Annual Brentwood Film Festival in northern California. Exhibiting the best in Independent Film and Animations including feature films, short films, animation and experimental. Presenting a major distribution prize this year along with awards for best director and Innovation. Located in downtown Brentwood, its screenings will take place at the Delta Cinema and will be within walking distance of our many local restaurants.

The Jordan Short Film Festival is an international festival and competition with prizes up to 2000 Euros. The festival welcomes short animations, experimental, fiction, and non-fiction. There are no submission fees. DVD is the preview and projection formats.

The 6th Annual Toronto Online Film Festival shall showcase the most exciting cutting-edge movies and music created by independent artists from around the world. In addition, the event shall offer budding production teams, seasoned veterans and individual content creators an ideal point in time to participate in expert seminar panels, innovative technology exhibitions and nightly parties.

San Francisco and Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH are proud to present
Pixar Animation Studios The making of

The next meeting of the Los Angeles XSI user group will take place at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Blur Studio will show their short film GENTELMEN'S DUEL. In addition, Andrew Jones from Pixel Liberation Front will discuss linear lighting. Technology and production issues will also be tackled. Beer, drinks and pizza will be served and door prizes will be given away. Gnomon School of Visual Effects is located at 1015 North Cahuenga, Hollywood, California 90038. Door open at 7:00 pm with the presentations beginning at 7:30 pm. For additional information, visit www.xsila.com/.

NY:MIEG (New York: Media Information Exchange Group) is a group of media (and related) professionals who meet monthly on an informal basis in Midtown Manhattan. Our next meeting: Thurs. Dec. 14th when our special Holiday guest will be: FRED SEIBERT President & Executive Producer Frederator Studios - Developed the MTV brand in 1981 as founding Creative Director at MTV - Co-Founder Fred/Alan Productions and rebranded Nickelodeon and oversaw the launch of VH-1 - President of Hanna/Barbera under Turner Broadcasting System - Founded Frederator Pictures, Frederator Studios & Channel Frederator "Since 1992 I've been in the cartoon business," says Seibert. "That's the year I became president of Hanna-Barbera. When I started out I didn't know much about cartoons, but I had one simple idea: If you want great cartoons, make them the way the greatest cartoons of all time were made. I wanted to create short, seven minute, funny cartoons with vivid characters and hilarious stories and gags the way the great cartoonists of the 30s and 40s did it." As a result, Frederator Studios showcases new and independent animators, but now, it's all accessible online. A weekly downloadable anthology of short cartoons, Channel Frederator has jumped into video podcasting in a big way.

GRAPHITE 2007
1-4 December 2007
Perth, Western Australia
http://www.anzgraph.org/graphite2007

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, GRAPHITE 2007 is the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, an annual event conducted in the Australasia-South East Asia region.

GRAPHITE 2007 will provide a unique atmosphere for researchers, technologists, artists, industry professionals, educators and students to mingle while taking in the latest technical and artistic accomplishments from around the globe.

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IMAGINA 2007

Anime, Cosplay, Sci-Fi,Fantasy,martial arts, and more. Workshop on media and animation. A Gathering of Warriors

From 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Gnomon School of Visual Effects welcomes back Pixologic for its first User Group Meeting since the release of ZBrush 3. Learn how two artists: Meats Meier and Ian Joyner use ZBrush to create models and illustration. In particular, Meier will be demonstrating his working processes when using ZBrush 3 for character creation and texturing and he'll show his efficient methods of base model creation using Zspheres. Then, he will take the sculpture all the way to a final model, ready to animate in an external 3D package. Ryan Kingslien will also talk in-depth about ZBrush 3 and what it's like to develop a next generation sculpting application. He'll demonstrate how to look at it, how to understand the brushes and what it means, as a developer, to be thinking about a users experience. The event will take place at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects - Stage 15, 1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Hollywood, California 90038. To RSVP to the free event, e-mail reserve@gnomon3d.com.