Rise Up Fam! We are honored to host the wonderful Avneet Kaur, Character Technical Director and Simulation Supervisor at Walt Disney Animation Studios! Avneet will share her amazing journey from India, give you insight on her varied roles at Disney Animation, and share her views on the significance of mentoring diverse and inclusive talent. Avneet Kaur is a veteran in the vfx and animation industry with 17+ years of experience. She most recently served as a Simulation Supervisor for Disney’s 59th animated feature, „Raya and The Last Dragon“. As a character technical director, she works with the character asset teams to lead the design, development, and implementation of simulation solutions and asset workflows. Avneet has worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks in 2003 on their motion-capture-based animated film, „Polar Express“. She joined WDAS in 2004 and has since worked on “Meet the Robinsons”, “Bolt”, “Tangled”, “Wreck-It Ralph“, „Frozen“, „Big Hero 6“, „Zootopia“, “Moana”, “Frozen 2”, and „Ralph Breaks the Internet“. Kaur is very passionate about the people and craft of animation and has a keen interest in academia. At WDAS, she helps mentor both the incoming and existing talent at the studio. She is deeply engaged in outreach for WDAS and has been a Speaker, Paper Contributor and Presenter at numerous international conferences. She is also involved as a mentor with various associations such as Women in Animation, Women in Technology, Girls Who Code, Rise Up Animation, ABAI(India) and both her Alma Maters (BIT-Mesra and TAMU) in an effort to encourage and support diversity and inclusion in the animation community worldwide.
Watch This Before You See The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf | Netflix
The exciting fantasy world of „The Witcher“ is getting a major upgrade with „The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.“ The animated prequel film dives into the origins of the monster hunter who originally trained Geralt of Rivia, and offers a thrilling story packed with action, monsters, and magic.
Featuring some of the best names in animation behind the scenes and a veteran voice cast bringing the characters to life, „The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf“ is a no-holds-barred fantasy adventure quest you won’t want to miss. Here are some behind the scenes details about the movie, including everything you should know before you watch „The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.“
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Free & Online – Spark CG Society- Panel: Behind the Making of Zack Snyder’s Justice League [Thursday, 26 August 2021 at 12:00 pm PDT]
Having worked on the 2017 theatrical version, Zack Snyder’s Justice League presented Scanline with unique challenges that come with revisiting a project years down the track, not to mention the additional two hours of content required.
Scanline delivered more than 1,000 shots across 22 sequences, with work encompassing everything from hero creatures, character builds and digi-doubles, to large-scale environment work and some epic battle and FX destruction sequences.
On Thursday, 26 August at 12 pm PDT, join VFX Supervisor Bryan Hirota, VFX Supervisor Julius Lechner, and FX Supervisor Jono Freisler for „Bringing Zack Snyder’s Vision to Life for Justice League.“
The trio will discuss the process undertaken to restore and rebuild previous shots, as well as how they updated assets to work within their current pipeline. They will talk through the completely new characters and sequences created, including the beach torture sequence, the redesign and rebuild of the Russian environment, Flash’s cosmic rewind, and the addition of Martian Manhunter.
This webinar will include a live Q&A with panelists.
Register now for the free webinar.
| When: | Thursday, 26 August 2021 at 12:00 pm PDT |
| Where: | Online |
| Admission: | Free |
Work Visas in Animation [Rise Up Animation Panel]
Speakers:
Benson Shum | Animator, Walt Disney Animation Studios & Children’s Book Author and Illustrator
Ere Santos | Senior Animator, Jellyfish Pictures
Doeri Welch | Recruitment Consultant, Nickelodeon Animation
Toniko Pantoja | 2D Animator & Story Artist, Brushtale Works Studio Inc. & Netflix Animation
Rise Up Animation Founders: Bobby Pontillas, Frank Abney, Trent Correy, Monica Lago-Kaytis
Are you ready to Rise Up together? Join the movement by checking out our upcoming panels and visiting our social media!
Website: https://www.riseupanimation.org/
My Little Pony: A New Generation | Official Trailer | Netflix
| Regisseure | Robert Cullen, José L. Ucha, and co-directed by Mark Fattibene Autoren | Robert Cullen & José L. Ucha, and Tim Sullivan Drehbuchautoren | Tim Sullivan and Gillian Berrow Produzenten | Cecil Kramer and Peter Lewis Original Stimmen | Vanessa Hudgens (“Sunny”), Kimiko Glenn (“Izzy”), James Marsden (“Hitch”), Sofia Carson (“Pipp”) and Liza Koshy (“Zipp”). Zu den weiteren Sprechern gehören Ken Jeong (“Sprout”), Elizabeth Perkins (“Phyllis”), Jane Krakowski (“Queen Haven”), Phil LaMarr (“Alphabittle”) und Michael McKean (“Argyle”) Länge | 90 min |
Once upon a time, ponies, pegasi and unicorns all lived in harmony, but those days are no more. When a happy-go-lucky unicorn wanders into Maretown, Earth Pony “Sunny” and her new friends set out on an adventure to restore magic and friendship to all of Equestria!
Join a new generation of ponies as they set out on an adventure to prove that friendship is for every pony, and our sparkle is brightest when we shine together!
My Little Pony: A New Generation only on Netflix September 24: https://www.netflix.com/title/81424207
My Little Pony – Eine neue Generation | Offizieller Trailer | Netflix
Einst lebten Ponys, Pegasi und Einhörner in Harmonie. Doch diese Tage sind vorbei. Als in Maretime Bay jedoch ganz unbeschwert ein Einhorn auftaucht, begeben sich Erdpony Sunny und ihre neuen Freunde auf die abenteuerliche Reise, in ganz Equestria wieder die Magie und Freundschaft herzustellen.
Begleitet eine neue Generation von Ponys bei einem Abenteuer, das zeigt, dass Freundschaft für alle da ist und wir nur gemeinsam am meisten glänzen.
„My Little Pony – Eine neue Generation“ ab 24. September exklusiv auf Netflix ansehen: https://www.netflix.com/title/81424207
Pixar Co-Founder Alvy Ray Smith: The History of the Pixel
The pixel, the smallest element of a picture, has, with little fanfare, helped push forward the digital revolution to new heights over the past 2 decades. Today, nearly every picture in the world is composed of pixels—cell phone pictures, app interfaces, Mars Rover transmissions, book illustrations, video games—and these digital images drive our understanding of the world around us. But where did pixels come from, and why are they so important? Alvy Ray Smith, the co-founder of Pixar, has a some answers to these increasingly important questions.
In his his timely book A Biography of the Pixel, Ray Smith notes that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media. Smith’s story of the pixel’s development—which touches upon technology, entertainment, business and history—begins with Fourier waves, proceeds through Turing machines and ends with the first digital movies from Pixar. For anyone who has watched a video on a cell phone, played a video game, or streamed a television show or movie at home, this important discussion with one of digital media’s pioneers who made it all possible is not to be missed.
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Photo by Richard Kerris.
SPEAKERS
Alvy Ray Smith Co-founder, Pixar; Author, A Biography of the Pixel
John Boland President Emeritus, KQED Public Media; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Moderator
Lucifer | Final Season Trailer | Netflix
All bad things must come to an end. The final season of Lucifer premieres on Netflix on September 10th.
