program guide - FMX

17 th Conference on Animation, E�ects, Games and Transmedia 

May 8-11, Stuttgart, Germany, www.fmx.de

FMX 2012 

Welcome 2 

Boards 3 

Advisory Board 

Program Board 

Associates 

Schedule 6 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

Thursday 

Friday 

Conference 24 

Virtual Production 24 

Opening 

World Building 

Previs 

Sessions 

Megasessions 

Wrap-up 

Animation 25 

Highlights 

Wild 'n Strange 

Complexity 25 

Production 

Technology 

Effects 26 

VES: Exchange 

Showcases 

Television 

Commercials 

Effects in India 

Effects in Germany 

Games 27 

Visual Arts 

Made in Germany 

Technology 

Tech Talks 28 

3D Stereo 

Lighting and Rendering 

Cloud Computing 

Industrial CG 

Applied Research 

NPR 

Focus on... 29 

Montréal 

Vancouver 

Estonia 

Poland 

ICC Interactive Content Creation 32 

Transmedia 32 

Sessions 

Echtzeit 

Cinema of the Future 32 

Cinema of the Future 

Virtual Humans 33 

VHF: Sessions 

Papers 33 

SIGGRAPH Papers 

Eurographics Papers 

Junior Papers 

Forums 36 

Marketplace 36 

Trade Floor 

Masterclasses 36 

Acting for Animators 

Autodesk Student Experience 

Pixar RenderMan 

Workshops 36 

Workshops 

Recruiting Hub 37 

Recruiting Booths 

Recruiting Presentations 

Education 38 

School Campus 

School Presentations 

Education Sessions 

Filmakademie Projects 

Start-Ups 

Events & Screenings 42 

Events 42 

APD Conference "Financing & Brands" 

ITFS - 19 th Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 

Exhibition: Klasse Professor Ade 

Parties & Events 

FMX Screenings 43 

Shelley's Eye Candy 

Animation Show of Shows 

SIGGRAPH CAF 

SIGGRAPH Asia CAF 

Cinematics in Games 

Filmakademie Shorts 

Movie Screenings 43 

John Carter 

Hugo 

Ra.One 

The Avengers 

The Pirates! Band of Misfits 

The Lorax 

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FMX 2012 Partners 44 

Where to go 46 

Floor Plans 47 

Thank you 48 

Imprint 48

FMX 2012 / WElCoME 

WELCOME 

May 8th to May 11th, FMX, the 17th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia, once more presents the extraordinary creativity of the digital industry 

through a broad range of exciting topics. Looking back on nearly 20 years of history, FMX has been witness to amazing achievements. Today, it is one of the most important 

international events for digital entertainment and a focal point for professionals and aspiring talents from all over the world. 

FMX and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, which take place simultaneously, have contributed to the transformation of the Stuttgart region into one of the most 

significant locations for Animation, Effects and Games in Germany and beyond. The international achievements of local players vividly illustrate this. Last year’s Academy 

nomination for Studio Soi’s "The Gruffalo" and Pixomondo’s creation of visual effects for Martin Scorsese’s award-winning "Hugo" are excellent examples. They emphasize the 

kind of outstanding performance that companies in Baden-Wuerttemberg are capable of. 

The state government holds digital, animation-related techniques in highest regard, as driving factors in the further progression of Baden-Wuerttemberg's relevance in film 

and media services and is committed to advancing this development. For this reason, I’m especially grateful for the support FMX receives from the entire Animation, Effects 

and Games industry. 

Without the companies that scout talent or present their new tools at the Recruiting Hub or Marketplace and without the speakers, who openly talk about their professional 

experiences, FMX would not be possible. In addition to the numerous partners, supporters and sponsors, I would like to say a special thank you to Thomas Haegele and his 

team. It is their competence and extraordinary dedication that makes FMX thrive. This year they present VFX Supervisor and Academy Award winner Rob Legato as one of 

their conference highlights; he will talk about his visual effects work on "Hugo". 

I’m convinced that all FMX visitors will enjoy the warm, creative FMX atmosphere – 

I wish you inspiring encounters, new contacts and rewarding conversation. 

Jürgen Walter MdL 

State Secretary of the Ministry of Science, 

Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg 

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AdVISoRy BoARd 

FMX 2012 / AdVISoRy BoARd 

A team of industry specialists and experienced professionals shape the event by suggesting content, recommending speakers and promoting FMX around the world. We are 

proud to welcome the advisors: 

Victoria Alonso 

Executive Vice President of Visual Effects & Post Production 

Marvel Studios 

denis Behnke 

Visual Effects Supervisor 

Tim Burke 

Visual Effects Supervisor 

Volker Engel 

Visual Effects Supervisor & Producer 

Uncharted Territory 

lionel Fages 

Producer & Founder 

Cube 

Warren Franklin 

Producer/ Visual Effects & Animation Executive 

Markus Gross 

Research Lab Director 

Walt Disney Research 

Ele Jansen 

PhD Candidate 

University of New South Wales 

Simone Kraus 

Co-Owner & VFX Supervisor 

Trixter 

Thilo Kuther 

Managing Director 

Pixomondo 

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Jacques levesque 

Director & VFX Supervisor 

Vision Globale 

Sven liebich 

Head of Art 

Bigpoint 

Namit Malhotra 

Founder & Global CEO 

Prime Focus 

Alex Mcdowell 

Production Designer & Creative Director 

5D Institute 

Marc Petit 

Senior Vice President 

Autodesk Media & Entertainment 

Eric Roth 

Executive Director 

Visual Effects Society 

david Sproxton 

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman 

Aardman Animations 

Philippe Turp 

Director Special Projects & Institutional Relations 

Ubisoft

FMX 2012 / PRoGRAM BoARd 

PRoGRAM BoARd 

Experienced professionals and renowned members of the community create, host and curate aspects of the conference; initializing their topics and inviting speakers for FMX 2012. 

We are proud to introduce an inspired team: 

Prof. Björn Bartholdy 

Director 

Cologne Game Lab 

Carsten dachsbacher 

Professor 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 

oliver deussen 

Professor of Computer Graphics & Media Informatics 

University of Konstanz 

Bill desowitz 

Film Journalist 

Chris Edwards 

CEO & Creative Director 

The Third Floor 

Ron Frankel 

President & Founder 

Proof 

ludwig A. Fuchs 

Board Member & Co-Founder 

Realtime Technology AG 

Michael Goesele 

Professor of Computer Graphics 

TU Darmstadt 

david Gouge 

Head of Marketing 

Weta Digital 

Christophe Hery 

Senior Scientist 

Pixar Animation Studios 

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Andreas Hykade 

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

Katja Koeppl 

Professor 

Stuttgart Media University (HdM) 

Rick Mischel 

Senior Vice-President 

Satellite Production for Sony Pictures Imageworks 

david Morin 

Chair, Joint Technology Subcommittee on Virtual Production 

Chair, Autodesk Film CTO Advisory Council 

Shelley Page 

Head of International Outreach 

DreamWorks Animation 

Heilika Pikkov 

Program Director 

AnimaCampus 

ludwig von Reiche 

Senior Director of Business Development 

NVIDIA 

Inga von Staden 

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

Jan Stoltz 

VFX Supervisor 

Trixter 

dr. Karin Wehn 

Media Researcher & Curator

ASSoCIATES 

FMX 2012 / ASSoCIATES 

FMX is affi liated with many inspiring people in the industry. Our Associates share a special connection to FMX and contribute imagination and innovation. 

We are proud to present the FMX Associates: 

Andrew daff y 

The House of Curves 

Thierry Frey 

CTO & Co-Founder 

D.S.T.M. 

Ed Hooks 

Actor & Acting Trainer 

don levy 

Senior Vice President 

Marketing & Communications 

Sony Pictures Digital 

Terrence Masson 

Director of Creative Industries 

Northeastern University Boston 

dan Sarto 

Co-Founder & Publisher 

Animation World Network 

Sebastian Sylwan 

Head of R&D 

Weta Digital 

Peter Plantec 

Contributing Editor 

Ordinary Magic 

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FMX SCREENINGS 

ITFS Screening 1 

Conference ICC Forums 

Haus der Wirtschaft 

Meidinger-Saal Bertha-Benz-Saal 

VHF: SESSIONS 

The devil in the details: Virtual 

Humans and Complexity 

Dan Zelcs, Matthieu Assemat, MPC 

The speakers describe the challenges 

of implementing realistic fi ne detail and 

complexity in humans for fi lm visual 

eff ects. 

VHF: SESSIONS 

Gollum to Tintin: 

Building Creatures at Weta 

Wayne Stables, Weta Digital 

This presentation will cover the 

latest advancements as seen in "The 

Adventures of Tintin" and "Rise of the 

Planet of the Apes." 

VHF: SESSIONS 

Realtime Realistic Skin 

Rendering 

Jorge Jimenez, Graphics & Imaging 

Lab, Universidad de Zaragoza 

Realtime Realistic skin Rendering for 

Games. 

Events/Screenings 

Marketplace, 9:00-19:00, List-Saal 

Recruiting Hub, 9:00-19:00, Eyth-Saal 

School Campus, 9:00-19:00, List-Saal Galerie & List-Saal Turm A 

Exhibition: Klasse Prof. Ade, 9:00-19:00, Foyer 

RECRUITING PRESENTATIONS 

Axis Animation 

Jill Wallace 


double Negative 

Alice Tuxford 


Framestore 

Celine Beunier, Jeszen Shih 


Mackevision Medien design 

Heiko Wenczel 


ScanlineVFX 

Ismat Zaidi, Simone Hirchberger 

EDUCATION SESSIONS 

How to Start an ACM SIGGRAPH 

Student Chapter? 

Thierry Frey, D.S.T.M. 

Within their local areas, chapters 

continue the work of ACM SIGGRAPH on a 

year-round basis via their meetings and 

other activities. 

Raum Karlsruhe Raum Mannheim 

MASTERCLASSES 

Acting for Animators Part I 

Ed Hooks 

This is an acting workshop designed 

especially for animators. The focus is on 

the connections between thinking, emotion 

and physical action, and it will help you 

with performance regardless of whether 

you are working in 3D or 2D. 

This masterclass is divided in two parts. 

For those who are unable to come to part 

#1, there will be a brief review of 

essential principles at the start of 

part #2. 

WORKSHOPS 

Side Eff ects Software 

Flip Fluids in H12 

Jeff Wagner, Side Eff ects Software 

Create bigger Fluid FX faster than ever 

before 

WORKSHOPS 


Pyro and smoke in H12 


Create feature-fi lm quality Fire and 

Smoke VFX

König-Karl-Halle Raum Reutlingen 


CyberArts 2011 - International 

Compendium - Prix Ars 

Electronica 2011 

ANIMATION: HIGHLIGHTS 

The Making of "Arthur 

Christmas" from Bristol to l.A. 

Seamus Malone, Aardman 

Originated at Aardman, the fi lm was 

developed there from story to character 

design and animation tests, before it 

moved to Sony Pictures where the 

animation was produced. 


"la luna" Screening and 

Presentation 

Daniel McCoy, Pixar 

“La Luna” is the timeless fable of a young 

boy who is coming of age in the most 

peculiar of circumstances. McCoy will 

discuss the process of translating the 

Director's vision into a CG world. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

FMX opening 

Jürgen Walter, 

State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, 

Research and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg 

Production design Challenges in 

"Madagascar 3: 

Europe's Most Wanted" 

Scott Peterson, DreamWorks 

Animation 

Buildings, Humans, and Eff ects in 

"Madagascar 3". 


New Shorts 2 

NPR 

An Introduction to 

Non-Photorealistic Rendering 

Oliver Deussen, 

University of Konstanz 

The talk will introduce various techniques 

for artistic and illustrative rendering. 

NPR 

From linear Filtering to 

Artistic Image Stylization 

Jan Eric Kyprianidis, HPI 

Image Filtering for Artistic Stylization. 

NPR 

Stylized Shading 

Pascal Barla, INRIA 

Drawing and rendering tools that help 

artists create stylized shading eff ects in 

graphics applications. 

Gewerkschaftshaus Cinema 

Großer Saal Gloria 1 Gloria 2 


ITFS Trailers 

FOCUS ON: POLAND 

Alvernia Studios - Making of 

"Witcher 2" and Motion Capture 

Pipeline 

Mikolaj Valencia, Lukasz Zawlocki, 

Tomasz Kowalczyk, Alvernia Studios 


Human Ark Presentation 

Wojtek Wawszczyk, Human Ark 

Works of one of the best Polish Animation 

Studios. Besides creating animation 

and visual eff ects for the purposes of 

a commercial market, the studio is 

involved in several demanding animated 

fi lm projects. 


"Man, Chicks Are Just diff erent'' 

- dI and VFX Case Study 

K.Rutkowski, J. Skrobizs, 

K. Grygowski, The Chimney Pot 

Case study about the postproduction 

process of feature fi lm "Man, Chicks Are 

Just Diff erent''. 

FILMAKADEMIE PROJECTS 

FMX Trailer "Globosome" 

Sascha Geddert, Filmakademie BW 

3D STEREO 

The Art and Mechanics of 

Stereoscopic Conversion 

M.Bristowe, R. Baker, Prime Focus 

The speakers will reveal how Stereoscopic 

Conversion has developed both in terms 

of its art and the mechanics behind it. 

3D STEREO 

Stereoscopic Visual Eff ects 

– More Than Just Another 

dimension 

Dietrich Hasse, Trixter 

CG Creatures interacting with 

Stereoscopic Footage. 

GAMES: MADE IN GERMANy 

Animating the Horrors of War - 

"Specops: The line" 

Marco Roeth, yager 

Learn about the animation process for 

the creation of "SpecOps: The Line". 


Indie Elevator-Pitch: "Trauma", 

"Pudding Panic", "Tiny & Big" 

K. Majewski, P. Rau, F. Grolig, 

T. Bilgeri 

Join this session with three internationally 

well perceived and in Germany awarded 

indie games. 


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TRANSMEDIA SESSIONS 

Co-Creating With Audiences 

Scott Walker, Brain Candy 

In a world where media is easily digitized, 

remixed, shared, and recontextualized, 

the distinction between artist and 

audience is increasingly unclear 


Story + Code = ? 

Femke Wolting, Submarine Channel 


Transmedia for Content 

Producers 

Nuno Bernardo, beActive 

Transmedia allows independent producers 

to develop and control their own brands 

like major studios have for decades. 


Spreadable Media 

Henry Jenkins, USC 

How content gains meaning and value in 

the era of spreadable media. 


5d Panel discussion - 

The Future of Storytelling in 

Transmedia 

Alex McDowell, 5D Institute 

Henry Jenkins, USC 

Shekhar Kapur, Director 


MASTERCLASSES 

Pixar's RenderMan 

From "Toy Story" to "la luna" 

... Illuminating Trends in CGI 

Dylan Sisson, Pixar 

An overview of Pixar's core rendering 

technology, RenderMan, showing the 

latest advancements in global illumination. 

MASTERCLASSES 


"la luna": 

Shading and lighting studies 


To motivate the challenges of the visual 

story, Dan will explore a few shading and 

lighting studies. 

WORKSHOPS 

Mackevision Medien design 

Mackevision goes West: 

From Startup to Full production 

Heiko Wenczel 

A short story on their approach, cultural 

diff erences, and the specialties of their 

US location. 

WORKSHOPS 

Chaos Group 

The latest in V-Ray & 

PhoenixFd for Maya 

Konstantin Gaytandzhiev, 

Chaos Group 

The latest enhancements in V-Ray 2.0 for 

3ds Max and Maya, an overview of V-Ray for 

Softimage and a demonstration of Phoenix 

FD for Maya. 

WORKSHOPS 

MAXoN 

Insanity and VFX, 60 shots in 

60 days 

David Lewandowski 

The survival of an impossible VFX 

deadline with no team and no money - 

but with CINEMA 4D. 


How to Prepare Children for a 

Future in Animation 

Joan Vogelesang, 

Toon Boom Animation Inc. 

Combine creative skills with marketable 

knowledge. 

Festival Garden & open Air, 14:00 - 23:00, Festival Garden, Schlossplatz 

FMX After-Hours, starting 18:00, FMX Cocktail Hour: 19:30-20:30, Club Schocken, Hirschstraße 36, Stuttgart 


SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS 

Media design School, 

New zealand 

Kyle Glass, Racheal Herlihy 

MASTERCLASSES 



MasterClass featuring Animation 

Mentor 

Jennifer Goldfi nch, Autodesk 

Kevin Koch, Animation Mentor 

Dos and Don’ts of a Demo Reel 

Kevin Koch, animator at Sony and mentor 

at Animation Mentor, will discuss the 

dos and don’ts of a demo reel in this 

in-depth workshop. Koch will provide tips 

to make your demo reel stand out from 

beginning to end as well as talk about 

the importance of continuous demo reel 

refi nement. During this event, attendees 

will also have the opportunity to: 

• Learn more about Autodesk technology 

and related education 

• Network with like-minded students and 

industry attendees. 

WORKSHOPS 


Volume FX in Houdini 12 


Explore key role volumes play in 

modern VFX 

WORKSHOPS 


Houdini Meet and Greet 


Houdini community get together with 

SideFX


CINEMA OF THE FUTURE 

Cinema of the Future is Coming 

Soon 

Douglas Trumbull, Trumbull 

Ventures 

Insights into the history of cinema from 

both photographic and projection aspects 

as related to the advance of digital 

technologies. Furthermore Mr. Trumbull 

will discuss his history with large format 

fi lm presentation, and "Hypercinema" of 

photographing and projecting fi lms at 

120 frames per second in 2D and 3D. 


Panel: Frame Rates - 


Douglas Trumbull, Ray Feeney, 

Bill Desowitz, Johannes Steurer 

The three panelists will discuss the 

advantages of higher frame rates. 



Shelley Page, 

DreamWorks Animation 

Shelley Page, head of International 

Outreach for DreamWorks Animation, 

returns to FMX with her popular 

showcase. 


ITFS Trailers 2012 

In their third year of studies, students of 

animation at Filmakademie produce the 

trailers for the Festival of Animated Film 

Stuttgart. One of them is selected as the 

main trailer for the following year. 


Animated Shorts 

For one and a half years, students at the 

Institute of Animation at Filmakademie 

work in teams on their thesis projects. 

In this session, you will get to know 

fi ve unique projects as diverse as the 

fi lmmakers themselves. 


Visual Eff ects 

Students specializing in VFX either work 

on Filmakademie productions from 

departments like commercials, education 

& science fi lms, feature & documentary 

fi lms, or they can produce their own 

eff ects-driven shorts. Five projects will be 

presented in this session. 


Technical directing 

Students of the Technical Director 

program at the Institute of Animation 

present their projects. The TD program 

combines students’ previous technical 

knowledge with actual fi lm projects. 

Working in a production team, they learn 

how to solve real-world problems. 


Transmedia/Games 

The subject area Interactive Media 

presents Transmedia/Games projects. 

Students can focus either on Transmedia/ 

Games Directing or Transmedia/Games 

Producing. Get an idea of the wide variety 

of diff erent projects that can emerge out 

of these universes. 



CLOUD COMPUTING 

Cloud Computing 1/3: Rendering 

on Amazon Web Services 

Carlos Conde, AWS 

James Kennedy, Rendicity 

Strategies and architectures for building 

rendering platforms on the Amazon Web 

Services cloud. 


Cloud Computing 2/3: 

Studios and Tools 

Richard Chuang, Cloudpic Global 


Vancouver’s RenderCloud Consortium 

and Richard Chuang’s latest project of 

devising a fully cloud based content 

development pipeline will be discussed. 


Cloud Computing 3/3: 

on-demand HPC... 

and legal Challenges 

Robert Miggins, Peer 1 Hosting 

Gregor Schmidt, TaylorWessing 

This presentation focuses on Peer1 

Hosting's HPC capabilities and provides 

the legal framework of cloud computing. 

GAMES: VISUAL ARTS 

"Witcher 2" Cinematics 

Maciej Jackiewicz, Lukasz Sobisz 

Platige Image 

Challenges the speakers met producing 

the new cinematics intro for the Xbox 360 

edition of "Witcher 2" 


A RedEngine Primeval Forest 

Lucjan Wiecek, Krzysztof Krzyscin 

CD Projekt RED 

How to make a playable game level, 

fi ll it with vegetation and prepare post 

processes for the day/night cycle - in just 

under a few minutes. 

3D STEREO 

"underworld: Awakening" 

Michael Landgrebe, Justin Daneman 

Celluloid VFX 

The presentation will feature some of the 

challenging aspects and solutions of the 

VFX workfl ow. 

3D STEREO 

"Komm, wir fi nden einen Schatz" 

How to use S3d while not 

Swamping young Children 

Wolfgang Walk, Virgin Lands 

Presentation on the movie that is based 

on one of Janosch’s famous children’s 

books. 

VFX: SHOWCASES 

Creating the World of 

"John Carter" 

Ken McGaugh, DNeg 

VFX Supervisor Ken McGaugh 

discusses the challenges in creating 

the visual eff ects in "John Carter". 


delivering "John Carter" to Mars 

and 3d Cinema Goers 

Sue Rowe, Cinesite 

Cinesite did the majority of the fi lm’s 

environments, a big air battle and fullscreen 

CG digi-doubles of John Carter and 

Princess Dejah. 


Building and Animating the 

Creatures of "John Carter" 

Richard Clarke, DNeg 

Challenges and solutions as DNeg took 

the creatures all the way from initial 

concepts, through modeling and rigging 

into animation. 

MOVIE SCREENINGS 

"John Carter" 

Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War veteran 

discovers a lush planet inhabited by 

12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself a 

prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, 

only to encounter a princess who is in 

desperate need of a savior. 

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ANIMATION PRODUCTION DAy 

APd Conference: Financing & 

Brands - Cultural and Economic 

Challenges of Creating Animated 

Family Entertainment in Europe 

This year's conference looks at how and 

why countries such as France, Denmark 

and others have successfully managed to 

build up a strong, diverse animation 

industry as part of their own, homegrown 

children's media culture. 

Dr. C. E. Palmer, German Prod. Alliance 

Peter Dinges, FFA 

Henrik Bo Nielsen, Danish Film Institute 

Peter Boudgoust, SWR 

Gabriele Röthemeyer, MFG Film Funding 

Stefanie von Ehrenstein, SWR 

Florence Avilés, IFCIC 

J. Bonath, Anim. Section Ger. Prod. Alliance 

Kristian Kreyes, ILB 

David Sproxton, Aardman Animations 

Benjamin Mirnik-Voges, Universum Film 

Achim Thielemann, Commerzbank AG 







Blue Sky Studios 

Debra Blanchard, Deb Stone 


The Mill 

Claire Anderson, Karen Winning 


Prime Focus World 

Merzin Tavaria 


Psyop & MassMarket 

Marco Spier 


lucasfi lm Singapore 

Heather Brown 


How to Build and Maintain 

a Creative Staff 

Philippe Turp, Ubisoft 

A lively panel discussion with top 

recruiters from some of the best 

animation, VFX and games studios in 

the industry. 


ACTING FOR ANIMATORS 

Acting for Animators Part II 

Ed Hooks 

This is an acting workshop designed 

especially for animators. The focus is on 

the connections between thinking, emotion 

and physical action, and it will help you 

with performance regardless of whether 

you are working in 3D or 2D. 

This masterclass is divided in two parts. 

For those who are unable to come to part 

#1, there will be a brief review of 

essential principles at the start of 

part #2. 

WORKSHOPS 

luxology/Meilenstein digital 

Introduction to modo 

Andy Brown, Luxology 

Andy Probst, Meilenstein Digital 

you will learn what modo can help 

you accomplish, and most importantly 

see how the the modo user interface 

encourages maximum artistic expression. 

WORKSHOPS 

MAXoN 

Insanity and VFX, 60 shots in 

60 days 

David Lewandowski 

The survival of an impossible VFX 

deadline with no team and no money - 

but with CINEMA 4D. 

WORKSHOPS 

Chaos Group 

V-Ray anniversary workshop 

Mohsen Mousavi, Pixomondo 

Chaos Group customers will discuss their 

V-Ray pipeline integration and latest 

projects. 

WORKSHOPS 

PI-VR GmbH 

Working with VREd 

Alexander Grasse, PI-VR GmbH 

PI-VR will present its sofware 

VRED Essentials, a software solution 

designed for previsualization aims, 

on set visualiization and the like.



Fantoche 

VP: OPENING 

Virtual Production Keynote 

John Kilkenny, 20th Century Fox 

John will share with us a broad overview 

of the evolution of visual eff ects in the 

last 20 years, discuss how visual eff ects 

now impact movies big and small, and 

overall describe the ecosystem that is 

giving birth to Virtual Production. 

VP: OPENING 

Panel: Goals for the Virtual 

Production track 

D. Morin, C. Edwards, R. Frankel, 

D. Gouge, A. McDowell, E.Hooks 

The curators will set the stage for the 16 

presentations focused on VP taking place 

over the next three days. 

VP: MEGASESSIONS 

The Virtual Production 

of "Tintin" 

Wayne Stables, Sebastian Sylwan, 

David Gouge, Weta Digital 

Weta Digital will present its Virtual 

Production process for "The Adventures 

of Tintin" and use it as a platform to 

discuss the creative freedom this style of 

fi lmmaking provides. 


Filmakademie Screenings: 

Neuer Österreichischer Film 

EUROGRAPHICS PAPERS 

TexToons - Texture Mapping for 

Hand drawn Animations 

Daniel Sykora, CTU 


Procedural Modeling of 

Interconnected Structures 

Lars Krecklau, RWTH Aachen 


Procedural Generation of 

Parcels in urban Modeling 

Pascal Müller, ESRI 


light Transport in Virtual Scenes 

Tim Reiner, KIT 


BSSRdF Estimation from Single 

Images 

J. Echevarria, Universidad de Zaragoza 


A Volumetric Approach to 

Predictive Rendering of Fabrics 

Kai Schröder, Bonn University 




New Shorts 1 

APPLIED RESEARCH 

Aurora: How Art, Software and 

Research blended to change 

eff ects at disney Animation 

Andrew Selle, Disney Animation 

A case study to show how a tight 

partnership between artists, developers, 

and researchers facilitates productivity 

and advancement. 


Making of "Symbiz - Who Cares" 

an Image-Based Stereoscopic 

Free Viewpoint Music Video 

Felix Klose, TU Braunschweig 

Spray cans, brush and paint join forces 

and unite with the latest digital production 

techniques. 


GPu Based Sand Simulation for 

"John Carter" 

Kai Stavginski, DNeg 

The talk includes a detailed presentation 

of the workfl ows we developed around 

this solver and how we approached a 

variety of shots. 


Crowd Simulation at Pixar 

Animation Studios 

Paul Kanyuk, Pixar 

This talk will cover Pixar Animation 

Studios’ crowd simulation pipeline and 

how it evolved from "A Bug’s Life" to 

"Brave". 


Toward Future digital Cameras: 

Higher Frame Rates and 

dynamic Range 

Dr. Johannes Steurer, ARRI 

Which technical parameters are most 

important for highest quality motion 

picture acquisition for the future? 

VES: EXCHANGE 

Retrospective: How digital 

Technologies Changed VFX 

Ray Feeney, RFX 

The early days of innovation and development 

and decisions that lead to many of 

the techniques and processes that we 

take for granted now. 

VES: EXCHANGE 

defi ning Passion in the 

Entertainment Industry 

Jeff rey A. Okun, VES 

Everyone says you need "Passion" to 

succeed in the business - especially to 

students - but what does that mean? 

Jeff Okun will explain it in this session. 

VES: EXCHANGE 

"Men in Black III": Exclusive 

Behind the Scenes 

Jay Redd, SPI 

Visual Eff ects Supervisor Jay Redd takes 

you on a behind the scenes look at 

"Men in Black III", before it's released in 

theaters worldwide, on May 25th, 2012. 

VFX: TV 

The Visual Eff ects of "Bones" 

Christian Cardona, LOOK Eff ects 

Visual Eff ects Supervisor Christian 

Cordona talks about working on "Bones" 

from pre through post production. 

VFX: TV 

The Visual Eff ects of "Borgia" 

Jonathan Weber, RISE 

The artists at RISE | Visual Eff ects 

Studios have worked on more than 300 

VFX shots including accurate 3D models 

of the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican and 

St. Angelo. 

VFX: TV 

The Visual Eff ects 

of "Game of Thrones" 

J. Stannosek, S. Martin, T. Ewers, 

Pixomondo 

The second season of the american 

fantasy TV series "Game of Thrones" has 

just started to air in the US. 

VFX: TV 

Film VFX on a TV Budget 

Murray Barber, The Mill 

In this presentation Murray will talk about 

the trials and tribulations of working on 

VFX projects for TV and give amusing 

examples of the diffi culties faced. 

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METROPOL 2, BOLZSTRASSE 10 

Hugo 

Starts at 6pm 

Welcome to a magical world of 

spectacular adventure! When wily and 

resourceful Hugo discovers a secret left 

by his father, he unlocks a mystery and 

embarks on a quest that will transform 

those around him and lead to a safe and 

loving place he can call home. 

Academy Award winning fi lmmaker Martin 

Scorsese invites you to experience a 

thrilling journey that critics are calling "the 

stuff that dreams are made of". 




COMPLEXITy: PRODUCTION 

Machines and Men-in Animation 

Rainer Söhnlein, Lenard F. Krawinkel 

Ludwig von Reiche 

Join a fi reside chat about hopeless 

situations in animation production – and 

how the solution of one problem can lead 

right into the next trap. 


"Mass Eff ect 3": From Battle 

Armor to Romance Models 

Luis Alonso, BioWare 

This presentation will outline the 

obstacles and solutions that tech artists, 

character modelers, and animators had 

during the production of “Mass Eff ect 3”. 


designing for a Radical Control 

Method 

Nick Adams, Blitz Games 

How Blitz Games adapted "Puss in Boots" 

into a Kinect experience. 


"Ghost Recon Alpha": Creative 

Synergy and Non-linear 

Production - the Challenges of 

Making a Game-Related Movie 

Joelle Caroline, Fred Thonet; Ubisoft 

N. Rey, F. Groetschel; Mikros Images 

The presentation will include the 

screening of the fi nal short movie 

(24 min), excerpts of the fi lm’s making 

of, and show some parts of the upcoming 

Ghost Recon Future Soldier video. 


MASTERCLASSES 


"la luna": Shading and lighting 

studies 


To motivate the challenges of the visual 

story, Dan will explore a few shading and 

lighting studies. 

MASTERCLASSES 








WORKSHOPS 

unity Technologies 

unity, redefi ning the process of 

game development 

Joe Robins, Unity Technologies, 

Nick Jovic, Unity Technologies 

Joe Robins talks about how Unity's approach 

to rapid iteration and prototyping is 

changing the face of game development. 

WORKSHOPS 


Puppetting in Animation Speeds 

up the Process 

Lilly Vogelesang, 


Learn cut-out animation. 

WORKSHOPS 

Next limit Technologies 

RealFlow 2013 Technology 

Preview: Visual Node-Based 

Scripting System 

Gustavo Sanchez, Victor Gonzalez, 

Next Limit Technologies 

RealFlow 2013 Technology Preview. 

WORKSHOPS 


Character FX in Houdini 12 


Production-quality Cloth, Wire and Rigid 

Body FX 

Festival Garden & open Air, 14:00 – 23:00, Festival Garden, Schlossplatz 


FMX Echtzeit Party, 22:00, Club Lehmann, Seidenstraße 20, Stuttgart 


WORKSHOPS 

Esri R&d Center zurich 

Creating 3d City Backgrounds 

and digital Sets With CityEngine 

Pascal Müller, Esri 

Dominik Tarolli, Esri 

Esri CityEngine is a procedural modeling 

tool for creating 3D cities in feature fi lms, 

commercials or TV productions. 

WORKSHOPS 

3lateral 

Athanasius - Game Cinematic 

Character design, Advanced Face 

Rigging and Video Performance 

Capture 

Vladimir Mastilovic, 3Lateral 

Aleksandar Popov, 3Lateral 

Steven Caulkin, Cubic Motion 

This workshop will deconstruct creation 

of high end digital character from design 

process to fi nal animation. Speakers will 

go over advanced techniques focused not 

only on high quality but on productivity 

as well. 

The workshop will be split into three 

main parts: 

1. Character design philosophy 

2. Advanced techniques for face rigging 

3. Video performance capture 



New zealand 

Kyle Glass, Racheal Herlihy


VP: WORLD BUILDING 

"upside down": The Fusion of 

Two Worlds 

Mario Janelle, Speedcam 

Alex McDowell, 5D Institute 

This presentation will focus on the worldbuilding 

for independent movies. 

VP: WORLD BUILDING 

design for Virtual Production: 

"Avatar", "Tintin" and Beyond 

Andrew Jones 

Jeff Wisniewski 

This presentation looks at some of the 

design innovations that arose on “Avatar” 

and other projects. 

VP: PREVIS 

Previs for "The last Stand" 

Friend Michael Wells 

Ron Frankel, Proof 

This presentation will demonstrate how 

cutting-edge virtual tools were used to 

solve real-world challenges in a non-VFX 

driven environment. 

VP: PREVIS 

Visualizing "War Horse" 

Chris Edwards, The Third Floor 

Kevin Jenkins, Framestore 

Come see how visionary fi lmmaker Steven 

Spielberg built a convincing historic world 

through digitally-enhanced Art Direction 

and cutting-edge Previsualization. 

VP: PREVIS 

Building a Futuristic World for 

"Total Recall" 2012 

Chris Edwards, The Third Floor 

William Cheng 

Set Design & Previs for the new "Total 

Recall". 

START-UPS 

An Artistic Approach to a 

World of Frequent Commercial 

Production 

J. Bitzer, F. Pross, C. Letay, T. Weber 

Polynoid 

From high profi le commercial work for 

MTV to self initiated projects like "Rebird". 

START-UPS 

Producing Animation 

alongside Toy designers 

Philipp Seis, Brandstätter 

START-UPS 

Augmented Reality Time Travel 

Patrick Burkert, Sven Straubinger, 

Zeitfenster Stuttgart 

START-UPS 

unity3 Cross-Platform 

Patrick Thiel, Appmotion 

START-UPS 

Games, Interactive Novels 

and Transmedia 

Beren Baumgartner, Zeitland 

START-UPS 

Games & 2d Animation 

S. Mittag, A. Pieper, Studio Fizbin 

VHF: SESSIONS 

Panel discussion 

Join the speakers from the virtual humans 

forum for an informal Q & A session. 



INDUSTRIAL CG 

PoRSCHE - Racing not Posing 

Christian Braun, Porsche 

Ludwig Liptak, Porsche 

Virtual Journey from Design to Marketing 

In the session the following points will be 

addressed: 

What are the demands of worldwide 

marketing activities? How can virtual 

models enhance the overall process of 

integrated campaigns? What are typical 

applications and where do you make use 

of them in your communication mix? 

INDUSTRIAL CG 

Virtual Prototyping 

Benoît Deschamps, 

PSA Peugeot Citroën 

The talk will explain how Peugot Citroën 

aims to reduce the gap between a 

physical mockup and a virtual mockup. 

INDUSTRIAL CG 

Storytelling 2.0 – Visual Appeal 

and drama Brought to life 

Michael Köckritz, 

Red Indians Publishing 

Authentic storytelling with CGI & picture 

editing. 


Research at Weta digital 

Sebastian Sylwan, Weta Digital 

Weta Digital’s approach to research and 

how their commitment to practical and 

foundational research helps the company 

derive competitive advantage for itself 

and helps deliver tools and technology. 

VES: EXCHANGE 

The Stereoscopic Visual Eff ects 

of "Hugo" 

Rob Legato, KTM Productions 

Ben Grossmann, Pixomondo 

Legato and Grossmann will discuss the 

creative and technical challenges they 

overcame to refl ect Scorsese’s vision for 

early fi lmmaking in stereo 3D and capture 

the magic of Méliès. 

VES: EXCHANGE 

"Hugo": Capturing Practical 

Miniatures in a 3d Shoot 

Matthew Gratzner, New Deal Studios 

Ben Grossman, Pixomondo 

The speakers discuss the exciting 

challenges of shooting miniature eff ects 

for Scorsese’s "Hugo". 

VES: EXCHANGE 

Broadcast of: The Stereoscopic 

Visual Eff ects of "Hugo" 

The presentation from Gloria 1 will be 

broadcast live. 


The 13th Annual Animation 

Show of Shows 

Ron Diamond, AWN; ACME 

Once again, Ron Diamond has scoured 

the top festivals to bring the best in 

new animated shorts to animation 

professionals. This collection of shorts 

features the 84th Academy Award 

Winner for Best Animated Short Subject, 

"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. 

Morris Lessmore" along with two other 

nominated shorts, the NFB's "Wild Life" 

and Pixar's "La Luna". 

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FOCUS ON: MONTREAL 

The Montreal CG EcoSystem 

Alexandre Renaud, Centre NAD 

Christian Beauchesne, Montreal 

ACM Siggraph 

A portrait of Montreal's techno-creative 

industry, which includes: video games, 

visual eff ects, animation, interactive 

techniques, software, and visualization. 


Film & Game Convergence: 

Virtual Concept or Reality? 

Pierre Raymond, Hybride 

This presentation will propose a refl ection 

on Ubisoft & Hybride’s strategic intention 

of intertwining two specifi c and very 

distinct worlds: the game and fi lm 

industries. 


looking into the Past, Present 

and Future Work of Modus FX 

Marc Bourbonnais, Modus FX 

The challenges of delivering content in 

diff erent pipelines involving digital eff ects 

for major fi lms, full-length animated 

features and creative imagery for 

documentaries. 


"underworld: Awakening" - 

Creating lycans in Stereo 

Tim Stevenson, Mokko Studio 

The Mokko VFX Supervisor will discuss 

many of the myriad challenges faced by 

the team and the solutions developed to 

successfully create the VFX work. 







Walt disney Animation Studios 

Dawn Rivera-Ernster, Camille Eden 


luXX Studios 

Andrea Block, Christian Haas 


RISE | Visual Eff ects Studios 

Sven Pannicke 


Method Studios 

Patrick Davenport, David Wyka 



Jill Wallace 


The Future of 2d Animation 

Joan Vogelesang, 


Addressing the future of 2D animation 

opens the door to understanding the 

timeless nature of this art form and its 

multiple applications that go beyond 

television and feature fi lms. 


WORKSHOPS 


Animating Paperless from 

Beginning to End 

Lilly Vogelesang, 


Find out how the Toon Boom 

Pipeline enables you to work paperless 

throughout the entire process. 

WORKSHOPS 

SolidAnim 

Workshop SolidTrack 

Isaac Partouche, SolidAnim 

Emmanuel Linot, SolidAnim 

Extreme realtime camera tracking for VFX 

on set. SolidTrack is a new technology 

developed to enhance the director's view 

of his movie during the shooting. 

WORKSHOPS 

Blender Foundation 

Blender Inside out 

Thomas Dinges, Blender Foundation 

Andreas Goralczyk, Blender 

Foundation 

An insight into the free, open source 

software Blender and its possibilities. 

WORKSHOPS 

Meilenstein digital/luxology 

modo 601 and your Pipeline 

Andy Brown, Luxology 

Andy Probst, Meilenstein 

This workshop is focused on how you can 

use modo in your own productions, right 

alongside other tools in your pipeline. 


Georg-Simon-ohm Hochschule, 

Fakultät design 

Prof. Jürgen Schopper 


FH oberösterreich 

Campus Hagenberg 

M. Lankes, W. Hochleitner, A. Wilhelm 


Tampere university of 

Applied Sciences 

Alexandra Ostasheva, Sabrina Seidl 


Animation Sans Frontières 

Tim Leborgne, Jozsef Fülöp, 

Moïra Marguin, Odile Perrin 



New zealand 



zürcher Hochschule der Künste, 

Game design 

Jeremy Spillmann, Mela Kocher 


Hessische Film- und 

Medien-Akademie 

F. Schempp, M. Scherer, Nico Drago, 

D. Stein-Schomburg, S. Hildwein, 

F. Koppenhöfer, J. Braun 

7 x 7 min. pitches



Best of Kurzsuechtig 

VP: SESSIONS 

Virtual Production in Television 

Loni Peristere, Zoic Studios 

Using several working examples, Loni 

Peristere will explore virtual production 

today and what it will bring in the near 

future: A real time VFX pipeline. 

VP: SESSIONS 

Virtual Production in Games 

H. Zargarpour, Microsoft Studios 

D. Cianciolo, NetherRealm Studios 

The designers who worked in both fi lm 

and games, will showcase examples of 

convergence and discuss their experience 

on both sides of the interactive divide. 


The Virtual Production of 

"Real Steel" 

Eric Nash, Digital Domain 

Glenn Derry, Technoprops 

Casey Schatz, Giant Studios 

A showcase of the innovative workfl ow 

that led the team to deliver the movie on 

time and on budget. 


New Shorts 1 


ITFS Trailers 

In their third year of studies, students of 

animation at Filmakademie produce the 

trailers for the Festival of Animated Film 

Stuttgart. One of them is selected as the 

main trailer for the following year. 


Technical directing 

Students of the Technical Director program 

at the Institute of Animation present 

their projects. The TD program combines 

students’ previous technical knowledge 

with actual fi lm projects. Working in a 

production team, they learn how to solve 

real-world problems. 


Animated Shorts 

For one and a half years, students at the 

Institute of Animation at Filmakademie 

work in teams on their thesis projects. 

In this session, you will get to know 

fi ve unique projects, as diverse as the 

fi lmmakers themselves. 




New Shorts 2 

ANIMATION: WILD 'N STRANGE 

"The Monster of Nix" 

Rosto, Daan Spruijt 

Studio Rosto A.D 

An insight into Rosto's world in general 

and the creation of "The Monster of Nix" 

specifi cally. 


Making of "The Backwater 

Gospel" 

Bo Mathorne, 

The Animation Workshop 

Director Bo Mathorne will describe the 

production of the award winning animated 

short, "The Backwater Gospel," and the 

process behind its distinct look. 


Producing Animated News in 

Hours 

Kevin Chuan-Chang Wang, 

Next Media Animation 

A demo on how NMA creates animated 

news in hours by applying game development 

technoligies to a 3D animation 

pipeline. 


Box Tops to Silver Screen 

Marv Newland, Rocketship 

The making of "CMyK", an animated 

experimental fi lm created by Marv 

Newland at the National Film Board of 

Canada (2011). 

VFX: INDIA 

Going Global in "Madagascar 3" 

Vanitha Rangaraju, DDU 

Scott Peterson, DWA 

Challenges and successes in producing 

feature quality animation at the DDU in 

India and a a sneak peek at scenes from 

"Madagascar 3". 

VFX: INDIA 

How the Global digital Pipeline 

is revolutionising VFX 

Merzin Tavaria, Prime Focus 

Prime Focus is leveraging its global 

talent base internationally through its 

‘Worldsourcing’ service model, and is also 

leading the development of VFX and 3D in 

the prolifi c Bollywood domestic market. 

VFX: INDIA 

Crest: Growth of a CGI Company 

in India 

Mehul Hirani, Crest India 

The story of an Indian CGI studio thriving 

to produce and create original IP along 

with servicing the international animation 

production houses. 

VFX: INDIA 

Rhythm & Hues: 10 years of 

lessons 

Prashant Buyyala, 

Rhythm & Hues Studios 

Challenges, successes and lessons 

learnt in delivering globally distributed 

animation and visual eff ects production 

for Hollywood feature fi lms. 

LIGHTING AND RENDERING 

Survey of lighting Tools 1/2 

Ted Burge, Blue Sky Studios 

Part one of two talks covering production 

pipelines with a focus on lighting tools 

and how they are integrated into eff ects 

and feature animation environments. 


From Crowds to Heroes 

Sheldon Stopsack, MPC 

A cross discipline summary of MPC's 

global lighting and look development 

pipeline. 


Global Illumination Today 

Jan Walter, The Mill 

This talk will compare several renderers 

(Radiance, Arnold, V-Ray, Maxwell, Indigo, 

iray, Luxrender) from a user point of view 

and will explain rendering artifacts, daylight 

simulations, portals, tonemapping, 

and related concepts. 


Capturing light Maps 

Arkell Rasiah, Red 

This presentation examines the 

techniques, tricks and limitations of 

practicality capturing and creating 

unclipped HDRI light maps. 

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METROPOL 2, BOLZSTRASSE 10 

The Pirates! Band of Misfi ts 

Start at 6pm 

Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to 

defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass 

Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. 

ITFS OPEN AIR, SCHLOSSPLATZ 

Ra.one 

Start at 8pm 

A video game developer's world spirals 

out of control when his shape-shifting 

indestructible virtual creation becomes 

all too real. 




Moment Factory: We do it in 

Public 

Madeleine Jean, Moment Factory 

The presentation will cover Moment 

Factory's general approach to entertainment 

in public spaces, looking at four 

diff erent interactive projects. 



Join the Focus on Montreal speakers in 

this closing panel. 

SIGGRAPH PAPERS 

Introduction / 

Computational Stereo Camera 

Michael Goesele, TU Darmstadt 

Simon Heinzle, Disney Research 

Presentation of a computational stereo 

camera system that closes the control loop 

from capture and analysis to automatic 

adjustment of physical parameters. 


Simulated Quadrupeds 

Stelian Coros, Disney Research 


Video-based Characters 

Carsten Stoll, MPI Saarbrücken 


Texture-lobes for Tree Modeling 

Sören Pirk, University of Konstanz 


MASTERCLASSES 








MASTERCLASSES 








WORKSHOPS 

Teamup Technologies 

From lagoa to Teamup... a new 

era of dCC tools! 

Thiago Costa, Dov Amihod, 

Arno Zinke, TeamUp 

TeamUp will be showing its new content 

creation pipeline. 

WORKSHOPS 

MAXoN Workshop: 

VFX & Motiontracking 

- Professionelle 

Workfl owgestaltung mit CINEMA 

4d, Syntheyes & After Eff ects 

Helge Maus, pixeltrain 

CINEMA 4D VFX & Motiontracking. 

This workshop will be held in German. 

WORKSHOPS 

Next limit Technologies 

Maxwell Render Workshop 

Juan Cañada, Next Limit 

Raul Carbo, Inefecto 

Thomas Renault, Inefecto 

Maxwell Render Introduction for VFX. 

Inefecto will explain the advantages of 

using Maxwell Render. 

WORKSHOPS 

AV Medien Penrose 

uSER-GENERATEd CINEMA - 

Create dystopia 

Márk Szilágyi, Anna-Luise Dietzel, 

Martin Katic, Pascal Nothdurft, 

AV Medien Penrose 

Dystopia - an anti-utopic story. 




WORKSHOPS 

Blackmagic design 

Making the Grade with the New 

digital Workfl ow 

tbd 

This event is based around the latest 

versions of Final Cut Pro X and 

Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. 

This day is designed especially for 

professionals who work in production 

and looking to keep and eye on the 

latest developments and want to expand 

their knowledge of these amazing new 

products. you will be taken through a 

complete workfl ow from ingest to output 

with the latest technologies showcased 

and explained. 

14:00- 14:30 New Platform and 

Technologies - ingest, storage and asset 

management 

14:30 - 15:15 Apple Final Cut Pro X 

15:15 - 15:45 Break 

15:45 - 16:30 Blackmagic DaVinci 

Resolve Presentation by Blackmagic 

Edit to color grading with Resolve, 

distribution, encoding and backup 

16:30 - 17:00 Digital File management, 

Archive and Backup thoughts



The Virtual Production of 

"Hugo" 

Rob Legato, KTM Productions 

Martin Chamney, Nvizage 

The presentation will cover an insight 

into the comprehensive asset build for 

"Hugo," the craft of virtual production and 

storytelling using previs. 

VFX: INDIA 

"Ra.one" - From dream to Reel 

NN. 

Red Chillies Entertainment 

Relive the entire experience of making the 

visual eff ects of "Ra.One". 


SIGGRAPH Computer Animation 

Festival 

Joshua Grow, The Creative-Cartel 

A collection of computer-generated 

animated fi lms and visual eff ects that 

participated in the SIGGRAPH CAF 2011. 


Transmedia/Games 

The subject area Interactive Media 

presents Transmedia/Games projects. 

Students can focus either on Transmedia/ 

Games directing or Transmedia/Games 

Producing. Get an idea of the wide variety 

of diff erent projects that can emerge out 

of these universes. 


Visual Eff ects 

Students specializing on VFX work either 

on Filmakademie productions from 

departments like commercials, education 

& science fi lms, feature & documentary 

fi lms, or they can produce their own 

eff ect driven shorts. Five projects will be 

presented in this session. 

FOCUS ON: ESTONIA 

Creating lifelike liquids In CG 

Andres Kluge, Heiki Luts, 

Henno Luts, FrostFX 

From simulation to a beautiful image, this 

presentation will focus on the techniques 

behind creating visually aesthetic CG fl uids 

in commercials. 


TolM Story: Search of the 

Holy Grail 

Joosep Volk, Martin Rääk, 

Maido Hollo, TOLM 

Tolm's journey to fi nd themselves and 

their place in the industry. 


Magic Made by Hand: 

Combining Technology With 

Traditional Craftmanship 

Andrus Raudsalu, Nukufi lm 

Stop-Motion Animation: magic can be 

produced by hand and technology can 

only serve as extension to this hand. 




The Cinematics of "Mortal 

Kombat": Re-Booting a legend 

D. Cianciolo, NetherRealm Studios 

An inside look into the artistic development 

and execution of the game's 

cinematics, the most sophisticated and 

extensive story eff ort in "Mortal Kombat" 

history. 


Massive Production: EA Sports 

Rick Stringfellow, EA 

This talk gives a glimpse into how 

production processes are changing and 

evolving to overcome current and future 

challenges as more gaming platforms 

arrive. 


"Massive" Content Alignment 

Ben Cammarano, Microsoft Studios 

This talk will discuss some of the 

initiatives and processes at Microsoft 

Studios as we expand our world of 

content generation in an ever-expanding 

transmedia world. 


own the Planet - 

The Massive World of "SSX" 

TJ Galda, EA 

This talk looks at how the team created 

over 100 drops on 29 mountain peaks 

with a budget that previously allowed 15 

tracks on 1 mountain. 


FMX Trailer "Globosome" 

Sascha Geddert, Filmakademie BW 

VES: EXCHANGE 

"The Avengers" Special 

Creating the Hulk and a New 

york City for him to break 

Jeff White, ILM 

Guy Williams, Weta Digital 

ILM and Weta team up to present their 

VFX work that brought this blockbuster 

to life. 


"The Avengers" 

Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s 

"The Avengers" – the Super Hero team 

up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel 

Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible 

Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and 

Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy 

emerges that threatens global safety 

and security, Nick Fury, Director of the 

international peacekeeping agency known 

as S.H.I.E.L.D., fi nds himself in need of a 

team to pull the world back from the brink 

of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring 

recruitment eff ort begins. 


unclipped HdRI lightmaps 

Christos Obretenov, 

Lollipop Shaders 

In this presentation multiple unclipped 

HDRI lightmaps are tested, using fully 

raytraced importance-sampled shading, 

and compared with clipped HDRI maps 

found in production. 


lighting at Weta digital 

Wayne Stables, Weta Digital 

Weta Digital's approach to lighting 


Changing lighting Techniques 

Stephan Steinbach, Lucasfi lm 

The presentation will outline the impact 

on production of the transition to 

physically based lighting models at 

Lucasfi lm. 


Survey of lighting Tools 2/2 

Ted Burge, Blue Sky Studios 

The second of two talks will cover how the 

traditional stages of production pipelines 

aff ect the design and use of lighting 

and rendering tools in eff ects feature 

animation. 

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Meidinger-Saal 

Bertha-Benz-Saal 


FOCUS ON: VANCOUVER 

digital Ecosystem in Vancouver 

Mayor Gregor Robertson 

Lee Malleau, VEC 

Vancouver continues to grow its creative 

digital media sectors leading to increasing 

opportunities for both local and 

international talent. 


Growth of an Industry – How 

Vancouver became an Epicentre 


Dennis Hoff man, Method Studios 

This session will explore the work, 

companies, personalities and factors that 

led to the current explosion of Visual 

Eff ects, Animation, and Games. 


Recruitment and Education – 

Growing the digital Talent Pool 

Ken Maruyama, SPI 

Marianne O'Reilly, VFS 

Industry and education team up in this 

presentation to talk about the challenges 

they face to meet the demand for welltrained 

digital artists. 


Managing the Global VFX Studio 

Rick Mischel, SPI 

Michelle Grady, MPC 

The two heads of their respective 

Vancouver studios will discuss the 

similarities and diff erences in managing 

their high-level work in Vancouver within 

their global companies. 







Sony Pictures Imageworks 

Ken Maruyama 


TRIXTER 

Maike Timmann 


MPC 

Emma McGonigle 


lucasfi lm Singapore 

Heather Brown 


Story for Artists, Programmers 

and designers 

Craig Caldwell, University of Utah 

This session will emphasize story 

elements in context (i.e theme, character, 

setting, confl ict etc.) and their relationship 

to classic story structure (i.e. setup, 

inciting incident, rising action, climax etc). 

WORKSHOPS 

MAXoN 

CINEMA 4ds Physical Renderer 

Helge Maus, pixeltrain 

This workshop gives an overview of 

the various applications of CINEMA 4Ds 

Physical Renderer. 

This workshop will be held in German. 

WORKSHOPS 

Inka3d: 

Exporting content from Maya 

to WebGl 

Jochen Wilhelmy, Inka3D 

This workshop is about Inka3D, a new 

tool for exporting 3D content from 

Autodesk Maya to WebGL. 

WORKSHOPS 

Globell 

Experience real-time character 

creation, animation and Kinect 

motion capture with iClone5 

John Martin, Reallusion Inc. 

We will guide you through creating a 

character, recording lip-synch and facial 

animation for 3D actors, along with a guide to 

body puppeteering and body motion capture 

utilizing Kinect for Windows. 



New zealand 



university of Glamorgan 

Gareth Hutchinson 


Walt disney Animation Studios 

Animation Shop Talk 

Dawn Rivera-Ernster, Camille Eden, 

Andrew Selle, Lawrence Chai 

Come together with other artists 

and engineers to talk about skillsets, 

technique, aesthetics, direction and 

format. Volunteers are welcome to 

showcase their portfolio or reel for a 

realtime, live commentary from all.



Fantoche 

VP: SESSIONS 

Camera Capture for 

"Wreck-it Ralph" 

Evan Goldberg, Disney Animation 

This session will focus on the introduction 

of a capture technology into a feature 

animation pipeline, a technique developed 

for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 

upcoming fi lm "Wreck-It Ralph". 

VP: SESSIONS 

Panel: Animation Converges with 

live Action: A New Art Form? 

E. Hooks, Actor, Acting Trainer 

W. Schultz, Actor, Producer, Writer 

M. Wittmann, Digital Domain 

Virtual Production requires a crossfertilization 

of disciplines. This panel will 

explore Animation/ Mocap Cross Over. 


Virtual Production at IlM and 

lucasfi lm 

Michael Sanders, ILM 

Steve Sullivan, Lucasfi lm 

In this session, we will review how ILM has 

advanced these techniques in a variety 

of fi lms including A.I., Transformers and 

Rango, their fi rst animated feature. Then 

we will then discuss the future of these 

methods of technology across all our 

companies. 


ITFS Trailer 

ECHTZEIT 

Reduced and Extended 

Animation 

Francois Chalet, Lucern University 

François Chalet will show new territories 

of animation in contemporary dance, 

installation work, visual music and new 

media. 

ECHTZEIT 

Audiovisual Abstractions 

Max Hattler 

Max Hattler presents his abstract 

animation work which spans from short 

fi lms and music videos to multi-screen 

installations, and from live audiovisual 

performance to interactive phone 

application. 

ECHTZEIT 

Animation as Performance 

Friedrich Kirschner 

The talk demonstrates new interface 

technologies and a paradigm shift in 

how tools can be rethought for creative 

decision making in animation, allowing 

digital puppeteering and real-time content 

creation to become a valid alternative to 

large scale production approaches. 




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What VFX should do 

from a director's Point of View 

Achim Bornhak 

Get an idea about a director’s 

approach to VFX and how to improve 

communication between directors and 

VFX artists as well as techniques 

to avoid mistakes and take detours. 


What directors expect from VFX 

Shekhar Kapur 

The potential of the technology for VFX is 

moving faster than our mindsets. 


VFX: From Vendor to Production 

John Dietz, Vispop 

This presentation will focus on the move 

from being a VFX vendor into producing 

content. 

COMPLEXITy: TECHNOLOGy 

Panel: Complexity in Technology 

Panelists will discuss the potential of 

today’s technology and the diffi culties in 

maintaining creative control when tools, 

models and modes of production become 

increasingly complex. 

FILMAKADEMIE ANIMATION: HIGHLIGHTS PROJECTS | 

EDUCATION 

Animating Reptilian Creatures: 

FMX from Trailer lizards Globosome to dinosaurs and 

Beyond 

Stuart Sumida, CSUSB 

A brief summary of the speaker's 

research into reptilian locomotion informs 

numerous creatures to which he has 

contributed. Examples of work with 

photorealistic dinosaurs and reptiles will 

lead to recent work with MPC on the giant 

lizard in "Journey II", Voldemort's snake 

Nagini, and the hybrid Chimaera In "Wrath 

of the Titans". 

LIGHTING ANIMATION: AND HIGHLIGHTS RENDERING | 

TECH TALKS 

Filming Aardman's "Pirates" 

The Importance of unclipped 

HdRI Tom Barnes, lightmaps Aardman and Resulting 

Material How Aardman Setup planned in Production and fi lmed their 

most ambitious stop frame fi lm yet. 

Christos Obretenov 

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LIGHTING ANIMATION: AND HIGHLIGHTS RENDERING | 

TECH TALKS 

lAIKA, "ParaNorman" and 

The "Coraline" Importance of unclipped 

HdRI lightmaps and Resulting 

Material Mark Shapiro, Setup LAIKA in Production 

Christos 

LAIKA's Mark 

Obretenov 

Shapiro will present time-lapse 

imagery and short vignettes that detail the 

?? major undertaking involved in the making 

of these two animated fi lms. Production 

puppets from Coraline will also be on display. 

LIGHTING VFX: GERMANy AND RENDERING | 

TECH TALKS 

Film Workfl ows for Commercials 


HdRI Nhat Quang lightmaps Tran, nhb and Resulting 

Material nhb uses and Setup transforms in Production typical feature 

fi lm workfl ows to fi t the commercial 

Christos market needs. Obretenov With a wide range of 

production tools at hand, it is becoming 

?? a feature-infl uenced, virtual eco-system 

for artists, staying true to its creed: 

"creative people serving creative people." 


TECH TALKS 

A Pipeline full of CG Animals 


HdRI Falk Gärtner, lightmaps Tyler and Kehl, Resulting Patricia 

Material Feldmann, Setup exozet in eff Production ects 

Christos 

The presenters 

Obretenov 

will share their experience 

of working on a live action fi lm with over 

?? 300 shots that included a full CG Dog & 

Pig with limited time and resources. 


TECH TALKS 

"Nils Holgerssons 

The wunderbare Importance Reise" of unclipped 


Material Michael Huber, Setup Waheed in Production Zamani, 

D-Facto Motion 

Christos Obretenov 

D-Facto Motion will present the visual 

?? eff ects work on the 4 episode TV feature 

"Nils Holgerssons wunderbare Reise". 


TECH TALKS 

Superheroes for TV and Feature 

The Film Importance - back 2 d of unclipped 


Material Jan Stoltz, Setup Trixter in Production 

Christos 

The presentation 

Obretenov 

will give an insight into 

2D animation with lots of examples from 

?? each step of the production of the latest 

TV ID campaign of the broadcaster Pro7. 

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Join the presenters of this track in a 

discussion on Vancouver, a destination for 

international artists and other creative 

talent who work on challenging projects 

while taking advantage of the quality of 

life the city and the surrounding areas 

have to off er. 


Playing out What Games 

Could Be 

Steff en P. Walz, GEElab 

An overview on GEElabbers turning game 

design into research, and research into 

game design, and how the GEElab works 

with collaborators such as Audi, LG 

Display, Nokia Services and many others. 

GAMES: TECHNOLOGy 

The long Road to Film/Game 

Convergence 

Christopher Evans, Crytek 

Why aren't more fi lmmakers using 

real-time engines for blocking, previs, and 

virtual production? The benefi ts associated 

with transforming a game engine into 

a cinematic tool will be discussed. 


Gametrailers & Cinematic 

Screening 

Björn Bartholdy, Gamelab 

The genre of Game Trailers and 

Cinematics evolved into an art form of 

its own within the last decade. From 

live action to high end 3D, we see many 

forms of media production involved in the 

creation process of these stunning works. 


MASTERCLASSES 








MASTERCLASSES 








WORKSHOPS 

Xsens 

Character animation for 

advertising 

Alexander Kiesl, Unexpected 

Hein Beute, Xsens 

Stuttgart based Unexpected and Xsens 

talk about the animation pipeline used to 

create commercials. 



FMX Closing Party, 18:00, Suite 212, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 15, Stuttgart 

Raum Karlsruhe Raum Mannheim


VP: SESSIONS 

System Engineering for Virtual 

Production 

Glenn Derry, Technoprops 

This presentation gives insights and 

practical techniques used to create the 

fully realized virtual production systems 

used on "Avatar," "Tintin," and "Real 

Steel." 

VP: SESSIONS 

Panel: The Future of Virtual 

Production 

In this fi nal session of the Virtual 

Production track we take stock of the 

presentations we saw over the last three 

days, gather our thoughts and turn our 

attention toward the road ahead. 

VFX SHOWCASES 

"Battleship": Not just a Board 

Game 

Marshall Krasser, ILM 

From epic battles on the High Seas to 

the attack on Hawaii, "Battleship" helped 

push ILM's overall facility pipeline to 

new heights. 


Beyond the New Horizons: 

SIGGRAPH Asia Computer 

Animation Festival 2008-2011 

Jinny HyeJin Choo, 

ONCOMM Design | K'ARTS 

A collection of computer-generated 

animated fi lms and visual eff ects that 

participated in the past SIGGRAPH Asia 

2008-2011 Computer Animation Festival 

competition. 

JUNIOR PAPERS 

Procedural Modeling Based on 

Models of Pattern Formation 

Sebastian Bach, 

Hochschule Ansbach 

This deploma thesis focuses on procedural 

modeling inspired by biology. 

JUNIOR PAPERS 

Intuition in the Increasingly 

Virtual Production Environment 

Dylan Thompson 

Hybrid real-time visualization: 

a creative approach 

JUNIOR PAPERS 

Comparison of Techniques in 

Stereoscopic Cinema 

Tobias Brummer, Oliver John 

Hochschule Ulm 

This thesis paper describes the process 

of creating a short documentary with 

a stereoscopic rig, stereoscopic cgi 

elements and converted historic photos. 


Furbar Redux 

Hasraf Dulull, HaZ VFX 

A presentation on what went into making 

the fi lm and how the USP of creating 

it entirely inside Nuke was a fun and 

ambitious challenge which lead to pushing 

Motion Comic Cinema to the next level. 



COMPLEXITy: TECHNOLOGy 

Panel: The Changing 

Relationship between VFX 

Houses and Software Companies 

Panelists from the software vendor side 

and from studios will discuss where they 

think innovation originates, how and when 

they work together to raise the state 

of the art in technology, and what they 

each value most from the other side of 

this equation. 

VFX: COMMERCIALS 

unexpected VFX for Commercials 

Alexander Kiesl, Steff en Hacker, 

unexpected 

The speakers present a lot of 

entertaining behind-the-scenes-footage 

and break down the visual eff ects that 

were created for commercials for 

VESTEL, Adidas and Footlocker. 


High End VFX and Character 

Animation for Commercials 

Markus Lauterbach, Rüdiger 

Kaltenhäuser, Glassworks 

This presentation focuses on the 

process of producing high end visual 

eff ects for critically acclaimed commercials 

using recent productions as examples. 


Fact vs Fiction - life in VFX for 

Commercials 

Robert Holmes, The Mill 

In this talk Rob will present a Behind The 

Scenes of the Making Of and take the audience 

through a production cycle without 

the polish; talking about the challenges 

and realities we face everyday. 


How do you Scrat? 

Nick Bruno, Jeff Gabor 


The nutty details behind animating "Ice 

Age's" beloved character, Scrat, will be 

reveialed in this presentation. 


"The lorax" 

Jacques Bled, Kyle Balda, 

Bruno Chauff ard, yarrow Cheney 

Illumination Studios 

The makers of "The Lorax" will present 

their work on the movie that has been 

realized in France. 


"The lorax" 

From the Creators of "Despicable Me" 

and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes 

the much anticipated feature "Dr. Seuss’ 

The Lorax", a 3D CG adaptation of the 

classic tale of a forest guardian who 

shares the enduring power of hope. The 

animated adventure follows the journey 

of a 12-year-old as he searches for a 

real Truff ula Tree, the one thing that will 

enable him to win the aff ection of the 

gilr of his dreams. To get it he must fi nd 

the story of "The Lorax," the acerbic yet 

charming character who fi ghts to protect 

his world. 


"Sherlock Holmes II : A Game 

of Shadows" - A Blow by Blow 

Account 

Ben White, Framestore 

A study of several sequences and the 

variety of techniques used to execute 

them as well as the fi nal slow motion 

waterfall shot. 


"Red Tails" 

Mohsen Mousavi, Pixomondo 

On a tight collaboration with Industrial 

Light & Magic, Pixomondo completed 546 

shots on "Red Tails", about a third of the 

fi lm’s 1524 total VFX shots. 


New deal Studios: Miniature 

Eff ects in a digital World 

Matthew Gratzner, New Deal Studios 

Areas of discussion will focus on when 

it makes the most sense for fi lmmakers 

to choose to use a practical miniature 

eff ect versus a digital eff ect as well as the 

planning and integration of miniatures. 


"The Hunger Games" 

John Dietz, Vispop 

John Dietz supervised the work of Rising 

Sun Pictures who contributed over 200 

visual eff ects shots for Lionsgate's "The 

Hunger Games". 

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CONFERENCE 

Virtual Production 

Opening 

World Building 

Previs 

Sessions 

Megasessions 

Wrap-up 

Animation 

Highlights 

Wild 'n Strange 

Complexity 

Production 

Technology 

Effects 

VES: Exchange 

Showcases 

Television 

Commercials 

Effects in India 

Effects in Germany 

Games 

Visual Arts 

Made in Germany 

Technology 

Tech Talks 

3D Stereo 

Lighting and Rendering 

Cloud Computing 

Industrial CG 

Applied Research 

NPR 

Focus on... 

Montréal 

Vancouver 

Estonia 

Poland

CONFERENCE / VIRTuAl PRoduCTIoN 

The Virtual Production track at FMX 2012 is supported by 

With the success of "Avatar", Virtual Production exploded on the scene as a new, effective way to make movies in the digital age. Centered on the ability for filmmakers to 

interact with virtual worlds in real time, Virtual Production enables an iterative workflow that is blurring the boundaries between pre-production, production and post. 

Join our presenters as we study how Virtual Productions are crafted today, from World Building, to Previsualization, to the Virtual Production stage. 

Curators: D. Morin, Autodesk; R. Frankel, Proof; D. Gouge, Weta Digital; Chris Edwards, The Third Floor; E. Hooks; A. McDowell, 5D Institute 

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION oPENING 

The Virtual Production track at FMX 2012 is curated by a team from Autodesk, the 

5D Institute, the Previsualization Society, the Virtual Production Committee, and Weta 

Digital. In this opening session the curators will share the current thinking on Virtual 

Production from the point of view of their respective organization, and they will set 

the stage for the 16 presentations focused on Virtual Production that will take place 

over the next three days. It is a roadmap for the track that you don’t want to miss. 

Curator / Host: D. Morin, Autodesk 

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION WoRld BuIldING 

First, the world has to be built. World Building is the new metaphor for the design, 

creation and actualizing of the story space in digital narrative media. Curated by the 

5D Institute, this first segment of the Virtual Production track addresses narrative 

design thinking, the iterative and immersive experience of creating new worlds for 

storytelling in general, and Virtual Production in particular. Through World Building, 

production designers express the full arc of design’s role through narrative media. 

Curator / Host: A. McDowell, 5D Institute 

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION PREVIS 

What will you do in the world once it is built? Previsualization is the collaborative 

process that generates preliminary versions of shots or sequences, predominantly 

using 3D animation tools and a virtual environment. It enables filmmakers to visually 

explore creative ideas, plan technical solutions, and communicate a shared vision 

for efficient production. Curated by the Previsualization Society, this segment of 

the Virtual Production track presents some of the most recent uses of Previs in 

moviemaking, an essential step in a full-fledged Virtual Production workflow. 

Curators / Hosts: C. Edwards, The Third Floor; R. Frankel, Proof 

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VIRTUAL PRODUCTION SESSIoNS 

In this core segment of the Virtual Production track, we follow key practitioners in 

the field as they present how Virtual Production is used in Television, Games and 

Animation. We discuss the convergence of Animation with Live Action and what this 

means for actors and animators. And we are presented with a detailed overview of 

roles and responsibilities on state of the art of Virtual Production stages today. 

Curators / Hosts: D. Morin, Autodesk; R. Frankel, Proof; D. Gouge, Weta Digital; 

E. Hooks 

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION MEGASESSIoNS 

Come walk with us on the leading edge of motion picture art & science, and learn 

from the creative pioneers who are inventing a new medium. The Virtual Production 

Megasessions are focused on the latest blockbuster Virtual Productions and the 

teams that make them. Enjoy presentations on the Virtual Production of "Tintin", 

"Real Steel", "Hugo" and many others, by independent creators, producers and 

experts from Weta Digital, Digital Domain, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. 

Curators / Hosts: D. Morin, Autodesk; D. Gouge, Weta Digital 

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION WRAP-uP 

In this final session of the Virtual Production track we take stock of the presentations 

we saw over the last three days, gather our thoughts and turn our attention toward 

the road ahead. Join our panel of luminaries as we consider the place of Virtual 

Production in the future of moviemaking, in context of other important developments 

in the field, such as 3D and high frame rate photography. 

Curator / Host: D. Morin, Autodesk

ANIMATION HIGHlIGHTS 

Discover the diversity and opportunity that animation has to offer. This year's 

Animation Highlights range from Aardman Animations’ "Arthur Christmas" and 

"The Pirates!" to LAIKA 's hand-crafted stop-motion in "Coraline" and "ParaNorman" 

or Illumination Mac Guff’s highly awaited "The Lorax" and extends on to blockbusters 

such as Blue Sky Studios’ "Ice Age 4", DreamWorks' "Madagascar 3" and Pixar’s 

"La Luna", the animated opener to Pixar’s "Brave". Moreover, Stuart Sumida, 

professor at the California State University San Bernardino, explains his and 

MPC’s work on reptilian locomotion in movies such as "Journey II", "Harry Potter" 

or "Wrath of the Titans". 

Hosts: G. Lukoschek, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg; 

T. Ohnmacht, Baden-Württemberg; B. Robertson 

ANIMATION WIld 'N STRANGE 

These programs will make you rock and shake, because they are wild. And they will 

stimulate your brains, because they are strange. you will meet director Rosto and 

VFX producer Daan Spruijt giving an inside view into the production of "The Monster 

of Nix". Bo Mathorne will preach "The Backwater Gospel" to you. Mastermind Kevin 

Chuan-Chang Wang will show you how to produce "Animated News in Hours". 

And finally you have the chance to meet animation legend Marv Newland entering 

new territories with "CMyK". Don´t you dare miss it! 

Curator / Host: A. Hykade, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

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COMPLEXITy PRoduCTIoN 

The Production track puts you right in front of the director: What kind of VFX does 

he want and need? Shekhar Kapur, award-winning director of acclaimed films such 

as "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and the German director Achim 

Bornhak discuss their personal perspectives. How important are VFX in their work 

and what expectations do they bring towards VFX companies and the services and 

effects they provide? In addition, Rainer Soehnlein, Lenard F. Krawinkel and Ludwig 

von Reiche discuss the often contrary natures of artistic creativity and animation 

technology. Moreover, Vispop’s John Dietz speaks about the relationship between 

vendor and production while HaZ VFX’ Hasraf Dulull explains the work on the short 

film "Fubar Redux" that integrates different genres in order to create hyper motion 

comic cinema. 

Hosts: D. Maas, B. Robertson 

COMPLEXITy TECHNoloGy 

This track will focus on the potential of today’s VFX technology and the difficulties 

in maintaining creative control when tools, models and modes of production 

become increasingly complex. Software vendors and studios will also discuss where 

innovation originates, how and when they work together to raise the state of the art 

in technology, and what they each value most from the other side of this equation. 

Curators: B. Robertson, D. Maas

CONFERENCE / EFFECTS 

EFFECTS VES: EXCHANGE 

Visual effects enhance live-action footage with other filmed or computer-generated 

imagery to create a world, explosion or stunt that would otherwise be impossible 

to create. VFX are everywhere and oftentimes are completely invisible – more often 

than not a filmmaker will add a cloud to a background or a tear to an actresses’ face 

and you'd never know it wasn't real. The use of visual effects is now more pervasive 

than ever and is taking up more and more of each show's budget. 

The Visual Effects Society (VES) is looking forward to presenting a powerful series 

of presentations on topics ranging from Academy Award winning Supervisor Rob 

Legato sharing inside secrets behind "Hugo" to hearing from Jay Redd on "Men in 

Black III" and many more. The VES, which represents the best visual effects artists 

in the world, will show how the use of visual effects affects everything from creative 

decisions to the economic bottom line in the delivery of all entertainment globally. 

Curator / Host: E. Roth, Visual Effects Society 

EFFECTS SHoWCASES 

This year’s most influential movies and topics get some extra behind-the-scenes 

attention. No less than three presentations dissect the extraterrestrial visual effects 

of Andrew Stanton’s extravaganza "John Carter", and other highlights include 

presentations on Guy Ritchie’s "Sherlock Holmes II: A Game of Shadows", George 

Lucas’ production "Red Tails", the game turned movie "Battleship" and the box office 

hit "The Hunger Games". Further slots focus on miniature effects in a digital world 

and the ambition of staying true to oneself in the face of growing commercialization. 

Hosts: B. Flückiger, D. Maas, B. Robertson, E. Roth 

EFFECTS TElEVISIoN 

Enjoying your home cinema? Successful VFX for television balance budgetary 

concerns with artistic aspirations - a considerable challenge that popular series such 

as "Game of Thrones", "Bones" and "Borgia" clearly manage. Get even closer to your 

favorite shows as their supervisors talk about the future of effects and production 

processes. Presentations will also include vivid discussions on the creation of 

convincing VFX on TV budgets. 

Host: K. Delventhal 

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EFFECTS CoMMERCIAlS 

Commercials keep their finger on the pulse of time, quickly adapting to new trends 

and developments. Companies such as unexpected or The Mill are here to help you 

keep up the pace, demonstrating their VFX based approach to commercials. In a 

similar vein, employees from Glassworks shed light on crucial aspects of producing 

photorealistic characters, building CG environments and previsualizing artistic 

visions. 

Host: K. Delventhal 

EFFECTS IN INdIA 

Ambitious VFX, top quality feature and TV animation and innovation in stereo 

conversion – increasingly, producers in the USA, Europe and Asia are turning 

to India’s leading VFX and animation studios. Producers in India, home of the 

world’s most prolific film industry, are now demanding VFX to the same standard 

as Hollywood. Bollywood smash hit "Ra.One" recently received the National Award, 

India’s highest award for excellence, for the special effects created by Mumbai-based 

Red Chillies VFX. Innovation in developing effective communication between distant 

locations is at the core of these success stories as new pipelines evolve to deal with 

ever-increasing complexity and demand. 

Curator / Host: S. Page, Dreamworks Animation 

EFFECTS IN GERMANy 

In an increasingly challenging international VFX market, work on big productions is 

being shared by companies all over the world. More and more major US productions 

give parts of or even full visual effects budgets to German companies. But what 

about German productions themselves? The track "Effects in Germany" tries to 

shed a light on feature and commercial work for our home market. There is a vivid 

industry of not so well known VFX postproduction companies who deliver impressive 

quality - sometimes with fractions of the international budgets for an equal amount 

of work. What do German companies do to face the challenge of delivering visual 

effects and animation for a sophisticated German audience? We will find out here. 

Curator / Host: J. Stoltz, Trixter

GAMES VISuAl ARTS 

Visual Arts transform games into exciting, interactive movies that everyone wants 

to be a part of. This year’s Visual Arts track features presentations on successful 

game series and their aesthetic and visual evolution. More than a nostalgic look 

back, this track takes apart the successful long-term visions behind gaming favorites 

such as "Ghost Recon", "Mass Eff ect 3", "The Witcher 2", "SSX" and "Mortal Kombat". 

Get further glimpses into the games industry via presentations by industry leaders 

such as Bioware, Blitz Games, CD Projekt RED, EA Sports, GEElab, Microsoft Studios, 

Mikros Image, NetherRealm Studios, Platige Image and Ubisoft. 

Host: J. Olin 

GAMES MAdE IN GERMANy 

Germany has always been an important consumer market for digital games, but 

its role as a production base of international relevance has only evolved within 

the last 10 years. The Berlin-based developer yager, for example, has established 

a reputation as a high end hub for AAA game development through their current 

project "Spec Ops: The Line" (2K). Other fi elds are even dominated creatively by 

German developers. Daedalic (Hamburg) has taken the pole position in adventure 

games, with masterpieces like "Deponia" or "The Whispered World". Another driving 

force in the constant enhancement of the German development scene comes from 

the independents. Black Pants (Kassel) with their award winning project "Tiny & Big", 

Berlin-based developer Kunst-Stoff - "The great Jitters: Pudding Panic" or Krystian 

Majewski (Cologne) and his highly appraised game "Trauma", are examples for the 

excellence in making great games on a small budget. 

Curator / Host: B. Bartholdy, Cologne Game Lab 

GAMES TECHNoloGy 

Films, they are a-changin’. Originally divergent in their conceptualization and 

production processes, the game and fi lm industries have recently found creative 

ways of converging. Crytek is one of the companies that is taking a pioneering role in 

this converging fi eld and develops technologies that use real-time engines from the 

games industry for blocking, previs, and Virtual Production. Christopher Evans gives 

an exclusive behind-the-scenes look. 

Host: J. Olin 

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CONFERENCE / GAMES

CONFERENCE / TECH TAlKS 

TECH TALKS 3d STEREo 

Bloody gore fest or a children’s wonderland: 3D Stereo is used diff erently according 

to who's sitting in the audience. Adjust your eye glasses when Celluloid VFX, Prime 

Focus World, TRIXTER and Virgin Lands present their latest insights into the 3D 

conversion of fi lms such as "Star Wars: Episode I", "Harry Potter", "Journey 2: The 

Mysterious Island", "Underworld: Awakening" or the German children’s movie "Come, 

let’s fi nd a treasure". 

Host: B. Flückiger 

TECH TALKS lIGHTING ANd RENdERING 

There has always been a strong push in the Visual Eff ects and Animation community 

towards more realism. This has recently taken two major venues: various forms of 

global illuminations (point-based, raytraced) and physically based rendering. 

Obviously this has led to re-training of artists, as well as designing of new lighting 

tools (on top of the forced pipeline overhaul). We will survey some of these new 

approaches and consequences in this track, with case studies from various studios. 

Curator / Host: C. Héry, Pixar Animation Studios 

TECH TALKS Cloud CoMPuTING 

Cloud Computing promises huge benefi ts through the sharing of remote computing 

resources and by lowering the barrier of entry to high-performance computing. But 

what does that mean for animation and visual eff ects production? FMX will feature 

a series of sessions on this very timely topic. Curated by Ludwig von Reiche, Senior 

Director for Business Development of NVIDIA, this track will explore current off erings 

of Cloud Computing and their relevance to animation, games and visual eff ects 

production. Users and vendors will discuss advantages and challenges for diff erent 

application areas as well as upcoming trends in Cloud Computing technologies and 

business models. 

Curator / Host: L. von Reiche, NVIDIA 

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TECH TALKS INduSTRIAl CG 

This exciting new track addresses the use of CG for industrial purposes, from design 

and development right up to marketing and sales. CG enables product designers 

and marketers to tell their stories in a fresh and highly convincing manner. Speakers 

from companies such as Porsche and PSA Peugeot Citroën will provide insight into 

how they apply CG inside their organisations. The track will consider the importance 

of using real-time and offl ine CG, and how the use of CG throughout the industry can 

fundamentally further the way people work. 

Curator / Host: L. Fuchs, Realtime Technology 

TECH TALKS APPlIEd RESEARCH 

The Applied Research track combines the latest production-proven technological 

achievements. Starting with insight into Disney Animation’s particle rendering 

pipeline we will also learn more about the Open Source projects Partio and SeExpr. 

Computer Graphics researchers from Technische Universität Braunschweig showcase 

their "Virtual Video Camera" pipeline allowing to freely specify the fi nal camera 

path in post-production. Learn more about the GPU-based sand simulations for 

"John Carter" that go beyond the capabilities of traditional rigid body fl uid systems. 

Finally we will hear about Pixar's crowd simulation pipeline and how it evolved from 

"A Bug’s Life" to "Brave". 

Curator / Host: V. Helzle, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

TECH TALKS NPR 

Non-photorealistic Rendering (NPR) is the art of computing artistic-looking and 

abstract images. Techniques in NPR range from image processing to complex 

geometric modifi cations and operations. Many of these techniques are used in 

computer animation and interactive computer games. The talks will introduce this 

fascinating fi eld and present recent developments in applied computer science. 

Curator / Host: O. Deussen, Universität Konstanz

FOCUS ON MoNTRéAl 

A cultural complement to the epicenter of Vancouver, Montréal has developed into 

a central focal point for the creative and digital entertainment industry with its own 

specific characteristics and trademarks. VFX companies and other players provide 

insights into the various services Montréal’s companies have to offer – spanning 

from VFX for the movie "Underworld: Awakening" to tools that intertwine the film and 

game industries. 

Curators / Hosts: A. Renaud, Centre NAD; C. Beauchesne, Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH 

FOCUS ON VANCouVER 

Vancouver is a world-class destination for international creative talent. Government 

support through tax incentives and R&D programs has led to the current explosion 

of visual effects, animation and gaming studios choosing Vancouver as a prime 

location to do business. With strong support from both the private and public 

sectors, Vancouver has positioned itself as hub for the creative economy. Local 

industry leaders have a strong voice in the development of policy and strategy which 

ensures continued growth. 

As the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and high profile projects 

increases, Vancouver has become a prime destination for international artists and 

other creative talent. An added benefit to working on world class productions is the 

ability to take advantage of Vancouver’s unique combination of lifestyle, culture and 

spectacular outdoors. 

Curator / Host: R. Mischel, Satelite Productions for Sony Pictures Imageworks 

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CONFERENCE / FoCuS oN... 

FOCUS ON ESToNIA 

When people talk about Estonian animation, they always refer to its long and 

dignified history, which is primarily known for world-famous artistic author films. By 

today, however, the complete picture of Estonian animation is much more colorful. 

A number of small studios have appeared. They have taken a more commercial 

course and love to mix different animation techniques with motion graphics and VFX, 

creating a modern visual language that is new to the Estonian audiovisual scene. 

Two of those young and fresh companies will conquer the FMX conference stage as 

well – FrostFX will talk about their passion for creating visually aesthetic CG fluids and 

TOLM will take you along on their quest for the Holy Grail in storytelling and finding 

the right path in your professional field. Counterbalancing the new wave Estonian 

focus at FMX includes also internationally praised Nukufilm, the oldest and largest 

stop motion studio in Northern Europe that represents a pure handcraft, which has 

become more and more desirable in a world full of digital noise. 

Curator / Host: H. Pikkov, AnimaCampus 

FOCUS ON PolANd 

Focus on Poland reflects recent trends and developments in this exciting region of 

Eastern Europe, demonstrating its creative achievements and potential. Renowned 

animation studio Human Ark presents its current experiences on commercials and 

films, The Chimney Pot talks about the post-production on Marek Koterski’s feature 

film "Man, Chicks Are Just Different" and Alvernia Studios presents their production of 

motion capture in the game sequel "Witcher 2". 

Host: T. Ohnmacht

ICC INTERACTIVE CoNTENT CREATIoN 

Transmedia 

Sessions 

Echtzeit 



Virtual Humans 

VHF: Sessions 

Papers 

SIGGRAPH Papers 

Eurographics Papers 

Junior Papers

ICC / TRANSMEdIA / CINEMA oF THE FuTuRE 

TRANSMEDIA SESSIoNS 

We are seeing a profound shift in perspective across all media sectors. Crossmedial 

thinking has become the business method. Transmedia will discuss how to build 

professional pipelines for transmedia development, production and distribution. 

Henry Jenkins (UCLA), author of "Convergence Culture" will give us an academic 

scope on where we stand today. Nuno Bernado (beactive), author of "The 

Producer’s Guide to Transmedia", will share with us his many years of transmedial 

practice. Scott Walker (Brain Candy), founder of Transmedia Los Angeles, will 

speak on the systematic integration of users. Femke Wolting (submarine channel), 

Amsterdam-based producer of "Collapsus", will showcase their award winning 

transmedia projects. 

The day ends with a discussion in cooperation with the 5D Institute on the Future of 

Storytelling. Panelists are Henry Jenkins, Shekhar Kapur and Alex McDowell, director 

of 5D Institute. 

Curator / Host: I. von Staden, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

TRANSMEDIA ECHTzEIT 

Not all animation is made for the big or the small screen. Inspired by architecture, 

theatre, comics or mathematics, these abstract artists make fi lms, promos and 

commercials. But they also prove to be versatile Transmedia artists: They create 

installations, performances and invent their own defi nition of screen and projection – 

a dedication that has brought them into museums, galleries and clubs. 

Animation isn't necessarily frame-by-frame. It can also be live and real-time. Real 

and virtual do not contradict each other but blend smoothly. While opting for very 

diff erent software solutions and approaches they share the idea that the internet 

is not a threat but a challenge that opens up a myriad of new possibilities how to 

express, fi nance and (self-)market themselves as artists. 

François Chalet’s almost mathematical animation style is crisp, precise and has a 

fresh and emotional appeal on big and on tiny screens alike. Friedrich Kirschner 

playfully exploits computer game technology and his own charming low-tech tools to 

invigorate puppetry and performance. Max Hattler blends old and new techniques 

and concepts with amazing results. 

Curator / Host: K. Wehn, Media Researcher & Curator 

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CINEMA OF THE FUTURE CINEMA oF THE FuTuRE 

How do technical developments infl uence the way we watch movies? While current 

fi lms like Peter Jackson’s "The Hobbit" are shot at 48fps, Doug Trumbull is already 

paving the way with his Showscan Digital process at 120fps. In his keynote he will 

deliver insights into the history of cinema from both photographic and projection 

aspects. In addition, Trumbull will discuss the advantages of higher frame rates with 

RFX founder Ray Feeney and renowned fi lm journalist Bill Desowitz. 

The presentation by ARRI on the future of digital cameras will complement this track. 

Curator / Host: B. Desowitz, Immersed in Movies

VIRTUAL HUMANS VHF: SESSIoNS 

In the rapidly changing world of digital entertainment, virtual humans are taking on 

increasingly important roles. In cinema, virtual human actors, virtual human digital 

makeup, and digitally enhanced dramatic performances are becoming commonplace. 

In the world of games, virtual human characters are becoming ever more complex 

and important. In life, virtual human interfaces are popping up everywhere from VH 

bank tellers, to digital voices helping you on the phone. The FMX Virtual Humans 

Forum is the absolute best place in Europe to keep up with the razor edge of new 

developments in this most important arena. 

Curators: C. Hery, Pixar Animation Studios; P. Plantec, Ordinary Magic 

Host: P. Plantec 

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PAPERS SIGGRAPH 

This session presents selected technical papers from the SIGGRAPH 2011 and 

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 conference programs, presenting leading research in 

computational stereo cameras and 3D displays, character animation, and tree 

modeling. Following an introduction about the SIGGRAPH conferences, selected 

papers will be presented by one of the authors and placed in the context of the 

greater SIGGRAPH technical papers programs. 

Curator / Host: M. Goesele, TU Darmstadt 

PAPERS EuRoGRAPHICS 

FMX continues its successful coalescence of applications and research from 

computer graphics in the special symposium "Best of Eurographics". Top 

researchers present their cutting-edge work combining innovative research with 

applications for the production of film and animation. They also give a glimpse 

at what may well await us in the future of animation, content creation and image 

manipulation systems. Each of the authors is a speaker at one of the annual 

Eurographics conferences or symposia. The talks present not just the technical 

work but will demonstrate its relevance to the industry. 

Curator / Host: C. Dachsbacher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 

PAPERS JuNIoR 

In 2011 the first Germany-wide call for papers for the FMX Junior Papers session has 

been announced by Katja Koeppl, Professor of Visual Effects and Post Production 

at the Stuttgart Media University. A selection of three papers from graduates of the 

Hochschule Ansbach, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam-Babelsberg and 

the Hochschule Ulm will be presented at FMX. 

The topic of the first session is Procedural Modeling Based on Models of Pattern 

Formation by Sebastian Bach, followed by Dylan Thompson’s presentation on 

Intuition in the increasingly Virtual Production environment. The third talk by Tobias 

Brummer and Oliver John compares techniques in stereoscopic cinema. 

Curators / Hosts: K. Koeppl, Stuttgart Media University

FoRuM 

Marketplace 

Trade Floor 

Masterclasses 

Acting for Animators 


Pixar RenderMan 

Workshops 

Workshops 

Recruiting Hub 

Recruiting Booths 

Recruiting Presentations 

Education 

School Campus 

School Presentations 

Education Sessions 

Filmakademie Projects 

Start-Ups

FORUM / TRAdE FlooR / MASTERClASSES / WoRKSHoPS 

TRAdE FlooR 

The Trade Floor is a central meeting point where companies present current trends, products and services. Discover the latest developments in professional graphics 

solutions for visual computing, 2D and 3D animation, simulation technologies, 3D rendering, real time engines, virtual human simulations and virtual test tracks. Talk to 

company representatives face-to-face about their recent work or take a break at our coff ee bar. 

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at² GmbH 

Autodesk GmbH 

Breakpoint Books 

CAD Network 

Chaos Group 

Crater Software 

CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. 

MASTERClASSES 

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LIST-SAAL 

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Econ Consulting 

faceshift 

Fujitsu 

Globell 

Gola em 

Lightcraft Technology 

Level-up with the help of seasoned professionals showing you the fast track to new 

skills and technologies in four diff erent Masterclasses. Gather specialist knowledge 

when Autodesk and Animation Mentor team up to explain the do’s and don’ts of 

a demo reel. Get rare insights when Pixar off ers several Masterclasses on the 

application of RenderMan, featuring the movies "La Luna" and "Cars 2". Polish your 

acting skills in 2D or 3D in a two-part Masterclass with Ed Hooks, who pioneered 

acting training for animators. 

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Luxology 

pixeltrain 

PNy Technologies 

QOOBEE 

Realtime Technology AG 

R & D at Filmakademie 

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SolidAnim 

Total AR 

TV Paint Devéloppement 

weltenbauer. 3D Vertriebs GmbH 

The Workshops off er hands-on training from renowned specialists who explain practical 

know-how and reveal their strategies to tackle challenges. Take home a whole new set 

of best practices that will positively impact your professional life. Workshops are off ered 

by 3Lateral, AV Medien Penrose, Blackmagic Design Blender Foundation, Chaos Group, 

Esri R&D Center Zurich, Inka3D, Luxology/Meilenstein, Mackevision Medien Design, 

Maxon, Next Limit Technologies, PI-VR GmbH, Side Eff ects Software, SolidAnim, 

TeamUp Technologies, Toon Boom Animation Inc., Unity Technologies, and Xsens.

RECRuITING HuB 

Find out where to start or further your career in animation, games and VFX. Take your chance as some of the best and best-known names in the industry come to the 

Recruiting Hub to meet graduates and professionals who are looking for a way to start off their career in the Digital Entertainment industry. 

RECRuITING BooTHS 

Twenty-three world-class and world-renowned animation, VFX and games studios 

have set up their booths in Eyth-Saal, waiting for potential future employees to walk 

by. Make that all-important first step and talk to recruiters one-on-one, ready to 

woo them with the best you have to offer: your personality, and your portfolio or 

showreel. 

Animal Logic 


Double Negative 

eder Medien Management 

Framestore 

Lucasfilm Singapore 

Mackevision Medien Design 


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RECRuITING PRESENTATIoNS 

This is your chance to familiarize yourself with a company’s work and goals before 

you apply for a job with them in the Recruiting Hub. The following companies will 

present in front of an eager audience: Axis Animation, Blue Sky Studios, Double 

Negative, Framestore, Lucasfilm Singapore, LUXX Studios, Mackevision, Method 

Studios, MPC, Prime Focus World, Psyop & MassMarket, RISE | Visual Effects 

Studios, ScanlineVFX, Sony Pictures Imageworks, The Mill, TRIXTER, Walt Disney 

Animation Studios. 

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FORUM / EduCATIoN 

SCHool CAMPuS 

Mingle with future fellow students and lecturers! Find out where to start your education in animation, games or VFX. Twenty-eight international media design schools and 

programs present their curricula in the School Campus. Prospective students can gather information, ask questions and talk to teachers and current students from as far 

away as New Zealand. 

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Turm B S2 

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S3 S16 

LIST-SAAL 

S1 Akademie der media 

S2 btk – Hochschule für Gestaltung 

S3 Fachhochschule Salzburg, MultiMediaArt 

S4 Fachhochschule Trier 

S5 FH Oberösterreich Campus Hagenberg 

S6 Filmakademie Wien 

S7 GAMES ACADEMy 

S8 Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule, Fakultät Design 

S9 h_da Hochschule Darmstadt 

S10 Hochschule Ansbach, MUK 

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S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S15 

S11 Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar 

S12 Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart 

S13 Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" 

S14 Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst 

S15 Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe 

S16 MD.H Mediadesign Hochschule 

S17 Media Design School, New Zealand 

S18 Staff ordshire University 

S19 Tampere University of Applied Sciences 

S20 Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen 

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S21 TRUEMAX academy 

S22 University of Glamorgan 

S23 University of Hertfordshire 

S24 Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Game Design 

S25 Animation Sans Frontières 

S26 The Animation Workshop, Denmark 

S27 GOBELINS, l'école de l'image 

S28 Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

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EDUCATION SCHool PRESENTATIoNS 

Which school best suits your strengths and ambitions? Get a great first impression 

as students and tutors from the following schools and programs present facts 

about life on campus and videos of their latest student work: Animation Sans 

Frontières, FH Oberösterreich Campus Hagenberg, Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule, 

Hessische Film- und Medienakademie, Media Design School - New Zealand, 

Tampere University of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, 

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Game Design. 

EDUCATION SESSIoNS 

Never stop educating yourself! Education sessions are informative talks and panels 

on the future of talent and the talents of the future. Speakers share their knowledge, 

views and perspectives on what it takes to improve as a young digital artist. There 

are sessions on how to start an ACM SIGGRAPH student chapter; the future of 2D 

animation; how to prepare children for a future in animation; story for animators, 

programmers and designers; how to build and maintain a creative staff, and a live 

Disney Animation shop talk. 

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EDUCATION FIlMAKAdEMIE PRoJECTS 

Students of the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction show 

their latest projects: trailers for the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2012, new 

animated short films in various styles and techniques, visual effects, achievements 

in technical directing and research & development, transmedia and games projects. 

And last but not least, learn more about the making of this year’s FMX trailer 

"Globosome" and the "Globosome" game. 

Hosts: T. Ohnmacht, V. Helzle, M. Gassner 

EDUCATION START-uPS 

Start-Ups bring fresh wind into the business world, creating innovative products 

and services. This year’s start-up line-up is no different: Drawing from the sources 

of transmedia, interactivity, animation and effects the companies Appmotion, 

Brandstätter, Polynoid, Studio Fizbin, Zeitland and Zeitfenster demonstrate what is 

new and different about them. 

Host: B. Baumgartner 

FORUM / EduCATIoN

EVENTS & SCREENINGS 

Events 


ITFS - Festival of Animated Film 

Exhibition: Klasse Professor Ade 

Parties & Events 

FMX Screenings 


Animation Show of Shows 

SIGGRAPH CAF 


Filmakademie Shorts 


Movie Screenings 

John Carter 

Hugo 

The Avengers 

Ra.One 


The Lorax

EVENTS / APd / ITFS / EXHIBITIoN / PARTIES & EVENTS 

APD CoNFERENCE "FINANCING & BRANdS" 

The cultural and economic challenges of creating animated family 

entertainment in Europe. 

May 9, 10am – 1pm 

Haus der Wirtschaft, Meidinger Saal 

This year’s conference looks at how and why countries such as France, Denmark and 

others have successfully managed to build up a strong, diverse animation industry 

as part of their own, home-grown children’s media culture. 

What fundamental cultural, political and economic changes are necessary to 

strengthen German children’s media culture and to shape the animation industry 

so as to enable its brands, content and concepts to be exploited on a national and 

international scale? How is it possible for the European animation industry as a 

whole to succeed in maintaining its cultural diversity and own storytelling traditions 

and at the same time to prove itself on the world market? What does the industry 

need in terms of financing mechanisms in order to achieve sustainable growth and a 

strengthening of European co-productions? 

The APD Conference will be held in co-operation with the German Producers Alliance. 

ITFS 19 th FESTIVAl oF ANIMATEd FIlM STuTTGART 

May 8-13, 2012 

The Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) is one of the world’s largest and 

most important festivals for animated film. From May 8 to May 13, 2012, around 

1,000 of the best animated films worldwide, representing the whole spectrum of 

the genre, will be shown. Last year's festival attracted around 75,000 visitors and 

approximately 2,500 accredited guests. 

FMX and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film have enjoyed a close partnership 

for several years, transforming Stuttgart into the Animated Capital of Europe each 

May. Events such as the Animated Com Award (advertising, technology and spatial 

communication) have become successful events for the animation industry. 

Innovative animation studios and studios famous throughout the world will present 

their methods of working and their films at studio presentations and will give you 

an exclusive preview of new and exciting projects. In school presentations the 

Festival of Animated Film will be showing the programmes of selected German and 

international film and art schools. 

More information: www.itfs.de 

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EXHIBITION KlASSE PRoFESSoR AdE 

The exhibition presents student works from the Albrecht Ade class at the 

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1980 to 1991. It honors the 

achievements of Professor Albrecht Ade who moved on to found the Filmakademie 

Baden-Württemberg in 1991. 

Open May 2-13, 2012 

Monday – Friday, 9am - 7pm 

Haus der Wirtschaft, Foyer first floor 

PARTIES & EVENTS PARTIES & EVENTS 

FMX 2012 doesn’t sleep - ever. Instead, it offers complementary evening and night 

events to enjoy your after conference drinks, shake a leg or relax. Here’s what we’ve 

got in store for you. 

FMX ECHTzEIT PARTy 

May 9, 10pm, Club lehmann, Seidenstraße 20, Stuttgart 

Be there when FMX hits the dance floor: FMX Echtzeit Party is both groovy 

and funky at the same time, simultaneously taking care of your ears and eyes. 

HdM graduates Thomas Nathan, Franz Rosenberger and Hartmut Ulmer take you 

on a journey to your "self": live cinema accompanied by music. The main VJ act is 

Christian Herbstreuth (A Free Mind). Free entrance with FMX or ITFS badge. 

FMX AFTER-HouRS 

May 8-11, starting 6pm, Club Schocken, Hirschstraße 36, Stuttgart 

Relax after a long conference day, have a cold beer or a cocktail, mingle or enjoy the 

view from the balcony in one of Stuttgart’s favorite bar and club institutions. There 

are discounted drinks during FMX’ Cocktail Hour, 7:30pm – 8:30pm. Just present 

your Conference badge. 

FMX CloSING PARTy 

May 11, 6pm, Suite 212, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 15, Stuttgart 

Time to say goodbye – until 2013! Dance away the night, share your favorite FMX 

moments and raise your glass to innovation and inspiration. Free Entrance. 

FESTIVAl GARdEN & oPEN AIR 

May 8-13, daily: 2pm - 11pm, Festival Garden, Schlossplatz 

The open air cinema, free of charge, takes place in the Festival Garden at the 

Schlossplatz. It's the perfect opportunity to catch a glimpse of the world of animated 

film and to celebrate in a real party atmosphere. ITFS offers a whole range of 

workshops for children and adults giving an insight into how animated films are made. 

For full program visit www.itfs.de

SCREENINGS FMX SCREENINGS 


König-Karl-Halle / Tuesday, May 8 / 5:30pm 

The Animation Show of Shows 

Cinema Gloria 2 / Wednesday, May 9 / 4:30pm 

SIGGRAPH CAF 

König-Karl-Halle / Thursday, May 10 / 5pm 


König-Karl-Halle / Friday, May 11 / 5pm 


Meidinger Saal / Friday, May 11 / 5pm 

Ars Electronica 

König-Karl-Halle / Tuesday, May 8 / 9am 

Fantoche 

König-Karl-Halle / Wednesday & Friday / 8:45am 

Kurzsuechtig 

König-Karl-Halle / Thursday, May 10 / 8:45am 

ITFS 

Meidinger-Saal / Tuesday & Wednesday / 9:30am 

Meidinger-Saal / Thursday & Friday / 8:45am 

FIlMAKAdEMIE SHoRTS: 

ITFS Trailer 

Gewerkschaftshaus / Tuesday, May 8 / 9:45am 

Raum Reutlingen / Friday, May 11 / 9:15am 

New Shorts 1 

Gewerkschaftshaus / Wednesday, May 9 / 8:45am 

Raum Reutlingen / Thursday, May 10 / 9:15am 

New Shorts 2 

Gewerkschaftshaus / Thursday, May 10 / 8:45am 

Raum Reutlingen / Tuesday, May 8 / 9:45am 

Neuer Österreichischer Trickfilm 

Gewerkschaftshaus / Friday, May 11 / 8:45am 

Raum Reutlingen / Wednesday, May 9 / 9:30am 

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SCREENINGS / FMX / MoVIES 

SCREENINGS MoVIE SCREENINGS 

John Carter 

Cinema Gloria 2 / Tuesday, May 8 / 6pm 

Hugo 

Cinema Metropol 2 / Wednesday, May 9 / 6pm 

Ra.one 

ITFS Open Air / Thursday, May 10 / 8pm 

The Avengers 

Cinema Gloria 1 / Thursday, May 10 / 4pm 


Cinema Metropol 2 / Thursday, May 10 / 6pm 

The lorax 

Cinema Gloria 1 / Friday, May 11 / 4:30pm

FMX 2012 / PARTNERS 

MAIN PARTNERS: 

Co-oPERATIoN PARTNERS: 

TECHNoloGy PARTNERS: 

PARTNERS: 

PMS COLOR UNCOATED: 116 U 

C M Y K: 0 0 0 55 (55% Gray) 

meilenstein digital 

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MFA COMPUTER ART 

DIGITAL CINEMA 

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FuNdING PARTNERS: 

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MEdIA PARTNERS: 

SCHoolS: 

THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP WWW.ANIMWORK.DK - 

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FMX 2012 / WHERE To Go 

LOCATIONS FMX 2012 

FMX 2012 - 17 th Conference on Animation, Eff ects, Games and Transmedia 

May 8 – 11, 2012 

FMX 2012 takes place in the 


Willi-Bleicher-Strasse 19 

70174 Stuttgart 

Gewerkschaftshaus 

Willi-Bleicher-Strasse 20 


Cinema Gloria 1 & 2 

Königstrasse 22 

70173 Stuttgart (Entry via Stephanstrasse) 

Seidenstraße 

Hegelstraße 

19 th Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 

May 8 – 13, 2012 

ITFS 2012 takes place in the Innenstadt Kinos and at the Schlossplatz: 

Cinema Gloria 

Königstrasse 22 

70173 Stuttgart (Entry via Stephanstrasse) 

Cinema Metropol 

Bolzstrasse 10 


Festival Garden & Open Air Cinema: 

Schlossplatz Stuttgart 

Animation Production day 

May 8 – 9, 2012 

The Animation Production Day (APD) takes place at two locations: 

One-on-one meetings: 

Hotel Le Méridien 

Willy-Brandt-Strasse 30 




Meidinger Saal 

Willi-Bleicher Strasse 19 


Schloßstraße 

Lange Straße 

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STUTTGART 

Kronenstraße 

Kriegsbergstraße 

Schloßstraße 

Stadtmitte 

CAPTION 

Paulinenstraße 

A 

Friedrichsbau 

Willi-Bleicher-Straße 

Theodor-Heuss-Straße 

Friedrichsstraße 

Kronprinzstraße 

A Haus der Wirtschaft 

B Gewerkschaftshaus 

C Cinema Metropol 

d Cinema Gloria 1 & 2 

E Schlossplatz 

B 

Paulinenstraße 

Heilbronner Straße 

Lautenschlagerstraße 

C 

Schlossplatz 

Königstraße 

Arnulf-Klett-Platz 

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Königstraße 

Bolzstraße 

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Konrad-Adenauer-Straß

CAPTION 

Haus der Wirtschaft Main Entrance 1 

Exhibition: Klasse Professor Ade 2 

Bistro 3 

Raum Tübingen: Cloakroom 4 

Steinbeis-Saal 5 

Registration/Ticket Counter 6 

Foyer Bertha-Benz 7 

Bertha-Benz-Saal 8 

Raum Karlsruhe 9 

Foyer Kienestraße 10 

Raum Mannheim 11 

Meidinger Saal 12 

List-Saal: Turm B 13 

List-Saal 14 

List-Saal: Galerie 15 

List-Saal: Turm A 16 

Eyth-Saal 17 

Raum Reutlingen 18 

König-Karl-Halle 19 

Foyer König-Karl 20 

HAUS DER WIRTSCHAFT 

EG / 1st Floor 

1. OG / 2nd Floor 

2. OG / 3rd Floor 

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FMX 2012 / THANK you / IMPRINT 

dANKE SCHÖN! 

We would like to thank all of the amazing people who helped put FMX together. We really 

appreciate the contributions from our speakers who enrich FMX with their outstanding 

involvement and knowledge. 

FMX benefits greatly from the help of our Boards; their continued support and 

expertise allows FMX to continue to bring exceptional content to a large audience. 

Many thanks to all of our Advisory Board, Program Board and Associates. 

Thank you to our fabulous Cooperation, Event, Program and Media Partners 

and the special support by Autodesk. 

Most of all thank you to our Funding Partners for their continued backing. FMX greatly 

acknowledges the support of our funders: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts 

and the Ministry for Finance and Economic Affairs of the State of Baden-Württemberg, 

the MFG Film Funding and the FFA German Federal Film Board. 

Our FMX Trailer "Globosome" has its own game and website at www.globosome.com 

Selected conference events will be streamed live at www.fmx.de; various Virtual 

Production presentations will be streamed live at area.autodesk.com/fmx2012 

Find more details on FMX, its full program, history, gallery and so forth at 

www.fmx.de. Join the mailing list for regular updates. Contact us: info@fmx.de 

Connect: Follow us on Twitter @fmx_conference, tag your tweet with #fmx2012 

and join us on Google+ and Facebook. 

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IMPRINT 

FMX is an event by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, organized by the Institute 

of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, hosting the Animation 

Production Day 2012 (APD), a joint venture with the Festival of Animated Film 

Stuttgart (ITFS). 

It is an event in cooperation with VES Visual Effects Society, ACM SIGGRAPH, 5D 

Institute, Eurographics and Stuttgart Media University (HdM), supported by 

Autodesk. 

FMX is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the Ministry 

for Finance and Economic Affairs of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the MFG Film 

Funding and the FFA German Federal Film Board. 

Print material kindly manufactured by C. Maurer Druck und Verlag.

Avatar – WETA and © Twentieth Century Fox Film 

Corporation. All rights reserved. 

Rango - © 2010 Paramount Pictures. All Rights 

Reserved. Image Courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic 

DreamWorks II Distribution Co,. LLC, 

courtesy of Digital Domain. 

World Building. Previsualization. Virtual Production. 

Learn from the creative pioneers who are inventing the future. 

Autodesk is a proud supporter of the first Virtual Production track at FMX 2012. 

16 sessions over 3 days. Check the program. Come and learn with us. 

Autodesk is a Main Partner of FMX 2012. 

TINTIN: © 2011 Paramount Pictures. 

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HUGO: © 2011 GK Films, LLC. 

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