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VFX Pro
Los Angeles, CA -- Richard Edlund, ASC, Michael Fink, John
Knoll and Jeffrey A. Okun will shed light on the role Visual Effects Supervisors play in the collaborative art and craft of filmmaking during a seminar at this year's Cine Gear. The event is sponsored by the Visual Effects Society (VES), and will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday in Theater 3.
Richard Edlund will moderate the discussion with this year’s Oscar winning Fink and Oscar nominee Knoll, also 2008 Visual Effects Society Awards (Fink for The Golden Compass and Knoll for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's
End), who will be joined by the much renowned and former VES Chairman Jeffrey A. Okun (Blood Diamond, The Day the Earth Stood Still). Richard Edlund is a four-time Oscar winner who has earned six additional nominations. He began his career in the visual effects arena with Star Wars
in 1977, and has gone on to earn visual effects supervisor credits on 34 films made for the cinema and television. His most recent endeavor was Charlie Wilson's War in collaboration with director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC.
''Visual effects are beginning to show up in almost every movie these days,'' Edlund observes. ''Our panel will focus on the collaborations of the visual effects supervisor, beginning with the director whose vision for his script
is the driving force, the cinematographer, production designer, costume designer, mechanical special effects crew, and culminating with their own visual effects team.''
Fink, Knoll and former VES Chairman Okun, have all compiled impressive arrays of credits, awards and nominations in the visual effects field. Knoll has earned some 25 credits, including the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Fink has 28 credits starting with WarGames in 1983 and has just won this year's Oscar for Golden Compass. Okun launched his career with The Last Starfighter in 1984 and has 27 credits, the most recent of which is the critically acclaimed Blood Diamond. The three of them have earned some 20 Oscars and VES Awards and nominations from their peers.
''We will discuss and answer questions about how the evolution of hybrid visual effects technologies is affecting the art of visual story-telling on television as well as the cinema and the possibilities for the future,'' explains Edlund. ''However, understanding and mastering the technology is just one aspect of what it takes to be a successful visual effects supervisor. You have to master the art of collaboration. A visual effects supervisor depends on many different people.''
About the VES
VES is a professional, honorary society, dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of visual effects and to upholding the highest uniform standards and procedures for the visual effects profession. The VES is the entertainment industry's only official trade organization
representing the extended community of visual effects practitioners including supervisors, artists, producers, technology developers, educators and studio executives.
Its 1,800 global members contribute to all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos, games and new media. The VES strives to enrich and educate its members and the entertainment community at large through many domestic and international events, screenings and programs. Visual effects professionals constitute a vital creative force in content creation and are literally shaping the future of entertainment.
VES Technology Committee & Motion Capture Society Presents
Performance Capture Technology Used For Animation
''Demystifying Motion Capture Techniques''
Performance capture technology is here to stay. More and more studios are creating Digital Characters for their stories. This panel is designed to address advances in motion capture technologies that are currently in use
producing various types of animation. How different are all of these systems? Our panelists will creatively enlighten us with real solutions and insights into the companies who provide the technology and know-how to capture ''human performances.''
MODERATOR:
Demian Gordon - Chair of Motion Capture Society
PANELISTS:
Eyetronics - Nick Tesi - Markerless Face + Inertial MoCap
System
Motion Analysis Studios - Dave Blackburn - Passive Optical
Motion Capture System
Henson Digital Puppetry Studio - Kerry Shea - Real-Time
Puppeteering of 3D CG Characters
Vicon - House of Moves - Brian Rausch - Passive Optical Motion Capture System
Sony - John Meehan - Character Animation from Mocap
Giant Studios - Ryan Champney - Passive Optical Motion Capture System
ILM - Mike Sanders – Character Animation from Mocap
USC ICT - Paul Debevec - Rapid High Resolution Face Scanning
Image-Metrics - Patrick Davenport - Facial Animation Capture
Direct from Video
DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
TIME: 6:30PM - Snacks/Drink and
7:00PM - 9:30PM Event
PLACE: Sony Pictures Imageworks (Ince Theater)
9050 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA
FEES: VES Members log on to:
wwww.visualeffectssociety.com.
to RSVP
Free for VES and MCS.
All PGA + DGA Members
(discount fee $10)
All non-members ($20.00 fee)
RSVP: Contact VES (818) 981-7861 for MCS, PGA and DGA
members
VES Members can use the link for the VES website at
wwww.visualeffectssociety.com to RSVP.
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