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Pints & Pixels – VFXPDX Monthly Meetup @ Bunk Bar

Tickets

Sep 14 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Hello VFX/PDX, I want to welcome you all to Pints & Pixels, our new monthly meeting to cross paths, share knowledge, and clink glasses. The community in Portland is incredibly varied and diverse in abilities, medium and experience, and this is a place where we can all meet to share skills, techniques and the current talk of the town. Come out and share a drink with us!

We’ll meet the second Thursday of every month from 7:00PM – 10:00PM.

The first meeting will be September 14th at Bunk Bar in the SE, so mark your calendar.

Bunk Bar – 1028 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

Here is a link for tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pints-pixels-monthly-vfxpdx-meetup-tickets-37137888424

Sep

Fri

Portland Creative Conference @ Gerding Theater at the Armory

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Sep 29 all-day

The Portland Creative Conference is an exploration and celebration of the creative process across all creative industries. Bring your team or just bring yourself–either way you won’t leave the same as you arrived. You’ll be inspired and motivated in new ways, viewing your world with a fresh perspective. We feature presentations from leading creatives who take you inside their creative process and talk about their projects, problems, influences and inspirations.

Details

Date:: September 29
Website:: http://cre8con.com/

Venue

The Gerding Theater at the Armory

128 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209 United States

Oct

Mon

A conversation with Francis Ford Coppola @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Tickets

Oct 2 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

More info and tickets:

http://www.portland5.com/arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall/events/francis-ford-coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 10/2 7:30p

Literary Arts is honored to host Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most iconic filmmakers of our time, on Monday, October 2 to discuss his latest book Live Cinema and Its Techniques. Coppola will appear in conversation with The New York Times reporter Melena Ryzik.

Francis Ford Coppola is an award-winning director, producer, and writer whose films include The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation, among others. With more than five decades of experience in the film industry, Coppola has produced more than 50 motion pictures and earned six Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture.

Coppola’s latest work includes the book Live Cinema and Its Techniques. Filled with lively anecdotes and invaluable lessons, the book offers an indispensable and entertaining guide to “live cinema,” a visionary new form of filmmaking. By weaving his vision of the cinematic medium with autobiographical and historical vignettes, Coppola convinces the reader that live cinema will transport filmmaking into a new era.

Melena Ryzik has been a roving culture reporter for The New York Times for over a decade. Recent projects have included a broadly shared report on diversity and representation in Hollywood, an oral history of the activist group the Guerrilla Girls, and a series on socially conscious, genre-defying artists. As the awards season columnist known as the Carpetbagger, she has attended the Oscars five times and sent dispatches from film festivals around the world. A native Russian speaker, she has also served as a national correspondent in San Francisco and the mid-Atlantic states.

Thank you to our event sponsors Angeli Law Group LLC, The New York Times, Oregon Film, The Oregonian, and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Oct

Thu

Pints & Pixels – casual VFX shop talk meetup @ The Florida Room

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Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

I’ve always been interested in stage and monster make-up, and it turns out SFX artists want to know how the digital side of monster FX happens too. I’ll be bringing a laptop, and if you worked on Grimm or have any monster work you want to show off, just email me a link or bring a flash drive and we can have a little Show-and-Tell! Who knows, maybe you’ll get some good ideas for the holiday!

This month we will me moving to The Florida Room in the NE. They have a nice little back room with a pool table and no windows that we’ll be taking over.

If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me at: dan@vfxpdx.com, or @danvfxpdx

Oct

Sun

Laika Exhibit Opening Panel/Discussion @ Portland Art Museum

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Oct 15 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

From: https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/opening-conversation-animating-life/

Moderated by Rose Bond, Media Artist, Animator, and Curatorial Advisor to Animating Life

Join us for a wide-ranging roundtable conversation with some of the creative minds and makers behind the stop-motion animation magic of LAIKA Studios. What does the LAIKA creative process look like? How do meticulous craft, storytelling, and technology come together to create the studio’s visionary films? Get a peek behind the scenes with key members of the LAIKA creative team and stay for a free post-discussion screening of Kubo and the Two Strings.

Presented in conjunction with Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA, on view October 14, 2017 through May 20, 2018.

September – October 2017 Sep – Oct 2017

VFX/PDX

The VFX User Group of Portland, OR

The Radar

Details

Venue

Francis Ford Coppola