3D Festival 2004, Europe's largest convention and exhibition for the creative 3D industry (May 3-6 at Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark), has announced its executive committee and preliminary speakers. Synergy, meanwhile, will be the theme, encompassing storytelling, modeling, animating, rendering, programming and business strategies. Throughout the festival the synergistic domain of 3D production across several key market areas, including animation, vfx, business, game development, architectural visualization and design, will be explored and celebrated, according to event director Peter Johansen, conference chair Leonard Teo and founder Jimmy Hassel.

3D Festival 2004 Executive Committee
Conference chair: Teo (CGNetworks)
Special sessions chair: Shelley Page (DreamWorks)
Courses chair(s): Alex Alvarez, Darrin Krumweide, Pam Hogarth (Gnomon School of VFX)
Architectural visualization conference chair: Alex Morris (Hayes Davidson)

3D Festival 2004 Preliminary Speakers
Lorne Lanning, president, Oddworld Inhabitants
Larry Gritz, senior software architect, NVIDIA
Paul Franklin, VFX supervisor, Double Negative
Justin Leach, senior technical animator, Softimage
Mark Snoswell, director, Snoswell Design
Greg Downing, lighting technical director, Rhythm & Hues
Eric Hanson, 3D lead artist, Digital Domain
Scott Robertson, director, Design Studio Press
Brian Pohl, lead previsualization artist, Digital Domain
Steen Savery Trojaborg, DISSING+WEITLING
Knut Ramstad, Selvaag BlueThink
Kim Larsen, PLACEBO Effects
Jeff Mottle, director, CGarchitect

Key visual effects companies from the United States and U.K. have also committed to the 3D Festival, with speakers to be announced. These companies include:

- The Moving Picture Co.
- Framestore CFC
- The Mill
- Industrial Light & Magic
- Sony Pictures Imageworks

More speakers and sessions will be announced on the 3D Festival Website: www.3dfestival.com.