Last minute confirmations pack an already expanded roster featuring top industry speakers; directors Jill Culton, Brad Bird, Dean DeBlois, Conrad Vernon, Sergio Pablos, Peter Ramsey and Eric Darnell lead an all-star lineup.
LOS ANGELES/TURIN, ITALY – VIEW Conference, Italy’s annual event celebrating VFX, Computer Graphics, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, VR, AR, Mixed Reality and more is proud to confirm the event’s complete line-up -- its biggest ever. Including KEYNOTES, MASTERCLASSES, WORKSHOPS and PANELS, the unique conference hosts many of the industry’s top talents in small sessions, offer inspiring and practical content to artists, animators, game developers, storytellers, content creators, students and other professionals. In addition to traditional sessions, VIEW Conference is proud to continue a new tradition of featuring a special musical performance. This year the event will host a concert conducted by prolific composer Michael Giacchino, who has scored countless hit films including the Oscar-winning score for the 2009 Pixar film Up.
VIEW conference is also proud to present a ‘Visionary Award’ to Oscar-winning Pixar production designer and filmmaker, Ralph Eggleston. Eggleston will be recognized for his contributions to the industry working on many of Pixar Animation Studios’ biggest films, including the industry’s first computer-animated feature, Toy Story and the studio’s delightful 2001 animated short, For the Birds, for which he won an Oscar. The unique conference will also host an exciting ‘Women in Animation’ lunchtime panel, featuring a host of industry leaders sharing their experiences, moderated by award-winning journalist and author Carolyn Giardina of The Hollywood Reporter and including panelists Maureen Fan, CEO Baobab Studios; Angie Wojack, Director of Career Development, School of Visual Arts NYC; Wieke Schrakamp, Research Manager Health & Behavior, IJsfontein; Janelle Croshaw Ralla, VFX Supervisor, Framestore; and Jill Culton, Writer/Director Dreamworks Animation’s Abominable.
“I’m thrilled to confirm our biggest and most diverse line-up ever,” says Conference CEO 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. 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, and enjoy.”
A FULL LIST OF SPEAKERS (Listed Alphabetically):
ADAM FIGIELSKI, VFX Supervisor, Pixomondo
Talk-The Fairies of Carnival Row
Talk-Game of Thrones Season 8 visual effects
ALEX SCHWARTZ, Producer, Addams Family (2019)
KEYNOTE- Conrad Vernon at VIEW 2019 (with Alex Schwartz)
ALEX WILLIAMS, Head of Animation, Escape Studios
Panel- Starting Your Animation Career: How to Get Noticed and Get Hired
AMEDEO BERRETTA, Teacher, Pearson College’s Escape Studios
Masterclass- Animate a Sci-Fi bot walk Cycle in Maya!
ANGIE WOJAK, Director of Career Development, School of Visual Arts NYC
Panel- Starting Your Animation Career: How to Get Noticed and Get Hired
Panel- Women in Animation (Moderator Carolyn Giardina)
ANTONY VITILLO, AR/VR Consultant, Blogger
Masterclass- Why Design Thinking is Important for Innovation? (with Simone Favarin)
BRAD BIRD, Director/Screenwriter/Animator
Masterclass- The Animator as Actor
KEYNOTE- Setting the Table: The Art of the Movie Opening
BRENDAN GREENE, Creator, PUBG
Talk- In Conversation with Jan-Bart Van Beek, Art Director, Guerilla Games
CONRAD VERNON, Co-director, Addams Family (2019)
KEYNOTE- Conrad Vernon at VIEW 2019 (with Alex Schwartz)
CH KIM, CEO & Executive Producer, PUBG
KEYNOTE- PUBG: A Creative by Global Underdogs that Stunned the World
DANIEL ZAJFMAN, President, Weizmann Institute of Science
KEYNOTE- What is Why and Why it is important?
DANIELE BIGI, VFX Supervisor, ILM
Talk- Art of Aladdin: “Let’s make some magic!”
DANNY DIMIAN, VFX Sup, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Masterclass- Creating the Spider-Verse: Developing Stylized Looks
Talk- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Breaking the Rules of Animation?
DAVID DE ROOIJ, Storyboard Artist, Director, Animator
Masterclass- Storyboarding for TV and Feature Animation: What’s the Difference
DAVID MISCH, Screenwriter, Teacher
Masterclass- Buster Keaton: Existential Slapstick
Talk- Ha! Aah! The Painful Relationship Between Humor and Horror
DEAN DEBLOIS, Director, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
KEYNOTE- Dean DeBlois at VIEW 2019
DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS, Distinguished Professor, Chair & Founding Director of Copley Center for Costume Design, UCLA
DLYAN SISSON, Marketing Manager, Pixar
Masterclass- Technical Toy Story: The Latest and Greatest in Pixar’s RenderMan
DREW SKILLMAN, Creative Director, Tilt Brush, Google
Talk- Understand & Experience Tilt Brush by Google. Oculus Quest Presentation and Interactive Demo (with Patrick Hackett)
ELOI CHAMPAGNE, Technical Director, National Film Board of Canada, VR
Masterclass- Creating an Immersive Experience: From Initial Idea to Final Pitch (with Frances Adair McKenzie and Vincent McCurley)
Talk- How XR (AR, MR, VR) will impact how we create and what we create
ERIC DARNELL, Chief Creative Director Baobab Studios
KEYNOTE- Interactivity as Narrative in VR Storytelling
FABIO VIOLA, Game Designer & Founder, TuoMuseo
Talk- Videogames as an Art Form
FRANK GLADSTONE
Talk-I’ve Got No Strings: A Brief History of Animated Dance
FLORIAN GELLINGER, VFX Supervisor, RISE FX
Talk-SHAZAM! Fun Around Philadelphia
FRANCES ADAIR MCKENZIE, Interdisciplinary Artist & Director, The Orchid & The Bee
Masterclass- Creating an Immersive Experience: From Initial Idea to Final Pitch (with Eloi Champagne and Vincent McCurley)
GIANNI CUOZZO, Cybersecurity Expert & Founder, Exein SpA
Talk- AI Cyberwarfare and Cyberweapons and Their Impacts on Cyber Ethics
GLENN ENTIS, Academy Award Winner, Co-founder PDI
Masterclass- Sandboxes for Creative Development (with Milan Jovovic)
GUY WILLIAMS, Weta Digital
Talk- Why Digital Performance? Weta Digital Presents Gemini Man
HAL HICKEL, Animation Supervisor, ILM
Masterclass- Anatomy of An Animation Supervisor
Talk- Living the Dream: 35 Years of Success, Failure and Lessons Learned in the VFX Industry
HEIKO BURKARDSMAIER, VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Mackevision
Talk- VFX Business and Legal
HELGE MAUS, 3D/VFX Artist & Trainer, pixeltrain
Masterclass- Houdini FX MotionGraphics
Masterclass- Houdini for Indies
HENRY LABOUNTA, Studio Art Director, EA
Talk-Turning up the HEAT in Need for Speed
HUGO GUERRA, Director & VFX Supervisor, Director and VFX Supervisor, Founder of Hugo’s Desk
Masterclass- Nuke for Dummies
Masterclass- VFX Editing
IAN PALMER, Director, Escape Studios
Talk- Industry-Driven Education: Training the Next Generation of Artists
JANELLE CROSHAW RALLA, VFX Supervisor, Framestore
Talk- Vers, Fury and Furry Creatures, the VFX of Captain Marvel
Panel-Women in Animation (Moderator Carolyn Giardina)
JACK M. GILSON, Studio Art Director, Rovio
Talk-How to be an Artist Working in Free to Play (F2P)
JAN BART VAN BEEK, Studio Art Director - Guerilla Games
Talk
JILL CULTON, Writer/Director, Abominable (Dreamworks)
KEYNOTE- Jill Culton at VIEW 2019
Panel- Women in Animation (Moderator Carolyn Giardina)
KAREEM ETTOUNEY, Art Director/Co-Founder, Media Molecule
Talk-The Timelessness of Dreams
JOSH HOLMES, CEO/Co-Founder, Midwinter Entertainment
Talk- From AAA to Indie, Rediscovering My Creative Soul
JURI STANOSSEK, VFX Supervisor - Mackevision
Talk- How VFX Accelerates Automotive Productions
MORITZ SCHWIND, Co-founder, Entagma
Masterclass- Beg, Borrow & Steal! Shanghaiiing Science Papers for Procedural Design
MAUREEN FAN CEO, Co-Founder, Baobab Studios
KEYNOTE- Creating an Interactive Narrative
Panel-Women in Animation (Moderator Carolyn Giardina)
MICHAEL GIACCHINO, Composer
KEYNOTE- Michael Gaicchino at VIEW 2019
Performance-In Concert
MICHAEL RALLA, VFX Sup, Framestore - AR Tools
Masterclass- Leveraging AR, VR & LED Techniques for Short Turnaround, High-end TVC Production
MILAN JOVOVIC, Co-founder, Partner & Chief Creative Officer, Nordeus
Masterclass- Sandboxes for Creative Development (with Glenn Entis)
MORITZ SCHWIND, Co-founder, Entagma
Masterclass- Beg, Borrow & Steal! Shanghaiing Science Papers for Procedural Design
NIKOLA DAMJANOV, Lead Game Artist, Nordeus
Talk
Masterclass- Procedural Material Creation with Substance Designer
PATRICK HACKETT, VR UX Designer & Co-Creator Tilt Brush, Google
Talk- Understand & Experience Tilt Brush by Google. Oculus Quest Presentation and Interactive Demo (with Drew Skillman)
PAUL DEBEVEC, Senior Engineer, Google VR
Talk- Welcome to Light Fields
PETER RAMSEY, Co-director, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Masterclass- Storytelling
KEYNOTE- What Story Are You Telling?
RALPH EGGLESTON, Production Designer, Pixar
Masterclass-Challenging Changes: The Parr Home Renovations
KEYNOTE-Character in World Building
ROB BREDOW, SVP, Executive Creative Director and Head of ILM
KEYNOTE- Star Wars: Over Four Decades of Storytelling with Innovation
ROB LEGATO, VFX Supervisor, The Lion King (2019)
KEYNOTE- Rob Legato at VIEW
ROBERT CODDINGTON, Animation Director, Insomniac Games
Talk- The Cinematic Process for Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4)
SEBASTIAN SYLWAN CTO & Creative Partner, Felix & Paul Studios
Talk- Space Explorers: The ISS Experience (Filming VR in Microgravity)
SÉBASTIEN HUE, Concept Artist & Illustrator
Masterclass- Making of a Scifi Environment Concept Art from Scratch in Photoshop
Talk- Keys and Mindset to Hike the Mountain of Concept Art
SERGIO PABLOS, Director/Writer, Klaus (Netflix)
Talk- Sergio Pablo’s Klaus: Bringing 2D Forward, Netflix
SIDNEY KOMBO-KIMTOMBO, Animation Supervisor, Weta Digital
Talk- Weta Digital Presents the Visual Effects of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame
SIMONE GIAMPAOLO, Director, Aardman
Talk- Becoming a Director in London, one Short Story at a Time
SIOBHAN REDDY, Media Molecule
Talk
STEFANO FARAONI, Lawyer, Professor
Masterclass- The Art of Pitch – Public Speaking – How to Attract Attention
STEVE GOLDBERG, VFX Supervisor, Frozen 2, Disney Animation
Talk- Creating the Elements of Frozen 2
SIMONE FAVARIN, R/D Social Science & Digital Transformation Expert
Masterclass- Why Design Thinking is Important for Innovation? (with Antony Vitillo)
SPENCER COOK, Animation Director, DNEG
Panelist- Starting Your Animation Career: How to Get Noticed and Get Hired
SVEN MARTIN, VFX Supervisor, Pixomondo
Talk- Sven Martin at VIEW 2019
TERRENCE MASSON, MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Talk- Finding Your Voice: Portfolio Review Discussion
THEO BIALEK, Digital FX Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Masterclass- Creating a Super Uber Elemental
Talk- Swing Far from Home
THEODORE TY, Head of Character Animation, L’Atelier Animation
Masterclass- Beyond Eye Darts: A Closer Look at Acting for Animation
Panel- Starting Your Animation Career: How to Get Noticed and Get Hired
THOMAS SCHELESNY, VFX Sup, Image Engine
Talk- Ferocious Beasts-Animating Daenerys’ Dragons in the Final Season of Game of Thrones
TIFFANY FEENEY, Founder - Talent Outpost
Panel- Starting Your Animation Career: How to Get Noticed and Get Hired
TODD SUE, Art Director, Respawn Entertainment
Talk- Small Team, Big Results: Making of Apex Legends
TOM WUJEC, Tech pioneer, Writer, Entrepreneur
KEYNOTE- The Future of Work
Masterclass- The Digital Tango: Preparing for the Future of Work
Masterclass- Creative Collaboration-Tools to Supercharge your Teams
TRENT CLAUS, VFX Supervisor, Lola.
Masterclass- Digital Make-Up Effects in a Photoreal Environment
VINCENT MCCURLEY, Interactive Designer & Creative Technologist, NFB Digital Studio
Masterclass- Creating an Immersive Experience: From Initial Idea to Final Pitch (with Eloi Champagne and Frances Adair McKenzie)
WEIKE SCHRAKAMP, Research Manager Health & Behavior, IJsfontein
Talk- Behavior Design
Panel- Women in Animation (Moderator Carolyn Giardina)
WILLIAM REEVES, Supervising Technical Director, Pixar
Talk- The Evolution of the Toy Story World
You can download the full program here or visit the conference website for full details.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s leading event for Computer Graphics, Interactive and Immersive Storytelling, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, and VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Turin, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops.
This year’s conference takes place from October 21 to 25 in the exciting new OGR venue. Registration is now open.
AWN readers get a 25% ticket discount - use code "VIEW_AWN."
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