The Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH along with Autodesk, RTT and Springbox will present a one night only event on Automotive Visualization. Representatives from Autodesk, RTT and Springbox will explore the art, science and marketing of designing the automobile. The Pixar "Art of CARS" exhibit will be an added attraction at this event.

When:
Monday, May 12, 2008
6:30-7:30 p.m. -- Reception
7:30-9:30 p.m. -- Presentations with extended Q&A

Where:
Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036 USA (Southeast corner of Wilshire and Fairfax).

Information: www.petersen.org

This event is free to LA ACM SIGGRAPH members and $20 for non members.

New members who sign up on site and pay the $40 annual membership fee (checks or cash only) do not have to pay the $20. $10 on-site parking in the Petersen Museum parking lot. Free Admission to the Petersen Automotive Museum for all attendees of this event.

Speakers:
Jeoern Snepvangers -- RTT
David Folks -- Springbox
Derek Ramsey -- Springbox
Heiko Wenczel -- Mackevision

Next Limit Technologies is pleased to announce Maxwell Render is sponsoring the 2008 VisMasters DMVC (Design, Modeling and Visualization Conference) May 12-13 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Representatives from Next Limit's Maxwell Render team will be attending the event and showing the latest features of the software. VisMasters, scheduled for the two days preceding the annual American Institute of Architects conference, features speakers and instructors from around the globe who will give inspiring and insightful presentations and training sessions, getting you up to speed with the latest and greatest in the archviz industry. As an official conference sponsors, they have secured a $50 discount for the VisMasters DMVC for anybody registering via http://dmvc.vismasters.com/registration.html using the promotional code "dmvc08maxwell."

SA Short animation awards reward excellence and outstanding achievement in the South Australian digital media community.

Entries open for the SA Short Animation Awards:
Jury Prize $200
Audience Prize $200
SALUD Virtual built Environment Prize $200
MRC Best Emerging Animator Prize $200
IDrawFast Architectural Animation Prize $100

Sponsored by: The University of Adelaide, Autodesk, CGSociety, IDrawfast, DLF, Hamilton Adult Campus and MRC

SUBMISSIONS:
Part 1 -- Construct a 30 sec commercial for your animation movie - due by June 1, 2008.
Part 2 -- Submit your (max length 3.5 min) animation movie by June 10, 2008.
Competition Entry Fee: $10
Deadline for all entries: Monday June 10, 2008.

The judges’ picks will be screened at the "Best-Of the Awards" public screening on Thursday June 19, 2008 at the Flentje Theatre, Architecture building University of Adelaide before the Awards Presentations.

The Flentje Theatre is located in the Architecture Building at North Terrace Campus of the University of Adelaide.
Tickets may be purchased at the Theatre door for the event: $10 and $9 concession. Further information contact: Dean Bruton, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design +61 (0) 8 83034038 or 0414 88 2074.

RSVP for seat bookings are due by June 18, 2008 to: dean.bruton@adelaide.edu.au

Art Center College of Design will host its third biennial Art Center Design Conference, Serious Play, bringing together some of the greatest inventors, designers, tech wizards, architects, and artists of our time. The three-day event will explore the key role of "play" in creativity and innovation -- in business, the arts, technology, and more. Continuing its role at the forefront of any discussion of art and design, both locally and internationally, Art Center's Design Conference serves as a catalyst for rethinking the pivotal role of design in meeting society's challenges and the importance of design to our culture and the future. A new feature of this year's conference will be the hands-on Serious Play Studios. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to participate in exclusive hands-on design studios with conference speakers and world-class designers. Hosted by Art Center College of Design, the spectacular Art Center South Campus Wind Tunnel will provide the state-of-the-art conference environment. More than 30 design luminaries, emerging leaders, and internationally known speakers will assemble to present their stories during the three-day gathering. Speakers include: IDEO President and CEO Tim Brown; Tony Award-winning puppet designer Michael Curry; visionary performance artist Michael Moschen; MacArthur Prize-winning architect Elizabeth Diller; origami virtuoso Robert Lang; graphic designer Paula Scher; and MIT Media Lab pioneer John Maeda, among others. Media commentator John Hockenberry will return as master of ceremonies. Program curator for the conference is journalist Chee Pearlman. The 2008 Art Center Design Conference is presented by Richard Koshalek and Erica Clark. For more information and registration, visit artcenter.edu/designconference or call (626) 396-2357.

Corel Painter offers robust paint brushes and textures unlike those found in any other software. And now artists can learn to use this powerful program for motion picture or television animation production at Studio Arts, Hollywood's premier training center for animation, editing, visual effects and production design. Entitled Painter 101, the class runs from April 26, 2008 through June 28, 2008 in Studio Arts' state-of-the-art facilities, where students will have use of Macintoshes loaded with Painter X, and Wacom tablets. Teaching Painter 101 is artist, author, photographer and original Painter expert, Karen Sperling, who has been writing about and teaching Painter longer than anyone, having written the manuals for the first several versions of the software when it debuted 17 years ago in 1991. Karen is working on her fourth Painter book and she has taught Painter to everyone from individual artists to staff members at Disney Feature Animation, and she has demonstrated Painter to audiences at American Film Institute. Karen recently had a New York gallery show of her art at Monkdogz Urban Art gallery in the prestigious Chelsea art section, and her paintings and commissioned portraits are held in private collections internationally. For Painter 101 registration and tuition information visit: http://studioarts.com/ For information about Karen Sperling's art, visit: http://www.karensperling.com For information about Karen Sperling's upcoming Pain

Women In Animation International is proud to announce The Walt Disney Studios as our 2008 Annual Meeting Host and Sponsor. This year's event will be one you won't want to miss. A full presentation program is planned. Join us to catch all the up-to-the-minute information. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers as well. Thursday, April 17, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Location: Walt Disney Studios 500 S. Buena Vista, Burbank, CA 91521 in the Frank G Wells Building. Please RSVP at rsvp@womeninanimation.org no later than April 15. Pre-registration is required -- we must have the full names of all attendees. Entrance and parking is at the main gate on Buena Vista. Please be prepared to show your ID at the gate. Bring a friend -- Disney is planning a very special presentation that is open to all of the animation community. WIA members are FREE. Non-members are requested to pay a $10 donation at the door. Schedule of the Event 7:00 - 7:30 Arrival/Sign-in/Hor'doeuvres 7:30 - 8:00 WIA Annual Meeting Presentation 8:00 - 9:00 Walt Disney Animation Presentation 9:00 - 9:30 Networking, Dessert, Raffles

The NAB Show is the world's largest professional digital media industry convention. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has been hosting this event for over 80 years for all traditional broadcast, entertainment and emerging platform industries, including TV, Radio, Film, Internet and many others. This is where it originates -- an extraordinary experience, over twice the size of any other tradeshow centered on content: creation, management, commerce, distribution and delivery. The NAB Show is the ultimate destination for a global audience of media professionals who seek to deliver enriched content from concept to consumption. Kamy Merithew, Vice President of Marketing for WEGENER, and Gary Pelkey, WEGENER’s VP System Architect, will present discussions at the World Teleport Association (WTA) Content Distribution Forum and the 62nd Annual Broadcast Engineering Conference respectively. Pelkey will be joined by Eric Wiler, VP of Technology for Jones Radio Network, for a presentation entitled "Radio Broadcasters: Building File-Based Networks". They will examine the technology behind the next generation of satellite-delivered programming and discuss ways to provide listeners and advertisers with a sense of local presence by transitioning to file-based program delivery. The presentation is part of the session, Radio Technology Advancements and is scheduled for Sunday, April 13 at 1:00 p.m in the Las Vegas Convention Center Room S226/227.

Once considered the preserve of an insular youth culture, within the last decade Japanese animated cartoons (anime), comics and illustrated narratives (manga), and interactive video games have migrated into the mainstream, with reverberations both high and low. In a first for New York City, the Japan Society explores this phenomenon in "KRAZY!: The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games" from March 12 through June 14, 2009. Displayed in a series of enveloping spaces designed to evoke Tokyo's clamorous cityscape by the Tokyo-based architectural firm Atelier Bow-Wow, Krazy! will present simultaneous projections of anime films, accompanied by preparatory sketches and soundtracks; hundreds of comic books (including first editions and English translations), along with rare concept drawings and related action figures and other merchandise and video excerpts and table console computer games that can be played by visitors. Altogether, 200 works of art, objects, and ephemera will be assembled to illustrate the interconnected roots and themes of the three genres and to situate them within the context of Japanese art and life. Focusing exclusively on the work and influence of Japanese writers, illustrators, and designers, Joe Earle, Director, Japan Society Gallery, has adapted KRAZY! from an exhibition of the same name organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada, originating there in Spring 2008. Co-curators are the Vancouver Art Gallery's Senior Curator Bruce Grenville; the world's foremost authority on manga, Kiyoshi Kusumi, the editor of the Japanese magazine COMICKERS, as well as an established art critic and cultural theorist; and the sociologist, media theorist, and critic Toshiya Ueno, who serves as Associate Professor in the Expressive Cultures Department at Wako University, Tokyo. "In the 19th century, the Japanese master Hokusai incorporated aspects of European art into the traditional Japanese visual style, creating a revolutionary new art-which was then avidly absorbed by European painters as a purely 'Japanese art.' Such a give-and-take describes in part the dynamic nature of this new wave of art and popular culture as well," said Joe Earle, Director, Japan Society Gallery. Seminal works by six influential anime artists, eight manga artists, one sound artist and two video game designers are featured in KRAZY!. Exhibition highlights include excerpts from the classic anime, AKIRA (1988) by Katsuhiro Otomo, which was set in the year 2019 in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo and introduced to Western audiences what would become the prototypical anime character-statuesque figure, heart-shaped face, and huge eyes-and a narrative that forecasted complexity and fantasy to come. "Girl" power surfaces in this section in the form of Paprika, a red-headed psychotherapist invented by the artist Satoshi Kon who has the ability to "jack in" to other people's dreams with nightmarish results that include a parade of Buddhist statues, Chinese fortune figures, Japanese dolls, the Statue of Liberty, and a myriad hi-tech gadgets. Other anime artists whose works are highlighted are Mamoru Ishii, Ichiro Itano, Masaaki Yuasa, Makoto Shinkai and Ushio Tazawa. A sound room will allow visitors to savor anime soundtracks by Yoko Kanno that have achieved cult status around the world, with their fusion of jazz, hard rock, blues, hip hop, and ambient techno, devised for such anime film and television shows as COWBOY BEBOP (1998) and GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX (2002), and the music for the slapstick mafia film MIND GAME by animator Masaaki Yuasa, which was composed and performed by the infamous Osaka-based noise band, The Boredoms. The manga section of KRAZY! illustrates how Japanese artists have taken the art of silk paintings and woodblock prints and combined them with the genre story and American-style punch to create something totally new. Taiyo Matsumoto's unique style of remixing a narrative and breaking up the frame on a page with slices of close-up expressions is featured here in drawings for and copies of BLACK & WHITE, (1993-1994), her story of two orphans who defend a city named TAKARA-MACHI (TREASURE TOWN) from evil adults.

NVIDIA and CGSociety have teamed up to offer another NVArt competition, this time the focus is on architecture and landscape design. Titled Art Space: Architecture and Landscape, this digital art competition challenges participants to create awe-inspiring architecture and landscape designs. First prize is 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 cards, and 1 week 'all inclusive' holiday valued at $10,000 (USD). Second prize is NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500, and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card. Third prize is NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500, and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card. Entrants must be members of CGTalk or CGSociety. The entry process will walk you through a free signup if you are not already registered. For details, visit http://events.cgsociety.org.

Adobe Systems Inc. is hosting the eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The awards honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education. Reflecting the growth in the interactive design field and the importance of the integration between design and development, Adobe has added several new categories in three media areas: Interactive Media, Motion Media, and Traditional Media. * Interactive Media categories include Browser-Based Design, Non-Browser Based Design, Designer/Developer Collaboration, Installation Design and Mobile Design. * Motion Media categories include Animation, Live Action and Motion Graphics. * Traditional Media categories include Illustration, Packaging, Photography, and Print Communications. Students from more than 30 countries are invited to submit projects through the Adobe Design Achievement Awards website. From the website, visitors will also be able to access ADAA Live!, an interactive website that allows visitors to see the participants submitting projects in real-time. Entries will be reviewed and scored by an independent panel of twelve distinguished judges, including Emily Chang of Ideacodes; Joshua Davis of Joshua Davis Studios; Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swissmiss Studio; David Gensler of Keystone Design Union; Eric John of Forum Nokia; Adrian Johnson of Adrian Johnson, Ltd.; Maya Kopytman of C&G Partners; Michael Lebowitz of Big Spaceship; Rebecca Mendez of Rebecca Mendez Design; Independent Filmmaker Joan Raspo; Stan Szymanski of Sony Pictures Imageworks; and Armin Vit of UnderConsideration. Submissions will be accepted online through May 2, 2008. The online submissions will be judged digitally in May and semifinalists will be asked to submit their source files and a physical aspect of their entry as it is meant to be viewed for the final phase of judging. Finalists will be invited to New York and will win cash and software prizes. For more information, visit www.ADAAentry.com.