Building on the knowledge and expertise of more than thirty years, the Banff World Media Festival is the world's premier forum for professionals working in content creation, distribution and broadcast in Television and Digital Media.
PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 4-7, 2011 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective.
Join us for two weeks of new, exclusive classes in an interactive, online event. Each two hour class focuses on a different element of the VFX and games industry and allows individuals to discuss the content with the instructors. One ticket gives you access to all 12 classes, with more to be announced!
KidScreen Summit is renowned as the kids entertainment industry’s most important annual event. In 2010, the conference welcomed almost 1,500 attendees from 43 countries, with a record-setting 63% of delegates hailing from outside of the US.
VIEW Conference | A Future in 3D
VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming and VFX.
VIEW 2010 will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.
Carlos Labbé, Andrés Felipe Solano and Carlos Yushimito, recently named to Granta’s list of Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists, will read and discuss their work withmoderator Daniel Alarcón.
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.
As part of an ongoing series of initiatives joining UK and Chinese creative businesses – from a visit to Beijing and Shenzhen in May to hosting a Chinese Ministry of Commerce delegation last month in the UK – parameter is delighted to be producing:
China is now officially the second largest economy in the world and continues to grow, despite the global recession, at nearly 9% p.a.
Carter Goodrich, Carlos Grangel, and Nico Marlet -- three of the best in Animation Character Design -- will discuss their experiences creating Character Designs for Feature Animation at Kapi‘olani Community College at 7pm, on Monday, November 15, 2010. The three award-winning character designers will talk about their creative processes. The presentation is free and open to the public. It will take place from 7-9pm in Room OHIA 118 on the lower level of the OHIA building.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 will be held from December 15 to 18 at the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul Korea.
This is the third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia, following its debut in Singapore in 2008 and a successful show in Japan in 2009. Having staged SIGGRAPH in North America for 37 years, the
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) presented SIGGRAPH Asia to bring digital innovations from around the globe to the region, while tapping into its vibrant and emerging digital media landscape.
CG Overdrive is an event for the artists, by the artists. CG professionals, enthusiasts, students, academics, producers and all CG stakeholders convene and connect at this annual event. CGOverdrive2011 will be held at Suntec Singapore from 23-25 June, 2011.
The 1099 Dilemma - Help for Film/TV Business People and Artists
Date: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
John Canemaker booksigning
Two Guys Named Joe: Master Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft
Sept. 25, 2010. 2-6PM, SoHo
An Illustrated Lecture with Trilby Schreiber, SVA Professor and Oxberry Pegs Co-OrganizerDate: Monday, August 16thTime: 8:00Admission: $5
Created in 1999, Cartoon Movie is neither a fair nor a festival, but rather a co-production forum for European animated feature films. For two intense days, European producers have the opportunity to present their animation projects to all potential buyers in order to negotiate financing, to find partners and to interest distributors. All of this is happening in a very relaxed and convivial atmosphere… the human touch is the soul of Cartoon Movie!
motion 2010
The Game Developers Conference® (GDC) is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.
This will be a general discussion of game design and general networking. You may bring in your own projects or projects that interest you. There is a 'Philadelphia Animation Meetup' going on in Center City on the second Saturday of July (7/10). Click on the link above for more info.
Day 3 of Oxberry Pegs Presents, the "Animators are god? series at Observatory features kid's book illustrator Ted Enik and his lecture on Cute Pollution! Characters morph toward Cute. Whether they originate in your father’s funny papers, animated shorts, or classic kidsbooks, a gradual juvenilization takes place: Betty Boop loses her dog-ears (you heard me) and becomes a flapper, Bugs crossdresses, and the Simpsons grow way less simian.
Write Your Way Into Animation and Games (edited by Christy Marx): panel discussion and signing to celebrate the publication of this new Focal Press book. Terry Borst, Carolyn Handler Miller and Jean Ann Wright, all contributing authors of the book, will discuss writing for games, animation, webisodes and other forms of new media. Susan Spohr, author of Guide to Postproduction in TV and Film, moderates. Santa Monica Barnes & Noble at the Third Street Promenade.
Top 5 TV Pitch Secrets Webinar Tuesday, March 30, 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST
The Academy’s 2nd annual Animated Feature Symposium celebrates the work of the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated Feature Film category. In an evening of film clips and discussion, the nominees will discuss their creative inspiration and techniques as well as their film’s remarkable road to the big screen (panelists subject to availability).
When: Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. Theater doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Samuel Goldwyn Theater8949 Wilshire Blvd.Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Admission :$5 general
