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Welcome to “the Radar,” our event calendar.  Now we’re cookin’ with technology!  The functionality is in place below to view the upcoming VFX & Animation events – or better yet, you can try the subscription system (still in beta!) and automatically have listings added to your personal calendar.  Subscription links:
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Submit new or missing event listings (or any errors) to J Bills.

Oct
14
Sat
Laika Exhibit @ Portland Art Museum
Oct 14 2017 – May 20 2018 all-day

Coming:  a Laika exhibit at Portland Art Museum

More info:  https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/animating-life/

Apr
18
Wed
Giant Astronaut Open House @ Giant Astronaut
Apr 18 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Come experience high-end virtual reality on both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Chat with our artists, developers, and narrative specialists. From virtual to augmented reality, to 360 video, we at Giant Astronaut specialize in immersive design. We build experiences for ad agencies, film studios, brands, and businesses. Our goal is simply to do bad-ass work with bad-ass people. That’s you! (Yes it is.) What kind of work do we do?

Gaming? Yep!

Architecture? Yep!

Product tie-ins? Check!

Science and education? Oh, yes!

Immersive storytelling? You bet your sweet pie hole.

Cutting-edge, weird, artsy stuff that nobody can explain? Yes, yes, yes.

Whether it’s your first time in VR, or you’re a seasoned pro, let’s geek out hardcore together.

Hinge Digital Open House @ Hinge Digital
Apr 18 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Content creators, animators, artists, advertising creatives, producers, brand marketing teams — Hinge invites you into our studio for a special Design Week Portland Open House. Come meet the team and get a behind the scenes view of how we bring unique stories to life through characters, live action, animation, and post-production visual effects. If you can dream it, we can do it!

We are co-hosting with our neighbors 3DV, serving beer, wine, and amazing food, and showcasing a lot of fun creative and tech, including our fully immersive VR experiences & AR apps. 3DV will also be demoing 3D printers and Wacom Cintiq tablets. In our theatre, we will be screening our latest work in TV content, Interactive, and broadcast commercials, including Cartoon Network’s Toonami & Travel Oregon: The Game.

We hope you can make it!

Cheers,
Hinge

 

register here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dwp-2018-open-house-hinge-registration-42485599572#

Apr
20
Fri
Helios Interactive Open House @ Helios Interactive
Apr 20 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

We design, develop, and test interactive applications and games. Mixed reality enthusiasts, interaction designers, and creative coders, join us for a peek at some of the latest public space interaction tech and connect with web and game developers. We’ll have AR and VR demos, a photo booth, and some multiplayer games involving gesture interaction, touchscreens, AR, and VR. Come see some of the crazy cool work we’ve been cooking up!

Koerner Camera + OMPA Open House @ Koerner Camera + OMPA
Apr 20 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Koerner Camera is the premier digital cinema camera rental house in Portland serving the television, commercial and filmmaking production throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Media Production Association is the trade association that connects, advocates for and advances media production professionals across the state. They are collectively opening their space to showcase the work that is being created by OMPA’s members, to introduce the place where top productions rent their gear, to show off a space that was renovated last year by FIELDWORK DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE, LLC and open a show of the work of local photographer, Eric Macey. Come on by. You’ll have a good time with this diverse, talented, good natured crowd.