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Vancouver Digital Entertainment Firms Set Aim with Shanghai Trade Mission

Trevor Bentley, president of Atomic Cartoons is going to China as part of the Vancouver Green Capital Business Mission.
Photograph by: Jon Murray, PNG
 
Companies like film, video games makers hope conference in China opens new doors
 
By Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun

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Industry Screening: Inception
Presented by the Visual Effects Society

More info: http://siggraph.ca/enews/20100820/

Attention Chapter Members:
Our friends at the Visual Effects Society are organizing a FREE industry screening of "INCEPTION." For this occasion, they are kindly inviting all chapter members to a matinee this Sunday at 1:30 PM. Please note that this is a members-only event.

Not a member? Not a problem. You can enroll online at www.siggraph.ca/members...

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The Story Behind the Invisible Visual Effects Required in
Creating Washington DC for Salt

CGSociety :: Production Focus
17 August 2010, by Mark Breakspear, VFX Supervisor CIS Vancouver

** read the full story here - it is full of images, breakdowns and movies

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SPARK ANIMATION 10
Celebrating Innovation and Inspiration in Animation
September 8 - September 12, 2010

Mark your calendars! Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce its third annual celebration of animation, SPARK Animation '10.

Opening September 8, SPARK Animation '10 Conference & Festival will be full of inspiring speakers, panels and films. We've been hard at work for the last year putting together an exciting schedule to celebrate the incredible ac...

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VFX Diary: The “Space” Aliens
Part 2 in Mark Savela's VFX Diary

The “Space” aliens began, as a lot of the VFX elements do on our show, as concept art that was done by our multi-talented Production Designer, James Robbins. Since the concept art is basically a 2D rendering/drawing on paper we decided to do full maquettes both of the head and full body.


A maquette o...