The 3-D Entertainment Summit will take place at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California, December 1-2, 2008. The event is the first fully dedicated forum bringing the business of 3-D entertainment into focus. Award winning director and producer James Cameron will deliver a special keynote address. Joining Cameron in discussion will be Vince Pace who, together with Cameron, developed the revolutionary Fusion Camera System allowing for the re-emergence of 3-D filmmaking and the advancement of entertainment. "Stereoscopic 3-D is the most exciting evolution in cinema presentation since color and widescreen," Cameron said. "The question for film-makers is not 'why 3-D?,' since the reasons are obvious, at least to audiences, and the negatives have all been removed. The question should be 'how do I make 3-D a part of my art?'" "The success of current 3-D productions continues to validate that a new era in entertainment is here," Pace said. "One that redefines the ultimate experience and advances the future of entertainment across a wide spectrum of categories -- everything from films to music to sports to advertising will be a part of this revolution." In addition, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Director Eric Brevig and Producer Charlotte Huggins will be featured presenters during the Day One lunch and will be interviewed onstage by David Cohen, Associate Editor at VARIETY. Cameron, Brevig and Huggins will join previously-announced keynote speakers Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO and President of DreamWorks Animation and David Hill, A.M., Chairman and CEO, Fox Sports Television Group. The summit will assemble an estimated 300-400 executives from a cross-section of the entertainment industry including film, television, video gaming, content creation, production, technology and distribution. From movies and theaters to broadcasting in the home, the 3-D Entertainment Summit will be the first industry event to educate entertainment executives about content creation, production, and distribution of this exciting and revolutionary technology. Live demonstrations of never before seen content screened on both cinema and 3-D television systems will be presented to showcase new production realities as well as new business opportunities. Attendees will learn how 3-D relates to business practices and will hear from a dynamic group of leading experts in 3-D who will provide actionable, non-hyped, real and responsible information that will have a positive impact on the entertainment community. The unique two-day conference format will contain a mix of general sessions and panel sessions presented by a host of industry experts and executives. The highly interactive environment will allow entertainment professionals to gain practical insight into this technology, market size, adoption rates, creative and production strategies, talent and licensing issues, gaining a better sense of how 3-D relates to their future. Additional speakers include: Michael Lewis, Chairman/CEO and Co-Founder, Real D; Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder, Real D; Sandy Climan, CEO, 3Ality Digital, LLC; Steve Schklair, CEO, 3Ality Digital Systems; John Fithian, President and CEO, NATO; Buzz Hays, Senior Producer, Sony Pictures Imageworks; Chuck Viane, President of Distribution, Disney Pictures; Jim Tharp, President of Distribution, Paramount Motion Picture Group; Vincent Maza, Solutions Marketing Manager, Avid Technology Inc.; David Cohen, Associate Editor, Features, VARIETY; Charlotte Jones, Senior Analyst, Film and Cinema, Screen Digest; Jeffrey B. Logsdon, Managing Director, Media & Entertainment, BMO Capital Markets; Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective, Inc.; Peter Cane, Publisher, BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE; Andrew Oliver, Co-Founder & C.T.O., Blitz Games Studios Ltd.; Neil Schneider, President, Meant to Be Seen; Andrew Fear, Product Manager, SLI and Stereoscopic 3D Solutions, NVIDIA Corporation; Alex Ben Block, Show Business Historian, and Editor-at-Large, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER; Chris Marlowe, Digital Media Consultant; Peter Debruge, Associate Editor, Features, VARIETY; John Nicolard, Head of Digital Production, FotoKem Digital Film Services; Jeff McNall, Cinema Product Manager, Dolby Laboratories, Inc.; Andrew Stucker, Director of Sony Electronics Digital Cinema Systems. For more information on the 3-D Entertainment Summit, please visit the event website at www.3d-summit.com or call 203-878-2577 x106.

ASIFA-Hollywood is currently accepting entries for the 31st Annual Annie Awards. Deadline to receive entries is Friday, October 3, 2003. Every year, ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles area-based branch of the International Animated Film Society, honors the best in film, television, game and Internet animation with the Annie Awards. The awards ceremony will take place at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California on Saturday, February 7, 2004.

The Annie Awards honor overall excellence as well as individual achievement in areas ranging from production design, character animation and effects animation to storyboarding, writing, music and voice acting. Entries submitted for consideration must be from productions that originally aired, were exhibited in an animation festival or commercially released in their country of origin between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003.

All rules, category information and entry forms are available online at www.asifa-hollywood.org or by contacting ASIFA-Hollywood at (818) 842-8330. Final nominations will be announced by ASIFA-Hollywood in January 2004.

Founded in 1972 by ASIFA member and veteran voice talent June Foray, the Annie Awards have grown in scope and stature for the past three decades. Today, ASIFA-Hollywood supports a range of animation activities and preservation efforts through its membership. Today, there are ASIFA chapters in nearly thirty countries worldwide.

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ASIFA-Hollywood has issued its official call for entries for the 34th Annual Annie Awards honoring outstanding achievement in animation across film, television, commercials and short subjects. All rules, category information and entry forms are available online at www.annieawards.org or by contacting ASIFA-Hollywood at (818) 842-8330. The deadline to receive entry forms is Friday, Oct. 6 2006. All nomination judging material is due by Oct. 27, 2006. Final nominations will be announced by ASIFA-Hollywood on Dec. 5, 2006.

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3D Biz-Ex will be held September 30-October 1 conference at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., effectively covering the broad range of 3D applications -- from the lens to the eye.

Headlining this large gathering of 3D professionals are several experienced and successful creators of live action and animated 3-D movies including: producer Jed Weintrob, Buzz Hays of Sony Pictures Imageworks, Domonic Paris, Gina Gallo and Mimi Maynard of Illuminata Pictures and Jason Brenek of Walt Disney Studios.

3D TV Market & Trends: Direct view and projection televisions capable of showing 3D content are available and on the shelf. This session will cover how these products are being marketed, accepted and used by consumers, including challenges and opportunities. Presenters include Mitsubishi Digital, DDD and Insight Media.

3D Content Creation & Digital Cinema: The creation of entertainment content will be studied from several angles, including currently available equipment, along with the future direction and opportunities for creative personnel and hardware/software providers from cameras, through post-production and delivery to digital cinemas. Presenters include Sony Picture Imageworks, Illuminata Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, VisuMotion, Stereoscope Studios, Walt Disney Studios, NEC Digital Cinema, MKPE Consulting, Texas Instruments and Real D.

3D File Formats: Experts in 3D file formats will present several aspects of the much-debated best method for handling 3D files. This session will also include the latest thinking and activity on standards for transferring 3D content between devices. Hear from Philips 3D, TDVision Systems, SENSIO, PassmoreLab, HDMI and SMPTE.

Market Opportunities #1 & #2: Outside of the very fast moving cinema and home 3D markets, other 3D markets/applications as well as component and ancillary technology is also fueling the 3D frenzy. Market watchers will examine the market opportunities for public displays, visualization systems like cave environments, along with gaming. Also explored will be the new hardware architectures and ancillary devices like 3D printing and imaging. Hear from Holographika, Mechdyne, NVIDIA, Jon Peddie Associates, and Veritas et Visus.

3D Around the World: Finally, speakers from five different geographical centers of 3D activity will report on what activities are taking place in their region. Organizations are springing up all over the world, so understanding the dominant issues, key regional trends and status of development activities will provide a full measure of the scope of the 3D phenomenon. Regions and countries include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and the U.S.

3D Biz-Ex also features a full day of content-rich seminars open to interested individuals on Sept. 29, and a host of networking events, including a special event on the evening of Sept. 30 at the CityWalk @Universal Studios, sponsored by IMAX, featuring a close look at the inside filming of an IMAX film and their approach to 3D.

Exhibits will highlight the latest 3D equipment and software available to the market. Exhibitors include, Mitsubishi, DDD, Magnetic 3D, Philips 3D Solutions, SENSIO, 3D@HOME Consortium, Big3D.com, Da-Lite Screen Company, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Planar Systems, Scalable Display Technologies, TDVision Systems and VisuMotion.

Online registration closes on Tuesday, September 23. On-site registration will be limited to available seats.

The event will take place at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, just outside Universal Studios, in Los Angeles. Hotel arrangements can be made at http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/book/us128a or by calling toll free 1.888.627.7186 (or 818.980.1212).

For registration and more event information, visit www.3dbizex.com.

STUDIOTOOLS DISCOVERY NIGHT & DIGITAL SKETCHING CONTEST Great Eastern Technology 6pm-9pm Join us for this free seminar exploring StudioTools, the world's leading industrial design software for the product design and transportation markets. We will explore the features and capabilities of StudioTools, ImageStudio and PortfolioWall. Discover how this 3D software solution can work for you. All attendees will receive a StudioTools 11 Personal Learning Edition CD. DIGITAL SKETCHING CONTEST - HELD BOTH EVENINGS! The contest will be held each night after the presentations. Everyone registered to compete will have 10 minutes to sketch a design on a Wacom Cintiq Tablet. Visit us online for more information and to register! MORE INFORMATION: http://www.get.com/3dweek.html VIEW PRIZES: http://www.get.com/3dweek_prizes.html REGISTER: http://www.get.com/3dweek_registration.html

The second annual 3D Entertainment Summit will be September 16-17, 2009 at the Universal City Hilton in Universal City, California.

The 2009 3D Entertainment Summit will accommodate more attendees as it moves to a larger space designated for keynotes and panel discussions, film presentations and larger exhibitor area. In addition, the two-day summit will include a state-of-the-art 3-D digital cinema system for special 3-D studio sneak previews and full feature presentations.

The 3D Entertainment Summit contains a mix of general sessions and panel sessions presented by a host of industry experts and executives. The highly interactive, discussion-driven environment will allow entertainment professionals to gain practical insight into 3-D technology, market size, adoption rates, creative and production strategies, talent and licensing issues gaining a better sense of how 3-D relates to their future.

The 2008 show featured more than more than 400 leading members of the 3-D industry ecosystem and press from U.S., Canada, France, United Kingdom and Japan, with presenters including keynotes from Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mark Zoradi, Eric Brevig and Charlotte Huggins, David Hill, James Cameron and Vince Pace as well as exclusive studio presentations and rare 3-D film sneak previews. The summit also included more than 30 corporate and media sponsors including RealD, 3ality, Avid, Dolby, Sony, IMAX, PACE, NEC, Virtual Images, Panasonic, VARIETY and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

For more information about speaking submissions, exhibiting, and sponsor opportunities, visit www.3d-summit.com.

Unlike other entertainment events, the 3D Entertainment Summit™ is focused on how the 3D entertainment transformation is affecting the business of entertainment. At the 3D Entertainment Summit™, you will get a behind the scenes look at where the market is heading; build relationships with industry leaders and potential business partners as business channels for 3D become more defined.

Event Date: June 21-22, 2011 at Hilton New York, New York, NY

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3D Training Institute (3DTi) and the Enterprise Center at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will host a free seminar on 3D animation from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, on the FIT Campus in the John E. Reeves Great Hall located on Seventh Avenue at 28th Street in Manhattan. Attendance is open to animation students with demo reels seeking careers in the burgeoning animation industry.

Scheduled panelist include Scott Sindorf, co-founder/exec creative director of UVPHACTORY, a New York-based design and production company; Lucien Harriot, ceo of New York-based Mechanism Digital, Inc., a digital production, animation and visual effects boutique; Webster Colcord, animation supervisor at The Orphanage in San Francisco; and Chryssa Cooke, an independent recruiter for animation companies (Formerly with Orphanage and PDI). The panel will address topics including growing trends in the animation industry, demand for animators, the hiring process, and the importance of demo reels. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q & A session.

The panelists will also critique three demo reels, selected from submissions sent in advance of the seminar. For submission guidelines, visit the 3DTi website at: www.3dtraining.com.