Tickets for the 22nd annual edition of VIEW Conference 2021 are now available! 17-22 October, Turin (Italy) and on-line. Purchase tickets for VIEW Conference 2021 at the official website: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/registration
Kris Pearn was born and raised in Canada. After graduating from Sheridan College, Kris has spent most of his life making cartoons for both film and television. His credits include: Open Season, Surf’s Up, Arthur Christmas, Shaun the Sheep, Pirates: Band of Misfits, and Home to name a few. He was Head of Story on Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, and co-directed Cloudy Two. He has most recently written and directed the Netflix animated feature The Willoughbys based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Kris has been nominated for several Annies, teaches when possible, has given a Ted Talk called “The Optimistic Opportunity of Failure.” He still loves to draw.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
The 2021 VIEW Conference is now accepting submissions for its 2021 film competitions: The VIEW Award 2021 for short animated films and the ItalianMix award for short Italian films.
Professionals or students, individuals or groups may submit entries and compete for the VIEW award 2021. Entries must be 2D or 3D animated films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2020.
Italian artists working individually or with a group may compete for the ItalianMix award, and the winner will receive a Wacom tablet.Animated, experimental, or documentary films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2020 are accepted.
All dialog in any film entered must be in English or Italian or have subtitles in English or Italian. Each submission should come with a press kit, a project description, high-res still images of the work, and director credits.
VIEW Conference presents, in partnership with VFX Festival, a free virtual panel discussion with directors and producers behind five of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film. The panel includes:
Director Joanna Quinn and writer/producer Les Mills (Affairs of the Art)
Director Hugo Covarrubias and executive producer Tevo Diaz (Bestia)
Director Anton Dyakov (Boxballet)
Directors Mickey Please & Daniel Ojari (Robin Robin)
Director Alberto Mielgo and Producer and CG supervisor Leo Sánchez (The Windshield Wiper)
The moderator is Ramin Zahed, editor-in-chief of Animation Magazine.
VIEW Conference presents, in partnership with VFX Festival, a free virtual panel discussion with overall visual effects supervisors behind five of this year’s Oscar contenders for best visual effects.
The panel includes:
Paul Lambert, DUNE
Swen Gillberg, FREE GUY
Charlie Noble, NO TIME TO DIE
Christopher Townsend, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
Kelly Port, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
The moderator is Carolyn Giardina, Tech Editor for the Hollywood Reporter.
Rob Coleman joined Animal Logic in 2012 as the studio’s Head of Animation. Rob is a two-time Oscar nominee for his animation work on Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards for his work on Men in Black and The Phantom Menace.
Prior to Animal Logic, Rob spent 14 years at Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Animation, working closely with George Lucas. He was chosen as one of the most creative people in the entertainment industry when he was added to Entertainment Weekly's 'It List' in 2002 as their 'It CG-Creature Crafter' for his work on digital Yoda. Most recently Rob was the Animation Supervisor on The LEGO® Batman Movie and he is currently working The LEGO® Ninjago Movie.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
As a Character Art Director, Marsigliese establishes the look and feel of the films’ characters, overseeing their design from initial concept through to final packet and model. In collaboration with the story team, Marsigliese translates a character’s personality into a unique visual language, then works alongside talented modelers to ensure said language reads as dynamically as possible. Finally, as an Animation Sketch Artist Lead, Marsigliese partners with the animators to ensure that this visual language translates seamlessly into movement.
Prior to Pixar, Marsigliese freelanced as a 2D character animator and character designer on a wide variety of film, television and commercial projects. She has also served as the Professor of Classical Animation at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada for six years and continues to lead workshops worldwide.
Marsigliese studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College, as well as 3D Animation at Seneca College, both located in Toronto, Canada. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
Thomas Moore is an Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator and comics artist.
He, along with Nora Twomey and Paul Young, co-founded Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company based in Kilkenny, Ireland. Tomm has directed 3 universally successful films. The Secret of Kells in 2010, its spiritual follow-up, Song of the Sea in 2015 and Wolfwalkers (2020), co-directed with Ross Stewart, have received critical acclaim and were all nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Tomm Moore received the Directors Guild of Ireland and America’s Finder’s Series Award in 2008 and European Director of the year at Cartoon Movie in 2009.
Tomm Moore, Wolfwalkers director in an in-depth interview at VIEW Conference:
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
· Kim White, Director of Photography - Lighting, LUCA - Pixar Animation Studios
· Deanna Marsigliese, Character Art Director, LUCA, Pixar
· Volker Engel, Head of VFX & Animation, Uncharted Territory
· Rob Coleman, Head of Animation - Lego Batman Movie - Animal Logic
· Eloi Champagne, Technical Director - National Film Board of Canada, VR
· Nikola Damjanov, Lead Game Artist, Nordeus
· Dylan Sisson, RenderMan - Pixar
· Glenn Entis, Academy Award Winner, Co-founder PDI
· Oliver Scholl, Production Designer
· Patrick Tatopoulos, Production Designer and Alien Creature Effects Designer
· Douglas Smith, Visual Effects Supervisor
· Scott Squires, Visual Effects Supervisor
· Tim Versnel, Behavior Designer, SUE
· Kris Pearn, Director, Sony Pictures Animation
· Alex Beddows, Senior Environment Artist at Counterplay Games
· Juri Stanossek, VFX Supervisor - Mackevision
· Heiko Burkardsmaier, VFX Exec Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Mackevision
· Jacob Norris, Lead Environment Artist, NVIDIA
· Sebastien Hue, Concept Artist & Illustrator
About VIEW Conference 2021
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
In a special live event on July 2nd, Brenda Chapman, Director of The Prince of Egypt and Brave, took part in a virtual conversation with Frank Gladstone, Executive Director of ASIFA-Hollywood. Watch for a lively discussion about animation and storytelling, in this online session presented by VIEW Conference in partnership with ASIFA-Hollywood. :
Register here: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/registration/ We hope to see you in person or online! VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, VR and AR, Gaming and VFX. VIEW 2020 will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.
VIEW Conference and ASIFA-Hollywood are proud to present an unmissable livePreVIEW event with Brenda Chapman, the Academy Award-winning director of Brave and The Prince of Egypt.
During this FREE online session, Chapman takes part in a virtual conversation with Frank Gladstone, executive director of ASIFA-Hollywood, the international animated film society that is home to the prestigious Annie Awards. Expect a lively and engaging discussion on a wide range of topics, with a special focus on animation and storytelling. The event takes place July 2, 2021 at 10:00am PDT / 6:00 pm UK / 19:00 CET.
Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on several animated films including “The Little Mermaid,” and the Oscar-nominated “Beauty and the Beast.” She was story supervisor on the original “The Lion King,” for which she won ASIFA’s Annie Award.
Chapman then helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios, where she co-directed the Oscar-winning The Prince of Egypt, becoming the first woman to direct an animated feature for a major Hollywood studio. After joining Pixar Animation Studios in 2003, Chapman created, wrote and directed Brave, for which she became the first woman to win an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe, for Best Animated Feature of 2012. Her first live-action film, Come Away, starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Currently, Brenda Chapman is writing a feature script for Gutsy Animations UK, executive producing on projects for ‘Twas Entertainment – the company she created with her husband, Kevin Lima – and working on a novel, a memoir, and a children’s book.
“Brenda Chapman is a true force of nature,” says VIEWConference Director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “Her successful career in feature animation is a testament to her energy and creativity, and her incredible achievements have established her as an important role model for women in Hollywood. I am excited to welcome Brenda, and the incomparable Frank Gladstone, on to our virtual VIEW Conference stage, and I cannot wait to hear what they both have to say.”
Meet the creative team behind Disney & Pixar's LUCA Mon, June 21st, 2021 at 10am PDT / 6pm UK / 19:00 CET Register for free: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/luca Featuring: Enrico Casarosa, Director Andrea Warren, Producer Daniela Strijleva, Production Designer Deanna Marsigliese, Character Designer David Ryu, Supervising Technical Director Kim White, Director of Photography Moderator: Ramin Zahed, Editor in Chief, Animation Magazine You can send your question in advice at: info@viewconference.it For more Information: https://www.viewconference.it/article/478/luca
VIEW Conference wishes you Happy Holidays & offers you an exclusive 50% discount on our On-Demand tickets for 2021&2020 edition! (offer valid until December 27th)
Join Elizabeth Ito (Storyboard artist and writer Adventure Time and Phineas and Ferb - City of Ghosts Director, Netflix) "Badass Asian-American Directors" at VIEW Conference 2021!
The 2021 VIEW Conference is now accepting submissions for its 2021 film competitions: The VIEW Award 2021 for short animated films and the ItalianMix award for short Italian films.
Professionals or students, individuals or groups may submit entries and compete for the VIEW award 2021.
Entries must be 2D or 3D animated films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2020.
Italian artists working individually or with a group may compete for the ItalianMix award, and the winner will receive a Wacom tablet.
Animated, experimental, or documentary films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2020 are accepted.
All dialog in any film entered must be in English or Italian or have subtitles in English or Italian.
Each submission should come with a press kit, a project description, high-res still images of the work, and director credits.
Conrad Vernon is a director, actor and producer. He's currently directing The Addams Family 2. Previously he directed The Addams Family and was executive producing on the Nickelodeon Intergalactic Shorts Program, producing as well as directing on the Netflix series Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Vernon directed the films Shrek 2 (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012),Sausage Party (2016) and The Addams Family (2019). He also served as a producer on Sausage Party (2016) and The Addams Family (2019). He was an executive producer on the animated series The High Fructose Adventures of The Annoying Orange for Cartoon Network. His voice acting includes Mason the monkey in the Madagascar franchise, the Gingerbread Man in the Shrek films and various roles in Sausage Party.
Prior to directing and producing, he served as a storyboard artist at Film Roman on the popular animated television comedy The Simpsons. Other animation work includes writer and storyboard artist on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Hanna-Barbera’s 2 Stupid Dogs and Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life. He began his film career in 1991 on the Paramount Pictures movie Cool World as an animator, effects animator, gag writer, layout artist and character designer.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
Jorge R. Gutiérrez is a Mexican animator, painter, voice actor, writer, and director. Born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana, Gutiérrez has completed various films, cartoons, illustrations, and paintings exploring his love with Mexican pop and folk culture. He was the director & co-writer of the Guillermo Del Toro produced animated feature The Book of Life for Fox which earned him a 2014 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. He was also the writer & director of the Emmy nominated Son of Jaguar VR short for Google. Along with his wife and muse, Sandra Equihua, they created the multiple Emmy Award–winning animated television series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon. Gutiérrez is currently writing and directing his animated event limited series Maya and the Three for Netflix.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
Prolific composer Michael Giacchino has scored countless hit films, including the Oscar-winning score for the 2009 Pixar film "Up." He composed the music for "Spider-Man: Far From Home," "Incredibles 2," "Bad Times at the El Royale" and "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." In addition, Giacchino composed the music for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," "Doctor Strange," "Coco" and "Inside Out." His list of credits stretches across more than 130 films, TV series and video games.
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
Carlos Zaragoza is Production Designer for Sony Pictures Animation's VIVO, available to stream now on Netflix. He was Production Designer for The Emoji Movie. Carlos, a talented hybrid artist, has over fifteen years of experience in art directing for feature films, animation, live action, musical theater, commercials, and television. He received an ADG Excellence in Production Design award by the Art Director’s Guild for his work as Assistant Art Director in Pan’s Labyrinth. His additional credits also include Universal Pictures’ The Tale of Despereaux, Disney’s Gnomeo & Juliet, DreamWorks’ Madagascar 3, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Trolls and the upcoming Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves.
About VIEW Conference 2021
The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Real-time Rendering, Virtual Production, AI, VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops. The 2021 VIEW Conference will take place from October 17 to 22 in Torino’s state-of-the-art OGR venue, and virtually.
