VIEW Conference - 2011 Edition

2011 Edition

The twelfth edition of VIEW Conference took place from October 25 to October 28 at the Conference Center Torino Incontra. This edition has seen the participation of four keynotes, four international guests that have offered a taste of their experience and professionalism. Sharon Calahan, the goddess of light from the Pixar animation studios; the visual thinking guru Tom Wujec; Randy Thom, Sound Director and twice academy award winner, and the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow.

"I think the caliber of the speakers was amazing, even more outstanding than normal. I liked the wide variety of topics covered, the diversity. The presentations were thought provoking and creatively inspiring. And, the workshops were a great idea. I think they were more popular than expected, which is a good problem to have."

Other speakers have highlighted the conference:

Scott Farrar, Academy Award winner and Senior VFX Supervisor for Transformer 3, Industrial Light & Magic; Roger Guyett, VFX Supervisor and Second Unit Director for Cowboys & Aliens, Industrial Light & Magic; Lucia Modesto, Character Technical Director Supervisor, PDI/DreamWorks Animation; Peter Nofz, Digital Effects Supervisor for Green Lantern, Sony Pictures Imageworks; Glenn Entis, Co-Founder and General Partner, Vanedge Capital; Roger Gould, Creative Director, Pixar's Theme Park Group; Joshua Grow, 2011 Siggraph Director, VFX Artist at The Creative Cartel and Producer; David S. Cohen, Associate Editor, Variety; Adriano Rinaldi, Head of Effects and Daniele Bigi, Lighting Supervisor for X-Men: First Class, Moving Picture Company; Gavin Graham, Co-Head of 3D for Captain America, Double Negative; Kris Piotrowski, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Capy.

• The Automotive section has seen the participation of:

Daniel Shapiro, Director of Automotive Division, NVIDIA; Aldo Maggiore, Director of B.U. ICT Engineering Methods & Services, Fiat ITEM; Michael Robinson, Executive Brand & Design Director, Bertone.

• The medical Imaging section has had high professional speakers, like:

Luc Soler, Research Project Manager in Computer Science and Robotics, IRCAD; Caecilia Charbonnier, PhD, Co-Founder, President & Research Director, ArtAnim.

• VIEW Conference 2012 had also a lot of Italian guests:

Stefano Cieri, Lighting and Rendering TD, and Giuseppe Squillaci, CEO and VFX Supervisor, Canecane; Fabrizio Volpi, 3D Supervisor/Compositor and Marco Negri, 3D artist, Xchanges VFX; Roberto Dini, Founder, Sisvel; Simona Braga, artistic director, ArtLab; Roberto Remmert, Petra s.r.l; Lucio De Paolis, AVR Lab, Dep. of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento; Laura Milani, CEO at Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design, IAAD; Francesco Fileppo, Project Manager and Research Engineer, ISMB; Paolo Cignoni, Visual Computing Laboratory, ISTI - CNR.

• VIEW offered several practical workshops:

Erminio Pinque, Creature fabricator/performer and Art Director, Big Nazo Lab; Davide Pesare, Technical Director of La Luna, PIXAR; Mike Springer, Software Engineer, Google; Enrico Casarosa, Director of La Luna, PIXAR; David Revoy, Digital Painter & Art Director; Marco Mazzaglia, IT Manager, Milestone; Emanuele Micheli, Education Management Professional, School of Robotics; Daniele Angelozzi, ZBrush Instructor; TOP-IX Workshops; SFEI Workshops.

• VIEW Award 2011 winners:

Best Short: De Riz ou d'Arménie. Authors: Hélène Marchal, Samy Barras, Romain Blondelle, Céline Seille.

Best Design: Lumberjack. Author: Pawel Debski.

Best Environment Design: La détnte. Authors: Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey.

Best Digital Character: A morning stroll. Author: Grant Orchard.

Best Digital Visual Effects: Paths of Hate. Author: Damian Nenow.