The Radar

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A rare look into the process of motion design/animation heroes Oddfellows!
From the Design Portland website:

Join our studio for an evening of drinks, chatter and an ‘exquisite corpse’ creation lead by our team of designers and animators. Oddfellows will give a short presentation about the studio and the principles of animation and design, followed by a hands-on collaborative animation project! Our staff will work alongside attendees while you hand-draw sequential frames and offer pointers on cel animation. A final video, remixing everyone’s final artwork into a seamless animation, will then be created to conclude the evening. Enjoy your very own world premiere on the big screen whilst sipping some libations. Attendees will walk away with a link to the final collaborative animation, as well as insight into the inner workings of our creative studio.

Join us for our first SIGGRAPH Screening, followed by some gushing and shop talk over a drink!  Avengers Endgame is the pick, and we’ll be screening it at the Bagdad Theater as a group on Sunday, May 5th at the 2:30 matinee ($8.50).  After the show, head around the corner to the Backstage Pub where we have the Kimball Room on reserve, and we’ll have a Happy Hour drink to chat over.

This is not a private screening nor is it limited to SIGGRAPH (VFX/PDX + 3DPDX) members – come one come all.  Also note that the Backstage is all ages and minors are admitted as long as you’re not seated at the bar.  Get your tickets for the film online here:
https://www.mcmenamins.com/bagdad-theater-pub

Again, careful to register for the Sunday May 5th at 2:30 show.  Also take a second and register for the meetup afterwards here:
https://siggraphscreening1.eventbrite.com

…just so I know how many to expect and so I can configure the room properly (or reserve the other room also).  This should be a great way to catch this film with some like minded artists and film fans.  Keep in mind, for planning purposes, the film is epic and clocks in at almost 3 hours.

We will make this a regular thing (generally the 2nd week a film opens, so as not to encroach on your opening week plans), and there’s already a second screening brewing for LAIKA’s Missing Link.  Hope to see you all at Avengers!  Woo-ha!

Time for another SIGGRAPH Screening, complete with shop talk!  Trying a more prime time slot for this one, Friday night June 7 @ 7pm.  We’ll screen Missing Link from hometown heroes LAIKA at OMSI on the big big big Empirical Screen, and then reassemble down the street at the Toffee Club (around 9pm) in the back room for a closer look at some of the Compositing and VFX work, presented (with Q&A!) by Lead Compositor Michael Cordova.  This is a great chance to catch Missing Link one last time before it leaves theaters, and also catch some stories from the trenches from a key member of the filmmaking team. 

The film screening is optional – feel free to come out for the presentation only if you’ve already seen the film.  Tickets to the film are discounted to $5, and the presentation after is free.

Link for tickets to the screening (choose June 7 and use promo code ML2019 for the user group discount – or as we don’t expect a sellout, feel free to buy them at the door to dodge the online fee):

https://www.ticketing.omsi.edu/ItemList.aspx?node_id=1090

And the link for the presentation ticket (space is limited, snap up your spot now):

https://missinglinksiggraphscreening.eventbrite.com

See you there!

As a part of the upcoming OMSI Animation Festival, we will be screening the 2018 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater program!  This show catches the year’s best computer graphic animation and achievements, sourced worldwide and highly concentrated into the maximum dosage you’re allowed to intake in one evening.  Here’s a preview trailer of the show that gives a glimpse of what’s inside.

But that’s not all…  tastefully paired will be some local high octane computer graphics, via special guest Brian Smith:  Creative Director at Minimal Massive.  He’ll be presenting the behind the scenes of their most recent cinematic – a trailer for The Phoenix Point Next Life, which dropped just a few days ago and is very much hot off the press!  A Cinema4D masterpiece from our local masters.
This is on for Friday, June 21, at 6:30pm, in OMSI’s Empirical Theater.  Join us!

Tickets:  $7 ($6 for OMSI members)
https://omsi.edu/calendar/siggraph-computer-animation-festival-traveling-show

Or, consider a festival pass, which allows you to attend all of the carefully curated screenings for the entire weekend (for only $19/$16)!  Program and pass info:
https://omsi.edu/calendar?keywords%5B%5D=368#nodeid-9359