VIEW
2015 ANNOUNCES CELEBRATION OF LAIKA’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
AND
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF VIDEOGAMES
AND
“EVEREST” :
REMARKABLE
TALENT GATHERING FOR THIS YEAR’S VIEW
PROMISES
BEST CONFERENCE EVER
Turin, Italy, October 7, 2015 – VIEW 2015 has added a
special Celebration of Laika’s 10th Anniversary, and also several special
presentations about the Future of Videogames, and the making of “Everest,” to
this year’s extraordinary gathering of talent. “This year’s VIEW Conference
will be, without question, the best one we’ve ever presented!” says Professor
Maria Elena Gutierrez, Executive Director. “I can’t wait for this year’s
conference to begin.” VIEW 2015 takes place in beautiful Torino, Italy October
19 to 23. To register, and for more
information, visit: www.viewconference.it
Among its dozens of outstanding presentations, VIEW
2015 will host a special 10- Year Anniversary Presentation by stop-motion
animated specialists Laika. Visual effects supervisor Steven Emerson will present
the world of big visual effects inside the tiny world of Laika, and will screen
the Laika hit films “Coraline” and “Paranorman.”
VIEW is also hosting various sessions on the Future
of Videogames:
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“Let’s Play Together: The Culture of Multiplayer in Videogames” & “Message
In A Bottle: The Story of Telling Stories in Videogames”:
Led
by Marco Mazzaglia, IT Manager/Videogame Evangelist with Ovosonico, the “Let’s
Play Together” workshop will discuss how Massively Multiplayer Online games
like “World Of Warcraft” are only the final step of different ways of playing
with other people. The goal of the workshop is to teach different ways of
“playing together,” not only bounded to usual controller devices like
keyboard/mouse/joypad, in order to enable attendees to start making their own
best multiplayer game.
In his talk “The Story of Telling Stories in Videogames,”
Mazzaglia will discuss how sometimes technology evolves faster than human
creativity and how technology offers tools that wait to be used to tell stories
or “send messages” to people in most disparate ways. Videogames are now one of
the mediums that follow this rule. What are these tools and these techniques
today? What “powers” do users have to tell their own stories? This session
presents a journey through history and technology that will allow audience
members to experience the new “alphabet of the future.”
** Additional Videogame themed presentations will
include those from Harvey Parker and Scott Harber of Natural Motion Games
talking about the new “CSR2” autoracing game, Oscar Nominee Henry Labounta
& Chief Visual Officer at Zynga, and Art Director Ben Brundenell, who
creates the “Dawn of Titans” game
Recapping the remakable Highlights
of VIEW 2015:
** World premiere presentations of “The Little
Prince,” “The Peanuts Movie,” and “Kung Fu Panda III”
** Visual Effects Supervisor Dadi Einarsson takes a
look at “Everest”
** A 40-year anniversary tribute to ILM with Oscar
nominated visual effects supervisors Ben Snow and Tim Alexander, and a look at the
making of “Jurassic World,” the number three box office leader of all time,
with ILM’s Glen McIntosh, Animation Supervisor, and Tim Alexander, ILM’s Visual
Effects Supervisor
** A panel of powerful “Women in Animation,”
featuring Producer Jinko Gotoh, Pixar’s Kim White, SIGGRAPH Computer Animation
Festival Director Mikki Rose, SCAD Professor Deborah Fowler, and Producer
Eleanor Coleman.
** Animation Film Directors’ Panel with Mark Osborne
(“The Little Prince,”) Jorge R. Gutierrez (“The Book of Life,”) Kris Pearn (“Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs 2,”) Richard Starzak (“Shaun the Sheep Movie,”) and Shannon
Tindle (“On Ice”)
** Aardman’s creative director Richard Starzak and
producer Paul Kewley present “Shaun the Sheep Movie”
** Michael Kurinsky explores “Hotel Transylvania 2”
** Keynote speaker director Jorge Gutierrez journeys
through his life of storytelling with pictures. Keynote speaker Shannon Tindle
shares his adventures making a Google Spotlight Story. Oscar winner Glenn Entis
recounts the spirit and stories of PDI.
** Director of Photography Kim White illuminates Joy,
the main character in Pixar’s “Inside Out”
** Presentation of “The Peanuts Movie” with
Supervising Animator Scott Carroll
** Keynote Speaker Randy Thom, Director of Sound Design
at Skywalker Sound and two-time Oscar winner, presents “Teaching the Camera to
Listen: From Apocalypse Now to The Peanuts Movie”
** A look at “Home” with Jason Reisig, Head of
Character Animation at DreamWorks Animation
** “Pixels” presentation with Daniel Kramer, Visual
Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks
** Behind the scenes with “Night at the Museum 3,” with
MPC’s Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Nash
** VIEW Conference Finale: World premiere Keynote
address about “Kung Fu Panda III,” by Co-Director Alessandro Carloni of
DreamWorks Animation. Also: Keynote address from Oscar nominated Visual Effects
Supervisor Chris Townsend, presenting “Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulk, Vision,
and the Gang”
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Executive Director Maria Elena Gutierrez adds, “In addition to our
extraordinary conference planned for this year, I also want to tell people to
be sure to register now for the interactive workshops that happen on Monday,
October 19, and during the conference. We are presenting a wonderful
opportunity for students and professionals from around the world to learn from
Screenwriter David Misch, Director Kris Pearn, Photographer Michael Rubin,
Chief Creative Officer Henry LaBounta, and all our other wonderful workshop
coaches. I can’t think of any other gathering in the world where such a diverse
array of talent would ever be possible.”
This
year’s VIEW Conference’s digital movie Festival, VIEW FEST, takes place October
16-18th also in Turin: www.viewfest.it
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