August 25, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE
2014 VIEW CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr.
Alvy Ray Smith, Glen Keane, and Tom McGrath highlight the 15th
annual conference, Italy’s largest computer graphics conference, October 14-17.
[TURIN, Italy] “It is with extreme pride and
great pleasure that I announce our 2014 VIEW Conference keynote speakers,” says
conference director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “Alvy Ray Smith, Glen Keane,
and Tom McGrath are highly respected
gurus in the computer graphics and digital entertainment industry and we are
immensely honored to host them in our beautiful city.”
“Alvy
Ray Smith invented core computer graphics technology and co-founded Pixar,
the first studio to make a CG feature film, the famous Toy Story,” Gutierrez continues. “Glen
Keane created and animated some of our most renowned and most-loved Disney
characters: Tarzan, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, and Aladdin. Now, he’s
working with Google to create a state of the art interactive, animated story
for mobile devices. Tom McGrath
wrote and directed one of the most successful CG animated feature film
franchises, the three-film Madagascar series, which were the first to give CG animated characters a
wacky cartoon style. In November, DreamWorks will release
the fourth film in the series, The Penguins of Madagascar, for which Tom McGrath was a writer and
executive producer and also the lead as the voice of Skipper the Penguin. You
can see why I’m so excited.”
The 2014 VIEW conference will take place
October 14 to 17 in Turin (Torino), Italy, a baroque city in the foothills of
the Alps known for cars, chocolate, and cinema. The largest computer graphics
conference in Italy, VIEW is celebrating its 15th year of bringing
top talent and remarkable visionaries to Turin. The VIEW conference follows the
annual VIEWFest digital film festival. Most talks are in English, with
translation available to and from Italian and English.
“We will roll out announcements to introduce
more speakers and our workshop series over the next few weeks, so please stay
tuned,” Gutierrez says. “I am so enthusiastic about our 2014 program. It
matches the amazing conferences we’ve had before and takes us beyond.”
For more information, please visit the
website: www.viewconference.it.
For Immediate Release
VIEW
2014 FULL PROGRAM ONLINE
REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN FOR WORKSHOPS AND MASTER CLASSES
WORLD
PREMIERE TALK ON DISNEY’S Big Hero 6
TURIN, ITALY –
Attendees at Italy’s largest computer graphics conference to be held October
14-18 in beautiful Turin, Italy, can now register online at http://viewconference.it/ for the full conference, for inspiring and
creative workshops led by award-winning professionals, and for practical master
classes taught by expert users.
“I know from
experience that the workshops and classes will fill up fast, so people should
register as early as they can,” says Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez, conference
director. “We are fortunate to welcome back, by popular demand, the incredibly
creative and two-time Annie nominee, Kris Pearn, co-director of the animated
feature Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2. Also, the brilliant Lucia Modesto,
supervising character technical director at PDI/DreamWorks for Mr. Peabody and Sherman; the amazing David Schaub, animation supervisor at
Sony Pictures Imageworks for The Amazing
Spider-Man who has received Oscar and BAFTA nominations, seven VES
nominations, and a VES award; and the
remarkable Brenda Bakker Harger, theater
director, improviser, and professor at the entertainment technology center at
Carnegie Mellon University.”
“Also this year, for
the first time,” she adds, “we are welcoming Rob Coleman, animation supervisor at Animal Logic for The Lego Movie, former animation
director at Industrial Light & Magic for the Star WarsEpisodes I, II, and III,
two-time Oscar and BAFTA nominee, and three-time VES award nominee. And, we
have instructors who will give practical workshops on
products from Autodesk, Wacom, Maxon, and Pixologic. So, you can see why I
suggest that people register as soon as possible.”
In addition to the
workshops, Coleman, Schaub, Modesto, and Bakker Harger join other award-winning
speakers throughout the week who will share information about their studios’
work on the major visual effects and animated feature films of 2014,
videogames, virtual reality, and other exciting areas of computer graphics.
Keynoting the VIEW
conference are award-winning director, writer, producer and actor Tom McGrath from DreamWorks Animation,
artist, inventor, author, entrepreneur and Pixar-co-founder Alvy Ray Smith, and award-winning
legendary animator Glen Keane.
From the world of
animated films:
- Lighting
supervisor and VES award winner Alessandro
Jacomini from Disney Animation Studios will give a world premiere talk on Big Hero 6, which releases November 7 in
the US and December 25 in Italy.
- Director
and VES award nominee Patrick Osborne
will speak about and present the Italian premiere of Disney Animation’s short film “Feast.”
- Providing
an early look at the 2016 Smurfs film
are production designer Noëlle Triaureau
and two-time Annie award nominee art director Marcelo Vignali from Sony Pictures Animation.
- Co-head
of story at DreamWorks Animation and two-time Annie award nominee Alessandro Carloni will present How to Train Your Dragon 2.
- Supervising
production designer, Emmy award winner and two-time Annie award nominee Nelson Lowry from Laika will introduce
the stop frame world of The Boxtrolls.
- Jerome Solomon, academic dean at
Cogswell College and a SIGGRAPH national committee member, will show this
year’s selections of the best in computer graphics from SIGGRAPH’s Electronic
Theater.
From the world of
visual effects:
- Industrial
Light & Magic’s Scott Farrar,
who has received an Oscar, six Oscar nominations, four BAFTA nominations, four
VES nominations, and two VES awards, will speak on Transformers 4, for which he was visual effects supervisor and
second unit director.
- VFX
supervisor Keith Miller from Weta
Digital, a BAFTA nominee and three-time VES nominee, will present work from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
- VFX
supervisor Kyle McCulloch, a
two-time VES award nominee and VES award winner, will talk about Framestore’s
work on Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Animation
supervisor Tim Harrington will talk
about Industrial Light & Magic’s work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Visual
effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier, who
has three Oscar nominations, four BAFTA nominations, three BAFTA awards, and a
VES nomination, and Merzin Tavaria, chief creative director at Prime Focus World, will
present the visual effects in Sin City: A
Dame to Kill For.
In addition, speakers
from the worlds of game development,
virtual reality, motion capture, and medicine include: Parag Havaldar, R & D Lead at
Blizzard Entertainment. David Putrino
from Not Impossible Labs at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Flávio Andaló and Milton
Luiz Horn Vieira from the DesignLab at UFSC. Elisa Di Lorenzo from Untold Games. Pierre-Alain Gagne from DOWiNO. Philip Stevju Løken from Placebo Effects. Kim
Baumann Larsen from Digital Storytelling.
“This is such a
special conference,” Gutierrez says. “People come to communicate,
tocollaborate, and to learn. It is unlike any other conference I know.We are so
honored that these incredible artists will join us in Turin for the conference
and share their knowledge in workshops for groups of our attendees. I am thrilled with this year’s program, and I
can’t wait to share it with everyone.”
VIEW Conference,
October 14 – 18, 2014, Turin Italy
For more information
and online registration, visit www.viewconference.it
