Santiago ACM SIGGRAPH 2018

Starting Monday, October 8 and ending Friday, October 12, 12 conferences and 5 workshops will be given again in Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción by renowned artists from the main animation and VFX studios such as Dreamworks Animation Studios, Walt Disney, Sony Pictures Imageworks and BLENDER, among others, to transmit their knowledge and experience. 

This year, emphasis is placed on the work of prominent women from international studies and how their point of view has managed to set a trend in the entertainment industry. Almudena Redondo and Natalia Gubareva, both specialists in conceptual art, visual development and lighting, will tell us about their participation in the film Aladdin (Walt Disney)which premieres in 2019 and the work done as a lighting designer in Smurfs and Angry Birdsrespectively. Likewise, Diana Arellano, an expert researcher in Affective Computing, will show Sara, a software that generates animations of stylized characters to study how autistic children respond to emotions. 

In addition, the director of Storyboard, Sergio Páez, will reveal the keys to the success of a film production and Greg Berridge, director of the training department at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where every animator who works in the studio must pass, comes to show the Hotel Transilvania 3 Rigs.

Spoilers: For the first time in Latin America we will have the chance to see “Bilby”the first animated short film from Dreamworks Animation Studios,presented byLiron Topaz and the presentation of the new Blender 2.8 Version with its Grease tool Pencil by Pablo Vázquez. 

Santiago ACM SIGGRAPH / VFXChile 2018 is made possible thanks to the financing of the Audiovisual Development Fund, Chilecrea I Corfo, Duoc UC and the collaboration of different academic institutions.

INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
Monday, October 8, 2018, 10:30 am. Room A1 – GAM

CONFERENCES IN GAM (Room A1)

Visual Development & Concept Artist Cartoon Saloon
ALMUDENA REDONDO 
Inaugural Conference:
From Jason Bourne to Cartoon Saloon: Look Development for VFX and animation
Oct 8, 10 a.m.

Affective Computing – Researcher & Software Developer Mackevision Medien Design
DIANA ARELLANO 
Conference: 
Facial expressions in virtual characters… and 3D cars.
Opens: DYNE Estudio // Breakdown of a Motion Graphics project
Oct 8, 3 p.m.

Writer / Director / Story Designer Lucasfilm.
SERGIO PÁEZ
Conference:
Ten keys to the success of filmmaking.
Open: Carlos Araya // How to use social networks to reach the foreign market.
Oct 8, 4:45 p.m.

Writer / Director / Animator Dreamworks Animation studio.
LIRON TOPAZ
Conference:
The making of Dreamworks' first animated short film: Bilby.
Opens: SMOG // Visuals for DJ MASA.
Oct 9, 10 a.m.

TD Lighting & Composer Stellar Creative Lab
NATALIA GUBAREVA
Conference:
From Concept to Final Image: Lighting for an Animated Short
Opens: Pájaro // Adaptation of Art for Animation
Oct 9, 11:45 h

Artist Development & Outreach and Director of Training, Sony Pictures Imageworks
GREG BERRIDGE
Conference:
Going crazy, rigging for cartoon characters in Hotel Transylvania 3.
Opens: Believe // Transformers
Oct 9, 3 p.m.

3D Artist at Blender Institute/Animation Studio
PABLO VÁZQUEZ
Conference:
Blender 2.8: the future of animation.
Opens: Academy of Digital Art // Artificial Intelligence
Oct 9, 4:45 p.m.