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The Foundry at Siggraph 0

04/07/2013

Find us in the Exhibition Hall, Booth 103. Look out for our trademark Black & Yellow booth!

Following our merger with Luxology back in The Fall of 2012 we have so much news to share with you. We now quite literally have all the products you would need to create any kind of visual story under one roof and we are so excited to show them to you. We have an amazing line up this year on the booth and we can't wait to see you in Anaheim!

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Live Demonstrations

MODO

MARI

NUKEX & MARI

KATANA

NUKEX & FTRACK

MARI & MODO

NUKE

See the full theatre schedule and times.

Download the full schedule here.

Watch Scott Metzgers MARI demo at last years Siggraph

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: Pacific Rim

MODO

Industrial Light & Magic's VFX Concept Artist and MODO lover (and loved) Ryan Drue will be with us for the entire show to tell you all about how they use MODO over at ILM and how they used create gorgeous imagery for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim .. Ryan and the team at ILM even use MODO in their spare time, now that's true love!

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION: Turbo

MARI

Cesar Montero, Surfacing Artist at DreamWorks Animation will demonstrate the use of MARI in the new movie, Turbo. Turbo was the studio's first movie to use MARI and helped to innovate a process for painting the prominently featured Indy cars. DreamWorks Animation adopted MARI into the production pipeline in 2011.

DreamWorks Turbo 2013 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

PIXOMONDO: Star Trek Into the Darkness'

NUKEX & MARI

The team at Pixomondo used NUKE & MARI in a really cool innovative way on the much anticipated Star Trek Into the Darkness' . CG Supervisor - Enrico Damm, CG Artist - Sergei Eichmann & Compositing Supervisor - Dan Cobbett will share with you how they used it on the movie, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them using The Foundry's tools.

TIPPETT: Buicks Dinotasia'

KATANA

Tippett went back to their roots' when they created a herd of lumbering CG dinosaurs for Buick's Dinotasia' commercial where they ran everything through KATANA for the spot. Head of R&D, Mike Root will be joining us from Berkeley to tell you how they did it. Tippett was one of the first mid-range' studios to adopt KATANA last year, in addition to their NUKEs & MARIs.

Images courtesy of Buick Division General Motors

Images courtesy of Buick Division General Motors

CINESITE: World War Z

NUKEX & FTrack

Michele Sciolette, Head of VFX Technology at Cinesite - Soho UK will be joining the lineup to show how they have been using FTrack with NUKEX at their facility. You may have heard that we recently collaborated with the lovely folks at FTrack. Hear from Michele first hand how they put NUKE & FTrack through it's paces on World War Z.

SCOTT METZGER & DAVID KARLAK: Rise Project

MARI & MODO

Scott is always trying to find new ways to push our tools to the limit, and he has done it again! Come and see what he and David Karlak have been up to using MODO, MARI to create organic character work, 3D environments and hard surface texturing on a project they are calling Rise.

Watch Scott Metzger present how he used MARI on the feature film Beautiful Creatures at last years Siggraph.

Scott Metzger: CG Supervisor & Friend of The Foundry

JIM GEDULDICK aka Filmbot

NUKE

Friend of The Foundry - Jim Geduldick is a DP, editor and Visual Effects Artist who works in features, commercials, independents and emerging technology. He has worked on projects with Spike Jonze, Doug Liman, Paul Haggis and the late Hillman Curtis.

Jim Geduldick: DP, editor and Visual Effects Artist

Adidas Busnitz

Adidas 2013. All rights reserved. Image courtesy of Filmbot

VIDEO CO-PILOT: Optical Flares for NUKE

NUKE

Andrew Kramer aka Video Co-Pilot, will be coming along for a super special on off presentation to show Optical Flares for NUKE on Wednesday 24th July @ 3:20pm, not one to miss!!

** PLUS A FEW MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON... **

Daily Presentations from The Foundry Team There will be daily presentations covering all the news from latest product releases for NUKEX, MODO & MARI.

Also, Dr Jon Strack who heads up the uber-brains in The Foundry Research Team will be coming along to give you updates on what the geeks have been working on back at HQ - plus a very exciting peek into the future of NUKE, these really are ones not to miss!

Other Booth Activity We will have two work stations manned by the US Creative Specialist Team showing MODO, MARI, KATANA, NUKE, HIERO & OCULA up close and personal. Drop by and have a chat and look with Mariana, Deke & Greg.

Our last session of the day on Wednesday 24th July at 5.20pm we will have a special Digital Matte Painting presentation in Japanese by our very own Hiroshi Iwamoto.

We will also have a pod on NVidia's booth (booth # 201) where we'll be showing MARI, NUKE & MARI. Plus, Andy Lomas will be showing off KATANA on Pixar's booth theatre.

Plus, Special MODO User Group at SIGGRAPH 2013!!

Brad Peebler and guest speakers would love for you to join them at a Special MODO UG on Wednesday 24th July evening.

Click here to find out details and how to register.

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