Steve Weymouth, Lecturer at CoFA’s School of Media Arts builds on his professional industry experience at Sony PlayStation to focus his research on various aspects of 3D animation development, including techniques, software (mechanics), historical precedents (traditions and principles) and contemporary products.
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Kit Devine has 14 years experience as a 3D animator using packages including Softimage, Alias Power Animator and Alias Maya. She has worked on film and TV projects in both the UK and Australia at companies incuding Photon, Rushes, GMD and Animal Logic. Her movie credits include Super Mario Brothers and Inspector Gadget 2. Her commercial work has won a large number of awards at festivals including The New York Festivals, BDA Promax Asia Hong Kong, Australian Television Awards, The Australian Effects and Animation Festival and the New York CLIO Awards. Kit has trained as a graphic designer and has completed post graduate study in Computer Science. Her short film Womb with a View was screened at the 1992 London Film Festival.
Valerie Allerton coordinates the New South Wales Film & Television Office’s Emerging Filmmakers Fund and Digital Visual Effects Scheme. She has been working in the Development and Investment Branch of the FTO since 2004. Prior to working in Australia, Valerie worked with the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), a world-renowned classical music training and performing institution. A classically trained musician herself, Valerie has expertise in grant development and fundraising and has worked with Board Trustees and National Council level management in these areas. She also has worked in journalism and silkscreen and textile design.
Bill is again working for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) as the AV Manager for the College Of Fine Arts (COFA), keeping the laboratories and studios running and assisting academic staff and students with the wide range of software and hardware that COFA uses. He brings with him 15 years of experience working for Apple as a Technical Support Engineer and later as a Systems Engineer, specialising in the Video, Broadcast and Publishing markets. Bill has been trained in Shake, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Combustion, Apple server products and Vectorworks, but is experienced in a wide range of other software packages.
Bill has worked on a review panel for the University of Wollongong Masters of Digital Media as well as spoken at the Australasian Music Business Conference. He has also acted as a consultant to Channel 7, Channel 9, and SBS. In the early days of Apple’s resurgent entry into the professional video market, Bill provided technical support for many of the Australia post-production houses such as Animal Logic, Rising Sun Pictures, and Fuel. The NSW RTA now uses Macintoshes as the point-of-sale terminals as well as multimedia driver testing stations: this Java/Director solution was developed with RTA over two years with Bill as the lead Apple engineer.
Before working for Apple, Bill was a Programmer/Engineer at the Defence Force Academy, working for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering programming Macintoshes and learning about remote sensing, satellite images, and image processing. Before this in the early 1980s, he was a committee member of Opunka, the UNSW film group, for four years where he was able to indulge himself with showing six feature films a week, learnt how to drive 35mm projectors, and developed a critical eye for films.
Peter is the Director of the Digital Media Division at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) which runs Australia’s leading postgraduate and professional programs in Digital Animation and Emerging Media. Projects from these programs have won both national and international recognition for artistic and technical excellence.
Peter has produced projects for radio, television and interactive media and he has worked on a wide range of industry training initiatives. He is the past chair of the Sydney chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH.
James holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science & Pure Mathematics) from University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in Internetworking from the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently acting as the IT Operations Manager and Network Security/Network Application Manager for the Australian Schhol of Business (The University of New South Wales) and in his spare time consults for the online media industry.
He has 15 years experience in film, TV and online production having worked with Beyond Online, StreamWorks, and Yoram Gross - EMTV. He managed the encoding for News Interactive/Fox/Apple Computer joint venture in online broadcast for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He was the author of a series of UNIX how-to columns for MacWorld Australia in 2003-2005. He also works as an video editor, compositor, and streaming media, website developer. He has been an active member of ACM SIGGRAPH (Sydney Professional Chapter) since 2001 and been a co-administrator of the Chapter website.
Tracey is a Curriculum Project Coordinator at the TAFE NSW – Business, Arts and Information Technology Curriculum Centre. From 2002 to 2005 Tracey worked as a Business Development Consultant at TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute. From 1999 to 2002, she managed the TAFE NSW Silicon Graphics Centre, a centre of excellence in 3D Animation and Visual Effects training, based at the Design Centre - Enmore College. She holds a Masters in Art and Design Education and a Bachelor of Art Education from the College of Fine Arts (COFA), Sydney.
Tracey was the recipient of the Award for Excellent Service to Public Education and Training 2004; TAFEPLUS Training Consultant of the Year 2004/2005, and joint winner TAFEPLUS Best Strategic Business Approach 2004/2005. Tracey is one of two TAFE NSW nominated members of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA). She is a member of the Fashion Group of Sydney Inc, the TAFE NSW Manager’s Association, the International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and is currently the Treasurer and Membership Chair of the Sydney ACM Siggraph Professional Chapter.
Tracey has more than 18 years industry experience as a design and production manager in the fashion industry, seven years experience working in the field of digital media, and a total of 14 years experience as an educator in TAFE NSW. She is passionate about creating and maintaining excellence in training for the design and digital media industries in Australia.
Shilo completed her PhD in Digital Effects in Filmmaking at the University of Technology, Sydney. She also is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School. In 1996 she was awarded the Kenneth Myer Fellowship to undertake research in the use of computer generated images in filmmaking and is the author of the books: So What’s This All About Then: A Non-User’s Guide to Digital Effects In Film. (1998) and The Digital What? A Filmmaker’s Non-Technical Guide to Digital Effects (USA 2000). Her latest book, Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film is being published by The MIT Press in October 2006.
In 2006, she curated the Digital Strand of the 53rd Sydney Film Festival and produced/directed a series of podcasts for the Festival site. Her consulting work ranges from digital image curation for games developers to strategic advice on educational, industry development and digital content. She is the editor for the Network Insight Institute and the author of various articles for industry publications. She has lectured in producing and digital effects production at the Australian Film Television & Radio School, for post-graduate writing students at the University of Technology, Sydney, and for the film course at Macquarie University. She is a consultant to the New South Wales Film and Television Office’s (FTO) Digital Effects Traineeship Scheme. She is the author of the chapter on digital visual effects for the Australian Film Commission’s production management ‘Satchel’ and worked with Ausfilm in the development of its international Factsheet series for filmmakers. She has also designed and conducted the professional industry training seminars How Long Is A Piece of String and Adding Strings To Your Bow on digital effects for filmmakers on behalf of the FTO and produced/directed the documentaries on the seminars’ highlights. She is the Vice Chair of ACMSIGGRAPH (Sydney Professional Chapter), the international association for computer graphics.
Her film credits include: Adding Strings To Your Bow (60 minute documentary, Producer/Director). How Long Is A Piece Of String (50 minute documentary, Producer/Director). The Tichborne Claimant (UK feature film, 2nd Unit production), The Zipper (digital short, Post-production Producer, selected Cannes Film Festival 1999), Dreaming of Freedom (Independent short film, Writer/Director/Producer), The Beat Manifesto (Producer - short film - Winner 3 AFI Awards, screened Cannes, Venice, Cork, Aspen, Singapore, Montreal, Toronto, Dakino, Goteborg, St. Kilda and Henri Langlois International Film Festivals), Out (Line Producer - short film, nominated Dendy and AFI awards), Desire Lines (Producer - short film, NSWFTO Young filmmakers fund).
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Currently Training Supervisor at Animal Logic. Joined AL as a Recruiter in 2004. Previously from 1999 to 2004 was New Media Officer at the NSW Film and Television Office and from 1994 to 1999 was the Visual Arts Industry Unit Coordinator at the National Association for the Visual Arts. BSc (Arch), Sydney University, 1988. BFA, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 1993.
