Adobe announced the winners of the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The premier student design and film competition honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world's top educational institutions. Using the latest Adobe products, more than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in the program. "Recognizing student achievement in the creative arts is an important part...
Kristin Petrovich, CEO of HD EXPO, ended June’s two day HD EXPO by noting that the Chicago event had surpassed expectations on every level. "The third year here was a charm; our attendance has increased significantly, the exhibition hall was consistently busy, and our educational offerings were a hit including the sold-out premier of our paid conference track.”HD EXPO panels brought nationally known experts to the Navy Pier event. Steven Poster, ASC, newly elected President of the powerful ...
The thread that bound the fmx/07 programme together was "believable virtual characters", and it tied research, cinema and games up into an extremely rewarding series. Highlights included Steven Stahlberg's unbelievable cg ladies, the resurrection of Klaus Kinski, digital performances at ILM, crisply real soldiers from Crytek, EA's George Borshukov and a slew of other contributions.Games and realtime applications took an unprecedented role at fmx/07 animation is closing the gap in aesthetic terms...
Formerly known as The American Pavilion and newly renamed, AmPav: The Pavilion at Cannes is gearing up for its 19th year providing students with an unparalleled opportunity to experience the fast-paced motion picture industry at the world’s most prestigious film festival.The work study program at the Cannes Film Festival, which boasts 147 participants from 60 colleges and eight countries, provides students with first-hand experience working with entertainment companies represented in t...
March 8th HD EXPO features David Wertheimer, Jim Matlosz, Josh Greer, Pierre de Lespinois,Terry Brown and more industry leadersFebruary 15, 2007 (Burbank, CA) What’s in store for the production and creative communities as new tools and technologies come to market and evolve? The future is just one of the provocative questions that industry leaders will be addressed during HD EXPO in a variety of forums, panels and intensives, coming up at the Beverly Hilton on March 8th.“Progress, Prediction...
Moderated by Jon Fitzgerald Sponsoring was the centre of the debate.
Key questions on how to contact the sponsors, at what time...were answered!
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Bob Donlon Senior Marketing Manager with Adobe made a sensation giving out his email to the attendance; let me give you another tip his personal blog
Doug Cole Director of of Entertainment Marketing with HP discussed HP involvement in large festivals to small ones
Darrien Michele Gipson: SAGIndie Event Coordinator deals ...
The worldwide Internet audience has decided in a public voting about the winners of the Bitfilm Awards. More than 750 films from 51 countries have applied for the prizes in seven categories. Here are the winners:T-COM 3D SPACE AWARD „Versus” by François Caffiaux, Romain Noel and Thomas Salas (France)ADOBE FX MIX AWARD„Travel Diary” by Keng-Ming Liu (Taiwan/United States)MTV FLASH AWARD„Blow” by Hermes Mangialardo (Italy)HAMBURG MACHINIMA AWARD„The Days After” by André Pesch (Ge...
Here Are The Nominees For The Bitfilm Awards The Internet audience has decided in a public voting about the nominees for the Bitfi lm Awards. These are the fi ve fi lms in each category which will enter the second round of the Bitfi lm online voting:T-COM 3D SPACE AWARDElephants Dream by Bassam Kurdali (Netherlands)No Room For Gerold by Daniel Nocke (Germany)Supermoine by Bagnol Julien, Ho Sebastien and Landouzy Florian (France)The End by Maxime Leduc, Michel Samreth, Martin Ruyant (France)Versu...
2006 FESTIVAL DATES: FRIDAY, JULY 21 to SATURDAY JULY 29EVENT SHOWDOWN DUKE CITY SHOOTOUT 2006SATURDAY, JULY 15 - FRIDAY, JULY 21 Digital Bootcamp (University of New Mexico ARTS Lab) Sgt. John Grace and crew whip our new recruits into shape during one-week of intensive training in the art of digital moviemaking. Get involved and attend! FRIDAY, JULY 21 - JULY 23 Duke City/48 Hour Film Project Competition Sponsored by First Community BankThe two pre-eminent names in the movie-making competition b...
The 7th Annual Digital Days comes to the Marjorie Luke Theater in Santa Barbara, Saturday, February 26 and Sunday, February 27, 2005. Since 1998, the two-day festival has celebrated the cutting edge of digital filmmaking and technology. From the cameras used to make films, to the computers used to edit and distribute the finished product, Digital Days will again be screening spectacular Hi-Definition digital films, while award-winning professionals and filmmakers teach the tools. Come see why ...
Animex Student Animation Awards The winners and runners up for the Animex Student Animation Awards were announced at Animex Talk! by Tom Martinek of Industrial Light and Magic, Rachelle Lewis of DreamWorks and Marc Craste of Studio AKA on Friday 4 February 2005. All the winners will screen at the BALTIC, International Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead on the 5 and 6 February 1.30pm – 4.00pm. Sponsors in this year's awards include Adobe, Alias, Apple, Character Animation Technologies, Chro...
WHAT IS IN THE AIR The 2004 AFI Film Festival at Hollywood’s ArcLight Theater showcased a variety of short films, from topics on the CIA to the forgotten suicides of young stars. On Wednesday, November 10 and Saturday, November 13 the LA Film School hosted a group of the AFI shorts. Off to Laemmle’s ? They all should be. But for the time being we can just admire the dedication and creativity these young filmmakers share. One such filmmaker, Liz Blazer, created an animated short on a solo mis...
A Z OF DIGITAL FILMMAKINGAn Industry Event at the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival To be held on Thursday 26 August 11:00am to 13:00 Point Conference Centre, Bread Street, EdinburghMAGIC DREAMS 2004 SHORTSAn Industry Event at the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival To be held on Friday 27 August - 15:30am to 17:00 UGC Cinemas Fountain Park, EdinburghThe 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival is proud to announce two special digital filmmaking events for 2004, the "A...
DIGITAL DAYS 2004 TEEN FILMMAKER AWARDS ANNOUNCEDRichard Corwin and Gretchen Miller, producers of Digital Days 2004 at the 19th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, announced the winners for the Teen Filmmaker program as:* Amanda Weiss, "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat," Cal Arts, Valencia, CA* Cole Sanchez, "Fridge," Rancho Marrieta, CA* Carolyn Chrisman, "Ascension Rites," Anacapa School, Santa Barbara, CA * Austin Madison, "Boy Meets Rex," Sacramento, CA* Daniel Howard, "Jai Yen-C...
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Presents the 6th Annual Digital Days, an interactive showcase and forum featuring screenings, presentations, seminars and classes to be held Saturday, Feb 7, 2004. Highlighting state-of-the-art digital moviemaking and multimedia, Digital Days 2004 will provide area youth and film enthusiasts with an up-close and hands on experience with the latest digital software and computer technologies. Industry veterans and digital arts professionals will take part ...