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Highlights for October 19-23 digital media conference highlights include world premier
presentations, ILM’s 40th anniversary celebration, and an Animation Film Director’s
Panel
Turin, Italy: “I always say that this year is the best VIEW yet, and I’m going to say it again,”
says Conference Director, Professor Maria Elena Gutierrez. “We have world premiere
presentations of The Little Prince, The Peanuts Movie, and Kung Fu Panda III. We look back
through 40 years of creating the impossible with speakers from ILM and with stories
capturing PDI’s spirit from co-founder Glenn Entis. We look forward with Carlo Ratti,
drector of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, Dale Herigstad from See Space, and Shannon Tindle
from Google Spotlight Stories. We have visual effects supervisors from the top box office
blockbusters. We have a panel of powerful women in animation. This year’s program of
presentations and workshops is incredibly rich.”
The 16th annual digital media conference kicks off on Tuesday, October 20 with Director Mark
Osborne’s premiere presentation of the animated feature The Little Prince, Emmy-award
winning screenwriter David Misch’s exploration of the relationship between humor and
horror, modeler Lorne Peterson’s peek inside the ILM Star Wars model shop, a Game Jam,
and the Women in Animation Panel with producer Jinko Gotoh, Pixar’s Kim White,
SIGGRAPH computer animation festival director Mikki Rose, SCAD professor Deborah
Fowler, and producer Eleanor Coleman. Visual effects supervisor Steven Emerson’s steps
into the world of big visual effects in a tiny world at Laika. And, the first day rolls to an
exciting conclusion with the Animation Film Director’s Panel with Osborne, Jorge R.
Gutierrez (The Book of Life), Kris Pearn (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2), Richard
Starzak (Shaun the Sheep Movie), and Tindle (“On Ice”).
Wednesday, Aardman’s creative director Richard Starzak and producer Paul Kewley wake
everyone up with Shaun the Sheep Movie. Carlo Ratti, director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab
takes attendees on a journey into the future. Michael Kurinsky explores Hotel Transylvania
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2, and Keynote speaker director Jorge Gutierrez (The Book of Life) journeys through his life
of storytelling with pictures. That same day, Keynote speaker Shannon Tindle shares his
adventures making a Google Spotlight Story, Oscar winner Glenn Entis recounts the spirit and
stories of PDI. And, it all leads to ILM’s celebration: 40 years of “Creating the Impossible” with
Peterson and Oscar nominated visual effects supervisors Ben Snow and Tim Alexander.
Thursday, Director of Photography Kim White illuminates Joy, the main character in Pixar’s
Inside Out. Three game development-centered presentations follow, from Harvey Parker
and Scott Harber of Natural Motion, Marco Mazaglia of Ovosonico, and Oscar nominee
Henry Labounta, chief visual officer at Zynga. Art director Ben Brundenell creates the “Dawn
of Titans” game, Adobe Lab’s Senior Innovator Michael Rubin will talk attendees through
Modernism and Photography, and visual effects supervisor Dadi Einarsson sends the
audience climbing Everest. Good Grief! It’s time for The Peanuts Movie with supervising
animator Scott Carroll. Keynote speaker Randy Thom, Director of Sound Design at
Skywalker Sound and two-time Oscar winner, caps the evening with “Teaching the Camera to
Listen: From Apocalypse Now to The Peanuts Movie.
Friday: Attendees will come Home with Jason Reisig, head of character animation at
DreamWorks Animation, then race down city streets behind Pixels with Daniel Kramer,
visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and find themselves in Jurassic World,
the number three world-wide box office winner of all time, with ILM’s Glen McIntosh,
animation supervisor, and Tim Alexander, visual effects supervisor. Friday afternoon takes
attendees into Night at the Museum 3 with MPC’s visual effects supervisor Erik Nash,
followed by a panel of visual effects supervisors sharing their challenges in creating
captivating worlds. The conference comes to a rousing finale with the world premiere
Keynote address, Kung Fu Panda III by co-director Alessandro Carloni of DreamWorks
Animation, and a Keynote address from Oscar nominated visual effects supervisor Chris
Townsend who will focus his Marvelous presentation on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulk,
Vision, and the Gang.”
“I am so excited,” Professor Gutierrez says. “I can’t wait for the conference to begin. I also
want to tell people to be sure to register now for the interactive workshops that happen on
Monday, October 19, and during the conference. It is such a wonderful opportunity for
students and professionals to learn from screenwriter David Misch, director Kris Pearn,
photographer Michael Rubin, chief creative officer Henry LaBounta, and all our wonderful
workshop coaches. I can’t think of anywhere else this would be possible.”
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VIEW 2015 takes place in beautiful Torino, Italy October 19 to 23.
To register, and for more information, visit the website: www.viewconference.it
VIEW Conference – Corso Marconi 38, 10125 Turin, Italy
Codice Fiscale: 97602440014
Tel +39 011.6680948; +39 011.19785575 Fax +39 011.6501214
www.viewconference.it – info@viewconference.it t