Tech, Animation Giants Converge in Italy for VIEW

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By: Thomas J. McLean

VIEW, Italy’s renowned computer conference on digital convergency, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with presentations from the likes of Pixar, Electronic Arts, Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rainmaker, Double Negative and Blue Sky Studios.

Set for Nov. 4-7 in Turin, Italy, the conference will feature a keynote address from composer Michael Giacchino, who received an Oscar nomination in 2008 for his score for Ratatouille.

Highlighting the conference are computer graphics pioneers Glenn Entis, who co-founded PDI, was chief visual and technology officer at Electronic Arts, and now heads a digital media business investment fund; and Ken Perlin, 2008 recipient of the computer graphics achievement award from SIGGRAPH and professor in the media research laboratory at New York University.

Other presenters include Industrial Light & Magic’s Roger Guyett, who supervised effects for Star Trek; and Jeff White, associate visual effects supervisor for Transformers 2; Henry LaBounta, chief visual officer at Black Box, an Electronic Arts studio; and EA’s Jonathan Knight, who will present Dante’s Inferno.

Speaking on stereoscopic 3-D are Bob Whitehill, stereoscopic supervisor at Pixar; Jayme Wilkinson, stereoscropic supervisor at Blue Sky Studios; and Rob Bredow, CTO, and Danny Dimian, senior CG supervisor, at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Details on the program and registration can be found at http://www.viewconference.it/

Reader Comments

• Michela McDaniel : Secretary : VIEW Conference

  Friday, May 14, 2010

  To whom it may concern:
  
  Hello, my name is Marty and I am with the VIEW Conference, \\\"the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming and VFX.\\\" I noticed that our 2009 conference was mentioned on your site and was wondering if you would be so kind as to include our 2010 dates on your event calender. The 2010 VIEW Conference will take place on October 26-29, 2010 in Turin, Italy at the Torino Incontra Conference Center. You may also, of course, include our URL http://www.viewconference.it/ on the calender so that your clients can access more information regarding the conference.
  
  Thank you in advance,
  Michela