FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VIEW CONFERENCE 2017
ANNOUNCES FINAL PROGRAM
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE 18TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM -- OCTOBER
23-27!
ENTRIES UNDERWAY FOR ‘VIEW AWARDS’ AND ‘GAMES BOOTCAMP’
LOS ANGELES/TURIN, Italy (August 31, 2017) –More than 50 speakers are confirmed for VIEW CONFERENCE 2017,
Italy’s largest digital media conference.
The 18th annual event promises
to offer inspiring and practical content to artists, animators, game
developers, storytellers, content creators and other students and professionals
who work with computer graphics.
Six visual effects Oscar® winners, two Academy® Sci-Tech
award winners, animated feature film directors, virtual reality pioneers,
computer graphics researchers, game developers, photographers,
writers and studio executives will converge in Turin, Italy from October
23-27.
“One of the special reasons to attend VIEW is that our
speakers like to stay for the entire week and attend talks given by
the other speakers, so our attendees have many opportunities to interact with
them,” says Conference Director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “VIEW brings
together the world’s best and brightest minds across multiple disciplines, in a
uniquely intimate and collaborative place where creatives can
incubate and celebrate,” says Dr. Gutierrez.
Newly
confirmed speakers include:
Scott Stokdyk Academy
Award® winner (VFX Supervisor, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) will showcase VFX from Luc Besson’s visually complex and
stunningly beautiful Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – from concept, design and inspiration to final color timing.
Paul Debevec, Academy Award® winner (Senior Staff
Engineer, Google VR, ICT) will give attendees a glimpse inside the latest work
from Google VR and ICT.
Martyn
Culpitt (VFX
Supervisor, Logan, Image Engine
company) who will breakdown the hit film Logan,
highlighting the visual effects behind Wolverine’s gripping final chapter.
Jan-Bart Van
Beek (Studio Art Director,
Guerrilla Games) will take attendees through the journey that Guerrilla Games
underwent to design the majestic post-apocalyptic world of one of the hottest
new game franchise of the year, Horizon
Zero Dawn.
David
Rosenbaum (Chief Creative Officer, Cinesite Studios) and Warren
Franklin (Executive Producer, Cinesite Studios) present
at talk titled ‘It’s All Just Funny Business: Looking for IP, Talent ad
Audiences.’
Elisabeth
Morant (Product
Manager for Google’s ‘Tilt Brush’) discusses the company’s acclaimed VR
painting application in a talk titled ‘Real Decisions, Virtual Space: Designing
for VR.’
Donald
Greenberg (Jacob Gould
Schurman Professor of Computer Graphics, Cornell University) discusses the
‘NEXT-Gen of Virtual Reality.’
Shawn Walsh (Visual
Effects Executive Producer and General Manager, Image Engine)
Simone
Kraus (Managing Director and Animation Supervisor, Trixter)
Steve
Muench (Early Investor ‘Loving Vincent’) will present ‘The Labor of Loving
Vincent: Animating Van Gogh to Solve a Mystery.’
Deborah Fowler (Professor of
Visual Effects, Savannah College of Art and Design/SCAD) will showcase ‘Procedural
and Production Techniques using Houdini.’
Daniele Federico (Co-Founder
and Developer, Toolchefs) will present ‘Make us Alive. An In-Depth Look at Atoms Crowd Software.
Dylan Sisson (Internationally
recognized toy designer, cartoonist and digital artist) speaks about ‘Creating
Characters in Virtual Reality.’
Jason Bickerstaff (Character
Artist, Pixar Animation Studios) will present ‘Crossing The Dimensional Rift.’
Steve Beck (VFX Art Director,
ILM) will discuss ‘The Future of Storytelling.’
Nancy Basi (Executive
Director, Film and Media Centre – Vancouver Economic Commission)
These
newly announced speakers join a spectacular slate of world-renowned keynote presenters including:
Joe Letteri, the four-time Oscar®
winner (Senior
VFX Supervisor, Weta Digital), who will present the evolution
of visual effects technology and artistry behind his latest film, War
for the Planet of the Apes.
Rob Pardo, legendary
videogame designer (CEO, Bonfire Studios) whose career work includes World of Warcraft.
Eric Darnell, (Chief
Creative Officer, Baobab Studios) whose career includes co-directing &
co-writing all DreamWorks’ Madagascar
films and projects including Invasion,
Asteroids, Rainbow Crow and more, showcases the immersive storytelling
possibilities of VR.
Cinzia Angelini, (Director, Mila) presents ‘The Making of Mila: A Quality Animated Film Via the
World Wide Web.’
Vicki Dobbs Beck, (Executive in Charge of ILMxLAB) presents ‘Step
Inside Our Stories,’ an exciting showcase of ILMxLAB’s adventures and learning’s
in the VR, AR and mobile spaces.
John Nelson, an Oscar®
winner who will share the visual effects work on the highly
anticipated film Blade Runner 2049.
VIEW
CONFERENCE 2017 also includes the Second Annual Game Development ‘Boot Camp’:
For aspiring game developers, VIEW
conference has also offered its second annual Games Development Boot
Camp Accelerator Program (applications due August 31). An
international panel of judges will give six early-stage game companies the
chance to be mentored for two weeks by industry experts and equity partners who
invest in the industry or have a financial interest in the sector. For complete
information: http://www.viewconference.it/games-bootcamp/
Also featured are the VIEW Awards:
The VIEW Conference’s popular awards
competition recognizes animated short films and videogames created between
January 1, 2015 and September 15, 2017 (submissions due September 15). For complete information: http://www.viewconference.it/awards-and-social-contest/.
About
VIEW Conference
Each year, the meticulously curated
conference brings together top talent in the fields of virtual reality,
animation, game development, and research for a sizzling week of workshops,
presentations, master classes, awards, panels, and keynote addresses.
Registration is now open: http://www.viewconference.it/passes-pricing/
The VIEW 2017 Conference is made
possible with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo,
Fondazione CRT, Piedmont Region,
Turin's Chamber of Commerce and the City of Turin, Twith.tv.
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