“We believe that people working in every area of computer graphics can learn from each other,” Gutierrez says. “And, we are happy to provide a venue in which that can happen. We have such a star-studded conference this year that VIEW 2011 will be the best celebration of digital media, computer graphics and filmmaking yet. And, I would like to encourage people to attend our VIEWFest, as well.”

VIEWFest, the Italian evolution of Resfest, unspools October 21 to 23, with director Enrico Casarosa from Pixar Animation Studios introducing the Italian premiere of “La Luna.” Also highlighting the festival are “Fratellini D’Italia “(“Garibaldi and the Kid Brothers of Italy”) with Maria Fares, co-founder of the animation production company Lanterna Magica attending, and the Italian premieres of the SIGGRAPH Animation Festival short films from 2011 in Vancouver and 2010 in Asia.

Speakers confirmed as of this date include:
·      Keynote Sharon Calahan - Director of Photography/Lighting, Pixar Animation Studio
‘Cars2 - An International Adventure’
·      Keynote Randy Thom - Multiple-Award Winning Director of Sound Design, Skywalker Sound
·      Keynote Cory Doctorow - Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist
’Detente: peaceful co-existence between the arts, creative business and the Internet’
·      Tom Wujec - Academy Award winner, visual thinking guru and innovator, Autodesk
‘ The democratization of technology: what’s happening in other industries and what’s next’
·      Scott Farrar - Academy Award Winner and Senior VFX supervisor, ILM, Transformer3
‘The Visual Effects of Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
·      Roger Guyett - VFX Supervisor and Second Unit Director, ILM, Cowboys&Aliens
‘The Visual Effects of Cowboys & Aliens’
·      Davide Pesare - Technical Director, PIXAR, La Luna
·      Lucia Modesto - Character Technical Director Supervisor, PDI/Dreamworks Animation
‘Character Rigging for animation feature movies’
·      Peter Nofz - Digital Effects Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Green Lantern
·      Glenn Entis - Academy Award Winner, Co-Founder and General Partner, Vanedge Capital
‘Beyond Badges- Gamification for the Real World’
·      David S. Cohen - Associate Editor, Variety
‘Variety’s history of 3D’
·      Adriano Rinaldi - Head of Effects, MPC, X-Men: First Class
‘X-Men: First class - From Concept to Screen, a Job for Mutants!’
·      Daniele Bigi - Lighting Supervisor, MPC, X-Men: First Class
‘X-Men: First class - From Concept to Screen, a Job for Mutants!’
·      Gavin Graham - Co-Head of 3D, Double Negative
‘Captain America: Creating A Digital Marvel’
·      Daniel Shapiro - Director of Automotive Marketing, NVIDIA
‘Driving Innovation: State-of-the-art computer graphics for automotive design, visualization and in-vehicle safety’
·      Aldo Maggiore - Director of B.U. ICT Engineering Methods & Services, Fiat ITEM
‘Visualization technologies in the Automotive Product Life Cycle: Applications and Perspectives’
·      Erminio Pinque - Creature fabricator/performer and Art Director, Big Nazo Lab
‘Creature Adventures in the real world’
·      Kris Piotrowski - Co-Founder and Creative Director, Capy
‘Design Sworcery’
·      Joshua Grow - 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Director, VFX Artist at The Creative Cartel and Producer
·      Roger Gould - Creative Director, Pixar’s Theme Park Group
·      David Revoy - Digital Painter & Art Director
‘Digital painting: Free/Liber Open-source software’
·      Mike Springer - Software Engineer, Google