Gigacon Media Art Convention this Friday and Saturday

I know everybody is really anxious for the MAGFest coverage, and we’ve started uploading some videos to our Youtube channel already if you’d like to watch them, but I thought it was important to hurry and get the news out about Gigacon.

Gigacon is a brand new media art convention for 3D modelers, animators, effects artists, and game artists. There will be a bunch of guest speakers running seminars. Two of the guests – Hilda Torres and Bakia Parker – are on the development team for a game called Code Orange 2, which is meant to train hospital staff on how to deal with challenging situations. This is a great event for anybody who is looking to start a game development career in the 3D modeling or art departments.

Gigacon Schedule

Friday, January 8th

• 10:00am – Maasa Kuwana-Muelhaupt – Cutting corners without cutting quality in animation.
• 11:00am – Sam Ellis – Pitching your creative properties using sequential art.
• 12:00pm – Brian Muelhaupt – Layout art in animation.
• 1:00pm – Sue Jang – Introduction to Zbrush 3.1
• 2:00pm – Jesse Cowan – 3d character animation
• 3:00pm – Bakia Parker – Hard surface modeling
• 4 :00pm – David Colman – Shape exploration in charater design

Saturday, January 9th

• 10:00am – Ajit Memon – Tips and Tricks of lighting in 3d.
• 11:00am – David Silva – Avanced anthropromorphic character design.
• 12:00pm – Joe Weatherly – Animal life drawing
• 1:00pm – Rony Edde – Building soft particle systems
• 2:00pm – Hilda Torres – Unwrapping Characters and inanimate objects.
• 3:00pm – Garette Johnson – Illustrating clothed figures in watercolor
• 4:00pm – Panel Discussion – All invited professionals

You can download the official Gigacon poster and the guest bios guide for more information.