We are pleased to annouce our Keynote Guest ,Fausto de Martini. Fausto De Martini started his career as a freelancer working for Advertisement companies in Brazil and got a job as a Cinematic Modeler at Blizzard Entertainment posting the Image “Marine” on CgChannel and CGTalk. Fausto is currently working as the Lead Modeler for the Cinematic Department at Blizzard Entertainment and he has been part of the production of world famous Cinematics such as “World of Warcraft” and “World of Warcraft Expansion”. He has many of his works featured in book covers, Graphic Card boxes and his work “Cyber Girl” has been featured on many banners at the last Siggraph for the ATI Graphic Cards advertisements. Fausto is currently working as an Art Director for the film cinematic department at Blizzard.

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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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