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VIEW Award
World Wide Short Competition Using 3D Animation and VFX – Deadline September 15th.

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ITALIANMIX
Deadline September 15th.

VIEW is proud to announce the winners of VIEW Award 2009!

Best 3D short:
“Le Phare” - directed by David François, Rony Hotin, Jérémie Moreau, Baptiste Rogron, Gaëlle Thierry, Maïlys Vallade.

Best 3d design:
“Le Ruban” - directed by Thomas Charra, Michaël Crouzat, Kherveen Dabylall, Denis Do, Gabriel Jolly-Monge.

Best environment design:
“URS” - directed by Moritz Mayerhofer.

Best 3d character design:
“French Roast” - directed by Fabrice O. Joubert.

Best VFX:
“Un tour de manege” - directed by Nicolas Athané, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Françoise Losito, Mai Nguyen.

Michael' Giacchino'S concert on Friday, November 6th at 20:30 in the Collegio San Giuseppe's Theater, Via Andrea Doria, 18 in Turin. Emmy award winner. Giacchino will conduct the Felettese Orchestra of Bruno Lampa, composed of 65 young members, in some of his most famous pieces: Star Trek, Ratatouille, The Incredibles and many others.

Friday 6th November, Teatro San Giuseppe, via Andrea Doria, 18, at 8:30pm .

Free entry

Disney’s A Christmas Carol in 3D

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
7th November at 2:00 Pm
Greenwich Village Turin, Via Po, 30 - Full price 10 € / Reduced price 8 €

The movie will be dubbed in english with no subtitles

VIEW announces its 2009 keynote speaker:
Musical genius extraordinaire: Michael Giacchino

Emmy Award Winner, Michael Giacchino, is the most famous composer of musical scores for the movies at the moment. Michael is the first composer of music for games to have been nominated for an Academy Award. He wrote the score for an amazing series of movies, including some of the world's most popular ones like the TV series LOST and ALIAS. Just to name a few examples, he wrote the music for UP, Partly Cloudy, Star Trek, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible III, Speed Racer and Cloverfield.
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Glenn Entis (Vanedge Capital)

Glenn is a pioneer and 30+ year veteran of computer animation and video games. He co-founded Pacific Data Images (PDI), where he animated, directed, produced and helped lead the studio for over 12 years. Glenn also co-wrote PDI’s first animation system, for which he earned a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts.  Read more →

Henry LaBounta (Electronic Arts)

Chief Visual Officer at Black Box, Academy Award nominee, will speak about Art Direction Tools for Photo Real Games.
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Roger Guyett (Industrial Light & Magic)

Directly from Industrial Light & Magic, the Academy Award winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in 1975 by George Lucas, Roger Guyett (Visual Effects Supervisor) is ready to tell the VIEW's public A Creative Journey through the Galaxy of Star Trek.  Read more →

Bob Whitehill (Pixar)
In combination with visual techniques such as color and composition, stereography can enhance mood, evoke emotion, and draw an audience further into a film's story. Using examples from "UP", "Toy Story", and "Toy Story 2", Pixar's Stereoscopic Supervisor Bob Whitehill discusses the use of 3D as a visual storytelling device in Pixar's films.
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Rob Bredow (Sony Pictures Imageworks)

The Sony Pictures Imageworks Chief Technology Officer Rob Bredow will be at VIEW to give us a delicious look Behind the Scenes of Sony Pictures Animation's new animated movie: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.  Read more →

Jonathan Knight (Electronic Arts)

Will present his eagerly-awaited videogame Dante’s Inferno: “Can the world’s most exciting and dynamic entertainment medium tackle the challenge of making games based on dusty old literature?”.
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Jeff White (Industrial Light & Magic)

Directly from Industrial Light & Magic, the Academy Award winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in 1975 by George Lucas, Jeff White (Associate Visual Effects Supervisor) will talk about the Revenge of the Robots: Creating Bigger Robots and more Destruction for Transformers 2.  Read more →

Danny Dimian (Sony Pictures Imageworks)

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: A delicious look Behind the Scenes of Sony Pictures Animation's new animated movie by Sony Pictures Imageworks Computer Graphics Supervisor Danny Dimian.  Read more →

Travis Hathaway (Pixar)

3D Animator, responsible for scenes throughout Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille, will speak about the latest Pixar effort, UP.  Read more →

Jayme Wilkinson (Blue Sky Studios)

will discuss the strategies, challenges, and solutions he and his team brought to Blue Sky’s first ever stereoscopic 3D film effort, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.   Read more →

Luca de Biase, Journalist (Sole 24 Ore), Editor in chief of Nòva, Writer, will talk about The Future of Technology: an insight into the technologies that have changed – and that will change – our world.   Read more →

Workshop with Dylan Sisson: "Pixar's RenderMan®"

For the first time in Italy Dylan Sisson, the main Pixar's RenderMan expert will teach in an exclusive technical lesson the secrets of the famous Pixar's RenderMan software, including topics such as the software's story and origins, and its use in the last Pixar's masterpiece, UP. A technical demonstration, showing how Maya user's may incorporate RenderMan into their own work, will follow. Go to the workshop description →

NVIDIA WORKSHOP announced!

From 9:00-18:00 on Nov 4th, NVIDIA's CUDA WORKSHOP: an overview of NVIDIA's tools and technology that are defining the future of GPU's, conducted by Will Braithwaite. At View Nvidia worldwide leader in the development of graphics processing units and chipset technologies for workstations, personal computers, and mobile devices. Do not miss the occasion!
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Workshop with Paul Debevec: "Image-Based Techniques for Photoreal Computer Graphics in Cinema and Games"

VIEW is proud to offer to its public an entire day of workshop with Paul Debevec "Image-Based Techniques for Photoreal Computer Graphics in Cinema and Games." It cover Image-Based Modeling and Rendering, Global Illumination, High Dynamic Range Imaging, Image-Based Lighting, Advanced Reflectance Models, and Photoreal Digital Actors. It will include a description of the underlying technologies used in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Go to the workshop description →

Workshop with Travis Hathaway: Animation Workshop “Creating Effective, Spontaneous Performances”

Travis Hathaway (Pixar) animated characters in such films as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and their latest picture, Up, along with many short projects including One Man Band and Presto. He's currently hard at work on Pixar's 2011 holiday release, The Bear and the Bow. Go to the workshop description →

Mike Springer: Google Earth, Google Maps and a view on the World

Google Earth and Google Maps provide people from around the world unprecedented levels of information about the world around them. Come and learn in a workshop by Mike Springer, Software Engineer, Google how these products are changing the world.  Go to the workshop description →

Thanks to the collaboration between the TOP-IX Consortium and VIEW, special attention will be devoted to the training realized by means of open source tools: in the special TOP-IX section OPENSOURCE FOR THE CREATIVITY, the TOP-IX Consortium and the Faculty of Industrial Design of Politecnico of Turin organize 4 workshops aimed to realize and distribute multimedial products by means of free/open source software (Blender and Cinelerra).  Go to the workshop description →

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3D

In the third chapter of the incredible saga by the Blue Sky Studios, Scrat founds his love... Are you ready to watch Ice Age 3 in 3D?

Toy Story & Toy Story 2

In the VIEWFest Program, don’t miss the Disney-Pixar masterpieces Disney-Pixar Toy Story and Toy Story 2, this time in Disney Digital 3-D™.

Medical Imaging:
Training Doctors with Virtual Reality, by Ofek Shilon, Algoritmics Team Leader, Producer Project Manager at Simbionix Ltd.
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Silvio Aime, Professor of Molecular Imaging, Center for Molecular Imaging of the University of Torino.
Go to the Society for Molecular Imaging website →