For this special occasion, the FMX team is preparing a birthday present for the audience – packed with talks, presentations, workshops and forum partners presenting the latest projects from the fields of animation, effects, games and immersive media. Volker Engel (CEO Uncharted Territory), Regina Pessoa (animation filmmaker) and Steven Appleby (artist and author) can be announced for FMX 2020. The FMX ticket shop at www.fmx.de will also open on 10 January 2020.

FMX 2020 theme Imagine Tomorrow

For its 25th anniversary, FMX has adopted the theme Imagine Tomorrow. Based on this, it will present innovative workflows and tools and invite speakers to share their visions for the future of the media and entertainment industry – from abstract concepts to clearly defined strategies – with the audience.

How can ideas develop into intellectual properties? How can the Uncanny Valley be overcome so that digital characters can no longer be distinguished from real people? The merging of artistic and artificial intelligence will also become a relevant topic for the future. Technical challenges such as the linking of physical and virtual production as well as business-relevant topics such as the development of new distribution channels will also be discussed.

In all its presentations, FMX will take a look at the entertainment experiences of the future – both in front of and behind the scenes. There are no longer any limits to presentation possibilities in the media sector. How can media professionals utilise this freedom for a better future?

VFX pioneers and animated filmmakers

Volker Engel (President Uncharted Territory, VFX Supervisor, Film Producer) has been involved since the first edition of FMX in 1994. After studying animation at the Film Academy, he was supervisor for the groundbreaking visual effects in the blockbuster Independence Day, for which he received an Academy Award. More recently, he worked as co-producer and visual effects supervisor on the sequel Independence Day: Resurgence. For FMX 2020, he will curate the track The Evolution of SFX:

“In the mid-90s, I attended the very first FMX and had a showreel that started with the bold sentence “If you think you can’t do Visual Effects in Germany… think again!”. A quarter of a century later, I am pleased and proud to say that this sentence has long been completely outdated. In Germany, some of the world’s best artists create visual effects to the highest standards in the industry – and at FMX they present their achievements together with their colleagues from all over the world. And true to the motto of the 25th FMX, “Imagine Tomorrow”, they will not only imagine this future, but contributeto a better futurewith their skills and inventiveness .”

Animated filmmaker Regina Pessoa (Ciclope Filmes) will give an insight into her latest film Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days, one of the most popular animated short films of 2019. She has received numerous awards for her films, including Kali the Little Vampire and Tragic Story with Happy End, the most awarded Portuguese film of all time. In all her films, Regina Pessoa uses various engraving techniques, from plaster to computer animation, or as she herself likes to say: “from stone to pixel”. When asked about her view of the future, Regina Pessoa replies: “Analogue art is considered obsolete today, but in combination with the technology of tomorrow, it can become invaluable in the future.”

FMX Forum – First confirmations

FMX is delighted to have SideFX as a main partner. The company will offer a workshop and present itself with a company suite. The SAE Institute will offer two workshops. Maxon has booked a company suite. InstaLOD and NuBoyana FX will have stands at the FMX Marketplace. BigHugFX, Boulder Media, Realtime UK, Pixomondo, Scanline VFX and Trixter will be taking part in the Recruiting Hub. The FH Upper Austria Faculty Hagenberg and the ifs international film school Cologne can be announced for the School Campus.

Tickets

Tickets can be purchased in the FMX ticket shop at www.fmx.de from 10 January 2020.

Further information: To the official website of FMX 2020

The post FMX 2020 Imagines Tomorrow first appeared on DIGITAL PRODUCTION and was written by Bela Beier.