In nuce: FMX – Film & Media Exchange starts next week at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, but also online. This year’s FMX is a hybrid event. Further programme highlights have now been announced: There will be presentations on absolute entertainment highlights, including “The Batman”, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “The Witcher”. The programme will also focus on gaming, mental health and climate change in the context of entertainment.
VFX for Features: Below are some of the programme highlights of this track.
Wētā FX presents “The Batman”: Visual Effects Supervisor Anders Langlands and Compositing Supervisor Beck Veitch will take a look at the VFXs of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman”. In addition, Batman fans will have the opportunity to attend the presentation “Halon Entertainment Presents Visualising The Batman” by Jess Marley and Keith Fallon on location in Stuttgart.
A look behind the scenes of “Spider-Man: No Way Home”: Charles Abou Aad (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Eric Noel (Framestore) and David Cunningham (Digital Domain) take a look behind the scenes of the latest Spider-Man film. The presentation will focus on artistic and technological challenges in equal measure.
VFX for Episodic: The following is perhaps the most exciting item on the programme for this track.
How the creatures for season 2 of “The Witcher” were created: Madeleine Spencer will talk about what elements of the pipeline developed by Cinesite were crucial to bringing the Basilisk and Chernobog to life in this presentation.
Social Impact: Below are some of the programme highlights from this track.
Let’s Talk: Mental Health in the Creative Industry: In this panel Hugo Guerra (Hugo’s Desk), Jahirul Amin (CAVE Academy), Laurie Balvin (Scanline VFX) and Karin Larsson (Lecturer) will discuss: Working conditions in the creative industry, ‘crunch time’, corporate culture and personal wellbeing.
Let’s Talk: Climate change and sustainability in the creative industry: Hugo Guerra (Hugo’s Desk), Imke Fehrmann (Akkord Film Produktion GmbH), Elena Pfändler (SERU Animation), Volker Helzle (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) and Chris Ebeling (Virtually Human Studio) will discuss: the latest IPCC climate report from the United Nations, the right to recycle, the dark side of cloud computing, NFTs, and virtual production.
Games & Beyond: Below are some of the programme highlights from this track.
A Look at Art Direction with Riot Games: In this session, Almu Redondo (Axis Studios) will dive into the art of art directing for short films and game cinematics and show how Riot Games and Axis Studios work together.
The making of the “Sniper Elite 5” cinematic trailer by Rebellion Film Studios: Director Hugo Guerra and VFX Supervisor He Sun will talk about the making of the trailer, covering topics such as: MoCap, stunt performance, animation, modelling, lighting, rendering, compositing, USD pipeline and grading.
Changing The Game: This is perhaps the most exciting programme item on this track.
The Omniverse – a new way to collaborate in real-time and non-linear: Featuring Jeff Kember (NVIDIA), Jon Peddie (Jon Peddie Research), Gary Redburn (DELL) and Chris Vienneau (Jon Peddie Research) who will be lecturing on how Omniverse connects DCC programmes – and makes collaboration on creative projects more sustainable for the future.
Click to continue: All further information on the newly published programme items can be found in the corresponding press release on fmx.de.
