The Radar

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:
Google (gmail) calendar
Outlook calendar
Apple Calendar/iCal
Other Calendar
(Note: it’s best to have your calendar open when clicking these links)

Submit new or missing event listings (or any errors) to J Bills.

Apr

Mon

Design Week Portland Animation Challenge + Reel Review

Tickets

Apr 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

This year’s animation challenge is yet another brainchild of Jamal Qutub – DRAEMS. Take a closer look, think of our favorite motion design tool After Effects and I’m sure you’ll make the draemy connection. Details on the theme or to get signed up as a participant are over at aepdx.org

This year’s demo reel review promises to be our best yet and there’s no better time to polish up your reel and enter it to be reviewed by our expert panel of judges, not only for golden feedback but also great prizes.

This year’s judges include (in no particular order):
Saira and Nicholas Weigel, power couple extraordinaire. She the Head of Motion at W+K and he a Creative Director primarily at his company !hatKe!
Joel Stewart, Creative Director at his own Foil
Daniel Short, Compositor at large and reigning champion of last year’s Reel Review VFX category
Michael Miller, Owner/Operator/VFX Supervisor at 9iFX

This year’s MC is Motion Designer Jarrod Allen.

Prizes include:
VFX – a license of Blackmagic Design Fusion Studio + a copy of Neat Video’s denoise plugin (a must have!)
3D – a 1 year license of SideFX Houdini Indie 16
Motion – a license of Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite
All category winners receive a 3 month subscription to Lynda/LinkedIn Learning.
1 Audience winner, voted live, will receive a 1 year subscription.
…and more to come!

To enter the demo reel review, submit your information here. Please, only fresh reels from the last year.

This year’s reel review will be kept on a strict program schedule so we can’t guarantee all reels will be screened or commented on, but we guarantee a silent email of judge feedback on any/all reels submitted. You must be PDX-metro based to enter. You do not need to be present to win.

Details:
VFX/PDX + AEPDX + 3DPDX present
Animation Challenge (DRAEMS) + Reel Review 2017
Ziba Design (Auditorium)
810 NW Marshall St
Portland, OR 97209
April 24, 2017 – 6:30/doors to 9:30pm

Get your tickets now before this sells out!

Sponsored by / Ziba / Toolfarm / Adobe / 3DV
Side FX / Blackmagic Design / Neat Video / Red Giant

Apr

Wed

Hinge + 3DV Open House @ Hinge Digital/3DV

Tickets

Apr 26 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hinge invites you to visit our studio during DWP 2017!

If you can dream it, we can do it! Based in Portland, Oregon, award-winning Hinge is truly the best of both worlds: a high-end production and animation studio, and a turnkey creative agency. We specialize in bringing unique stories to life through characters, live action, animation and post-production visual effects. In close collaboration with agency and client partners, we deliver innovative projects for broadcast commercials, digital, experiential, out of home, print and AR/VR.

Our studio features client-friendly facilities, including an AR/VR stage, onsite storage server, render farm, artist workstations with Maya, Nuke & Adobe CC, and an Edit Offline/Onlining Color Suite. Our experienced full time staff easily scales up, pulling from a talented pool of local freelance artists.

We’d love to have you visit our DWP Open House. Come meet our team, tour the studio, and have a drink or two. We look forward to seeing you there!

Want to learn more about 3D printing, Virtual Reality or digital drawing tools? Our 3DV open house will have live demonstrations of the latest technologies including formlabs Form 2 3D printer, Vive VR powered by Autodesk’s content creation tools and Wacom’s latest digital art tools: MobileStudio Pro & Cintiq 27HD & 22HD.

Wacom will be offering a Bamboo Spark Smartpad as a door prize for a lucky attendee

3DV will co-host drinks and snacks with our neighbor Hinge Digital.

PixelPool Open House @ PixelPool

Tickets

Apr 26 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Experience the future of design visualization! Join us at our downtown studio for food, drinks and see the most innovative design visualization projects for retail, product and brand including virtual reality. PixelPool is a 3D interactive and design visualization company that brings concepts and ideas to life.

Wed, April 26, 4-7pm

PixelPool
621 SW Alder St, Ste 300
Portland, Oregon 97205

Apr

Thu

Refuge Visual FX Open House @ Refuge Visual FX

Tickets

Apr 27 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

If you’re going to visit anyone in North Portland on April 27th, make your final stop Refuge. Come by for a gander at the 408 ft tall Gothic towers of the St. Johns Bridge and stay for the whiskey tasting.

We Build Character.
Refuge is an animation studio that specializes in characters and creatures. We make designing characters and creatures as much fun as it sounds. We use tools of science to make pieces of art. If we’re not showing the world something new, we haven’t done our job.

Sockeye Open House @ Sockeye

Tickets

Apr 27 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join Sockeye for an open house from 4-7 at the third floor of the Leftbank building. There will be printmaking, photo booths, food and beverage. We will have a live band, nosh and drinks for all!

April 2017 Apr 2017