Hi everyone, Sorry its off topic, but if you fancy a trip to Bournemouth on the South Coast to see a few talks or workshops, take a look at this year's BFX Festival.
http://www.bfxfestival.com/ Some of the biggest names in VFX, Animation and Computer Games are coming to town, and we are very excited to share this year's line-up of speakers and activities. As well some excellent speakers, we have a number of fantastic workshops and a recruitment fair with Animal Logic, ILM London, DNeg, Framestore, MPC, Nvizible, Axis Animation and The Mill in attendance. Industry presenters (24th-27th September) http://www.bfxfestival.com/festival-speakers/ With behind the scenes talks on such blockbuster projects such as The Lego Movie, Gravity, Maleficent, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow, Elite: Dangerous, Hercules, Tearaway, Cif and many more - the festival speaker list is looking fantastic. Studios in attendance include - Animal Logic, MPC, Chaos Group, Framestore, The Mill, Double Negative, Dreamworks, Sony Games (SCE), Realise Studios, ILM London, The Foundry Glassworks, Nvizible, Media Molecule, Frontier Development, Axis Animation, Next Limit, Amuzo, Blue Zoo, Golaem Crowd, Gavin Rothery, Microsoft Lift Studios, Creative Skillset, Silicon South and AMD Workshops (22nd, 23rd, 27th and 28th September) http://www.bfxfestival.com/workshops/ Eric Scot Shaw Workshops on creative scriptwriting for animation Sarah Perry Workshop on acting and character movement for animators Adam Redford Workshop on 2D matte painting with Melania Fodritto doing a demo of environment projection using Nuke Scott Eaton Workshop on the application of anatomy in character design and demo of techniques using the Zbrush tool Paul Kidby Terry Pratchett's go to illustrator - Workshop on how to draw characters and demo of his sculpting techniques Next Limit Technologies Free workshop of Maxwell Render and the fluid simulation software, Realflow We have also teamed up with Creative Skillset for their 'Tick Talent Showcase 2014', in which Jordi Bares has kindly agreed to give a 'Softimage to Houdini' presentation in London on the 29th September at around lunchtime. Venue is at 8 Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5BY London, United Kingdom. More information very soon. Kind regards Sofronis (Saf) Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [cid:[email protected]]<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/> [cid:[email protected]] <http://www.bfxfestival.com/> BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages [ http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university ] This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.
