Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH
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2008 Holiday Social
by Patrick on Nov.20, 2008, under Miscellaneous
Come on out, stop by on your way home, relax, have some conversation and celebration!
Thursday, December 4th
Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, CHIFOO, and ASIFA Portland
welcome members and friends to join us for a social get together at:
Blitz Bar
110 NW 10th Ave, (between Couch and Davis)
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 222-2229
We’ve reserved a private room upstairs from 5:30 –9:30 with a no host, cash bar and look forward to seeing you there. Light appetizers will be served.
First Thursday
http://www.firstthursdayportland.com/
Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH & ASIFA Present Exploring “The Animator’s Survival Kit” with Richard Williams
by Patrick on Oct.20, 2008, under Miscellaneous
Sponsored by LAIKA
Thursday,October 30, 2008
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus
Registration 6:00 pm
Presentation 6:30pm to 8:00pm
About the Speaker
Richard Williams is a three-time Academy Award winner. He has received Oscars for Special Achievement and Visual Effects as the director of animation on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988), and for his short film “A Christmas Carol” (1971).
Born in Toronto, Richard Williams became one of the finest animation filmmakers of the late twentieth century and has been a mentor to countless others.
Williams began his animation work in the states at United Productions of America in the 1950s, and became friends with Chuck Jones. He emigrated to Spain and then to England in 1955. In 1958 Williams won The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, (BAFTA) award for his work on “The Little Island.” Williams went on to direct the Academy Award-winning “A Christmas Carol” (1971). During the 1970s, his London-based studio created scores of stunningly crafted, award-winning commercials, titles, short films, and television specials. Not content with these successes, Williams then went on to hire veteran animators from the Disney studio’s “Golden Age” and from Warner Bros. Cartoons, most notably Grim Natwick (Snow White), Art Babbitt (Fantasia), and Ken Harris (Bugs Bunny). He also learned from his friends Milt Kahl (Pinocchio, The Jungle Book), and Frank Thomas (Bambi, Cinderella).
A distillation of his acquired knowledge went into the animation he directed for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and, most recently, into an unparalleled and indispensable series of instructional DVD Master Classes based on his bestselling book “The Animator’s Survival Kit,“ published in 2000 by Farber & Farber. There are over 350 specially animated examples intercut with his 4-day Master Class filmed at Blue Sky Studios in New York.
For further information please see:
http://www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com/
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus
Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building,
Room 104
705 North Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97212
Parking:
Limited Street Parking is available, Carpooling Recommended
Cost:
This event is FREE to Cascade SIGGRAPH & ASIFA Chapter members;
$5.00 public;
Light refreshments will be served
Please RSVP to cascadesiggraph ( at ) gmail (dot) com
by November 10th
so that we can plan for attendance.
Annual Cascade SIGGRAPH chapter membership may be purchased at the door:
$25 professionals, $18 for students.
Birds of a Feather Mixer
by Patrick on Nov.15, 2006, under Miscellaneous
IXDA / CHIFOO / SIGGRAPH / ASIFA – Social
November 15, 2006
5:30pm – ??
This quarter our social mixer includes folks from other local groups: IxDA (www.ixda.org), CHIFOO (www.chifoo.org), ASIFA Portland (http://www.asifaseattle.com), and Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH (http://www.cascade.siggraph.org). This is your opportunity network and find out more about different related groups in the NW and meet like-minded folks.
Lucky Lab Brewery in NW Portland
1945 NW Quimby
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 517-4352
Directions
The Event is FREE!
(You pay for your own beer and food.)
Please RSVP to cascadesiggraph ( at ) gmail.com
so that we can plan for attendance.
For more information, please contact Demetra at 503.367.1522
