Suzuki Auto has teamed with the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) and Cinedulce.com to host its first nationwide animation contest, Animate! -- La vida Suzuki, which will run through February 29, 2008 and conclude with the winning animation being featured at the 2008 NYILFF in July.
Cortoons is an International Animated Short Film Festival that will be held next March (27/28/29/30 th) at Palladium Theatre in Rome (Italy).
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The Tokyo International Anime Fair (known as "TAF") is held every spring at Tokyo Big Sight. The exhibition features a trade fair with booth exhibits by anime-related companies, events including spectacular stage performances and film screenings/displays, and the Tokyo Anime Awards, in which outstanding anime works are presented with awards. Every year the exhibition attracts people throughout the world. TAF 2007 featured exhibits by 270 companies (55 from overseas) and welcomed a record 107,713 visitors over the four days of the event.
BrainCamp is the only high-level, cross-media conference specifically geared to major players in children's entertainment. BrainCamp is a chance to relax with peers and explore all sides of our industry, gather ideas, and recharge your batteries. BraincCamp attracts senior executives, creative forces and movers and shakers in the kids' and family entertainment industry.
The 2008 Media Summit New York is the definitive international conference for media, entertainment and technology leaders. The Media Summit is presented by The McGraw-Hill Companies, co-sponsored by BUSINESSWEEK and Standard & Poor's and produced by Digital Hollywood. The event will occur at McGraw-Hill's headquarters, 1221 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan.
The 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival provides practical how-to information, as well as career inspiration, bringing together some of emerging technology's most creative thinkers. The event features five days of keynote speeches, more than 120 panels, the SXSW Web Awards, the iF! Trade Show & Exhibition, the ScreenBurn Arcade, and dozens of exciting evening events. For more information, see http://www.sxsw.com/interactive.
MAXON Computer USA, the developers of CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D, today announced the 2008 schedule of its highly anticipated Power Integration Tour. The tour is a joint road show with Adobe Systems Incorporated that highlights the ease of integrating MAXON CINEMA 4D 3D software with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium for a powerful 2D/3D cross platform solution.
Representations of children in today's media intersect with contextual issues that demand scholarly consideration. As the academic and commercial markets' attention to children's literature and media increases, the need to explore how children are used, targeted, explored, and represented in books, films, games, and toys grows.
Two Powerhouse Packages - One Dynamic Workflow
The Power Integration Tour presents free seminars demonstrating how you can enjoy increased speed and efficiency in your production pipeline by combining the power of Adobe CS3 Production Premium and MAXON CINEMA 4D. The Adobe/MAXON workflow is the proven choice for top motion design studios worldwide.
Find out why!
Tour Highlights:
SAN FRANCISCO SIGGRAPH & RHYTHM & HUESPROUDLY PRESENT
From Cutting Edge To Cookie Cutter
WHEN: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The visual effects industry has evolved dramatically over the last decade. The growing technological possibilities form a constantly accelerating cycle with bigger expectations from directors, studios and audiences, leading to increasing challenges for the creators of 3D visual effects. The cutting edge technology of yesterday is the cookie cutter tool of today.
San Francisco, California, USAFeb. 19-21, 2008
Game Developers Conference provides educational, networking, and business opportunities for game development professionals driving the $11 billion videogame industry. It is the main global forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas, network and shape the future of the industry.
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) Mobile is the premier, professional conference for the creators of mobile game applications. Taking place in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference, GDC Mobile provides mobile game developers the opportunity to expand their knowledge of, and contacts within, the mobile entertainment sector.
The American International Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere. More than 1,500 manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from 30 countries showcase their toy and entertainment products. From classic toys to interactive entertainment and everything in between, it has it all.
Gaming firm TwelveJ is hosting Ed Hook's "Acting for Animators" workshop, in which Hooks explains seven essential acting principles, focusing on the connections between thinking, emotion and physical movement. He discusses the importance of empathy in acting and tells how to achieve it in animation.
The workshop will run from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), located at 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD. Cost is 350 GBP per person for groups of 1-3 animators and 275 GBP for groups four and up.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and Video Services Forum are hosting a joint SMPTE/VSF Conference. This event will be held at the Intercontinental Houston Hotel.
The joint conference highlights three days of informative technical sessions on the latest technologies, including issues on IPTV, digital content quality, acquisition and distribution, as well as hot topics such as streaming media and podcasting.
Honoring outstanding achievements and excellence in the field of animation, awards will be presented in twenty-three categories, including best animated feature, home entertainment, short subject, television production, television commercial and videogame, as well as individual excellence in areas ranging from production design, character animation, character design, and effects animation to storyboarding, writing, directing, music, and voice acting.
CGA Europe: West 2008 is a three-day content event for business and developers in the casual game market for mobile, console and PC. The event features special events including press reviews, pre-funk dinners, tours around the city, special pre-conference Microsoft Partner Day and an awards show. Keynotes will be given by top players in the industry. For more information, visit amsterdam.casualconnect.org/.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) is hosting the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit. The D.I.C.E. Summit 2008 will open with a high-profile keynote speaker, followed by the wildly popular Opening Night Party, which will host the movers and shakers of the interactive entertainment industry.
In addition to the lineup of speakers, the D.I.C.E. Summit 2008 will again feature the Interactive Achievement Awards, which will be hosted by comedian and GHOST WHISPERER co-star Jay Mohr.
Animex, one of the world's largest animation and gaming festivals, returns to the University of Teesside. The festival will feature its highly successful trademark mix of prestigious international guests, talks and masterclasses, a focus on the best of British animation from the past and present, and special programs. In addition it will feature a large selection of new student work from around the world competing for the highly coveted Animex International Student Animation Awards, previews of animated feature films and a two-day celebration of computer games, Animex Game.
An Open House to explore a creative arts education (Design, Media Arts, Fashion, Culinary Arts) is being held at The Art Institute of California - San Diego on Feb. 2, 2008 at 10:00 am.
Attendees will be invited to learn more about the school's programs, discuss educational goals, tour the facilities, learn about tuition scholarship opportunities and gain a first-hand look at how an Art Institute creative education can be the preparation for a career.
Cinema Today is an exhibition that brings all facets of the film production, broadcast, theater and animation industries together in one venue. The event is supported by major cinema- and TV-related associations in India and abroad. It gives firms a great opportunity to promote their services across the three cities of Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. For more information, visit www.cinematoday.in/.
FREE telephone/internet seminar: Are You Ready for the End of the Writer's Strike? Hosted by Mark & Jeanne Simon Founders of SellYourTvConceptNow.com
Featuring WGA writers Wayne Carter & Marc Zicree
Join us for a FREE telephone/internet seminar. DATE & TIME: Thursday, January 24 at 7:30pm Eastern / 4:30 pm Pacific FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast -- it's your choice)
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The Future TV Show North America 2008 is a platform for broadcasters and network operators to meet production companies and channels and discuss media convergence.
Key discussion topics include:
* Creating and selling stories for the medium* What content works on the new platforms?* Measurement models for emerging platforms* Will commercial ratings become the currency of the business?* The future of TV revenue* Perspectives from industry veterans and market newcomers* Viewer of the future
The annual Oxford Media Convention, organized by ippr in partnership with MediaGuardian, will look ahead to identify the policy, governance and business challenges facing the wider media industry as digital switchover and convergence become consumer realities.
