Category Archives: Events

[ 2012-02-1; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film

Date: Wednesday 1st February 2012

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA T.B.C.

Speakers: Dr Shilo McClean

What’s it all about:
Referencing her book, Digital Storytelling, author Shilo McClean will talk about the unique qualities that VFx bring to the storytelling craft in film. The session will cover the [...]

[ 2011-11-2; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Masterclass/workshop

Date: Wednesday 2nd Novemeber 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Barry Dean

What’s it all about:
Back by popular demand, Barry Dean – former lead artist with Disney – presents a digital drawing workshop showcasing Wacom’s new Inkling, a digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint [...]

[ 2011-10-5; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Electronic Theatre 3

Date: Wednesday 5th October 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 9:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

What’s it all about:

Special Guest Presentation:
Daniel Heckenberg with Quill: Birds of a Feather Tool

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole features over 60 distinctive, art-directed, hyper-realistic feathered characters. Animal Logic developed a procedural feathering pipeline, Quill, that allows a procedural [...]

[ 2011-09-7; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Electronic Theatre 2

Date: Wednesday 7th September 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:30pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

What’s it all about:

Special Guest Presentation to proceed Electronic Theatre presentation:
Joey Hegarty, Software Developer from Animal Logic’s R&D team will be presenting his Siggraph talk Volumetric Effects in a Snap

The twenty minute talk will describe how and why Animal Logic created Snap, [...]

[ 2011-08-17; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Electronic Theatre 1

Date: Wednesday 17th August 2011

Time: 7:15pm to approx 9:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

What’s it all about:
A screening of a portion of Electronic Theatre from the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2011 Conference to be held in Vancouver, Canada.

This event will be preceded by a brief Annual General Meeting at 7PM that will take approximately 15 minutes to [...]

[ 2011-07-6; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Technical Director – Steve Agland

Date: Wednesday 6th July 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Steve Agland

What’s it all about:
Steve is a senior TD currently working in look development and lighting at Animal Logic. He studied Computer Science at UTS where he produced a short animation – Bin Can Can – which screened at [...]

[ 2011-06-1; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Matte Painter with Ben Walker

Date: Wednesday 1st June 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Ben Walker

What’s it all about:
Ben is a matte painter currently working at Animal Logic. He has previously worked at The People’s Republic of Animation and attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2007. His feature film credits [...]

[ 2011-05-4; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Compositor with Niki Bern

Date: Wednesday 4th May 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Niki Bern in conversation with Shilo McClean

What’s it all about:
Niki Bern is a compositor/VFX Artist who has worked at Digital Domain, Animal Logic, Weta Digital, Rising Sun Pictures, Framestore-CFC. Her film credits include: Harry Potter& The Goblet of Fire, [...]

[ 2011-04-6; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Technical Supervisor 3D VFX

Date: Wednesday 6th April 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Matt Hermans

What’s it all about:
Matt Hermans is a Technical Supervisor at Fuel. He will talk about simulation for high-end 3D VFX.
We will also be announcing the next round of the Screen NSW (formerly the FTO) Visual Effects Placement Scheme.

Cost: Free [...]

[ 2011-03-2; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Concept Artist/Art Director

Date: Wednesday 2nd March 2011

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, CoFA

Speakers: Vivienne To

What’s it all about:
Vivienne To will talk about her work and her career, what a concept artist/art director’s showreel should look like, and how to build a career in this area of computer graphics. Vivienne is an Associate Art Director [...]