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VFX Roundtable At Portland Film Fest!
A great afternoon is shaping up for local visual effects and animation artists + fans. Join us for a roundtable style discussion of the current state of visual effects filmmaking! Welcome three VFX Supervisors well known throughout the industry: 3 time Oscar winner Jim Rygiel (Lord of the Rings, Godzilla), Sue Rowe (The Maze Runner, […]
Continue reading...Next VFX/PDX Meeting – LAIKA and SideFX Houdini! June 22
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The role of “FX Artist” working on a film is a fun one indeed. FX Artists are tasked with creating dynamics and particle animations that create flashy effects like explosions, psunami level tidal waves, smoke, buildings crumbling, and other such epic imagery that make summer blockbusters all the more fun. We’ll have 3 such individuals […]
Continue reading...Next VFX/PDX Meeting – Feb 12th w/Orland Nutt & Ben Luce!
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Join us for a screening of select works from the decade+ catalog of Orland Nutt, including his latest “Bear of Heaven,” followed by in depth behind the scenes that showcase Orland’s mastery of Adobe After Effects that is regularly on display as one of the front line artists at Bent Image Lab. Opening the show […]
Continue reading...VFX/PDX User Group Meeting – Short Film Saturday! w/Lessons Learned + Proximity & More!
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The Portland area visual effects and animation user group, VFX/PDX, has a special program on tap for the upcoming user group meeting on November 15th. A little something called “Short Film Saturday!” It’s been a prolific year for eye-popping short films in the area, and this show promises an in-depth look behind the scenes at […]
Continue reading...VFX/PDX and OMSI Science Pub present: Cardboard Castle + Live MoCap with CCC, 8/19 @ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Join us for a night dedicated to all things imagination as Cooper Johnson & his crew at Cardboard Castle will guide us through inspiration laden breakdowns of their recent work. Also on hand will be Damon Redmond (Art Director at SuperGenius by day/instructor at CCC by night) and DMC department Director Andy Mingo from Clackamas […]
Continue reading...VFX/PDX User Group Meeting Today – W+K, Mocha & Nuke!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Heads up that VFX/PDX, the local visual effects artist user group, has a meeting on tap for today (April 17) featuring David Jahns of Joint Editorial, Wieden and Kennedy’s in-house post production facility. He’ll be showing off the editing software Smoke from Autodesk and his workflow for the great work coming out of Joint. Also we […]
Continue reading...Next VFX/PDX Meeting – ILM & LAIKA! Sat., May 25th
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
To all visual effects fans and film buffs – we’ve got a live one here! Jeff White (Visual Effects Supervisor) will be coming up from ILM and showing off their Oscar nominated work on The Avengers. These are behind the scenes that go deeper than you’ll ever see on any DVD extras, and you’ll see in […]
Continue reading...3D Artist Scott Robertson Presenting Modo+Mari – April 18th!
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
3DPDX, VFX/PDX and PAMUG present an evening with concept artist Scott Robertson. Scott is renowned for his product design work and contribution to films such as Minority Report. He’ll be coming up to show us his recent work and demo the power of The Foundry’s Modo and Mari 3D software. Food + drink will be […]
Continue reading...Next VFX/PDX Meeting – Monday February 11th
Thursday, January 31, 2013
It’s that time again. The Portland area Visual Effects & Animation user group, VFX/PDX, has their winter meeting on tap, and it will surely heat up an otherwise chilly Monday night. Lead Compositor James Chick of Hive-FX will be showing in-depth breakdowns of their work on the series Grimm, as well as other projects from […]
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