Registration

For unregistered attendees only. Europa Building

Welcome

Chris Wyatt | Teesside University

Industrial Light & Magic - Star Wars : The Last Jedi

Sam Dawes | Industrial Light & Magic
Dan Snape | Industrial Light & Magic

In this talk Dan Snape and Teesside graduate Sam Dawes will take us through the making of Star Wars: The last Jedi. They will be paying particular attention to the compositing aspects of the film and look at how they work on shots to bring the various elements of the production from set to screen and create the spectacular images we see in the film.

The Mill | Path to Paradise - A Journey in Emerging Tech

Dan Moller | The Mill

Travel from solitary confinement in a US jail, through an epic Mexican jungle Party and end up hanging out at the Natural History Museum with Attenborough. The Mill's CG Lead Artist Dan Moller explores how he combines traditional CG craft with emerging technologies to deliver new and enthralling experiences. Centered on the VES-Nominated VR experience Corona ‘Paraiso Secreto’, Dan will illuminate the challenges The Mill is tackling to combine triple-A visuals with slick creative and cutting-edge tech.

Lunch

From Restaurant graphics to Peter Rabbit - the lessons I learned in 18 years of CG

Matt Estela | UTS Animal Logic Academy

Now that Matt's career is of drinking age, it seems a good time to reflect on what he has done and what has been learned. Matt will to run through every project he has worked on (memory and footage permitting), and extract a useful lesson from each. For example, don't use paintfx for smoke simulation. Debugging ncloth skin sims at 3am is ill-advised. Know that the show always gets done (eventually). Pretending to be the director can sometimes end up with you actually being the director.

Break

MPC - Replicating Rachael for "Blade Runner 2049"

Axel Akesson | MPC

MPC Assets Supervisor Axel Akesson will give a behind the scenes look at how his team crossed the uncanny valley and created a photoreal human for Blade Runner 2049. Replicating Rachael was both a huge honour for MPC as well as an exciting technical and creative challenge. It took nearly a year to create the final character which many have called the most realistic CG character to date. In this presentation, Axel will show never seen before material including the tests shown to the filmmakers which showed that with the right talent and technology, anything is possible.

Aardman Animation - Early man

Will Becher | Aardman

In this talk we will take a look behind-the-scenes of Aardman Animation's latest film by the Academy Award winning Nick Park. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. Using rarely seen footage, Animation Director, Will Becher, talks through some of the amazing craft that went into making Aardman's most ambitious feature film to date.

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