5D http://5dconference.com The Future of Immersive Design Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:59:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 5D In Berlin: Berlinale Talent Campus 2012 http://5dconference.com/articles/831 http://5dconference.com/articles/831#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:39:36 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=831 Continue reading →]]> #content_5d{ background:#000; } .title_5d{ background:#fff; border-bottom:0; } .mbot2{ margin:0; line-height:0; } .rotated p{ margin-bottom:1em; } .content_body td p{ margin:0 20px; color:#fff; } .content_body td h2{ margin:0 20px; color:#fff; } .content_body td a, .rotated a{ color:#fff; text-decoration:underline; }
The 5D Institute is excited to announce, for our second year, a unique event at the Berlin Film Festival. In partnership with the Berlinale Talent Campus, 5D will curate a panel discussion and masterclass on the nature of design process and the practice of world building for digital narrative media.

After the success of the 5D ”Play as Process” panel and workshop at the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus, the 5D Institute will again be part of the Talent Campus, curating 2 panels for the 2012 edition.

Curated by Juan DiazB, “Building Narrative Worlds: Digital Design for Cinema” will focus on the cinematic applications of design as the backbone of digital film making. A panel bringing together Alex McDowell, co-director of the 5D Institute and production designer (Fight Club, Minority Report), together with Habib Zargarpour,  Senior Art Director of Microsoft Games, production designer Uli Hanisch (The International, Perfume) and international artist Thomas Demand, moderated by Andrew Shoben (owner Greyworld) will engage the Talent Campus in a privileged conversation on Worldbuilding, immersive design and the virtual production process.



This illustrious panel of designers and artists will explain how screenwriters, filmmakers, designers and producers can create unique visual worlds as the settings for their films.  Our world is the product of millennia of visionary designs, inventions, and creations by imaginative thinkers who have envisioned the possibilities beyond the limits of current reality. Designers who are tasked with creating entirely new worlds and alternate universes must be able to think freely and into the unknown in order to imagine and render these narrative worlds. The discussion will connect a holistic conception of immersive design to a new process of creative collaboration, using the powerful link between the digital workspace, a non-linear work flow, and a new understanding of virtual production.



To find out more about our events happening during the Berlinale Talent Campus, please visit our blog.

5D Institute is a non-profit association of designers, scientists, artists, entertainment media practitioners and academics who come together to explore current trends in designing for film and new media. ”Building Narrative Worlds: Digital Design for Cinema”, curated by Juan DiazB from 5DEurope in collaboration with the Berlinale Talent Campus will offer the audience the possibility to have an insight into the creative process of some of the top innovators of the industry. 

Berlinale Talent Campus Logo

Panel:

February 13, 2012 | 14:00 – 15:30
Place: HAU 2
Hallesches Ufer 32 / 10963 Berlin

Masterclass:

February 13, 2012 | 17:00 – 18:30
Place: HAU 3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10 / 10963 Berlin

Photo 5D at TalentCampus 2011: Moderator Andrew Shoben (not shown), Tali Krakowsky, Saku Lehtinen, Alex McDowell, Shekhar Kapur

]]> http://5dconference.com/articles/831/feed 0 FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding For Narrative Media http://5dconference.com/articles/824 http://5dconference.com/articles/824#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:50:11 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=824 Continue reading →]]> FLUX!
Digital Design and Worldbuilding For Narrative Media

A 3-part discussion into design as the backbone of digital narrative media, and to address the changing role of the designer in storytelling through Worldbuilding practices.

With this first in a series Worldbuilding Summit, the 5D | Institute and the USC SCA will use their unique access to frame an investigation into the language and practices of digital design methodologies, applying learning from thought leaders in core media industries to an interdisciplinary discussion space within and across media.

Worldbuilding is the new metaphor for the creation and actualizing of the story space in narrative media and will be the theme of the Summit. It addresses narrative design thinking, the immersive process and the experience of creating new worlds. It expresses the full arc of the role of design in Storytelling.

SAVE THE DATES

March 13–15th, 2012 | 7–10 pm
Panel discussions, audience participation and networking receptions over three evenings at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles.

LOCATION

The Ray Stark Family Theatre (in the George Lucas Building)

USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCA 108
900 W. 34th Street
Los Angeles, California

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5D Newsletter and Event Partners

Please see the 5D newsletter:
http://5dconference.com/newsletter/

The list of 5D Event Partners is also available at:
http://5dconference.com/partners

]]> http://5dconference.com/articles/780/feed 0 UX11 Experience Design Forum in Wellington, New Zealand http://5dconference.com/articles/764 http://5dconference.com/articles/764#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:35:51 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=764 Continue reading →]]>

UX11 Experience Design Forum
in Wellington, New Zealand

UX11 Experience Design Forum
in Wellington, New Zealand
23 June 2011

Soundings Theatre Te Papa
Museum of New Zealand
Cable St. Wellington

8.15am Registration.
Invitation only

http://events.msi.govt.nz

5D is delighted to announce an exciting new partnership this month with New Zealand’s Ministry of Science and Innovation:
the UX11 Forum.

UX11 is a digital design forum designed to stimulate ideas and conversation around interaction design, information architecture, information design, user-centered design, content and visual design.
]]> http://5dconference.com/articles/764/feed 0 FMX 2011 is about to begin! http://5dconference.com/articles/739 http://5dconference.com/articles/739#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 08:46:19 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=739 Continue reading →]]>

FMX 2011 is about to begin!

FMX 2011
2011 May 3–6
Stuttgart, Germany

http://www.fmx.de

FMX 2011 is about to begin!

FMX has always been at the cutting edge of digital entertainment, bringing together people from animation, effects, games and interactivity. This year we will present on the latest developments including:

Visual Arts, Transmedia and Stereoscopy 3D for Games Weta Digital present their theme park ride King Kong 360-3D; Saschka Unseld will present exclusively on Pixar’s upcoming 3D animation feature Cars 2; in addition Global Production hosted by VES; a recent overview of developments in lighting and rendering; the impact of Open Source presented by Dan Candela; ILM’s first animated feature Rango; the changing nature of Visual Effects The King’s Speech presented by Dayne Cowan on Visual Effects; Volker Engel presenting on Anonymous — Roland Emmerich’s latest movie; Thomas Zauner on Hereafter directed by Clint Eastwood and Paul presented by Anders JL Beer.

Ahead of the general release in July 2011 we will have an exclusive presentation on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

The conference is jam-packed with the Virtual Humans Forum, selected SIGGRAPH and Eurographic Papers, new Commercials, new Chinese Animation and the most influential companies from France and Germany. Participate in Tech Talks, Workshops and Masterclasses, the Trade Floor, the School Campus and the Recruiting Hub.

The conference program is online go and check it out! There’s still time to get your ticket by visiting our ticket shop.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @FMX_Conference
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Digital Storytelling:
World Building in a Digital Universe

World Building in a Digital Universe
2011 April 13–15
Oslo, Norway

http://www.digitalstorytelling.com/

5D is delighted to announce the 6th annual Digital Storytelling seminar “World Building in a Digital Universe,” in Oslo, Norway on April 13 – 15, 2011.

Digital Storytelling is presented in association with The Norwegian Film Industry, and directed and curated by 5D Founder Member Kim Baumann Larsen, Angela Amoroso, and Eric Hanson.

This year’s keynote is presented by 5D Founder Member Paul Debevec.

]]> http://5dconference.com/articles/723/feed 0 Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual Culture and Design http://5dconference.com/articles/588 http://5dconference.com/articles/588#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:07:35 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=588 Continue reading →]]> Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual Culture and Design

Image credit: still from Avatar, designed by Rick Carter; courtesy 20th Century Fox.

Friday 2011 April 8
9:45am–7pm

James Bridges Theater
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television
Los Angeles, California

Conference site and ticket sales:
http://bit.ly/tmediahwood

Social media:
@transmediahwood on Twitter
Facebook

Co-Directors

Henry Jenkins
Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts
Annenberg School of Communication, USC

Denise Mann
Associate Professor
Producers Program, UCLA

Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual Culture and Design is a one-day public symposium exploring the role of transmedia franchises in today’s entertainment industries. Transmedia, Hollywood 2 turns the spotlight on media creators, producers and executives and places them in critical dialogue with top researchers from across a wide spectrum of film, media and cultural studies to provide an interdisciplinary summit for the free interchange of insights about how transmedia works and what it means.

Co-hosted by Denise Mann and Henry Jenkins, from UCLA and USC, two of the most prominent film schools and media research centers in the nation, Transmedia, Hollywood 2 builds on the foundations established at last year’s Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story.

This year’s topic: Transmedia, Hollywood: Visual Culture and Design will move from an abstract discussion of transmedia storytelling in all its permutations to a more concrete consideration of what is involved in designing for transmedia.

Panel 1

Come Out 2 Play:
Designing Virtual Worlds—
From Screens to Theme Parks and Beyond

11:00 – 11:50am

Moderator

Denise Mann
Associate Professor
Producers Program, UCLA

Participants

Scott Bukatan
Associate Professor of Film and
Media Studies, Stanford University

Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and
Supermen in the 20th Century

Rick Carter
5D Founder

Production Designer
Sucker Punch, Avatar, A.I.

Dylan Cole
Art Director
Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Tron

Thierry Coup
Art Designer
Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Craig Hanna
Thinkwell Design
Wizarding World, Ski Dubai, Coney Island

Angela Ndalianis
Associate Professor
Head of the Cinema Studies Program
University of Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Vaughn
Chief Creative Executive
Disney Imagineering
Tron, Pirates of the Caribbean, Toy Story

Hollywood has come a long way
since Walt Disney invited families in 1955 to come out and play in the first cross-platform, totally merchandised sandbox—Disneyland.

Cut to today and most entertainment corporations are still focused on creating intellectual properties to exploit across all divisions of the Company.

However, as the studios and networks move away from the concrete spaces of movie and TV screens and start to embrace the seemingly limitless “virtual spaces” of the Web as well as the real-world spaces of theme parks, museums, and comic book conventions, the demands on creative personnel and their studio counterparts have expanded exponentially.

Rather than rely on old-fashioned merchandising and licensing departments to oversee vendors, which too often results in uninspired computer games, novelizations, and label T-shirts, several studios have brought these activities in-house, creating divisions like Disney Imagineering and Disney Interactive to oversee the design and implementation of these vast, virtual worlds.

In other instances, studios are turning to a new generation of independent producers—aka “transmedia producers”—charged with creating vast, interlocking brand extensions that make use of a never-ending cycle of technological future shock and Web 2.0 capabilities.

The results of these partnerships have been a number of extraordinarily inventive, interactive, and immersive experiences that create a “you are there” effect. These include the King Kong 360 3D theme park ride, which incorporates the sight, smell, and thunderous footsteps of the iconic gorilla as he appears to toss the audience’s tram car into a pit. Universal Studios and Warner Bros. have joined forces to create the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new $200 million-plus attraction at the Islands of Adventure in Florida.

Today’s panel focuses on the unique challenges associated with turning traditional media franchises into 3D interactive worlds, inviting you to come out 2 play in the studios’ virtual sandboxes.
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The Museum of Tomorrow Workshop:
The Future of Man

2011 April 29
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Please note this is not a public event.

Image credit: The Museum of Tomorrow, a new museum designed by Santiago Calatrava for Rio de Janeiro

5D is proud to be a partner and an international guest in a workshop to discuss the future, world and narrative content for the Museum of Tomorrow.

Cria and The Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro will host an event focused on understanding our common future, and on designing the visual narrative of that future. The event will feature top leaders and futurists from Brazil as well as three international guests:

Brian David Johnson, Director of Future Casting at Intel
Andrew Shoben, 5D Founder and founder of Greyworld, for 5D | The Future of Immersive Design
Andrew Hessel, Track Chair for Biotechnology at Singularity University

THE MUSEUM OF TOMORROW is a new museum designed by Santiago Calatrava in Rio de Janeiro, breaking ground in 2011. It will be a museum of science and possibilities, based in the year 2061 (50 years from now and 100 from Cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin’s epic journey), which will focus on showing that we live in an age of exponentially advancing technology where our choices today will shape the direction that our society and planet will take in the future.

The museum will host the UN Earth Summit in 2012.

]]> http://5dconference.com/articles/711/feed 0 Breaking the Box: 21st Century Collaboration Challenge http://5dconference.com/articles/513 http://5dconference.com/articles/513#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:39:36 +0000 admin5d http://5dconference.com/?p=513 Continue reading →]]>

Breaking the Box:
21st Century Collaboration Challenge

Thursday 2011 March 10
9:30–10:45am

USITT Annual Conference
Charlotte Convention Center
Charlotte, North Carolina

Moderator

Panela Leung
Narrative/scenic designer
5D founder member

Participants

Holger Förterer
Interactive projections designer, Cirque Du Soleil
The MET Opera’s new production of the Ring Cycle

Peter Torpey
Visual effects artist
PhD candidate, MIT Media Lab: Opera of the Future
Interactive designer

This unique event is presented by USITT–Scene Design Commission in partnership with 5D | The Future of Immersive Design.

Breaking the Box is the sequel to the wildly successful session "The Future of Theatre Minds in Immersive Design" presented in partnership with 5D | The Future of Immersive Design Conference at USITT Kansas City 2010. We put to the test how technology has changed the way we think and work as collaborative artists within narrative design.

Participants in the Breaking the Box Collaboration Challenge will present their out-of-the-box projects, showing how narrative collaboration can be utilized in a variety industries. Join our distinguished panel of the most innovative minds leading the way and learn how they are altering the formula of narrative collaboration.

USITT homepage
http://www.usitt.org/Conference.aspx

About the participants

Panela Leung moderator
Pan Leung is a narrative designer trained in scenic and costume theatrical design. Her work includes designs and scenic artistry all over the country most recently in the Boston, Massachusetts with The American Repertory Theatre at Harvard and Brandeis University. She received her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Art degrees from Northwest Missouri State University, earning a commendation award from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with her design for Rumors by Neil Simon.

She has built her theatrical career as a member of theatre companies including Glimmerglass Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, CLIMB Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis, and The Santa Fe Opera. Her experiences also include film and advertising projects, as an intern under Emmy Award winning production designer, Tom Walsh, on the ABC television show Desperate Housewives, Lexington Scenic in Los Angeles. Pan is also an active member of United States Institute of Theatre Technology, elected as a Director at Large on the national board. Currently she is working at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon under Executive Producer Don Marinelli.

Holger Förterer
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/ka/creators/holger-forterer.aspx
http://www.foerterer.com/fluidum/

To call one of Holger Förterer creations a “projection” doesn’t come close to describing the magic he conjures with light. Born in Bochum, Germany,
He started graphics programming at the age of eight. He studies computer science at the Universität Karlsruhe. He continued studies of media art at the HfG Karlsruhelectures on interactive and generative graphics.

Currently his work includes teaching interactive graphics and programming at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe. Holger Förterer does not see himself exclusively or primarily as a technician.

“I am midway between art and technology,” he says. “All of my efforts seek to use technology to the point where it becomes art. At the same time, I struggle against technology taking me to the point where it takes over, at the expense of art. Ideas are the most important thing in our work. Man understands ideas, machines don’t. However, if art cannot bring machines to feel emotions, who or what can? I am going to try.”

Peter Torpey
http://operaofthefuture.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/meet-the-team-peter-torpey-visual-design

Growing up in Phoenix, my time outside of school was occupied by family and creative endeavors. I was always “inventing” or constructing, be it recreations of airplane cockpits in my bedroom or models of castles from television shows. There was no limit to what cardboard, construction paper, and tape could do. These pastimes eventually evolved into a hobby of model railroading. I have had the good fortune of having outstanding instructors throughout my education. The technology laboratory at my middle school provided endless hours of experimentation with structural engineering, mechanical systems, electronics, and robotics using components such as Fischertechnik. That environment offered many opportunities for creative problem solving.

During those same years, I began studying the intricacies of computing and cultivated my interest in video production. I love the work that I do in visual effects because it draws from and unifies many of the fields that I have explored. I am fascinated by the commonalities that span my varied interests. Optics, music, nature, and computer science all expose base two arithmetic. I play with light; be it the exposure of a photograph, illuminating a scene on stage, or manipulating pixels. I attempt to understand the physical world in order to create illusions of reality in the form of an expressive painting, a town on a model railroad layout, or a CG model for an effects shot.

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PLAY AS PROCESS: Blog

Play as Process blog, by Juan DiazB:
http://playasprocess.tumblr.com/

5D was at the 61 Berlin International Film Festival in February, as part of the renowned Berlinale Talent Campus #9:
a creative academy and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world and one of the most exciting initiatives of the festival.

For information about the event, now concluded:
http://5dconference.com/articles/373
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