This year, VIEW presents a special edition:
VIEWFest [7-9 Nov] & VIEW Conference [11-14 Nov].
An entire week of immersion in the Digital Universe!

Best 3D short

Anima

France - 2008 - 5'23 - Beta SP - 2D/3D Animation

Realization: Remi Devouassoud, Elliot Kajdan, Nicolas Maurice, Julien Lasbleiz

Production: SUPIN FOCOM VALENCIENNES

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Best 3D Design

La Peste

France - 2008 - 5'13 - Beta SP - 2D/3D Animation

Realization: Olivier Dubocage, Michal Firkowski, Benoît Galland, Gildas Le Franc

Production: SUPIN FOCOM VALENCIENNES

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Best Environment Design/Digital Matte Painting

They Will Come to Town

Germany – 2008 - 1'33'' - Beta SP - 2D/Photoshop/After Effects - 3D/Maya/Royal Render

Realization: Thilo Ewers

VFX: Thomas Haegele

Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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Best 3D Digital Character

Office Noise

Denmark – 2008 - 3'45''

Realization: Torben S. Christensen, Lærke Enemark, Karsten Madsen, Mads H. Johansen

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Best Digital Visual Effects

Anima

France - 2008 - 5'23 - Beta SP - 2D/3D Animation

Realization: Remi Devouassoud, Elliot Kajdan, Nicolas Maurice, Julien Lasbleiz

Production: SUPIN FOCOM VALENCIENNES

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2008 Keynote speakers

★  Will Wright  ★

Game Developer and Designer
Maxis - Elecronic Arts

See also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCb6pme45BU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTF_ht3qx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7SKYszUkp0

★  Brad Lewis  ★

Director of Cars 2, Producer of the Academy Award Winning film Ratatouille
Pixar Animation Studios

2008 VIEW speakers:

Brad Lewis - Producer and Director - Pixar Animation Studios

Will Wright - Game Developer and Designer - Maxis - EA

Paul Topolos - Artist - Pixar Animation Studios

Mark Osborne - Co-Director Kung Fu Panda - PDI-DreamWorks

Jana Day - Director of Recruiting - Sony Pictures Animation

Michael Rubin - Author "Droidmaker"

Lucia Modesto - Character Technical Director Supervisor- PDI/Dreamworks

Stefano Cieri - Designer and Digital Content Creator - Laboratorio Linfa

Chris Christodoulou - Creative Partner, Director of CGI - addington & Baynes

Anne Gibeault - Animation Development Director - Ubisoft

Matthew Clarke - Lead AI Programmer on Prince of Persia - Ubisoft

Chris Taylor - CEO & Creative Director - Gas Powered Games

Bruce Grenville - Senior Curator - Vancouver Art Gallery

Graham Jack - Senior Technical Director - Double Negative

Symon Prytherch - Lightning Fish Games

Antonio Farina - Founder of Milestone

Phil Stenton - Manager, mscapes research, Pervasive Computing Lab, HP Labs (UK)

Gianluca Zaffiro - Project Manager - Telecom Italia (Italy)

Hiroyuki Kobayashi - Producer - Capcom

Riccardo Cangini - CEO & Founder - Artematica

Jim Waldo - Sun Microsystems Labs

Mike Springer - GOOGLE Software Engineer

Ken Perlin - Professor Media Research Laboratory - New York University

Mel Slater - ICREA Research Professor - University of Barcelona (Spain) and University College London (UK)

Sharon Calahan - Director of Photography and Lighting - Pixar Animation Studios

Stéphane Deverly - Pipeline Supervisor - Framestore CFC

Glenn Entis - Educator and Cosultant, former SVP, Chief Technology Officer - EA

Massimo Carrier Ragazzi - CEO, Creative Director, Executive Producer - Maga Animation Studio

Larry Bafia - Independent Animator

Stefania Raimondi - President - Enanimation

Brenda Bakker Harger - MFA Carnegie Mellon Drama

Andrea Carignano - CEO - Seac02 (Italy)

Giulio Lughi - Associate Professor - University of Turin

Fabrizio Valpreda - Researcher - Politecnico di Torino

Pam Hogarth - Gnomon School of Visual Effects

Thomas Alisi - Master in Multimedia Content Design

Chiara Magri - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema

Guido Polcan - Training Director, BigRock Academy

Enea Le Fons - Softimage

Mattia Cortese - Achelon

Robin McDonald - Senior Recruiter - Pixar Animation Studios

Diane Peyredieu du Charlat - Global Talent Acquisition Manager - Ubisoft

Shelley Page - European Representative - PDI-DreamWorks

★  Feature presentations  ★

Mark Osborne

The Academy Award nominated co-director of Kung Fu Panda will talk at VIEW about the Storytelling in Animation: Indie Shorts to Tentpole Features.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

The Producer of Resident Evil Degeneration and Devil May Cry
Capcom

Sharon Calahan

The legendary Pixar's Director of Photography, who created the look of Ratatouille, is now working with Brad Lewis at CARS 2.
She will speak at VIEW about "Creating Painterly Images with Light".
Director of Photography, Lighting
Pixar Animation Studios

Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor will present his work in progress on Demigod. Taylor is the creator of Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commader series.
CEO & Creative Director
Gas Powered Games & Demigod

Have you ever dreamt of being trained
(or maybe getting a job!) in one of the largest videogame publisher in the world?

Here's your chance!

Come to VIEW Conference, bring your CV and some demo reels of your works: A recruitment team from UBISOFT (the third-largest independent video game publisher in Europe, just think of: Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Assassin's Creed) will be there, for the entire duration of the conference, looking for students or professionals.

Requirements? Talent, originality, creativity!

A new partner

We proudly announce our partnership and hosting of PEACH.

Peach, Telecom Italia, and VIEW Digital Transformation present:

1000VIEW of Torino | Photographic Contest

A service trial implemented by the R&D labs of Telecom Italia: shoot a picture with your mobile, send it to us, and your photo will be published real-time on the screen of the Congress Centre.

Come to the Conference and immortalize your personal VIEW of Torino  >

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