Wanna see a screening of 2001 with Doug Trumbull doing a lecture beforehand?
Wanna meet Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren and a whole bunch of guys that work on all the real versions of our replicas?
Wanna see 'making of' panels with the VFX teams behind PIRATES 3, SHREK 3, and SPIDERMAN 3?
Well, you can, at this year's VES Festival of Visual Effects - June 8,9, & 10 here in Los Angeles. The Visual Effects Society is a professional organization made up of the "practitioners of visual effects" - the VFX Supervisors, animators, artists, and...... modelmakers who are working in the industry today. Every year, we get together for the Festival which is one part screenings, one part discussion panels, and one part social catching up with the ol' gang. If any of you have come to any of the screenings I've participated in over at the Aero in Santa Monica, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Activision is planning a demo panel on some of the stuff that they are developing for games that will likely spill over into VFX. The big event is the presentation of the VES's list of the 50 most influential VFX films (as voted by our members) presented by a panel consisting of Doug Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and John Knoll. (These guys have nearly 20 Oscars between them......)
We're going to have some stuff on display in the lobby of the theater - cool photos that haven't been seen in a long time - ALIENS, BLADE RUNNER, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, 2001, TREK, FORBIDDEN PLANET - all sorts of stuff. I don't know what prop-type stuff will be there, but this event is more for what they have to say than the actual stuff (I know that is RPF heresy, but...........)
And, I know of two RPF'ers that will actually be on a couple of the panels. How cool is that?
This thing IS open to the public and you can get more info on tickets and schedule via our website - http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/vesFestival.cfm
Hope to see some of you there.............
Gene
Yeah, I know, shameless plug. But there is a high geek factor to these things. Especially since some geeks (including myself) had a hand in planning this.
Wanna meet Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren and a whole bunch of guys that work on all the real versions of our replicas?
Wanna see 'making of' panels with the VFX teams behind PIRATES 3, SHREK 3, and SPIDERMAN 3?
Well, you can, at this year's VES Festival of Visual Effects - June 8,9, & 10 here in Los Angeles. The Visual Effects Society is a professional organization made up of the "practitioners of visual effects" - the VFX Supervisors, animators, artists, and...... modelmakers who are working in the industry today. Every year, we get together for the Festival which is one part screenings, one part discussion panels, and one part social catching up with the ol' gang. If any of you have come to any of the screenings I've participated in over at the Aero in Santa Monica, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Activision is planning a demo panel on some of the stuff that they are developing for games that will likely spill over into VFX. The big event is the presentation of the VES's list of the 50 most influential VFX films (as voted by our members) presented by a panel consisting of Doug Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and John Knoll. (These guys have nearly 20 Oscars between them......)
We're going to have some stuff on display in the lobby of the theater - cool photos that haven't been seen in a long time - ALIENS, BLADE RUNNER, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, 2001, TREK, FORBIDDEN PLANET - all sorts of stuff. I don't know what prop-type stuff will be there, but this event is more for what they have to say than the actual stuff (I know that is RPF heresy, but...........)
And, I know of two RPF'ers that will actually be on a couple of the panels. How cool is that?
This thing IS open to the public and you can get more info on tickets and schedule via our website - http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/vesFestival.cfm
Hope to see some of you there.............
Gene
Yeah, I know, shameless plug. But there is a high geek factor to these things. Especially since some geeks (including myself) had a hand in planning this.
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