Programme

Time Pre-Event: 7th Dec
9am REGISTRATION
  • Company Showcase
  • Recruitment Drive
  • Light Refreshments
10am
11:30am
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Master Class #1: Weapons of Mass Creations
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Production
  • Using Maya Composite
2:30pm Master Class #2: Case Study, Golden Compass: Rhythm & Hues' VFX Production
3:30pm Coffee Break
4pm Master Class #3: John Stevenson: Making of Kungfu Panda

Day 01 - 8 December 2009

TimeBusinessTechnical
9 - 10am Keynote Address: Creating the 99: Islamic Content for the World (Dr. Naif Muttawa)
10 - 10:20amCoffee Break
10:20 - 11:30am Panel Session: How to grow a studio from the ground up

Moderator: Anand Gurnani

Panel: Vaibhav Kumaresh, Tony Sealy, John C Wong, CJ See		 Teaching 3D Animation, the Craft of Character Performance (Larry Bafia)
11:30am - 12:30pm HEAVY RAIN: Post-mortem on Quantic Dream's massive 500 men/month outsourcing effort (Guillaume de Fondaumiere) Animation & VFX Global Production Pipeline (Prashant Buyyala)
12:30 - 1:30pmLunch
1:30 - 2:30pm The Art of 3D Computer Animation and Effects (Isaac Kerlow) 1:30pm - 2pm
Process of Audio for Animation (Mike Bloemendal)
2pm - 2:30pm
Technology Impact on Audio Production (Yuri Wong)
2:30 - 3pm Bringing Malaysian Icon to the World (Burhanuddin B. Md Radzi) Geng: The Production Journey (Usamah Zaid)
3 - 3:30pm Digital Age Marketing Strategies (Pradeep Mittur) Interactive Design with your Left Brain - Code-generated design/animation with Adobe Flash (Ming Chan)
3:30 - 4pm IP for Entertainment (Samuel Seow) Prepping the Locals to do Global Outsourcing (Christine Thaarup)
4 - 4:30pm Selling Your Idea (Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos) Saladin Production Pipeline (Steven Lim)
4:30 - 5:30pmKeynote Address: Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of MDeC
6 - 9pmNetworking Session

* subject to changes

Day 02 - 9 December 2009

TimeBusinessTechnical
9 - 9:30amKeynote Address: John Stevenson, Kungfu Panda Director
9:30 - 10amKeynote Address: Eric Rollman, President Marvel Comics
10 - 10:30amCoffee Break
10:30 - 11:30am Entrepreneurship WITHOUT Funding
  • It’s Not ALL About The Money
  • Creative Funding
(Alexander L. Fernandez) 		1:30pm - 2pm
GPU Rendering (Laura Dohrmann)
11am - 11:30am
Universal Content with Local Touch (Nizam Abd Razak)
11:30am - 12:30pm 11:30am - 12pm
Games - Virtual Gets Real (Fred Hasson)		 Mental Ray Rendering (Matt Dewees)
12pm - 12.30pm
Understanding the Animation Value Chain (Wang Lei)
12:30 - 1:30pmLunch
1:30 - 2:30pm 1:30pm - 3pm
Deep & Wide - The Creative Industry from Astro's Perspective (Zainir Aminullah, Tim Brooke-Hunt, RTM) 		Panel Session: Games Evolution

Moderator: Fred Hasson

Panel: Fred Hasson, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Alexander L. Fernandez
2:30 - 3:30pm 3pm - 3:30pm
Animation Trends in 2010 (Ramin Zahed) 		Basic of storytelling for TV & Movies (David Abramowitz)
3:30 - 4pmCoffee Break
4 - 5pm Panel Session: Bringing Heroes from Pages to Eyeballs

Moderator: Ayour, Gempak Editor

Panel: Norman Abd Halim, Suresh Seetharaman, Si - Bum Kim		 4pm - 4:30pm
Realities Of Running A Content Business; Defining Quality Content And What It Takes To Get Quality (Hector Fernandez)
5 - 6pm Next Gen Art Direction in Games/Digital Content (Henry LaBounta) Character Design the Dreamworks Way (Sue Erokan)
8pm - 12amMSC Malaysia Kre8tif! Industry Awards Night

* subject to changes

NICT and MACC