Merging 2D and 3D Production Methods
Wednesday, 15 August
4:15 - 6 pm
Room 403

Session Chair
Cary Phillips
Industrial Light + Magic


How Changes in Technology Change the Use of Computer Animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation
Steve Goldberg
Walt Disney Feature Animation
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521 USA
steve.goldberg@disney.com

Advances in software and hardware and how they have influenced both corporate aesthetics and artists' attitudes about computer animation.


Bringing PhotoRealism to Fantasy: The Hybrid Approach of a Digital Matte Artist
Paul Huston
Industrial Light + Magic
3155 Kerner Boulevard
San Rafael, California 94901 USA
paul@ilm.com

Evolution and advances in digital matte techniques demonstrated through films such as "Star Wars Special Edition, Episode I: The Phantom Menace," "Mission: Impossible," "Space Cowboys," and "The Mummy Returns."


Digital Tricks for Japanese Cel Animation
Akio Kazumi
OLM Digital, Inc.
2-29-7 Sangenjaya
Setagaya-ku
Tokyo 154-0024 JAPAN
kazumi@olm.co.jp

How digital tricks are created and applied in making Japanese cel animation, including practical examples from the Pokemon movies.