CGTExpo announces program line up and event partners

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

May 11, 2011 - 12:00 AM IST

CGTExpo, India's largest expo on Career Guidance and Computer Graphics Technology, scheduled for 28th and 29th May in Mumbai, has announced its program line up and event partners.

Announcing the partners to be present at the job fair during the event, RK Chand, member of the organizing team shared, "The companies present at the expo would include Contact Singapore, Lucasfilms Singapore, Reliance Mediaworks, Technicolor India, MPC and Dreamworks Dedicated Unit at Technicolor, to name a few. Apart from this, exhibition partners will comprise of companies like DSK Supinfocom, BIG AIMS, ZICA: Zee Institute of Creative Art, ZIMA: Zee Institute of Film Making, Graphiti School of Animation, SeamEdu, RightbrainFX, AIGA and TASAA Infosolutions."

Apart from the partners, Chand shared the details of program line-up:

The Conferences Track is dominated by the presence of Maestros, Icons, International perspectives, logic, history, problems, solutions, showcases, learning and fun. 'Tracing Back the Pixels' is our theme for CGTExpo 2011, you will be an audience to the past evolving and future of the AVGC industry unveiling itself.

Some of the Highlight sessions at CGTExpo 2011 are Feature Showcase of recent releases Yogi Bear & Hop exclusively by Rhythm and Hues Team

The Spectacular Showcase of the one and only Harry Potter - The Deathly Hallows Part - I by MPC Team

Shelley Page returning to CGTantra Expo with her popular showcase of the best new international short films, music videos and commercials in Shelley's Eye Candy

Making of The Most Talked about VFX movie of the Year Robot by Srinivas Mohan

Dreamworks Dedicated Unit at Technicolor India will be back with a mind-boggling session on Animation Perspectives by Raman Hui, John Hill, & Manish Sharma

The Very Acclaimed Hugo Sands, Passion Pictures, winner of Oscar 2011 Best Animated Short Film THE LOST THING doing a session

Tracing Back the Pixels - VFX by VFX maestros talk about the Advancement of VFX Technology from times of Haatim to the times of Robot

Tracing Back the Pixels - Animation ... As Animation Maestros talk about the Journey of Animation from times of Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya to the times of Arjuna

Famous VFX studios like MPC and Rhythm&Hues talk about the Art of Rotoscopy , one of the most sorted departments in today's times and the Career that awaits it " .

Maintaining the levels of zest at the conference track, we have lined up Workshops this time after popular requests. The format would have professionals teach and help the audience put their brains to work. Some of the Workshops include "Creating a Pitch Bible from Story to the Final Pitch by Ram Singh Kumaresh " , "Workflows in 3DS MAX and Mudbox 2012 focussed towards Game Art by Yiannis Koumoutzelis " , "Adobe CS 5.5 Production Techniques " , " Blender Workshop by Satish Goda from Rhythm&Hues " and other workshops revolving VFX Compositing Workflows and Making a Concept Art..

There is so much, and in the midst we cannot forget the ART Gallery, where the best of the work will be judged by Shyam Deshpande, Dhimant Vyas and Vijay Raut and they will be the curators of CGTantra Art Gallery. The entries for the Art Gallery have been enormous with excellent quality of art flowing in from all across the globe.

Another big dimension of CGTExpo is CGTantra Community Awards scheduled to take place on the 28th evening at Jade Gardens, Worli Mumbai. CGTantra Community Awards is thankful to DSK Supinfocom for coming in as the Main Partners for the Awards Night. The response so far has been gigantic with vast amount of entries flowing in from all the categories. CCA is full of gratitude to all its Prize Supporters including " Digital Tutors , Evermotion , Cebas , Houdini , Topogun , i3d tutorials , Luxology Modo , Tasaa Infosolutions and Wacom " for coming forth in lending their support for awarding the Best of the Creativity.