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Last
2001 Meeting !!!!
November
8th: 7 00 P.M.: Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter
Meeting at the FAU Center for
Electronic Communications:
Kellie-Bea
is very active in the animation industry as
an award winning independent animation film producer, teacher,
writer, journalist, and historian. Her independent works have
been featured at SIGGRAPH, the 3D Design Conference, American
Film Institute, Women in Animation, and a multitude of film
festivals.
She will discuss team building, pre-production collaboration,
and the steps involved to incorporate the volunteer efforts
of both the Vendors and professionals.Her talk covers the details
of building a small project and the importance of teamwork
Once
again, this meeting is FREE (for you)!
This will also be our last meeting until January 2002!
October
25th: 7 00 P.M.: Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter
Meeting at the FAU Center for
Electronic Communications:
Tonight's speaker will be Caleb Owens , currently the
Creative Director at Delray Beach's Five Star Productions.
He will present some recent CG projects produced at this prestigious
South Florida facility. In particular, the Chicago Blackhawks
media campaign which utilized Alias/Wavefront's Maya sub-division
surfaces and After ffects compositing to produce several animations
for in game entertainment .
Aspects
about the production process including initial concept, storyboards,
animatic, final rendered imagery, budgetary concerns, production
techniques, working with layers and lots of data, SubD techniques,
geometry choices ( i.e. nurbs, poly's subd's etc..), and other
topics will covered as time permits.
In
addition , future up and coming projects at Five Star will be
discussed as well.
Hope
to see you there!
Speaker
Biography:
For
the past 11 years Caleb "Cro" Owens has worked professionally
and extensively in every aspect of computer graphics, including
commercials, forensics, education, interactive, feature films
and large format film.
Owens'
skills have been exploited at studios such as Digital Domain,
Dream Quest Images, Square USA, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rainmaker
Interactive, Windmill Lane and others.
Owens'
was Lead Technical Director on the Experience Music Project.
At Digital Domain, Owens led a team of artists in creating a
3D computer-generated facial replacement of James Brown. Utilizing
the latest technology, such as Maya and Sub-division surfaces,
as well as new techniques in artistic and design approaches,
his efforts helped set a new standard for photo-real facial
animation and the creative application of 3D computer graphics.
Most
recently, Cro has again been part of a revolutionary jump in
CG. Working with NVIDIA Caleb designed, constructed and animated
a fully 3D character for the groundbreaking launch of NVIDIA's
new GForce3 product.
Expanding
on his work with James Brown, Owens again set a new standard--this
time in the realm of real-time animation.
"I
have personally screened hundreds of artists. It is rare to
find an artist capable of modeling, texturing, lighting and
animating and much more so to find anyone as proficient as he
is one of the most talented artists I have worked with in my
time at SGI or NVIDIA."
Curtis Beeson Lead Engineer,
NVIDA
Corp.
about the process.. from concept to boards to animatic to final...
budgetary concerns, production techniques, working with layers
and lots of data. Subd techniques. Geometry choices ( i.e. nurbs,
poly's
subd's etc..)
September
27th: 7 00 P.M.: Joint meeting with IGDA at the
FAU Center for Electronic Communications:
Fort
Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH presents: The Electronic Theater.
IGDA Miami presents: Marc Mencher of Virtual Search will be
doing a presentation on the current status of the Job Market
in the Game Industry.
August
29th: 7 00 P.M.: Joint meeting with IGDA at the
FAU Center for Electronic Communications:
Fort
Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH presents: The Electronic Theater.
August 10 - 17: The Live coverage of SIGGRAPH 2001:
The
STUDIO at SIGGRAPH 2001
Joint IGDA/Fort
Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH meeting:
Vic DeLeon
of Digitalo Studios
July
25th: 7:30 PM
CEC Student Graduate Laboratory at
FAU:
This
will be a joint IGDA/Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional
Our meeting this month will be Wednesday July 25th
at the Florida Center for Electronic Communication at FAU in
downtown Fort Lauderdale...and drinks after at the Iguana Cantina.
The Lab
portion of the meeting will start at 7:30 PM.
Expect a
short program by Vic DeLeon of Digitalo Studios...he promises
to entertain and amaze!
See you
there.
Tom Buscaglia
International Game Developers Association Chapter Coordinator
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