Nordic studio presentation of either special features, tools, commercial etc.

Slot for presentation incl. brief/speak. max.4 min.pr.studio.

We need to receive material upfront for selection.

1) System Session (diving a bit deeper into Remedy’s Foliage, Vegetation, Tree, Grass systems)

2) Generic Tech Session (probably mostly rendering/asset

Speaker: Sami Vanhatalo, Lead Technical Artist, Remedy Ent.www.remedy.fi

Moderator: John Carey

1) Tech.talk on the Donau boat shots

2) Matte painting talk on Victoria Terrace shots

3) And finally a talk on most expensive window reflection…

www.stormstudios.no

Moderator: John Carey

Gus and how to deal with him…

All in house Software – no Open Source-licensing.

How animators and TDs got feed-back…

Talk aiming at Simulation / FX / Pipeline TDs.

Speaker: Michael Fu, Supervising TD/Pixar Animation Studios

http://www.pixar.com/shorts/pc/index.html

Lighting pipeline for CG short… at Pixar.

All in house Software – no Open Source-licensing.

Focus on RenderMan Volumetric Rendering and how to deal with that.

Talk aiming at Lighting / Render TDs.

Speaker: Timothy Best, Lead TD/Pixar Animation Studios http://www.pixar.com/shorts/pc/index.html

Moderator: John Carey

We will go through the production of the short SKYLAPPJENTA.

http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=1078

We go through GHOST particle pipeline, using Drag Me To Hell as case.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/dragmetohell/

Mike and Tim will discuss the big fly-in shot at the beginning of the short. This was the last shot to be finished, and the heaviest, most complex shot in the film. It’s where the team ultimately found out whether their solutions were as scalable as they hoped they would be.

http://www.pixar.com/shorts/pc/index.html

Moderator: John Carey

Creating high quality creatures on tight deadlines. We take a look at the challenges of two creature projects and how they were accomplished.

www.ghost.d

Moderator: John Carey

Tech.talk on Lidar + Hype, how jumping out of a window can be a bit of a nightmare… and other interesting stuff.

http://www.stormstudios.no/page/max_manus/

Moderator: John Carey

How Ghost work with open souce…

Speakers: Preben Uhrskov, Head of IT/Ghost

www.ghost.dk

Jimmi will talk us through the wonders of geometry caching… what problems could it solve and how could it be done within the Scandinavien infastructures/pipelines restrictions. Opensource file format allowing for support on multiple platforms and easy exchange, infrastructure limitations (diskspace/bandwith), transferring between companies.

Speaker: Jimmi Gravesen, independend Software Developer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2849594/

Øystein will take us through his colour pipeline. Touching on topics such as grading, calibrating… and the problems, obstacles, challenges he met.

Speaker: Øystein Larsen, VFX Sup./Filmkameratene

http://www.larsenfx.com/

This will be a true “open source-on-District-9?-talk. All District 9 tools and pipeline are built on cortex, but cortex at the moment is very hard for people to get into using because it has no tutorials or examples. This is a talk which shows some eye candy as usual, and then has quick overviews of some of the tools and how they were used on District 9, and how they use cortex. It could include some simple standalone scripts which people could take away and use – stuff like caching, image manipulation, light rigging and some simple procedural rendering.

Speaker: John Haddon, Lead R&D Developer/Image Engine

Nigel Denton-Howes, CG Sup., /Image Engine

http://cortex.devjavu.com/

http://code.google.com/p/cortex-vfx/

http://www.district9movie.com/

Moderator: John Carey

Where are we heading?

What are our ambitions for Nordic TDForum?

What are our conclusions on Helsinki 2009?

Moderator: John Carey