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.

http://www.fausto3d.com/

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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.

Ted Davis attained his BFA in Computer Animation from the International Fine Arts College in Miami, FL. He has foundations in traditional, modern and contemporary techniques of drawing, painting, sculpting and other mixed media art forms.

Upon graduating from college, he began applying his various skill sets into the field of Computer Graphics, ultimately becoming a texture artist. He has done work for major visual effects houses, video game studios, broadcast campaigns and freelance clientele. Projects include Speed Racer, Transformers 2, God of War II, Spyro the Dragon, Silent Hill Experience, Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. Ted is currently working as a senior texture artist at Dreamworks feature animation. Ted’s workshop will consist of techniques used to create a  shaders/textures for creating photo-realistic  creatures for VFX.

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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We are proud to announce that we will have more recruiters at Evolve CG this year for our Job Fair. Here is a list of the current companies that are scheduled to take part at this year’s job fair.

Digital Domain (Florida)

Blizzard

DreamWorks Animation

Naughty Dog

Arena Net (NCsoft)

Shadows in Darkness

High Voltage Studios

We will be updating this page in the coming weeks with more recruiters, stay tuned.

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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

more info coming soon….

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This year’s event will take place at the beautiful:  Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina located at: 1881 SE 17th St. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316.

Parking: $7.00 daily fee for self or valet parking available only for Evolve CG attendees.

Directions: http://www.fortlauderdalemarinahotel.com/map_and_directions/

Hotels close to Evolve CG Conference and Job Fair event currently offering discounts for room reservations:

*Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina (Event venue): If you decide to stay at this hotel you can get a room discount by using the  code: EVOLV at the moment of making your reservation. Ph. 1-954-463-4000

*Holiday Inn Express Convention Center (0.15 miles from Event venue).: Discounts for hotel room reservations available at this hotel by contacting: Mr. Sagar Patel-Assistant General Manager.  Ph.954-728-2577 (Must talk directly with Mr. Patel and mention you will assist to Evolve CG conference 2010 in order to get discount). Hotel location: 1500 SE 17th St. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316.

We will be updating this page with additional hotels in the area.

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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.

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