Used by leading studios and professionals worldwide, CINEMA 4D and its MoGraph module are industry-standard tools for creating dynamic broadcast graphics.
Quick workflow, fast rendering and easy export to compositing applications have long established CINEMA 4D as a staple among motion graphics artists. With the MoGraph module, motion graphics artists can sink their teeth into a palette of powerful tools that make it easy to create everything from flying logos to abstract effects.

Mr. Frey has been successfully working as a freelance 3D artist, childrenís book illustrator and CINEMA 4D Quickstart manual author since 2005. He also gives CINEMA 4D workshops and presents MAXON products at trade shows and other public events. In 2009 Glenn Frey became a salaried member of the Maxon family.

The Xsens Inertial Mocap workshop is about the Xsens MVN (formerly Moven) Inertial Motion Capture system. You will experience the whole pipeline from the actual motion capture to the integration in Motion Builder. This workshop will demonstrate the use of Motion Capture without cameras and without a pre-setup studio. Details and fascinating facts of some customer cases will be revealed.

As Product Manager for the Xsens MVN system Hein Beute is actively involved in the entertainment market for gaming, animation and VR. He has been involved in the development of MVN since its introduction in 2006.

Xsens MVN (formerly Moven) is a full-body, camera-less motion capture solution. Xsens customers include Electronic Arts, Sony Computer Entertainment, 2K, The Third Floor and Gearbox Software. Xsens is headquartered in Enschede, The Netherlands and has a subsidiary in Los Angeles, California, US.

In this presentation Andy Probst of Meilenstein Digital and Andy Brown of Luxology will demonstrate and discuss how modo and Maya can work together. For users in many industries this combination of products is a successful solution which utilizes the strengths of both applications. Using a simple project as an example they will model an object in modo, export it to Maya for rigging and animation and then bring it back into modo for final rendering.

In this seminar, Quang Tran & Tyler Kehl focus on the benefits of using a mobile MOCAP system on set to create CGI characters. Specifically for a complex sword fight sequence between 3D digital ghosts on the project, "Im Spessart sind die Geister los". Quang Tran, visual effects supervisor-exozet effects, has given numerous lectures at Babelsberg Film School & has completed over 40 VFX projects. He is currently developing a weather effects engine for film & TV. Tyler Kehl, visual effects producer-exozet effects, from Canada has worked on such films as, "X-Men II", "I, Robot" & "Watchmen" among many others. He is currently developing production workflows for International business at exozet. Since 1999 exozet effects has delivered award winning VFX for film, commercials & television on 80+ projects. With an advanced team of specialists in all areas of VFX, we are committed to delivering your vision to the big screen.

The first part of the workshop will introduce new and technologically up-to-date ways of creating presentations. In the corporate world, presenting your new product or your company at meetings, fairs and trade shows has become more and more important, yet the presentations themselves have not evolved much from what we know from the 1980s. We will cast a look on those tools that have been trying to fill this gap with a special focus on Ventuz, a 3D-realtime-tool that was created specifically for the purpose of designing high-end presentations. The second part of the workshop will give deeper insight into the Ventuz software and demonstrate the unique workflow.
Marc Oldenburg has been working for Ventuz since 2008 in Business Development.
Maik Borchardt of the agency Stereolize has been working with Ventuz for 5 years.
Ventuz Technology is the developer of the unique 3D-realtime-tool Ventuz.

This presentation will focus on the final results that can be achieved when the fast V-Ray rendering engine is combined with high quality post-production tools to create solid pipelines for the realization of stereoscopic images and more. GPUs are becoming solutions of choice for many production houses and we will demonstrate the development jump V-Ray is making to further increase its performance and offer outrageous rendering time and quality.

Rusko Ruskov is a leading 3D artist at Chaos Group. He is a master at Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and famous for his outstanding V-Ray skills. Rusko is contributing to the V-Ray success with the numerous presentations and trainings he delivers around the world.

ARRI proudly introduces a new family of high-end digital cameras that will redefine the limits of digital motion picture capture with ultra-fast workflows and image quality akin to 35mm film. The new ALEXA cameras have been designed to bridge the gap between production and postproduction. While many users will rely on the uniquely quick and easy HD workflows, others will take advantage of the ARRIRAW data output. Recording raw, uncompressed data is likely to prove especially useful for visual effects-heavy productions, since the exceptional sharpness, high dynamic range and lack of noise of ARRIRAW images will make blue or greenscreen work and compositing tasks so much easier. The ALEXA cameras are also particularly suitable for 3D productions. Stereographers have been excited by the high sensitivity, high dynamic range and low pixel noise. Moreover pairs of ALEXA cameras can be operated in fully synchronized master-slave-mode.

Our presentation features rapid development tools for game production and film in Maya and 3ds Max. It helps you to optimize your workflow in the areas of Character Animation, Environment Mapping and Lightabking. BRIX is a material library and plugin for 3D Studio Max and Maya that creates brick wall textures based on individual brick stone bitmaps. It includes a huge texture library and hundreds of brick photographs for authentic and detailed walls. BonesPro is a sophisticated, fast and optimized technology for organic skinning of characters and objects in Autodesk 3ds Max. It allows you to create high quality skin meshes rapidly with easy-to-understand bone influences and vertex assignments, impressive real-time skin-deformations and special-effects. Apollon is a GPU based lighbaker which allows 3D artists to create lightmaps "on the fly" inside Game Engines, 3ds Max or Maya.

"Loom" is a full CG short produced by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay and Fabian Pross as a graduation film at the Institute of Animation and Visual Effects at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg. This presentation is about the realization of the visual complexity of this piece and the integration of Softimage ICE in the production pipeline: the shot development from rough layout to final render and how ICE made it possible to create and tweak tools during production.

Polynoid is Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Tom Weber, Csaba Letay and Fabian ‘Pit’ Pross. The collective produces digital content for short films, vfx and commercials. Polynoid´s work includes the shorts "458nm (2006)", "Mindplotter (2007)", "FlapFlap (2009)", "Mem (2009)" and "Loom (2010)", being the latest.

Learn how to set up a large-scale fluids and dynamics simulation in RealFlow 5, and render using the new and improved RealFlow RenderKit. We'll be demonstrating the enhanced RealFlow workflow with the revolutionary new hybrid solvers, and showing you the capabilities of the latest dynamics engine. We will break down an entire RealFlow scene from concept to completion, discussing the challenges faced and how they are tackled with the brand-new arsenal of RealFlow 5 tools.

Gustavo Sánchez-Pérez is a Senior FX/ TD, working as RealFlow Technical Consultant at Next Limit. Florian Koebisch is a 3D FX Artist at PICTORION das werk.

Next Limit Technologies provides cutting edge simulation technologies for a broad range of applications in Computer Graphics, Science and Engineering, incl. RealFlow and Maxwell Render. PICTORION das werk is the best-known German provider of digital processing services for commercials, music videos, and feature films.

CelAction2D is powerful animation software with a difference, allowing high-quality animation to be produced faster than ever before. It challenges the conventional wisdom of 2D production, and has been instrumental in the resurgence of the UK animation industry. CelAction CEO Andy Blazdell will demonstrate how this software can save time and money without compromises.

Andy Blazdell is the CEO of CelAction. Not just a businessman, Andy also programs and designs features for CelAction's software suite, and has years of experience in the animation industry - so much so that he lectures around the world and has sat on juries for prestigious animation awards.

CelAction is a software developer in London, England that specializes in bespoke 2D animation software. Their flagship product is CelAction2D, regarded as the most powerful 2D animation software in the world, used in several major award-winning productions.

The first part of the workshop will introduce new and technologically up-to-date ways of creating presentations. In the corporate world, presenting your new product or your company at meetings, fairs and trade shows has become more and more important, yet the presentations themselves have not evolved much from what we know from the 1980s. We will cast a look on those tools that have been trying to fill this gap with a special focus on Ventuz, a 3D-realtime-tool that was created specifically for the purpose of designing high-end presentations. The second part of the workshop will give deeper insight into the Ventuz software and demonstrate the unique workflow.
Marc Oldenburg has been working for Ventuz since 2008 in Business Development.
Maik Borchardt of the agency Stereolize has been working with Ventuz for 5 years.
Ventuz Technology is the developer of the unique 3D-realtime-tool Ventuz.

"FLAMINGOS" (WT) is a stereoscopic 3d animated short film, currently produced at the newly founded TALKING ANIMALS animation studio in Berlin and a co-production with The Film & Television Academy (HFF) "Konrad Wolf". This Master Class will cover the usage of Autodesk® Maya® as the central building block in the making of "FLAMINGOS" at all stages of the production from pre visualization, modeling, rigging, animation up to rendering. It will expose several techniques and production pipline details, utilized to convince thousands of flamingos to celebrate a techno party.
Tomer Eshed and Dennis Rettkowski's are both co-founders of Talking Animals animation studio and "FLAMINGOS" is their second collaborative work, following “Our Wonderful Nature”, which won several international awards including Siggraph and got nominated for the Student Academy and VES Awards.

CelAction2D is powerful animation software with a difference, allowing high-quality animation to be produced faster than ever before. It challenges the conventional wisdom of 2D production, and has been instrumental in the resurgence of the UK animation industry. CelAction CEO Andy Blazdell will demonstrate how this software can save time and money without compromises.

Andy Blazdell is the CEO of CelAction. Not just a businessman, Andy also programs and designs features for CelAction's software suite, and has years of experience in the animation industry - so much so that he lectures around the world and has sat on juries for prestigious animation awards.

CelAction is a software developer in London, England that specializes in bespoke 2D animation software. Their flagship product is CelAction2D, regarded as the most powerful 2D animation software in the world, used in several major award-winning productions.

Learn how to set up a large-scale fluids and dynamics simulation in RealFlow 5, and render using the new and improved RealFlow RenderKit. We'll be demonstrating the enhanced RealFlow workflow with the revolutionary new hybrid solvers, and showing you the capabilities of the latest dynamics engine. We will break down an entire RealFlow scene from concept to completion, discussing the challenges faced and how they are tackled with the brand-new arsenal of RealFlow 5 tools.

Gustavo Sánchez-Pérez is a Senior FX/ TD, working as RealFlow Technical Consultant at Next Limit. Florian Koebisch is a 3D FX Artist at PICTORION das werk.

Next Limit Technologies provides cutting edge simulation technologies for a broad range of applications in Computer Graphics, Science and Engineering, incl. RealFlow and Maxwell Render. PICTORION das werk is the best-known German provider of digital processing services for commercials, music videos, and feature films.

ARRI proudly introduces a new family of high-end digital cameras that will redefine the limits of digital motion picture capture with ultra-fast workflows and image quality akin to 35mm film. The new ALEXA cameras have been designed to bridge the gap between production and postproduction. While many users will rely on the uniquely quick and easy HD workflows, others will take advantage of the ARRIRAW data output. Recording raw, uncompressed data is likely to prove especially useful for visual effects-heavy productions, since the exceptional sharpness, high dynamic range and lack of noise of ARRIRAW images will make blue or greenscreen work and compositing tasks so much easier. The ALEXA cameras are also particularly suitable for 3D productions. Stereographers have been excited by the high sensitivity, high dynamic range and low pixel noise. Moreover pairs of ALEXA cameras can be operated in fully synchronized master-slave-mode.

Procedural Inc. presents for the first time in public the new features of CityEngine 2010. The main novelty of CityEngine 2010 is the highly anticipated visual programming interface. Node-based visual programming lets users efficiently create procedural buildings by manipulating rules graphically rather than by specifying them textually. Other main features introduced with CityEngine 2010 include an intuitive visual authoring tool for facades, modeling of curved streets, native Collada support for assets, and full-fledged live editing of large city layouts on all levels.

CryEngine®3 can produce visuals that rival the output quality of traditional offline rendering solutions in less time. Its toolset is versatile enough to serve as efficient preproduction and rendering tool. We will give an introduction to the CryENGINE®3 tools relevant for cinematographers. This will cover the setup of animated objects, cameras, lights, atmospheric effects, and much more.

Michael has worked at Crytek since 2002, landing his first assignment on the game Far Cry as senior artist. He then managed the art production during the making of Crysis. He is now working within the Crytek Visual Development Group, helping define the visual branding of all Crytek products.

Crytek is one of the world’s leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment. It is dedicated to creating high-quality video games for the PC and next-generation consoles, powered by their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.

Igor Posavec, lead artist and software designer, unveils in a thrilling presentation the techniques and secrets for demanding visual design and cinematic development. Adapting to the reality of tight budgets, even tighter deadlines and undesired side-effect requires effective planning, reliable workflows and custom software concepts. This unique coverage of progressive visual development, pre-production and custom software development casts a new light on the modern industrialized CG market. On this voyage through custom CG content creation, Igor will familiarize you with proven concepts and workflows and how they were applied to manage 3d-io's game and industry projects like "Perry Rhodan" and "Don Quixote".
3d-io is a specialized company for high-end software development, CG effects and 3D industrial design. It has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production and digital content creation

studioNEST is a new digital film studio based in Barcelona and one of the few studios to release all inhouse developed tools as OpenSource. In this speech we will show some of our newest technologies, including Melena, a solution for styling hair based on Autodesk Softimage both for realistic as well as stylized fur. Furthermore we will show Rigz, studioNEST's rigging system, including a full biped rig, appealing both for animators as well as TDs.

Helge Mathee is a contributor in the 3D community for over ten years. Starting in 1999, 5 years of working at Softimage and Autodesk, he is now back in feature film to support studioNEST's OpenSource philosophy.

Javier Verdugo has been working in the field of computer graphics for over 7 years. At studioNEST Javier is in charge of the fur department and has helped to define Melena's featureset.

All of the tools shown at this speech will be released for free by the end of FMX 2010.

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