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VIEW Conference: ITALY’S PREMIERE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Featuring FOUR award-winning keynote speakers
and the Italian premiere of Disney/Pixar’s “La Luna” at sister festival
VIEWFest,
Italy’s renowned symposium celebrates all things computer graphics …
and more!
VIEW Conference – Italy’s leading digital media conference has exceeded expectations once
again with a line-up of outstanding filmmakers and computer graphics inventers,
practitioners, and visionaries gathering in Italy for four days of inspirational talks,
extraordinary educational workshops, and astounding visual and audio experiences.
The VIEW Conference is made possible with the support of Piedmont Region, Province of
Turin, City of Turin, Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Chamber of Commerce of
Turin, Ministry of Youth.
This year, four award-winning keynote speakers expand VIEW’s reach and set the pace for the
remarkable roster of notable presenters during the week. “We are so pleased and proud to
welcome our keynote speakers Sharon Calahan, Tom Wujec, Cory Doctorow, and Randy Thom
to the VIEW Conference,” says conference director Maria Elena Gutierrez. “Sharon is a
goddess of light, Randy adds the dimension of sound, Tom is a visionary thinker, and Cory will
challenge our thinking about art and the internet.”
Calahan, Pixar’s renowned cinematographer, was the director of photography on Cars2. Thom,
a two-time Academy Award winner created the sound design for Rio. Wujec, an Autodesk
fellow and highly sought-after speaker has authored three books on innovation. Doctorow is a
contributor to “The Guardian,” “The New York Times,” “Publishers Weekly,” “Wired,” and a coeditor of the Boing Boing blog. Sharon Calahan will be offering a workshop for aspiring
cinematographers titled "Reflections on Light and Color," Randy Thom one for sound
designers, and Tom Wujec will give a workshop on design and innovation, "Clarity:Using
Visual Thinking to Collaborate, Innovate and get things done" while Pixar's Davide Pesare one
about Shading "RenderMan: Understanding Shading on SIMD Architectures".
This year, we are honored to host the talk by Wayne Stables, who is the visual effects
supervisor for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of TINTIN at Weta Digital. Wayne will
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deliver one of the world’s first presentations of that studio’s work on the film at the VIEW.
Tintin, Spielberg’s first computer-animated feature, opens in Italy on October 28. Basedon the
popular classic comic books created by Belgian artist Herge (Georges Remi), and co-produced
by Peter Jackson, the story centers on Tintin, a young explorer, and his faithful dog Snowy.
The first installment of a planned trilogy, the film stars Daniel Craig as Red Rackham, Andy
Serkis as Captain Haddock, and Jamie Bell as the voice of Tintin.The Adventures of Tintin
marks Weta Digital’s first animated feature film. Digital Domain's Erik Nash, overall visual
effects supervisor on REAL STEEL has also chosen VIEW Conference in beautiful Turin, Italy
to give the world’s first presentation about the movie. Erik will be spotlighting the state-ofthe-art filmmaking techniques used to create the high-tech robotic boxers for DreamWorks
Studios’ breakthrough picture, Real Steel. Real Steel opens in Italy only in November.
Variety's critic Peter DeBruge writes of the film: “The uncanny thing about Real Steel is just
how gripping the fight scenes are... Seamless visual effects and heavy-duty sound design
complete the illusion of fast-moving fighting machines.” To make this possible, Digital
Domain, Giant Studios and Glenn Derry’s Video Hawks collaborated to push beyond the
techniques used for Avatar into a new state-of-the-art filmmaking process. A virtual
production workflow designed by Digital Domain and Nash allowed director Shawn Levy to
see CG characters as if they were actually present on set - in the boxing rings where
background plates were shot - just as he would shoot any other scene with human actors.
In addition to these luminaries, the VIEW Conference once again highlights artists who
worked on films likely to be Oscar contenders in 2012 including: Academy-Award winner
Scott Farrar, visual effects supervisor from Industrial Light & Magic for Transformers: The
Dark of the Moon. Two-time Oscar nominee Roger Guyett, also from ILM, visual effects
supervisor for Cowboys & Aliens. BAFTA award nominee Peter Nofz from Sony Pictures
Imageworks, digital effects supervisor for Green Lantern. Gavin Graham, co-head of 3D at
Double Negative for Captain America: The First Avenger. From the Moving Picture Company,
Adriano Rinaldi, head of effects, and Daniele Bigi, look development lead for X-Men: First Class.
Lucia Modesto, character technical director supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks for Kung Fu
Panda 2.
Glenn Entis co-founder of PDI, former head of DreamWorks Interactive, chief visual officer for
Electronic Arts, Technical Achievement Academy Award winner, and now a founding partner
in Vanedge Capital, will challenge everyone to think about the impact of games. Kris
Piotrowski, co-founder and creative director of CAPY, will speak about the challenges of
designing "Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP". Associate editor David S. Cohen brings
stereo 3D alive through the pages of “Variety.” Joshua Grow, 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer
Animation Festival chair, stereo coordinator and visual effects artist will move stereo 3D on
into the future. Illustrator and concept artist David Revoy will share his unique artistic vision.
And Erminio Pinque, instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, will help people
understand how to turn concept art into creatures.
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Also, matching the strength of the filmmaking and gaming side are professionals from other
areas of computer graphics. Daniel Shapiro, director of Nvidia’s automotive division, will
introduce “State-of-the-art computer graphics for automotive design, visualization and invehicle safety”. Luc Soler, research project manager in computer sciences and robotics, will
introduce attendees to medical imaging. And creative director Roger Gould will take attendees
on a ride into Pixar’s theme park group.
“We believe that people working in every area of computer graphics can learn from each
other,” Gutierrez says. “And, we are happy to provide a venue in which that can happen. We
have such a star-studded conference this year that VIEW 2011 will be the best celebration of
digital media, computer graphics and filmmaking yet. And, I would like to encourage people to
attend our VIEWFest, as well”.
VIEWFest, the Italian evolution of Resfest, unspools October 21 to 23, with director Enrico
Casarosa from Pixar Animation Studios introducing the Italian premiere of “La Luna.” Also
highlighting the festival are “Fratellini D’Italia “(“Garibaldi and the Kid Brothers of Italy”) with
Maria Fares, co-founder of the animation production company Lanterna Magica attending,
and the Italian premieres of the SIGGRAPH Animation Festival short films from 2011 in
Vancouver and 2010 in Asia.
MORE AMAZING NEWS FROM THE VIEW CONFERENCE
REAL STEEL comes to Turin, Italy!
Turin, Italy - October 4, 2011. In a surprise addition to an already powerful roster of speakers
lined up for the VIEW Conference, October 25 to 28, overall visual effects supervisor ERIK
NASH from DIGITAL DOMAIN has has chosen to give the world’s first presentation of that
studio’s work at VIEW Conference. ERIK NASH will be spotlighting the state-of-the-art
filmmaking techniques used to create the high-tech robotic boxers for DreamWorks Studios’
breakthrough picture, REAL STEEL. Real Steel opens October 7 in the USA.
Variety's critic Peter DeBruge writes of the film: “The uncanny thing about Real Steel is just
how gripping the fight scenes are. . . .Seamless visual effects and heavy-duty sound design
complete the illusion of fast-moving fighting machines.” To make this possible, Digital
Domain, Giant Studios, and Glenn Derry’s Video Hawks collaborated to push beyond the
techniques used for Avatar into a new state-of-the-art filmmaking process. A virtual
production workflow designed by Digital Domain and Nash allowed director Shawn Levy to
see CG characters as if they were actually present on set - in the boxing rings where
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background plates were shot - just as he would shoot any other scene with human actors.
“We are thrilled that Erik Nash will share these important techniques with our attendees at
the VIEW conference,” says conference director Maria Elena Gutierrez. “It is exciting to watch
computer graphics characters move from post production up the pipeline and into
production.”
Now in its 12th year, the VIEW is Italy’s largest computer graphics conference. Keynoting the
conference this year are Pixar Animation Studio’s Sharon Calahan, director of photography on
Disney/Pixar’s Cars2; Skywalker Sound director of sound design Randy Thom, a two-time
Academy Award winner who created the sound design for Rio; Tom Wujec, Autodesk fellow
and author of three books on innovation; and Cory Doctorow, technology activist, science
fiction author, and journalist. VIEW is also bringing to Turin visual effects supervisors and
artists, game developers, automotive technology inventors, scientists involved in medical
imaging, and many others.
Founded in 1993 by director James Cameron and two business partners, Digital Domain has
produced visual effects for more than 80 movies including Titanic, Apollo 13, the
Transformers trilogy and TRON: Legacy, and Digital Domain artists have earned multiple
Academy Awards. Today, Digital Domain artists in Los Angeles, Vancouver, San Francisco,
Florida, Mumbai and London, are working on David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer, Alex Proyas Paradise Lost, and Carl Rinsch’ 47 Ronin.
VIEW 2011 takes place October 25-28 following the film festival VIEWfest, October 21-23 in
beautiful Turin, Italy. For a list of all the speakers, to register, and to sign up for the
workshops please visit our website: www.viewconference.it.
Our full program can be download here:
http://viewconference.it/docs/VIEW_Conference_program_ENG_2011.pdf
Speakers confirmed as of this date include:
· Keynote Sharon Calahan - Director of Photography/Lighting, Pixar Animation Studios
‘Cars2 - An International Adventure’
· Keynote Randy Thom - Multiple-Award Winning Director of Sound Design, Skywalker
Sound
‘Sound Design in Pre-Production’
· Keynote Cory Doctorow - Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist
’Detente: peaceful co-existence between the arts, creative business and the Internet’
· Keynote Tom Wujec - Academy Award winner, visual thinking guru and innovator,
Autodesk ‘The democratization of technology: what’s happening in other industries and
what’s next’
· Erik Nash, Overall VFX Supervisor on Reel Steel, Digital Domain
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‘Real Steel: Bringing Virtual Production in the Real World’
· Wayne Stables – VFX Supervisor, Weta Digital,
‘Creating the world of The Adventures of Tintin’
· Scott Farrar - Academy Award Winner and Senior VFX supervisor, ILM
‘The Visual Effects of Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
· Roger Guyett - VFX Supervisor, ILM
‘The Visual Effects of Cowboys & Aliens’
· Davide Pesare - Technical Director, PIXAR, La Luna
· Lucia Modesto - Character Technical Director Supervisor, PDI/Dreamworks Animation
‘Character Rigging for animation feature movies’
· Peter Nofz - Digital Effects Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Green Lantern
‘Green Lantern: Parallax - The creation of a complex villain’
· Glenn Entis - Academy Award Winner, Co-Founder and General Partner, Vanedge Capital
‘Beyond Badges- Gamification for the Real World’
· David S. Cohen - Associate Editor, Variety
‘Variety’s history of 3D’
· Adriano Rinaldi - Head of Effects, MPC
‘X-Men: First class - From Concept to Screen, a Job for Mutants!’
· Daniele Bigi - Lighting Supervisor, MPC
‘X-Men: First class - From Concept to Screen, a Job for Mutants!’
· Gavin Graham - Co-Head of 3D, Double Negative
‘Captain America: Creating A Digital Marvel’
· Daniel Shapiro - Director of Automotive Marketing, NVIDIA
‘Driving Innovation: State-of-the-art computer graphics for automotive design, visualization
and in-vehicle safety’
· Aldo Maggiore - Director of B.U. ICT Engineering Methods & Services, Fiat ITEM
‘Visualization technologies in the Automotive Product Life Cycle: Applications and
Perspectives’
. Michael Robinson - Executive Brand & Design Director, Bertone
‘Extreme Prototype development at Bertone’
. Laura Milani - CEO at Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design, IAAD,
‘Sustainable mobility - educational and thoughts on the contemporary paradigm of mobility’
. Francesco Fileppo, Project Manager and Research Engineer at ISMB
‘VANETs and Visualization Techniques: Scientific and Commercial Purposes’
. Paolo Cignoni - Visual Computing Laboratory, ISTI - CNR
‘3D Models for Cultural Heritage: Beyond Plain Visualization’
· Erminio Pinque - Creature fabricator/performer and Art Director, Big Nazo Lab,
Instructor RISD
‘Creature Adventures in the real world’
· Roger Gould - Creative Director, Pixar’s Theme Park Group
‘Beyond the Movies - Transforming Pixar Stories into Disney Theme Park Experiences’
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. Tom Krcha - Evangelist Adobe
. Henrik Fett - Visual Effects Supervisor and Co-founder, LOOK Effects
‘The Business of Visual Effects: LOOK Effects, a Case Study’
‘Black Swan and Limitless: Using Visual Effects to Tell a Story’
. Pam Hogarth - Director of Marketing, LOOK Effects
‘How to Succeed in Visual Effects: A Case Study’
· Joshua Grow - 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Director, VFX Artist at The
Creative Cartel and Producer
· David Revoy - Digital Painter & Art Director
‘Digital painting: Free/Liber Open-source software’
· Mike Springer - Software Engineer, Google
‘Google Apps & AppEngine - Scaling your tools with your business’
.
Jim Spoto - President / Co-Founder, Dot Matrix Interactive Design, LLC.
‘Design trends in the smartphone space’
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Stephane Deverly - Chief Technology Officer, Duran Duboi
‘An efficient an uniform geometry workflow for animated feature and Vfx projects’
· Kris Piotrowski - Co-Founder and Creative Director, CAPY
‘Designing Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP’
· Marco Mazzaglia - IT Manager and Video Game Evangelist, Milestone
‘Make your passion your profession: how to get into the videogame industry’
· Luc Soler - Research Project Manager in Computer Science and Robotics, IRCAD
‘Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applied to surgery’
· Lucio Tommaso De Paolis - AVR Lab, Dep. of Innovation Engineering, University of
Salento, and Prof. Giovanni Aloisio - University of Salento
‘Augmented Reality for Preoperative Planning and Minimally Invasive Surgery’
· Emanuele Micheli - Education Management Professional, School of Robotics, and Prof.
Niccolò Casiddu - School of Architecture of Genova
‘Design and robotics for people with special needs‘
· Stefano Cieri - Lighting and Rendering TD, Canecane
‘Taxiceratops: anatomy and behaviour of a digital creature born in Rome’
· Fabrizio Volpi - 3D Supervisor/Compositor and Marco Negri, 3D Artist Xchanges VFX
‘Xchanges visual effects’
· Simona Braga, artistic director of ArtLab
‘The revolution in lighting control devices’
· Roberto Remmert - Petra s.r.l.
‘A dream come true’
. Enrico Casarosa – Director and Story Artist, Pixar Animation Studios, La Luna
WORKSHOPS
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. Keynote Sharon Calahan - Director of Photography/Lighting, Pixar Animation Studios
‘Reflections on Light and Color
. Keynote Randy Thom - Multiple-Award Winning Director of Sound Design, Skywalker
Sound
‘Sound Design and Story Telling’
. Keynote Tom Wujec - Academy Award winner, visual thinking guru and innovator,
Autodesk
‘Clarity: using Visual Thinking to collaborate, innovate and get things done’
. Davide Pesare - Shading TD and Software Engineer, Pixar Animation Studios
‘RenderMan: Understanding Shading on SIMD architectures’
. Erminio Pinque - Creature fabricator/performer and Art Director, Big Nazo Lab,
Instructor RISD
‘Creature-Creation Situation Workshop’
. Enrico Casarosa – Director, Pixar Animation Studios, La Luna
. Dylan Sisson - RenderMan Technical Artist
‘Pixar's RenderMan Roadmap for 201." Cars 2, Courseware, and RenderMan’
. David Revoy - Digital Painter & Art Director
‘Digital painting with Free/Libre Open-source software’
. Mike Springer - Software Engineer, Google
‘SketchUp 101 - What is SketchUp? How Can I Use it?’
‘SketchUp 201 - Advanced Tips & Tricks, Rendering’
‘Google Maps/Google Earth - How to use these powerful tools’
. Marco Mazzaglia - IT Manager and Video Game Evangelist, Milestone
‘Retrogaming, how to learn from the past: successes and mistakes in the history of video
games’
Emanuele Micheli - Education Management Professional, School of Robotics
‘How to draw a 3D robot’
‘Build your robot’
. Daniele Angelozzi,
‘ZBrush4 - release 2’
‘ZBrush production tips and tricks’
. Top-IX Workshop
‘Producing a short film with computer graphics: a multidisciplinary all-Italian experience’ Roundtable with Giosuè Boetto (director), Enrico Valenza (art director), Antonella
Gudazzoli (executive producer), Silvano Imboden (production manager), Francesco Paglia
(directing animator), Riccardo Covino (head lights)
‘Camera Tracking with Blender’ - Sebastian König
‘Vray Blender’ - Nicolò Zubbini
‘Fablab: new opportunities for animation, 3d graphic and cinema’ - Enrico Bassi (product and
industrial designer), Lorenzo Romagnoli (software and physical computing developer)
. Seminar on ‘Cartoons: fun, creativity and legal issues’,
with Sergio Toffetti (General Manager CSC), Chiara Magri (Animation Course Coordinator
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CSC), Clyo Parecchini and Goffredo Marocchi (Addictive Colors), Maurizio Ferro (Lawyer),
Claudio Costa (Lawyer), Cristina Rolando (Lawyer) and Mariangela Ravasenga (Patent,
Brands and PATLIB manager) organized by Turin’s Chamber of Commerce and PATLIB in
collaboration with VIEW Conference and CSC, Sede del Piemonte, Dep. Animation
. Adobe Workshop
. Wacom Workshop
The VIEW Conference takes place October 25 to 28 at the Centro Congressi Torino Incontra in
Turin, Italy and is now open for registrations. For more information, please visit our website
www.viewconference.it
Press inquiries:
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VIEW Conference – Corso Marconi 38, 10125 Turin, Italy
Codice Fiscale: 97602440014
Tel +39 011.6680948; +39 011.19785575 Fax +39 011.6501214
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