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Just a reminder for those in Europe or with nice travel budgets – the VIEW conference being held in Italy is right around the corner – here are a few details:

WONDERFUL WORKSHOPS, AMAZING SPEAKERS

VIEW Conference, October 24 to 28

The 12^th annual VIEW Conference opens next Monday. Amazing speakers and workshops please reserve your seat! http://viewconference.it/docs/VIEW_Conference_program_ENG_2011.pdf

- October 24 – Sharon Calahan, Director of Photography at Pixar Animation Studios: Reflections of Light and Color.
- October 24 – Tom Wujec, Autodesk Fellow: Clarity – Using Visual Thinking to Collaborate, Innovate, and Get Things Done
- October 25 – 28 – Dylan Sisson, RenderMan Technical Artist: RenderMan Roadmap for 2011
- October 24 – Davide Pesare, Shader Writer – Pixar Animation Studios: RenderMan: Understanding Shading on SIMD architectures
- October 25 – 28 – Paolo Baccolo, Guru, Adobe Systems, Evangelist, Wacom Europe: Creativity, efficiency and ergonomics: Wacom’s tools for digital creatives
- October 27, 28 – Mike Springer, Software Engineer Google: SketchUp, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Apps & App Engine.
- October 25-28 – Francesco Lo Torto, Tom Krcha, Giovani Antico, Andrea Pontiggia, Davide Famoso, Luca Boni, Manlio Esposito, Fabrizio Volpi: Adobe Create Suite
- October 25, 26, 28 – David Revoy: Digital painting, concept, illustration using open source software.

Now in its 12^th year, the VIEW is Italy’s largest computer graphics conference. Keynoting the conference are Pixar Animation Studio’s Sharon Calahan, director of photography on Disney/Pixar’s Cars2; Skywalker Sound director of sound design Randy Thom, a two-time Academy Award winner who created the sound design for Rio; Tom Wujec, Autodesk fellow and author of three books on innovation; and Cory Doctorow, technology activist, science fiction author, and journalist.

The conference recently announced speakers who will present work on two recent releases, both created using performance capture techniques first honed on James Cameron’s Avatar: Weta Digital’s Wayne Stables will give a presentation on Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin, and Digital Domain’s Eric Nash will present the visual effects work created for Shawn Levy’s Real Steel.

Also presenting at VIEW this year are Glenn Entis, co-founder of PDI, former head of DreamWorks Interactive, chief visual officer for Electronic Arts, Technical Achievement Academy Award winner, and now a founding partner in Vanage Capital, Academy-Award winner Scott Farrar, visual effects supervisor from Industrial Light & Magic for Transformers: The Dark of the Moon. Two-time Oscar nominee Roger Guyett, also from ILM, visual effects supervisor for Cowboys & Aliens. BAFTA award nominee Peter Nofz from Sony Pictures Imageworks, digital effects supervisor for Green Lantern. Gavin Graham, co-head of 3D at Double Negative for Captain America: The First Avenger. From the Moving Picture Company, Adriano Rinaldi, head of effects, and Daniele Bigi, look development lead for X-Men: First Class. Rob Bredow, CTO for Sony Pictures Imageworks, visual effects supervisor for The Smurfs, and evangelist for the open source Alembic file format. And, Lucia Modesto, character technical director supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks for Kung Fu Panda 2.

VIEW 2011 takes place October 24-28 following the film festival VIEWfest, October 21-23 in beautiful Turin, Italy. For a list of all the speakers, to register, and to sign up for the workshops please visit our website:
www.viewconference.it

I’ve finally taken the time to make the menu on Loklo’s main site work properly as a drop down. My previous solution, which avoided the drop down worked, but wasn’t effective. Now the traffic should flow a little better to the sub pages. I’ve also updated the titles of some of the menu entries… might tweak pages and menus a little more, though.

“Death is very likely the best invention of life,”… “All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

‎”Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

1955-2011

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

update… Jobs’ Biography available on Amazon:

 

I didn’t find many helpful tutorials in the first few minutes of searching on how to create Protype title effects in Sony Vegas Pro, so after playing a little on a project, decided to put up a little screencast tutorial. hopefully it helps you with your pro titles and text effects.

After having a bit of a lull in sales on The3DStudio.com, I’ve decided to lower prices on some of my most viewed items, including the Pumps and Motors set, Grass Textures, Penguin and Wolf Models, tutorials and molecules.
Check them out here:
http://t3ds.com/m/260735