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.
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.
