VIEW Conference 2012
VIEW announces dates for 2012
16 – 19 Oct | VIEW Conference, 13th International Computer Graphics Conference
19 – 21 Oct | VIEWFest, Digital Movie Festival
Send us your works:
Are you interested in submitting a proposal to deliver a workshop at VIEW 2012?
Deadline July 31th.
Deadline July 31th.
World Wide Short Competition Using 2D/3D Animation and VFX
Deadline September 15th.
Deadline September 15th.
MAIN TOPICS For VIEW 2012
GAMES, 2D/3D CINEMA & VFX, AUGMENTED REALITY, INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES, MEDICAL IMAGING, AUTOMOTIVE AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGN, CREATING CONTENT FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
The ‘Best of VIEW 2011′ on Tour!
The best of 2011 VIEW AWARD and ITALIANMIX in tour around the world!
From Paris to Athens, from London to Barcelona, with a stop in
Columbia and Australia, the ‘Best of VIEW 2011′ starts the 2012 with an worldwide tour
through the best film and animation festivals. The 6th of March has came back in
Turin, guest of the Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival. Wednesday 7th March will close the international animated shorts festival of Athens, the 7° Animfest. The rendezvous is @ the GREEK FILM ARCHIVE, h 22!
Here some of the works included in the selection: “A Morning Stroll”
directed by G. Orchard (Studio AKA), “Paths of Hate” directed by D.
Nenow (Platige Image), “De riz ou d’Arménie” directed by H. Marchal, S.
Barras, R. Blondelle, C. Seille (Supinfocom Valenciennes), winner of the
2011 VIEW AWARD and “Four” directed by M. Premuroso, winner of the 2011
YOUTH ITALIANMIX .
YouthItalianmix 2011 winner
VIEW is delighted to announce the winner of the YouthItalianmix 2011: ‘Four’, directed by Margherita Premuroso.
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84th Academy Awards Selection
Dear VIEW Friends,
Enrico Casarosa’s “La Luna” (Disney/Pixar) screened/presented during VIEWFest together with two of winners of VIEW CONFERENCE’s VIEW AWARD contest 2011, “A Morning Stroll” (by Grant Orchard, Studio AKA) and “Paths of Hate” (by Damian Nenow, Platige Image) have been shortlisted in the 84th Academy Awards ® (Best Animated Short).
Furthermore, five of the eighteen animated features included in the Oscar competition were also recently presented during VIEW Conference: The Adventures of Tintin, Cars 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango and RIO.
Other five films have been selected for consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects: Captain America: The First Avenger, Cowboys & Aliens, Real Steel, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and X-Men: First Class.
VIEW announces dates for 2012
16 – 19 Oct | VIEW Conference, 13th International Computer Graphics Conference
19 – 21 Oct | VIEWFest, Digital Movie Festival
Send us your works:
Deadline August 31st.
World Wide Short Competition Using 3D Animation and VFX
Deadline September 15th.
Deadline September 15th.
VIEW AWARDS WINNERS
VIEW is delighted to announce the winners of VIEW Award 2011!
BEST SHORT: “De Riz ou d’Arménie”, by Hélène Marchal, Samy Barras, Romain Blondelle, Céline Seille, della scuola Supinfocom Valenciennes
BEST DESIGN: “Lumberjack”, by Pawez Debski, FUMI Studio
BEST ENVIRONMENT DESIGN: “La Détente”, by Pierre Ducos & Bertrand Bey
BEST CHARACTER: “A Morning Stroll”, by Grant Orchard, Studio AKA
BEST DIGITAL VISUAL EFFECTS: “Paths of Hate”, by Damian Nenow-Platige Image
The 2011 VIEW AWARD Committee:
Maria Elena Gutierrez, Pam Hogart, Glenn Entis, Sharon Calahan, Lucia Modesto, Wayne Stables, Peter Nofz, Erik Nash, Kris Piotrowski.
World Premiere:
THE 13TH ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS!
Featured in this year’s awesome line up are:
LA LUNA the stunning Pixar masterpiece by Enrico Casarosa is a shining beauty, you won’t be seeing this gem in release until 2012.
Verena Fels’ MOBILE sets a new bar for student filmmakers worldwide, timing’s everything in this hysterical character comedy.
Three years running with high energy Polish dynamism in the Animation Show of Shows, expect nothing less from Platige Image’s director Damian Nenow’s new breathtaking and powerful PATHS OF HATE.
Curious, subtle and enigmatic. Simply drawn but a powerfully composed and executed dream, Claudius Gentinetta & Frank Braun’s SCHLAF will do anything but put you to sleep.
World premiere of “La Luna” with the Director / Head of Story Enrico Casarosa, Pixar Animation Studios
The screening will be Saturday 22 Oct @ 8.30pm – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo + Workshop 22 October @10:30
La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?
Pixar Shorts: 25 years of animation in a small package
In celebration of Pixar Animation Studio’s 25th Anniversary, please join VIEWFest in a never-before-seen program of Pixar Shorts! Pixar loves its characters, and oftentimes continues to tell their stories via short films that appear with its DVD releases. In this program we will present several of these shorts featuring characters you’ve come to know from some of your favorite Pixar feature films.
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CARS 2 in 3D @ VIEWFest
Directed by JOHN LASSETER, Co – Directed by BRAD LEWIS
With the Director of Photography Sharon Calahan, Pixar Animation Studios
Star racecar Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places in “Cars 2” when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car.’
ITALIAN PREMIERE: SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival
The leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. Selections include outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE: SIGGRAPH Asia 2010
VIEWFest is proud to present the third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia’s Computer Animation Festival
The third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia’s Computer Animation Festival presents the year’s finest achievements in computer animation and visual effects by artists, designers, researchers, and scientists from around the world.
FRATELLINI D’ITALIA at the VIEWFest!
Sometimes History can be different from the one told in the books.
So, we have to follow Camilla, the enterprising dog of Count Cavour, and Marquis Drilling-Cheese a noble mouse who, despite himself, will be involved in an incredible adventure that will contribute to create a new Italy. In this way the company Lanterna Magica tribute the anniversary of the Italian Unification and present to the audience of the VIEWFest is last feature film ‘Garibaldi and the kid Brothers of Italy’.
Maria Fares, the most famous Italian Executive Producer and co-founder of the Lanterna Magica, will attend the Festival, with the animated feature film’s director Enrico Carlesi
BRUNO BOZZETTO, Independent Animation Professional
‘UNA VITA ILLUSTRATA’, Tributo a Bruno Bozzetto
Venerdì 21 Ottobre @ 20.30 | Sala 3. Cinema Massimo
Born in Milan, Italy, in 1938.He is a world-famous cartoonist, animator, screen-player and director.
In 1958, barely twenty years old, he drew the audience’s attention at Cannes when he submitted his very first animation short, “Tapum! The weapons’ history”, animated on a 16 mm film by employing an ironing board cleverly adjusted vertically to hold up the camera.
Rumblefish – 3D Stereo, VFX e Character Animation
Italian taste: tradition and innovation
Friday, October 21 | 18:00 | Sala 3, Cinema Massimo
Free Entry
Massimo Germoglio, Creative Director and founder of Rumblefish, will tell us how is possible for an Italian facilities do quality projects recognized abroad and how you can compete in the world being serious and reliable in tune with the Italian talent in advertising and features film. Moreover he will explain the path of his company between innovation, growth and respect of the rules and how you can manage a completely digital post-production from editing to color correction included VFX, Character Animation, Digital Color Correction and 3D stereo.
We will show “making of” and reels and a preview of the trailer of a fantastic 3D stereo event soon in the theatre.
In Praise of Love (Eloge de l’amour)
In Praise of Love (Eloge de l’amour) is a story written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
The project could be construed as an opera or a movie called In Praise of Love evoking the four seasons of a love story: meeting, physical passion, separation and reunion witnessed through three couples representing three different generations.
RANGO
Friday, Oct 21 @ 22.45 – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo | Sunday, Oct 23 @ 11 – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo
Rango is a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt – a lawless outpost populated by the desert’s most wily and whimsical creatures – the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out…
European Premiere of the 13th Annual Animation Show of Shows 2011
Since 1998, The Animation Show of Shows has brought together some of the best in animated short films from the world’s most renowned animation festivals and presented them at the major animation studios and schools to inspire their animators, directors, faculty and students. Curated by veteran producer and Acme Filmworks founder Ron Diamond, The Animation Show of Shows provides industry professionals a chance to watch top new films they might not otherwise have an opportunity to see.
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