Hasta La Motion!

A list of the VFX/Production panels, talks, sessions and courses at SIGGRAPH ’09. Here are a few highlights:

• Building Benjamin Button: A Blending of Technique-ologies
• Robots, Cyborgs, and the Final Frontier: An Inside Look at Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, and Star Trek
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Making Mouthwatering 3D
• Monsters vs Stereo: How Stereo Affected Production on Monsters vs Aliens
• Two Bolts and a Button
• G-Force 3D: Guinea Pigs, Gadgets, and Post-Production Stereoscopic Filmmaking
• Coraline: The Changing Face of Animation
• Making Pixar’s Partly Cloudy: A Director’s Vision
• The Spine and Psychologically Driven Animation

Levine/Leavitt introducing photographer Nick Meek

Sexy stuff by TANGRAM, Tokyo based visual design studio.

Autodesk announced that design and engineering professionals can become Autodesk Certified

“Visual effects, rethink’d.” Digital visual effects by Oblique.