VIEW Conference Celebrates 25 Years in Style
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VIEW Conference Celebrates 25 Years in Style (Source: VIEW Conference)
This October, in the stunning baroque city of Turin, Italy, a remarkable group of visionary film directors and award-winning creatives from Hollywood and Silicon assembled for the annual event that is VIEW Conference.
In its 25th anniversary edition, VIEW Conference 2024 pulled out all the stops, with a stellar lineup of speakers from Hollywood and Silicon Valley. The week-long event ran from October 14-19, 2024, with a lovingly curated live program of keynotes, talks, panels, in-depth workshops and masterclasses, guaranteed to inform, educate and inspire.
Around 6,500 people from 57 countries attended three prestigious venues in Turin, including the futuristic Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), where visitors soaked up the annual event’s uniquely energetic and inclusive atmosphere. Throughout the week, the OGR’s enormous Fucine hall was buzzing with award-winning creatives, industry professionals, thought leaders, students and enthusiasts, all seeking inspiration and enlightenment, and keen to celebrate the latest achievements in animation, VFX, games, and much more. Book signings by film directors Kelsey Mann and Chris Sanders, plus a special end-of-conference “meet and mingle” session, gave visitors an unrivaled opportunity to rub shoulders with A-list talent.
Experience VIEW Conference 2024 with our On-Demand Archive
As in previous years, most of the sessions at VIEW Conference 2024 were recorded. Videos of these sessions are available to view online by purchasing special On Demand tickets, available now from the registration page of the official VIEW Conference website:
https://www.viewconference.it/
“VIEW Conference is all about bringing people together,” says Conference Director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “It provides an intimate space in which industry professionals can network with their peers. It also breaks down barriers between speakers and audience, so that everyone who attends has the chance to meet their heroes and be inspired. VIEW Conference 2024, our 25th anniversary edition, has been more successful than I could possibly have imagined. Meanwhile, our plans for VIEW Conference 2025 are already well underway. You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
This year’s keynote speakers were Oscar©-nominated writer, producer and director Jonathan Nolan, currently executive producer of Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films’ Emmy© Award-nominated “Fallout,” and Fede Alvarez, director, co-writer and executive producer of the sci-fi/horror-thriller “Alien: Romulus.” In a special presentation, Ramsey Naito, president of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, received this year’s VIEW Visionary Award, presented for outstanding contribution to the visual arts.
Also on stage were award-winning directors including Kelsey Mann (“Inside Out 2”), Chris Sanders (“The Wild Robot”), Shannon Tindle (“Ultraman: Rising”) and Josh Cooley (“Transformers One”). VIEW Conference 2024 also boasted four exclusive premiere events, showcasing previously unseen footage from Disney Animation’s upcoming theatrical feature “Moana 2,” Netflix’s and Locksmith Animation’s “That Christmas,” Netflix and Aardman’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” and Netflix and Riot Games’ “Arcane: League of Legends.”
The VIEW Conference 2024 program featured a host of memorable sessions on VFX, animation and production design, with speakers including VFX supervisors Andrew Jackson (“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”), Paul Lambert (“Dune: Part Two”), Jay Worth (“Fallout”), Swen Gillberg (“Deadpool and Wolverine”), Stefen Fangmeier (“3 Body Problem”), Florian Witzel (“Twisters”) and Jason Greenblum (“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”). Also speaking were Raymond Zibach and Jeff Budsberg, production designer and VFX supervisor of “The Wild Robot,” Rob Coleman, ILM creative director and animation supervisor of “Transformers One,” Hayden Jones, ILM’s VFX supervisor of “Ultraman: Rising,” and creature FX designer Alec Gillis (“Alien: Romulus”).
A dedicated conference track explored the impact of AI on the creative arts, with insightful talks from speakers including Nvidia’s Richard Kerris, artist and VR pioneer Martin Nebelong, and Wylie Co. VFX founder Jake Maymudes, founder and CEO of Wylie Co. Other inspirational speakers included Paul Debevec, chief research officer at Eyeline Studios, Wacom’s Faik Karaoglu, Lenovo’s Rob Hoffmann, Wacom’s Heidi Wang, ILM SVP/CCO Rob Bredow, and Rochele Gloor from the School of Visual Arts. A “Woman in Animation” panel examined current issues surrounding diversity and gender representation.
Josh Cooley, director of “Transformers One,” delivered a personal workshop entitled “Make Me Care” About STORY!” Other workshops allowed attendees to get hands-on in a range of subject areas including AI tools for film production, storyboarding, real-time animation, cinematography, mixed media design and figure drawing.
Additional VIEW Conference 2024 presentations featured the directors of award-winning animated short films, including Joseph Wallace (“Salvation Has No Name”), Amanda Strong (“Inkwo For When the Starving Return”), Laura Goncalves (“Percebes”), Diego Alonso Sanchez de la Barquera and Christian Arredondo Narvaez (“Nube”) and Loïc Espuche (“Yuck!”). From the games industry, speakers included Team Asobi’s Nicolas Doucet, Jan-Bart van Beek from Guerrilla Games, and Supercell’s John ‘Cip’ Cipriani.
This year’s business track included “Let’s Talk Business,” featuring a panel of CEOs and co-founders, plus an insightful discussion on international co-production. These and other presentations proved so successful that VIEW Conference plans to significantly expand its business-oriented content for its next edition in October 2025.