can be done through the web site of the festival, by post or personally.

Mile High Horror Film Festival Call For Entries

The 2010 inaugural year Mile High Horror Festival announces it's call for entries! To celebrate our founding year we are planning a two day film festival event filled with activities, events, and most importantly independent horror films! Submission categories include Feature Length, Shorts, Local Colorado Films, student films and ANIMATION! Any type of horror film and sub genres are welcome.

For general information and to submit to the festival visit www.withoutabox.com and search Mile High Horror Film Festival, or visit our website at www.milehighhorrorfilmfestival.com


Regular deadline - July 15th 2010

Late Deadline - August 31st 2010

WAB Extended Deadline - September 15th 2010

Languages & The Media is a biennial international conference dedicated to the subject of language transfer in a changing media landscape (Video, DVD, digital TV, cinema and social networks). The conference themes include innovations and latest developments in dubbing, subtitling, voice-over and translation for the media. Participants of this year’s conference will discuss pivotal topics such as the impact of Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks on audiovisual media. Community translations (crowdsourcing), as well as the adaptation of games to specific cultures (games localisation) are also at the top of the agenda. International experts will further discuss topics such as national and international language policies in the media, multilingual access to global media as well as the distribution and quality of content.
The conference is accompanied by an exhibition where vendors and manufacturers of language services and technology products are represented. The conference language is English.

CUT&PASTE LAUNCHES 3RD GLOBAL 3D AND MOTION DESIGN COMPETITION - CONTINUES TO ADVANCE ON THE ELEVATION AND DISCOVERY OF TOP TALENTCALL FOR COMPETITORS NOW OPEN
New York, NY (August 23, 2010) – Digital designers from all over the world are invited to participate in Cut&Paste’s 2010 Digital Design Tournament. For its third global Digital Design Tournament, Cut&Paste will build on the success of its 2009 world tour, hosting competitions in 2D, 3D and Motion design in 10 cities worldwide, presenting the world’s top stage for designers. Continuing to advance on the elevation and discovery of top talent, Cut&Paste scouts the ten brightest design cities to challenge competitors from all backgrounds across the globe to prove their talents on stage and in the spotlight. Cut&Paste will continue its core mission of gathering a global design community through the design-as-spectator-sport approach that it brings to 2D, 3D and Motion Design.The Call for Competitors opens to the public NOW.
Entries will be reviewed based on quality of portfolios and select candidates will be invited to an in-person “test round” to determine final selections for the live city tournaments. Online entry deadline for the United States is September 17th.The deadline for Europe, Asia and Latin America is October 15th. 
Cut&Paste will begin its showcase of design’s rising stars in North America with tour stops in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco before visiting Europe in the cities of London and Berlin. Immediately following, Cut&Paste will make its debut in Latin America with stops in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, before traveling to Asia in Bangkok, Tokyo and Seoul. At every tour stop a Grand Prize winner will be selected in each category of 2D, 3D and Motion Design, and chosen to compete in Cut&Paste's most impressive stage, the Global Championship in February 2011. A total of 30 expenses-paid winners will journey to New York City where the locally crowned champions will battle for top honors against the best the world has to offer. 
Cut&Paste’s first live digital design tournament began as a single competition in New York City in 2005. Since then, Cut&Paste has grown globally and introduced the arenas of 3D and motion design to the tournament. 2010 is expected to draw some of the best talent and biggest crowds to-date.For more information on the 2010 Digital Design Tournament and updates on judges, competitors, tour dates, event programming and more, please visit www.cutandpaste.com. Up to the minute news and information will be broadcast to the Cut&Paste community via twitter.com/cutandpasteme and facebook.com/cutandpasteme.
Cut&Paste is a social arena for the discovery, advocacy and elevation of design. Through events and online programs, Cut&Paste supports artists, firms and media working to strengthen creative networks. Born in New York City in November 2005, Cut&Paste’s signature event is the Digital Design Tournament, held live throughout the world each year. The 2010 tour takes place in 10 cities around the globe. Cut&Paste additionally powers design-driven contests and events with industry partners worldwide. Learn more about Cut&Paste at www.cutandpaste.com
TOUR SCHEDULEFor 2010, Cut&Paste will focus on an increased quality in experience and engagement with the design community, selecting ten cities to feature the competition before the Global Championship in New York. 

 

Open House at LAAFA

September 18th - 1pm to 6pm

 

Uninstructed Model Portrait Workshop (bring materials)
1:30pm to 4:30pm

  Painting Demo by Ignat Ignatov
1:30pm to 4:30pm

Drawing Demo by Eric Pedersen
2:00pm to 5pm 

Seminar on Pencils & Brushes with Continental Art Supply Store
4:30pm to 6pm 

  Special Presentation on our B.F.A. Full and Part-Time Programs
4:00pm to 5pm

 

View our Fall Schedule - Classes are starting October 6th!