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Being fascinated by interactive art ever since childhood, Teagan Morrison has always sought to work as a video game developer. Having gone to school for programming, but possessing talents in environment art, he landed a job at Naughty Dog as an environment artist. Naughty Dog recently developed critically acclaimed PS3 game Uncharted 2, on which Teagan played the role of Lead Environment Artist. He will be presenting a 3 hour talk on real-time environment creation for video games, giving an inside look at the process from start to finish. The focus will be on modeling highly detailed cutting edge environments, but topics will touch on many related aspects.

A game programmer / technical producer gone recruiter, Marc Mencher has been in the industry for over 25 years. In addition to representing the game industry’s hottest talent, he is founder and CEO of GameRecruiter.

He is the author of an instructional book on careers in the video game industry entitled Get in the Game! Currently he is writing a Game Industry Management Series located at http://gamerecruiter.com/grbook/

Marc is a speaker at game industry conferences. He volunteers as an advisory board member for several schools offering game programs. His articles have been featured in publications like Gamasutra, Industry Gamers, Game Daily, and Next Generation News. A detailed bio on Marc can be found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Mencher

Specializing in strategically important and critical game industry jobs, GameRecruiter is staffed by entertainment industry professionals who value confidentiality and are committed to fitting the right people with the right job. For more information, please visit http://www.gamerecruiter.com
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Jason Ryan was a Supervising Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for almost twelve years and now he is a supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation Studios.
After graduating from the European School of Animation (aka Senior College, Ballyfermot), Ireland in 1993, with a student of the year award from Don Bluth (creator of An American Tail and Land Before Time), Jason started straight in as a 2D animator working on various German feature Productions.  After a brief time in London as an Animator in computer games he got the call from Disney Animation Studios in 1995 to animate on Fantasia 2000 (Tin Soldier segment), Dinosaur (Kron and Carnataur), animation supervisor on Magic Lamp (CG genie in 3D), animation supervisor on Philharmagic (classic Disney characters in CG and 3D) and supervising animator on Chicken Little (chicken little himself).  At Dreamworks Animation Jason was a supervising animator on the movie Monsters Versus Aliens and is currently a supervising animator on Shrek4.

While working back in Ireland as an animator he also worked as a classical animation Instructor for the European School of Animation, and while working on Chicken Little Jason also worked as a mentor with Animationmentor.com.

Jason Ryan will demonstrate in his workshop a step by step walk through of how he sets up a shot, fromblocking the shot in 2d through the final 3d animated scene.

Animation Tutorials: http://jasonryananimation.com
Live Webinars: http://jrawebinar.com

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Hanno Hagedorn is a lead character artist at Naughty Dog. He has extensive experience working on games from many different studios and production environments. Before working as a senior character artist on Uncharted 2: Drake’s Fortune, Hanno was a Lead Character Artist on the critically acclaimed– AAA title –Crysis. During this year’s conference, Hanno will be demonstrating the full workflow of the character creation process; from beginning to end. This means a detail breakdown of his personal processes, and how he really goes about creating all the compelling characters, he is so well known for. Additionally, Hanno will also cover general reference gathering procedures, modeling & texturing techniques, and Zbrush normal-map extraction operations.

http://www.naughtydog.com/

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Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kekai Kotaki has always had a passion for art. Finding the sunshine and beautiful scenery distracting, he moved to dreary Seattle in 2000 to attend art school. After graduating, he proceeded to attempt a career at doing art. This meant getting a job at ArenaNet, the makers of the Guild Wars franchise, as a lowly texture artist. Through hard work and more than a little luck he was able to become a concept artist.

Kekai can still be found in Seattle at ArenaNet. He is working hard as Lead Concept Artist on Guild Wars 2 and on a burgeoning illustration career. Kekai will be presenting a 3 hour workshop focusing primarily on Character Illustration and environment design.

http://www.kekaiart.com/

In addition to our contest, the event will be incorporating:

• A 2 day event.
• Double the amount of presenters.
• Workshops within the lectures.
• CG Art Gallery featuring art from the Hunter’s Challenge.

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