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Digital Production, together with Missing Link, is holding a Wochendend seminar in Cologne. Two days, four speakers. The topics: Motion Graphics and On Air Design / Production Workflow in Cinema 4D.
Programme and Speakers on Saturday, July 5
Diseer seminar day covers the topic “Motion Graphics and On Air Design” and provides an overview from conception through production steps to completed on-air design and motion graphics projects. The production steps are illustrated and explained in detail using practical, real production examples. Workflow within the production also plays an important role, with many tips and tricks. Cinema4D and After Effects are the main tools used.
Klemens Ehret
Professor of multimedia at Ravensburg-Weingarten University. His teaching areas include film production, usability, web design and presentation. He also advises television broadcasters on further developing their programming. Previously, he worked as a department head in on-air promotion for Prosiebensat1 Media AG and developed Saturday evening shows for Swiss television.
Christian Roggy
has worked on productions for various TV broadcasters and production companies since the early 1990s. Since 1994, he has also provided customer training in broadcast/on-air design and promotion, as well as postproduction and consultancy in project and studio planning.
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Workflow in Production
with Cinema 4D
Programme and Speakers, Sunday, July 6
On this seminar day, the individual work processes (including Mograph and Bodypaint), project organisation and, of course, production workflow will be described using a real production (BMW commercial).
Björn Kowalski
Managing director and postproduction supervisor at Effekt-Etage GmbH. After more than a year at Walt Disney in Florida, he studied “Digital Media” and began working as a digital artist in Germany, South Africa and America. Today, as a VFX supervisor and director, he oversees commercials, music videos, corporate films and Flash video content. He supervised music videos for Depeche Mode, Lou Reed, Deichkind and Wir sind Helden, and works for brands such as BMW, MINI, Audi,VW; Adidas, Mc Donlads etc. His work won several awards, including Cyperlion Silver and ADC Bronze.
Christoph Skamierski
Senior 3D artist at Effekt-Etage GmbH in Berlin.
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Agenda:
Saturday, July 5
“Motion Graphics and On Air Design”
11:00: Welcome
Workflow optimisation in the production of on-air design elements with Cinema 4D/After Effects
Part 1: Introduction
What Is On Air Promotion For?
Why Motion Graphics Are Important in On Air Promotion
Which Graphics Do You Need? (Packages, Openers, Closers, Lower Thirds)
What Matters in Conception, and What Matters in Production?
13:00: Lunch Break
14:00: Part 2: “How Can I Save Time in the Workflow
(and Therefore Money)?”
Tips & Tricks for Saving Costs: in Conception, Modelling, Rendering and Packaging
Sunday, July 6
Production workflow using a concrete production example
The complete film can be seen here.
Description of the production methods (real car, digital backgrounds)
What the project organisation needs to look like
Animating the bridge with Mograph (working with effectors)
Generating the landscapes
Using Bodypaint
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Time and Place:
Saturday, July 5 from 11:00–18:00 and
Sunday, July 6 from 9:00–16:00
SAE Institute Cologne
Carlswerkstr. 7-13, 51063 Cologne
Costs:
The participation fee for the two-day seminar is 99 euros (students 79 euros).
DP premium subscribers generally receive a 15% discount.
All prices are net prices, to which 19% VAT will be added.
The registration deadline is Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
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