fxguide (well 2/3 of it) are on the road this month, talking in London at CVMP and in India at CGtantra 3Dec.
John Montgomery and Mike Seymour will be in Europe and India in the coming weeks – and we’d love to met up with fxguide readers and share a beer or two.
The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006) 29 – 30 Nov 2006 in London
CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics. CVMP provides a European forum for discussion of the latest research advances and state-of-the-art industry practice in content production and post-production.
Keynote Speakers:
Michele Covell, Staff Research Scientist, Google Inc, USA
Mike Seymour, Co-founder, FXguide.com, Australia 14:30 Day 1 Wed Keynote Presentation
Ron Brinkmann, Product Designer, Apple, USA
Luc van Gool, Head ESAT-PSI/VISICS, Eth Zurich-Kuleuven, Switzerland
CVMP aims to bring together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics. CVMP provides a European forum for discussion of the latest research advances and state-of-the-art industry practice in content production and post-production.
Who should attend?
Its ideal for people working in R&D, programing and production roles in the broadcast, post and gaming indusries. Also academic rserachers working in image processing and associated fields.
How
The conference is at the IET headquarters, Savoy place in Central London.
To get tickets visit here
CGtantra 3Dec
3rd December at Wistling Woods International in Mumbai, John Montgomery and Mike Seymour will be speaking at the 3Dec event run by CGtantra.com. The event will include a special “Making of Cars” presentation by Pixar studios, a Creature workshop, awards night and an Interactive session called the Mighty Pencil which will highlight the skills and value of traditional drawing in an increasingly digital age.
The event will be at the highly respected Whistling Woods International .
The Whistling Woods International Institute for Film Television & Media Arts is located in Film City, Goregaon, in Mumbai, directly behind the AdLabs facility. Accessible by BEST buses on route #343 Chitranagari / Film City
for more information click here
Coming soon
Coming up on fxguide before Xmas we have some great stories:
– We speak to the team from Charlotte’s Web
– we talk to the team at Intelligent Creatures about Babel, the Fountain and more
– we research 3D tracking with various key client case studies and much more
Mike and John can also be heard and seen at fxphd.com each week .
Mike can also be heard on the podcast the VFX Show .