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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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Mar
23
Fri
Art Institute Winter Portfolio Show @ Wacom Experience Center
Mar 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

THE WINTER PORTFOLIO SHOW

They worked hard to get here. They built portfolios showcasing their best work. Now, our graduates are hoping to take the next step by finding an opportunity to do creative work for a living.

Events

Winter Portfolio Show

Friday, March 23, 2018

Schedule Of Events:

1:00PM – 2:30PM Employers/Industry Professionals

2:30PM – 3:30PM Family & Friends

2:30PM – 3:30PM Prospective Students/General Admission

Location:

WACOM Experience Center

1455 NW Irving St, Portland, OR 97209

Get Directions

Our Graduates

Our graduates are ready to demonstrate how years of hard work have prepared them to work hard for people like you. Come meet this year’s class of ambitious creative minds.

Graduates from the following areas of interest may be in attendance:

Visual Design

  • Graphic & Web Design
  • Web Design & Interactive Media

Interior & Product Design

  • Industrial Design
  • Interior Design

Animation & Effects

  • Media Arts & Animation
  • Visual Effects & Motion Graphics

Film & Production

  • Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
  • Digital Photography

Gaming & Technology

  • Game Art & Design
  • Visual & Game Programming

Fashion

  • Apparel Design
  • Fashion Design
  • Fashion Marketing & Management

The Show

We couldn’t be more proud of our new graduates. During their time here, they’ve accepted—and conquered—countless creative challenges. Come celebrate their accomplishments with us!

For industry professionals

If you’re looking for new creative talent, look no further. Our imaginative graduates have ideas—and hands-on skills—to spare. Come get to know them and see their work up close. You just might meet your creative match.

For friends & family

This is it—this is what it’s all been leading up to. And our new graduates couldn’t have done it without you by their side, every step of the way. We know you’re just as proud as we are, so come see what they’ve achieved.

For prospective students

Creative people thrive on challenge. And that’s what we’re all about—pushing you outside your comfort zone and helping you turn your creativity into real-world skills. Interested? Come to our Portfolio Show and explore the possibilities.

RSVP

This is your chance to meet our new graduates, see some incredible work, and get inspired. Ready to join us?

https://creative.artinstitutes.edu/portfolio-show/portland

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.