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Speaker Sacha Bertram (idagrove – The Supervision Company, http://www.supervision-company.com) has been one of Germany’s best-known freelance VFX supervisors for many years and works for companies such as Scanline, Elektrofilm and Liga01. One of his latest projects was VFX supervision on the set of Milka’s 2009 Christmas commercial “Sleigh Race”. In addition to his practical work, he is also an author, lecturer at various film schools and developer of the VFX management software “mathilda”.
Time and place:
Saturday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SAE Institute Cologne
Carlswerkstraße 11c
D-51063 Cologne
The seminar is organised by DIGITAL PRODUCTION in cooperation with Missing Link Software Solutions GmbH. We thank SAE Institute Cologne for sponsoring the premises.
Costs:
The participation fee for the two-day seminar is EUR 299.- (students EUR 149.-). Registrations received by June 25, 2010 receive an early-booking discount of EUR 50.- (not applicable to students). Annual and premium subscribers to DIGITAL PRODUCTION generally receive a discount of 15%. All prices are net prices plus 19% VAT.
Registration:
Register via the DIGITAL PRODUCTION homepage. If you have any questions, please contact Thomas Gronert at tgronert@missing-link-software.de or on 089 74 49 23 76
Agenda:
VFX fundamentals:
- Overview of the possibilities, costs and limitations of individual VFX techniques such as animatronics, miniatures, motion control, motion capture, 3D animation and compositing
- The VFX supervisor, the VFX producer and other responsibilities
- Optimal integration of VFX and production
Management of VFX projects
- Workflow of a classic VFX production
- Various possibilities for dramatic breakdown in the screenplay
- VFX breakdown and costing
- Project planning and controlling
Further Links:
- More information and registration
