MIPCOM 2004 will pay tribute to the DVD creative community with a series of awards. The prizes will be given out by a specialist jury with the sheer creativity behind the viewing experience as the spotlight. Categories include: Web features and interactivity, program content restoration, special features, navigation and graphic design.

The event will take place during the conference. For more information, visit http://www.mipcom.com/images/100400/emailing/mipcom2004_emailing1_020604.html.

The International Forum for Animation Technologies (FITA) is held every year in Angouleme, France, which, after Paris, is the largest production center for animation of all kinds. The 9th FITA will focus on the illusion of life, emotionally compelling characters and the technologies that enable them.

Speakers include: Christophe Hery, Lead R&D engineer, ILM; Matt Aitken, SFX Supervisor, Weta Digital; Xavier Desdoigts, Director of Technical Operations, Animal Logic; Peter Plantec, head of Ordinary Magic.com; Parag Havaldar, Lead Software Engineer, Sony Pictures Imageworks; Henry LaBounta, Director of Art, Electronic Arts; Sebastien Racine, Associate Producer, Ubisoft Digital Arts; among others.

They will talk about topics ranging from Digital Cloning at ILM to Tools and Techniques for creating compelling digital performances at Weta Digital, from creating realistic facial performances on BEOWULF to new techniques for acquiring, rendering, and displaying human performance and more.

For more information, visit www.fita-magelis.org.

By hosting the second edition of Dimension3 Festival during four days at Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saone in France becomes the European capital of 3-D, with an exceptional collection of images You will be able to witness film previews, exclusive screenings and original images! All program formats will be represented, with contents of all types (feature films, animated films, documentaries, corporate films, theme park attractions, concerts ). Events will kick off on June 2, during the festival's opening night, with the projection of the legendary concert U23D, a history-making film on U2's world tour. The producer, Steve Schklair, will be present. Do not miss the screenings of Disney's concert film HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT TOUR, and of SCAR 3D, the first horror film shot in digital 3-D. Travel across the world and discover the New-Zealand Alps, with AORAKI MOUNT COOK: THE GUARDIAN (to be released in New Zealand on May 31 2008). And the documentary 3-D SUN will show you the Sun as seen from outside the Earth's orbit, a first in human history. Dimension3 Festival, a one-of-a-kind public event dedicated to 3-D images, is organized as a part of Dimension 3 Expo, the second international forum on 3-D images. A public area, Dimension3 Experience, will be hosted next to the festival; it will include an exhibition on the history of 3-D, 3-D images, from the origins to the future, as well as an area offering information and entertainment on new display, filming and game technologies partnership: Nicephore Niepce Museum, UP3D Association, Cerberus 3D, Holocube, Tridimax,Visu Motion and Irelem. Find all details related to this event, as well as a program of the festival, at www.dimension3-expo.com.

Luxology LLC is continuing its successful European Roadshow by hosting a modo 401 launch event in Paris on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. The event will serve as a platform for Luxology to debut the newest version of the company's innovative 3D modeling, painting and rendering software, modo 401. A modo 401 demonstration, using Roadshow sponsor Wacom's latest Intuos tablet technology, will be given by Andy Brown, Luxology's training division manager and Gregory Duquesne, a Luxology senior engineer. Representatives from game development leader Black Rock Studio will be speaking at the launch event to demonstrate how they use modo to create original games. Cedric Guibert of standardnonstandard will also demonstrate how modo fits within his workflow pipeline and Jacques Defontaine, modo 401 beta tester and independent graphic design professional with varied experience at Weta Digital, Grid and Casterman, will be on hand to answer questions about recent projects created using modo 401. Event location and date are as follows: Forum des Images Forum des Halles 2 rue du cinema 75045 Paris cedex 01 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required and attendance is limited, so please visit http://www.luxology.com/event/2009/paris/ to register. For more information on the modo 401 software, please visit http://www.luxology.com/modo/401.introduction/.

Event dedicated to animation and cross-media for industry professionals 2nd edition from 12th to 14th January 2011 - Le Grand Bornand / Annecy (France)

Presented by CITIA, organiser of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market (Mifa)

The concept

2 and a half days of information, training, reflection and discussions between professionals for a complete overview of all animation and cross-media issues.

The programme

Le Forum Blanc gives professionals from animation, video games, broadcasting, new interactive services and mobile phones the possibility to find out all the current aspects concerning animation and cross-media, from writing to broadcasting, funding, production and legal issues.

This second edition will be giving the floor to such speakers as Julien Borde, Head of Children and Youth programming at France Télévisions; Jo Twist, Commissioning Editor at Channel 4; Joël Ronez, Head of Internet at Arte and Orion Ross, Vice President of Development for Original series at Disney, who will be talking about the vision and the role the historic model of broadcasting is playing in the developments of cross and transmedia.

Miles Bullough, Head of Broadcast and Development at Aardman Animations and Antony Roux, Artistic Director at Ankama will be sharing their experience and talking about the strategies in their respective companies.

Monique Simard, Managing Director of the French programme at the National Film Board of Canada and Canadian Producer, Sylvain Viau, will be giving their viewpoints and talking about new incentives in Canada.

These sessions will also be complemented by French or international case studies from the animation or related sectors, covering all the creative, financial and legal angles of the production chain of cross-media projects.

You can find details of the programme and the list of speakers on www.forumblanc.org

Connichi 2004 is Germany's largest anime conventions. The event celebrates everything anime including films, manga and music. As part of the event, there will be an AMV competition. An AMV is a music video edited by a fan of Japanese animation with anime sequences. For more information about the event visit http://www.connichi.de. More details about the AMV contest can be found at http://amv-contest.animedownload.de.

The International Trade Fair for Motion Picture Technology is a bi-annual international meeting point of the film sector. In 2002, 3,127 visitors from 49 countries attended the event. Participation in the film industry's specialist trade fair is expected from the fields of camera and grip technology, production of film stock, lighting and sound, post-production and digital film editing, set decoration and accessories, technical aids, as well as services, institutes, organizations and publishing houses. Leading developers, producers and suppliers like ARRI, Band Pro, Chrosziel, Dedo Weigert, Eurotech, FGV Schmiedle, Gecko-Cam, Grip Factory, Kodak, Licht Technik Hagenbach und Grill, Movie-Tech, Panther, P+S Technik, Power Gems, Preston Cinema Systems, Sachtler, Tamuz and Videor Technical will be presenting their latest range of products. Again in 2004, the cinec award will be presented for outstanding achievements in different fields of the film sector on the trade fair. The award will be presented by the Bavarian Society for Advancement of Film Technology (FGF), whose members are renowned companies and organizations of the film industry. For more information, visit http://www.cinec.de.

eDIT | VES is Europe

fmx/05 is an international conference for animation, effects, realtime and content. As the biggest event of its kind in the German-speaking countries, FMX attracts about 2,000 participants per day. Visitors are people who take a special interest in the technological, economic but also social and cultural aspects of computer animation. For more information, visit www.fmx.de.

Smart Graphics is grounded in a deep understanding of human abilities, activities, and desires. This understanding arises through the integration of fields such as art, design, and the social, cognitive, and perceptual sciences. Insights are realised in the form of novel methods for producing and interacting with rich graphical displays often utilising established techniques from computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and computer science in general.

Such interfaces present content that: (1) engages the user and is esthetically satisfying; (2) participates in human cognition as external or distributed representations; (3) is sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available computational resources; and (4) adapts the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual