Upcoming: fmx/08
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From May 5th until May 8th, the media conference fmx/08 will take place in Stuttgart, Germany. Since I was lucky to have been accredited as a journalist last year, and since I live in Stuttgart myself, I’m hoping to be there this year as well.
Besides the fascinating topic, to me, fmx stands out because of a) the sympathetic venue, b) the relaxed atmosphere, and—of course—the amount of interesting talks from people such as Christophe Héry from ILM, or—definitely one of this years’s highlights—Paul Debevec from California, who will be speaking about “Realistic Acquisition of Facial Geometry, Reflectance, and Motion”.
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Additionally, there will be (as was last year) the Recruiting Panel, where aspiring fx artists can talk to people from leading fx houses. (I was lucky to speak briefly with Dayne Cowan last year, who was there at Double Negative’s booth, a vfx house situated in London’s Soho. Dayne Cowan was involved with the post-production of Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” (2005) as an in-house supervisor (3D). Right now, Double Negative is working on the follow-up, “The Dark Knight”, which is scheduled to be released this summer).
On the web site of VFXWorld, Peter Plantec has written an extensive article on fmx/08, and this article covers the highlights of fxm very well. The article is especially interesting for people from the States and elsewhere who are contemplating attending fmx this year.
– Image Copyright by Paul Debevec et. al.. Reprinted with permission. –
