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4TH ANNUAL NM MEDIA INDUSTRIES CONFERENCE:

MEDIA INDUSTRIES 4 NEW MEXICO'S FUTURE

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WHEN: Satuday, January 12th 9:00AM - 5:00PM

WHERE: UNM's Student Union Building (Main Campus, near Central & Cornell)

MORNING SESSION I (9:35 - 10:30 AM)

Digital Media 101: "Considering an Exciting Career in Visual Effects and Animation"

  • Sande Scoredos, Executive Director, Technical Training and Artist Development, Sony Pictures Imageworks
    • Executive Director, Technical Training and Artist Development
      Sony Pictures Imageworks

      Sande Scoredos is the executive director of Technical Training and Artist Development for Sony Pictures Imageworks. Under her guidance, the Sony Pictures Imageworks Training Program offers over thirty courses, including life drawing, sculpting, acting and special lectures, as well as specialized tasked-oriented classes for rotoscoping, matchmoving, animation, particle effects, color and lighting, compositing, and various production methods. Training and artist development at Imageworks enables animators and effects artists to perfect the latest commercial and proprietary animation and rendering tools and to explore visual storytelling. Scordeos came to
      Imageworks seven years ago to set up the training department, having held a similar post at Rhythm and Hues. As Manager of Training for Wavefront Technologies (one of the founders of high-end animation and visualization software), Scoredos designed the Worldwide Training Program and curriculum, instructing professionals in the use of 3D computer graphics and animation for broadcast, engineering, gaming and scientific visualization.

      Scoredos also served as Associate Producer of the current Imageworks' animated short, "Early Bloomer" which opened to wide theatrical release in May, 2003

Supercomputing, Advanced Graphics & Visualization

  • David Beining, UNM ARTS Lab
  • Peter Rogina, Worldscape
  • Dave Rogers, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Steve Stringer, Los Alamos National Laboratories

Making New Mexico's Film Rebate Program Work For You: Overview and Q&A with the NM Film Office

 

MORNING SESSION II (10:35 - 11:30 AM)

Animation 101: Intro to 2D Character Animation and 3D Animation (Presented by the Art Center Design College)

  • Teri Farley
    • After graduating with degrees in Graphic Design and Animation from the Art Center Design College's Main Campus in Tucson, Arizona, Teri worked for ten years as the Senior Editor and Animator at DV Design Labs/DigiVideo Productions. Teri was responsible for working with clients, writing scripts, storyboarding, recording and capturing audio and video, coordinating on and off site shoots, wrangling talent, conducting market analysis, creating corporate identity packages, creating logo designs and websites, 2D and 3D animation and editing broadcast quality commercials, video brochures, and training videos. Teri moved to New Mexico in 2004 to become the Department Chair for Animation and Computers at the Art Center Design College Branch Campus located in Albuquerque. She continues to create independent animations and live action films in her spare time. Her goal is to create a network of local New Mexico animators and bring award winning animation projects and animation jobs to New Mexico .
  • Becky Wible Searles
    • Becky Wible Searles is the Chair of Animation at The Art Center Design College in Tucson, AZ and has also taught at Savannah College of Art and Design, School of Visual Arts (NYC), and Pratt Institute (NYC). For 14 years, she was the owner and executive director of a production company in New York City, producing award winning stop motion and mixed media animation projects for clients including Nickelodeon, CBS, AT&T, National Geographic, Kool-Aid, and Showtime. She was featured on camera in two episodes of the PBS show "Reading Rainbow", was selected as an artist mentor for the Scholastic "Meet the Mentor" book and video series, and has created sculptures, puppets, and mixed media artwork for commissions, gallery shows, theater, and live action film and TV.
  • Aaron Barreras

    • Aaron Barreras, a native of New Mexico, is an award winning freelance graphic designer and animator. After graduating from UNM with a degree in advanced computer animation, Aaron began creating detailed 3D animations for medical companies such as Parke Davis, BDI, and the UNM Medical Department. He soon expanded to product design and pre-visualization, where he created concept animations and patent designs for a Japanese theme park roller coaster company. Currently, Aaron has over 7 years of teaching experience at The Art Center Design College, where he has also created animation courses and curriculum for the school. Creatively Aaron is a prolific writer, having won several regional awards for his fiction. His previous film credits include the short animated comedies "Albuquerque Fries," (2001) and "Procrastination,"(2005) serving as director for both. He was also a key animator for the educational TV show "Chippie's World" (2002).

  • Phil Young
    • Currently employed at The Art Center Design College in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phil has taught entry-level traditional animation classes, along with Layout and Character Design, plus intermediate levels of 2D Character Animation, Preproduction Techniques and Illustration classes. Phil comes to New Mexico by way of Georgia, where he taught animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In addition to being a published writer, co-authoring a textbook “Exploring 3D Animation with Maya 6” with Patricia Beckmann, Phil has also worked for Dreamworks and Warner Brothers. Phil spent 24 years as an animator at Disney, working on such classics as “The Fox and the Hound,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Lion King” and “Mulan.” Phil has a Bachelors Degree in Illustration and a Masters Degree in Sequential Arts. And if that weren’t enough, he is also an accomplished painter, sculptor and bagpiper
  • Peter Hague
    • Dark humor, modern day heroes, pop culture, contradiction, child's imagination, religion, terrorism, beef jerky. Every one of them inspiration. Peter Hague utilizes this inspiration and his creative talent to produce everything from letterhead, logos, and business cards, to full scale animated commercials, short films, and murals. He started his secondary education in Washington D.C., then migrated to the southwest, receiving a degree in Animation Graphics. Along with his duties animating broadcast commercials for 30 Second Street, he also teaches animation at The Art Center Design College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The combination of real world influences and a skewed twist of imagination are evident in every illustration, painting, graphic design, animation, and even music. A modern day Renaissance man... without the funny ruffled shirt.

Modeling, Simulation & Serious Games

Indie Filmmaking Essentials (Presented by DFI, producers of the Duke City Shootout)

MORNING SESSION III (11:35 AM - 12:30 PM)

Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication
with Maggie Macnab (Macnab Design -- and author of the forthcoming Decoding Design: Undersanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication )
This presentation explores natural patterns and the energetic principles they are associated with, how they relate to number and shape, and how incorporating these qualities can create more effective, enduring and aesthetic visual communications—particularly in the area of identity design, but relative to anyone who works within the visual arts. Communicating deeply with substance rather than superficial style increases a communication’s life span and value, is widely and immediately understood to a cross-cultural audience, and supports creative professionals by actively using the time-tested template of nature.

AFTERNOON SESSION I (1:45 - 3:00 PM)

Education & Media: Summer and After School Programs

  • Marcos Baca, YDI Mi Voz
  • Grubb Graebner, CNM/FTTP/DFI
  • Miriam Langer, NMHU
  • Mimi Roberts, DCA

Trends in Web and Software Development

  • Chantal Foster, Duke City Fix
  • Bill Hanson, Apple
  • Frank LaFond, Agile New Mexico
  • Elaine Montoya, Zocoloco/Best in the SW/NM Adobe Users Group
  • Moderated by: William F. Collins, UNM ARTS Lab

WGA & The Writers' Strike: What's at Stake

  • Kirk Ellis
  • Matt McDuffie
  • Carolyn Miller
  • Moderated by: Gene Grant, KNME, Albuquerque Journal

AFTERNOON SESSION II (3:15 - 4:30 PM)

Games, Training & Education

  • Terry Borst
  • Barbara Chamberlin, NMSU
  • Greg Malone, Desert Academy
  • Elaine Raybourn, Sandia National Labs

Building New Mexico's Animation Community

  • Teri Farley, Art Center Design College
  • Becky Padilla, Zocoloco/Best in the SW/NM Adobe Users Group

TBD

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