The VFX Festival 2021 Hosted by Escape Studios, The VFX Festival returns in 2021 and will celebrate the theme of ‘limitless creativity’ in the visual effects, animation, games, and motion graphics industries. The virtual festival will begin in March and will feature insight into award-winning productions, inspiring expert-led presentations, careers advice, as well as the latest trends, technology, and innovation from around the world.   Each year the festival brings together an awesome creative community, allowing emerging talent to explore the best of…

✨🎉 Meet some of the women of Blue Zoo! For #InternationalWomensDay2021, we’re hosting a lunchtime roundtable of #animation professional women who will discuss finding their path in the industry 🧭 #InsideBZ Hear from women in the animation industry about working in animation, finding your individual path and overcoming imposter syndrome Monday 8th March @ 12.30pm UK time ⏰

Register for free at: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/directors Please email questions for our panel to info@viewconference.it with subject “Oscar Contender Questions”. Thanks! VIEW brings together animated feature directors from around the world to debate the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards®, with our exclusive panel Animated Features Oscar Contenders – A Directors’ Discussion. Enjoy the company and hear the wisdom of this extraordinary collection of talented animated feature directors: Glen Keane (Over the Moon) Pete Docter and Kemp Powers (Soul) Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart (Wolfwalkers) Joel Crawford (The Croods: A New…

CAVE ACADEMY Presents: The first task of any VFX production is to take the script and break it down to figure out what the requirements are for the project. Can elements be shot in-camera? Would a virtual production stage be required? Green screen? Digi-doubles? Creatures? What is the budget for the project? and so on. This session will explore how to break down a script and discuss some of the considerations you should bear in mind when VFX is required.…

Join us on the 4th March (the day before the film’s release) for a special LIVE panel and Q&A with Raya and The Last Dragon’s incredible female filmmakers. We will be joined by: Producer: Osnat Shurer (also worked on Moana) Screenwriter: Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) Head of Story: Fawn Veerasunthorn (Frozen) Modeler: Liza Rhea (Ralph Breaks the Internet) We will talk about careers in the creative industry, the impact of COVID, representation of women in behind-the-scenes roles & the…

Behind the Scenes: VR Optimization of PC Titles and Porting to Quest. Lessons learned from porting major PC games to VR. About this Event Incuvo has previously worked with acclaimed horror studios to port Layers of Fear to VR, further assisting them last year with Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition. Radomir Kucharski, VP of Product at Incuvo will be in a roundtable discussion with Ruben Torres (the Game Dev Guru) on XR Rendering Optimization Challenges and Porting to Quest. Agenda…

PreVIEW 4 features a conversation with five directors of Pixar’s SparkShorts films that are up for awards consideration this year. About this Event VIEW Conference presents: Pixar SparkShorts Directors’ Discussion VIEW brings together five directors from Pixar SparkShorts animated short films: Madeline Sharafian (“Burrow”) Bobby Alcid Rubio (“Float”) Erica Milsom (“Loop”) Steven Clay Hunter (“OUT”) Edwin Chang (“Wind”) Dan Sarto of Animation World Network moderates. Friday, February 26th, 2021 10:00 PST / 6:00pm UK / 19:00 CET http://viewconference.it/pages/sparkshorts

Bombay Rose: Director Gitanjali Rao in Conversation with Netflix’s Aram Yacoubian   Friday, February 12th, 2021 (9am PST / 5pm UK / 18:00 CET). Click here to register for free. In our 3rd PreVIEW, director Gitanjali Rao speaks about her debut animated feature Bombay Rose. An award-winning festival favourite, the film took two years to complete at PaperBoat Animation Studios, and tells the story of a young dancer living on the streets of Bombay. Moderated by Aram Yacoubian, Director Original Content Netflix   Gitanjali…