The Spanish company Ink Apache, which, since it´s foundation in 2004, has colaborated with Cartoon Network, has been selected to bring about the changed image of the animation channel at a European level. In keeping with this task, Ink Apache has produced the greater part of the on-air promotion involved.

"The film Cars had entire sequences where the animation and rendering of tens of thousands of cars was required. This presented a unique challenge, especially in the case of the racetrack stands. We needed a way to render the sheer volume of characters in the stands, and also to animate each character so that it looked unique and non-cg. There were literally hundreds of car variations created to add interest and make the world more realistic."

There is a wide diversity of techniques that Framestore CFC uses to achieve the effects in a commercial.  Andy Boyd will show some of these methods and the job structure behind our work using examples from some of our latest projects.

Framestore CFC is the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe , with over 20 years of experience in digital film and video technology.

As CG Supervisor on this film, Dayne Cowan describes the various methods and techniques that we used to create a digital Gotham city using the real city of Chicago for the film Batman Begins. It will cover not just the construction of the digital buildings, but all of the set dressing elements constructed to convincingly turn Chicago into Gotham.

We would like to remember you that the receipt of entries for the shorts for the International Festival of Animation Mundos Digitales it is still open until May 1st., 2006.

In this conference, Jon Uriarte is going to explain the integration processing of CGI images with real image used for one of the last projects in which Bren Entertainment worked. It is a film co-produced between the Argentine company Patagonik (producer of films like “Son of the Bride”, “Kamchatka” or “Nine queens”) and Filmax Animation.

Fernando Piquer will first of all deal with the nature and definition of MMORPG –Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game- and then take into account concept definition (game mechanics, game balancing) with their corresponding elements, as well as character design.

Finally, he will go deeply into the various exploitation strategies within the existing world of multiplayer games, including player attraction, creation of critical mass and construction of communities.