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SOFTIMAGE at FMX/08 Conference in Stuttgart Germany

Where: Stuttgart, Germany
When: from May 5th - 8th, 2008

The FMX Conference, organized by the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, is a yearly event that brings together CG professionals, experts and students from all over the world.

Softimage will be there, affirming our commitment to training and education with a variety of activities and workshops. Students who visit the Softimage information booth wil receive a free license of SOFTIMAGE|XSI Advanced Academic Edition.

Softimage Activities at FMX/08

International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart

Date: Begins Sunday, May 4th

Softimage is sponsoring the ITFS, a 48hr non-stop animation contest. Each participant will receive a copy of SOFTIMAGE|XSI Essentials.

Softimage FMX User Event

Date & Time: Monday, May 5th, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Friedricstraße 24

The Softimage User Event will feature guest presenters including Damien Gray from Animal Logic and Holger Schönberger from Binary Alchemy. Marc Stevens, general manager of Softimage will present his vision of the industry, and attendees will see a technology preview of SOFTIMAGE|XSI and Face Robot. Softimage will also recognize Peter Spans of Spans & Partner GmbH, a Softimage customer since 1990.

To attend, contact Andres Hilderbrandt.

Softimage Workshops at FMX/08

Wednesday, May 7th  6:00 PM- 7:00 PM
Easy Integration of 3D Assets from SOFTIMAGE|XSI to CryENGINE 2 / Face Robot® 1.9 Games Exporter Demo

Location: Reutlingen Room 2nd Floor  

This engaging workshop will show you how 3D characters, environments, weapons, buildings, vehicles, and whole game levels are created in XSI and exported into Crytek's CryENGINE®2. You'll see how 3D game development tools like GATOR simplify the process of transferring any surface properties between models; and how MOTOR makes it easy to transfer motion between character rigs and retarget motion capture data. You'll also learn how to use Ultimapper to generate film-quality normal maps in just a few clicks.

The workshop will also feature a look at the new Games Exporter in SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT, that allows artists to create and capture nuances of emotions and expressions that make game characters super realistic. Once a character is created in Face Robot, the content can be saved out to normal maps, shared in an NVIDIA Shader, and prepared for easy export out to SOFTIMAGE|XSI or other 3D software packages.

Thursday, May 8th 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SOFTIMAGE|XSI for Pre & Post Visualization in The Golden Compass—SOFTIMAGE|XSI and Face Robot 1.9 demos included 

Location: List-Saal Tower B, 2nd Floor

A Special Guest presentation by Richard Perry and Pawl Fulker, the two-man team behind the Destroy All Monsters, UK post-production company. Richard and Pawl won the job to create all Pre & Post Visualization for the Academy Award-winning film The Golden Compass (Winner, Best Visual Effects – 2007). Using SOFTIMAGE|XSI Richard and Pawl were able to build highly flexible pre-viz settings and animations for The Golden Compass, which accelerated the creative process and improved communication between the production manager and visual effects director.

Attendees to this workshop will see how the Pre-Visualization process works, why it’s a critically important part of any visual-effects-intensive film production, and how pre-viz content can eventually go on to become post-visualization elements in final scenes.  During the presentation, Softimage’s Graham Bell will follow along in SOFTIMAGE|XSI, showing  how pre-viz sequences are set up.  Graham will finish with a demonstration of Face Robot 1.9, and the new Maya exporter that allows artists to create a shape-based version of Face Robot deformers, and move it directly into Maya.

Click here to see a full list of fmx/08 activities: http://www.fmx.de/E.2.html

The T5 training series represents Centre NAD’s response to the ever demanding challenge posed by CG productions. T5 training sessions are aimed at professional artists willing to improve their artistic skills, vision and proficiency.

For details and registration information, visit the Centre NAD website.