When a young bride becomes an unexpected offering to a dragon, both the creature and the royal family that betrayed her get more than what they bargained for as she has no intention of carrying on the sacrificial tradition. This is the premise for the Netflix production of Damsel directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intruders) and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Bassett and Robin Wright. Dividing the visual effects work for the dark fantasy feature were supervisors Nigel Denton-Howes and Nicholas Brooks. “I came in at the beginning of post-production to help bring the dragon along because my background is doing creature stuff,” Denton-Howes states. “The original supervisor was more of an environments person.”
The notes of Production Designer Patrick Tatopoulos regarding the wings of the dragon.
Responsible for the production design was Patrick Tatopoulos. who has made a name for himself as a creature designer. “Patrick was brought back as well in post, which is unusual,” Denton-Howes notes. “I managed to get him to work with the artists at One of Us, and I finished off the look development and all of the details that are needed to make [the dragon] look real when you get into the shots.” The desire was not to go for a lizard-inspired dragon like Game of Thrones. “Our dragon is much closer to a panther, which is why when we brought her into the environments and caves, she is just as comfortable running around the caves as she is flying around them. Whereas your stereotypical dragon is lumbering on the ground and graceful in the air,” Denton-Howes explains. Tatopoulos’ designs for the dragon were refined with the original version having a strong graphical orange line going down the flanks and back of the neck. “We followed the line to the spine and tail. That allows her to stand out in the caves. But the whole textural approach is that she is part of this environment and is supposed to blend in,” Denton-Howes says.
Great attention was spent by Production Designer Patrick Tatopoulos to get the dragon anatomically correct, such as the hip bones.
“Our dragon is much closer to a panther, which is why when we brought her into the environments and caves, she is just as comfortable running around the caves as she is flying around them. Whereas your stereotypical dragon is lumbering on the ground and graceful in the air.”
—Nigel Denton-Howes, Visual Effects Supervisor
Getting the fire simulations correct was a major responsibility for One of Us, which handled the dragon and was aided by on-set lighting.
Shohreh Aghdashloo provides the voice of the dragon. “There are certain sounds that are awkward for a mouth that big and a muzzle that long to make,” Denton-Howes remarks. “There is some lip sync, and we’re using the jaw a lot, but a lot of the motion and mechanics were actually done with the neck. When she inhales, the neck plates open, and it compresses like bellows when she exhales. We added a shiver to the neck plates to correspond to her emotional state. When she is confident, there is very little flutter in them and when she gets angry, they vibrate like crazy. That informed the sound design.” Something unusual for Denton-Howes was getting an opportunity to work directly with the sound design team. “We did a bunch of loops back and forth of animation and sound tests until we got a final dialogue sound that was going to work.”
The neck plates were utilized to help make it believable that the dragon could speak as well as convey the emotional state.
The dragon was modeled on a panther, meaning that it was equally comfortable moving on the ground and flying.
Environments were enhanced to get a proper interaction with the dragon. “A lot of the environments are CG, but on the sets that were built we added all of the rocks and debris on top of them because they were actually bare,” Denton-Howes says. “When the dragon is walking, she can kick stones, and everything extended in the background is CG. When she is interacting with characters, like when one of the guards gets grabbed, it’s a takeover into an all-CG character. For some of them, the whole shot is CG. When we’re interacting with Millie, like when the dragon’s hand is on her neck, on set there were interactive elements such as claws that could press down to allow her to feel some of it. Then we also bent her skin in 2D to add indentations, and, in the dragon, there was some modeling to push in the pads of the thumbs and fingers to make them squishy so you can feel that the two are really touching each other.” Each cave was distinct. “One had stalactites and stalagmites. The main action area has giant columns and looks like a cathedral. Then there is the crystal cave that Millie climbs up. It’s done so you don’t feel as if you’re in the same place all of the time.”
Each cave was treated as a different environment.
“A lot of the motion and mechanics were actually done with the neck. When she inhales, the neck plates open, and it compresses like bellows when she exhales. We added a shiver to the neck plates to correspond to her emotional state. When she is confident, there is very little flutter in them, and when she gets angry, they vibrate like crazy. That informed the sound design. We did a bunch of loops back and forth of animation and sound tests until we got a final dialogue sound that was going to work.”
—Nigel Denton-Howes, Visual Effects Supervisor
The task for visual effects was to refine the details for the dragon.
Light continuity was the biggest issue for when Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) is tossed into a crevasse that leads to the caves inhabited by the dragon. “You were starting at one place and knew what was going to be at the bottom,” Denton-Howes describes. “They were totally different stages and sets, and you’re telling a story of moving through space with bespoke shots where no two shots are the same, so you’re not reusing anything other than the digital double.” Assisting the cave lighting were glow worms. “Glow worms don’t have magical healing properties, but they actually exist. The bluish white light was part of the production design, and Larry Fong (Kong: Skull Island), our DP, ran with that. Throughout the whole thing we were trying to be photographic. When Millie falls down and has the pomander, it goes to black and slowly comes back into lighting. The idea is that your eyes are adjusting to the dark. We were trying to find photographic reasons for there to be light, and glow worms were one of them. Even in the main caves, it was a tricky lighting scenario on the set because Larry didn’t have a lot of choice of how he lit because the stages were small.”
Modern-day elements like cruise ships had to be painted out.
“Castles are like digital people where everybody knows what they look like, so you know when it’s not quite right. We did a lot of work on that, balancing fantasy with realistic. Initially, [director] Juan Carlos [Fresnadillo] wanted the castle to be clean and beautiful. but when you do that it doesn’t look real. You need to grunge the castle up and allow it to have a couple of centuries of weathering, but it’s still beautiful and magnificent.”
—Nigel Denton-Howes, Visual Effects Supervisor
Because of an actual drought, the colors in the plate photography had to be enhanced by Rodeo FX to make Aurea appear lush.
Primary vendors for the 1,202 visual effects were One of Us, who was responsible for the dragon, Rodeo FX, who did a lot of environments and glow worms, Pixomondo, who handled the dragon, dragon lair, the opening and end sequences, and Important Looking Pirates, who created the harbor environment and Elodie’s homeland. Other contributions came from The Yard VFX, Rising Sun Pictures, Rebel Unit, Atomic Arts, Primary VFX, NetFX and TPO VFX. “Later in reshoots, we added the opening scenes of Elodie’s homeland as visual contrast, as well as for storytelling reasons,” Denton-Howes states. “When you get into Aurea, it needs to look realistic but really lush and beautiful. In the grade, [director] Juan Carlos Fresnadillo pushed it into gold and warmed things up even further, which is a subtle change.”
Looming over the castle is the Stone Mountain, which was inspired by the tooth of a cat.
“When we’re interacting with Millie [Bobby Brown], like when the dragon’s hand is on her neck, on set there were interactive elements such as claws that could press down to allow her to feel some of it. Then we also bent her skin in 2D to add indentations, and, in the dragon, there was some modeling to push in the pads of the thumbs and fingers to make them squishy so you can feel that the two are really touching each other.”
—Nigel Denton-Howes, Visual Effects Supervisor
Weathering had to be added to the castle to make it appear more believable.
Atmospherics were pivotal in obscuring the Dragon Gate to the point that the viewer would not be sure if a real dragon was staring right at them.
A lighting source in the caves are glow worms that have been given healing properties.
Rodeo FX had to replicate a partial set for the crystal cave so it would be appear to be a mountainous climb for Elodie.
As for the Stone Mountains that loom over the castle, the feline anatomy was an inspiration, thereby tying the ominous natural landmark with the design of the dragon. “If you were to zoom out, the main mountain is analogous to a tooth of a cat, and for the lower mountains, you could put a jaw of a cat there,” Denton-Howes reveals. “The base of the castle is real in close-up shots extended up, and for most shots it’s entirely CG. That was time-consuming to do. Castles are like digital people where everybody knows what they look like, so you know when it’s not quite right. We did a lot of work on that, balancing fantasy with realistic. Initially, Juan Carlos wanted the castle to be clean and beautiful, but when you do that it doesn’t look real. You need to grunge the castle up and allow it to have a couple of centuries of weathering, but it’s still beautiful and magnificent.”
The newest addition to the Greater Las Vegas skyline is the 366-foot-tall Sphere. Its exosphere, the exterior shell of Sphere, has 580,000 square feet of LED panels that morph into all types of images. Sphere’s images range from a giant eyeball and leaf-like color bursts to an architectural lattice and a vivid moon. The Rockettes’ kicking and dancing also fill the Sphere and seem particularly well-suited to light up a Las Vegas night. (Photos courtesy of Sphere Entertainment)
On the outskirts of the Las Vegas Strip, a 366-foot-tall eyeball gazes out at the urban landscape. The traffic-stopping orb, simply named Sphere, has an exosphere of 580,000 square feet of LED panels that morph into the moon, an immense pumpkin, vast fireworks and much more.
While the exterior of Sphere is now an imposing part of the Greater Vegas skyline, its interior is an immersive, scaled-up entertainment destination with seats for 17,600+. Films, concerts and events are displayed on the largest high-resolution LED screen in the world, an arena-sized canvas for live action and visual effects.
The wraparound 16K x 16K resolution interior display is 240 feet tall, covers 160,000 square feet and is comprised of 64,000 LED tiles manufactured by Montreal-based SACO Technologies. The audio system, powered by Berlin’s Holoplot, uses 3D audio beam-forming technology and wave-field synthesis. Sphere Entertainment’s $2.3 billion project was designed by global architectural design firm Populous.
Sphere Entertainment developed bespoke technology for the outsized format, including its Big Sky 18K x 18K, 120 fps camera system. The Sphere Studios division’s main Burbank campus is dedicated to production and post-production of visuals and mixing of immersive audio for Sphere and houses Big Dome, a 28,000-square-foot, 100-foot-high geodesic dome that is a quarter-sized version of Sphere, for content screening.
The rock band U2 inaugurated Sphere with a five-month-plus residency for “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere,” and showed off the venue’s vast creative possibilities for live shows. Director Darren Aronofsky’s immersive 50-minute film Postcard from Earth, which debuted soon after U2’s launch, tells the story of our planet seen from the future. Postcard used the Big Sky camera as well as Sphere’s 4D technologies, including an infrasound haptic system to simulate the rumbles of thunder or a rocket launch and sensory effects like breezes and scents.
Nevada’s most endangered species crowd Sphere’s interior in Es Devlin’s “Nevada Ark” for U2’s show. (Photo: Es Devlin. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
“At its best, cinema is an immersive medium that transports the audience out of their regular life, whether that’s into fantasy and escapism, another place and time or another person’s subjective experience. The Sphere is an attempt to dial up that immersion,” Aronofsky wrote in a press release.
Soon after Sphere’s opening, Autodesk and Marvel Studios teamed up to create an ad celebrating the former’s software and The Marvels film for an Autodesk customer event in Las Vegas. The Mill helped with the VFX, utilizing the Autodesk tools Maya and Arnold. The segment featured a gigantic Goose the flerken (a cat-like creature that transforms into a monstrous alien) on the exterior of Sphere, another massive visual certain to draw attention for miles around.
7thSense provides Sphere’s in-house media servers, processing and distribution systems utilized fully on Postcard from Earth. They are the venue’s main playback system. For “U2:UV,” the visuals were coordinated by Treatment Studio and powered at Sphere by a disguise playback system.
U2ATSPHERE
Brandon Kraemer served as a Technical Director for Treatment Studio on the “U2:UV” residency at Sphere. He comments, “The unique thing that Sphere brings to the concert experience is a sense of immersion. Given that it’s a spherical image format and covers much of your field of view – and it’s taller than the Statue of Liberty on the inside – means it becomes an instant spectacle, and if you leverage that for all its uniqueness, you can’t help but blow audiences’ minds.”
Kraemer recalls, “Willie Williams [U2 Creative Director and Co-Founder of London-based Treatment Studio] contacted me in September of 2022 about the project. That was very early on in the process. Early creative was being discussed then, but just as importantly we started to embark on just how we were going to technically pull this off.”
Kraemer continues, “The majority of the visuals were designed by the artists at Treatment under the creative direction of Williams and Producer Lizzie Pocock. However, there were other collaborators on key pieces as well. Khatsho Orfali, David Isetta and their team from Industrial Light & Magic created an amazing cityscape that deconstructs itself for U2’s new song ‘Atomic City.’ And, he adds, “Marco Brambilla and his team at The Mill in Paris created a unique world for ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing,’ a dense psychedelic collage.”
The newest addition to the Greater Las Vegas skyline is the 366-foot-tall Sphere. Its exosphere, the exterior shell of Sphere, has 580,000 square feet of LED panels that morph into all types of images. Sphere’s images range from a giant eyeball and leaf-like color bursts to an architectural lattice and a vivid moon. The Rockettes’ kicking and dancing also fill the Sphere and seem particularly well-suited to light up a Las Vegas night. (Photos courtesy of Sphere Entertainment)
To capture large-scale, ultra-high-resolution imagery, Sphere Entertainment’s Burbank-based unit, Sphere Studios, developed the 18K x 18K, 120fps Big Sky camera system, used in spectacular fashion by Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard from Earth. (Photo courtesy of Sphere Entertainment)
A massive cross of light is a simple but powerful visual at this scale, part of the band’s “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere” residency. (Photo Kevin Mazur. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
There were numerous technical challenges and quite a few diplomatic challenges as well, and these two areas often overlapped. Kraemer explains, “Opening a building and working in a construction site while stepping through rehearsal programming is quite a feat. My hats off to U2’s legendary Production Manager, Jake Berry, for keeping the whole operation moving forward in the face of what were, at times, some serious headwinds. Getting content rendered on that screen has lots of challenges along the way, and we were also very fortunate to have the support of disguise and their [GX 3] servers as the backbone of the playback system. We couldn’t have produced the show we did without their support.” In addition, the show utilized a custom stage, based on a turntable design by Brian Eno, and covered by Yes Tech and ROE panels.
U2’s reaction was very positive, according to Kraemer. “The band put a lot of trust in the teams that Willie Williams put together, and they were pretty blown away by it all.”
DISGUISE
Peter Kirkup, disguise’s Solutions and Innovation Director, recalls, “We first became involved in Sphere through [U2’s Technical Director and Video Director] Stefaan ‘Smasher’ Desmedt. Together with Smasher, disguise has been working on U2 shows for decades, so it was a perfect fit.”
Kirkup adds, “Disguise’s software and hardware powered the visuals that were displayed on Sphere’s wraparound LED screen during the U2 show. First, our Designer software was used to help previsualize and edit the visual content – all brought together by the creative minds at Treatment Studio, including Brandon Kraemer and Lizzie Pocock as well as Willie Williams.”
Disguise’s Designer software allowed the creative team to previs their visuals on a computer with the help of a 3D digital twin of the Sphere stage. “This real-time 3D stage simulator meant ideas could be communicated more clearly and quickly to get everyone on the same page,” Kirkup notes. “Designer also helped the team to sequence the visuals into a timeline of beats and bars – and import audio to lock visuals to the beat. This helped create snappy, rhythmic edits and some extra looping segments that could be pulled in on the fly in case the band decided to do an extra riff on the day of the show.”
Kirkup continues, “Once the visuals were complete, our software split and distributed the 16K video into sections. We were working with one contiguous LED screen but still needed to split the video into sections because of the sheer volume of content involved. We were playing real-time Notch effects and pre-rendered NotchLC content at 60fps across the Sphere’s 256,000,000 pixel, 16K x 16K interior canvas.
“Finally, our GX 3 media servers enabled all individual pieces to be perfectly in sync throughout the show,” Kirkup says. “This technology also allowed us to composite layers of video together in real time. For example, the video feed of the band that cinematic cameras were capturing during the show could be composited into our LED visuals from the Designer software. Each server was also upgraded with a 30-terabyte hard drive, so we had local storage machines for playout and 100GB networking back to the content store for file transfers and media management.”
Kirkup adds, “We furthered our Single Large Canvas workflows, which enable content to be broken up into pieces and distributed across a cluster of machines – essential work to make a project like this come to life. We also introduced some custom color pipeline work for Sphere, adapting our standard color pipeline to match the unique characteristics of the in-house LED system.” Adds Kirkup. “A big challenge was handling such a large volume of content across 256,000,000 pixels – in real time. There were 18,000 people watching the show, and they all had their camera phones ready to broadcast to even more people, so we really had to make sure the show went well.”
Kirkup remarks, “Bono mentioned this during the show, but I believe the most important thing about Sphere is that for the first time, a venue of this scale is being created with musicians in mind. In the past, musicians needed to squeeze into sporting arenas or stadiums that weren’t created for music – they may have had tiny screens or the wrong acoustics. With Sphere, that’s all changed. For real-time graphics and VFX artists, that’s a big trend to watch for in 2024 and beyond. I expect to see more venues designed specifically to highlight 3D visuals. With that, more VFX artists and studios will be pulled in to develop not only movie and TV effects – but incredible visuals for live events, too. The two industries will start to blur.”
7THSENSE
7thSense – a creative software and technology company based in Sussex, England – put together the Sphere in-house playback system and provides hardware for media serving, pixel processing and show control. “Building a first-of-its-kind venue like Sphere brought with it a significant number of challenges that the 7thSense team was keen to dig their collective fingers into,” explains Richard Brown, CTO of 7thSense.
Brown notes, “Managing exceptionally large canvases of playback, generative and live media as a single harmonious system is of utmost importance in a venue of this scale, and it is a workflow and underpinning technology we have been working on for quite some time. With a 16K x 16K canvas size, Sphere placed a priority on accelerating the development of the tools for media playback, multi-node rendering of generative assets and live compositing from multiple ST 2110 streams, as well as for pre-visualizing the show without having access to the full system. Because time in the venue is an incredibly rare commodity, anything that can be done ‘offline’ helps to make the time in the venue more productive.”
The visuals for U2’s “Atomic City,” with VFX work by ILM, includes a stunning deconstruction of Las Vegas going back in time. (Photo: Rich Fury. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
The desert landscape around Las Vegas became a backdrop for U2’s “Atomic City.” (Photo: Rich Fury. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
Marco Brambilla’s dense psychedelic collage “King Size,” put together with the help of the Mill in Paris, is an ode to Elvis Presley that accompanies the U2 song “Even Better than the Real Thing.” (Photo: Rich Fury. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
The interior display of Sphere is 240 feet tall and covers 160,000 square feet with LED panels from SACO Technologies. (Photo: Rich Fury/Ross Andrew Stewart. Courtesy of disguise and U2)
The interior display of Sphere can create huge individual displays for any performer, and the venue uses 3D audio beam-forming technology and wave field synthesis for an appropriately big and precise sound. (Photo courtesy of disguise and U2)
The huge $2.3 billion Sphere has altered the Greater Las Vegas skyline and become an entertainment destination, celebrating its launch in September 2023 with the “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere” residency. (Photo courtesy of Sphere Entertainment)
Brown adds, “High-speed streaming of uncompressed media from Network Attached Storage (NAS) is something we have been wanting to do for a long time, but the technology was not sufficiently advanced to support the bandwidth and timely delivery of data until very recently. Fortunately, the use case for this technology aligned very much with the desired workflow at Sphere, giving us the chance to really dig into what could be an industry-changing technology for media production and presentation systems.”
Brown continues, “Managing synchronized media playback across dozens of servers is one thing, but making it straightforward for a show programmer to build the show that spans dozens of servers is quite another. 7thSense developed an Asset Logistics workflow that simplifies what actual movie frames each server streams from the NAS based on representative meta-media used for programming the show timeline.”
Brown explains, “Each server is configured with what section of the dome it is responsible for playing back, and this information, coupled with the name of the movie from the timeline, is used to determine the file path on the NAS that each media server uses to access the appropriate movie frames. This workflow reduces user error and makes timeline programming significantly faster than managing individual movies per server.”
Brown comments that Sphere is the first entertainment venue of its kind when it comes to the size and resolution of the media being presented to an audience. He says, “It is imperative that all media players, generative engines and pixel processors are working in absolute synchronization, or the illusion of immersion is lost for the audience. Worse than that, image tearing or jitter, could cause the audience to become ill because of the immersive nature of the media plane. Everywhere you look, you are surrounded by the media.”
In addition, Brown notes, “Not only is it our first major application of ST 2110, it just happens to be the largest ST 2110 network in an entertainment venue on the planet!” 7thSense has been in the world of immersive presentations in planetaria, domed theaters, museums and theme park attractions since going into business nearly 20 years ago. But what has been created at Sphere is something new, a destination live-event venue, and the technology far surpasses what has been built to date. This hybrid type of entertainment has the potential to create its own category of immersive live show experience. It’s exciting to be part of the team building it from the ground up.”
“I think it’s an experience like no other,” Treatment Studio’s Kraemer says about Sphere. “It was a thrilling experience to be part of the first creative team to produce an amazing show there.
I think ‘U2:UV’ will be a very tough act to follow, but I think there is a tremendous opportunity to give an audience something that is impossible in a stadium or arena show, and I look forward to seeing how this all evolves.”
Snoop Dogg at Astro Project motion capture studio in Santa Monica for his “Crip Ya Enthusiasm” music video utilizing the Vicon system and StretchSense gloves. (Image courtesy of Vicon and Astro Project, LLC)
Motion capture, performance capture and volumetric video technologies are rapidly advancing, incorporating AI and ML to a greater extent and focusing on enhancing realism, precision and accessibility. Peter Rabel, Technical Product Manager at Digital Domain, comments, “The trend towards real-time capabilities has become prominent, allowing for immediate feedback and integration into virtual environments, video games and live events. As we integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning as tools to enhance these functions’ capabilities further, it will enable automated analysis and capture of movements in real-time, which will help save time on the process, leading to cost savings. It’s essential for us to stay updated on recent developments and industry trends to understand the current trajectory of these capture technologies as technology continues to evolve so we can better serve our clients.”
VICON:MARKERLESS
Vicon made a splash in 2023 with its Los Angeles SIGGRAPH announcement of the debut of its machine learning (ML) powered markerless mocap. The news came after some three years of research and development focusing on the integration of ML and AI into markerless motion capture at Vicon’s R&D facility in Oxford, U.K. Vicon collaborated on the technology with Artanim, the Swiss research institute that specializes in motion capture, and Dreamscape Immersive, the VR experience and tech company.
“The ability to capture motion without markers while maintaining industry-leading accuracy and precision is an incredibly complex feat,” says Mark Finch, Vicon’s Chief Technology Officer. “After an initial research phase, we have focused on developing the world-class markerless capture algorithms, robust real-time tracking, labeling and solving needed to make this innovation a reality. It was our first step towards future product launches, which will culminate in a first-of-its-kind platform for markerless motion capture.”
On the mocap set of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law with diode suit and Digital Domain’s Charlatan “face-swapping” system. (Photo: Chuck Zlotnick. Courtesy of Marvel Studios)
Finch continues, “What we demonstrated at SIGGRAPH was markerless recognition of the human form – using prototype cameras, software and algorithms – to track six people, with their full body solved in real-time, in a VR experience. This completely the need for participants to wear heavy gear with motion capture markers. As a result, the VR experience is more seamless and believable as the motion capture technology is largely invisible and non-invasive.” Finch adds, “Of the technology we showcased, Sylvain Chagué, Co-Founder and CTO of Artanim and Dreamscape, said, ‘Achieving best-in-class virtual body ownership and immersion in VR requires both accurate tracking and very low latency. We spent substantial R&D effort evaluating the computational performance of ML-based tracking algorithms, implementing and fine-tuning the multi-modal tracking solution, as well as taking the best from the full-body markerless motion capture and VR headset tracking capabilities.’ ”
ROKOKO VISION
Based in Copenhagen, Rokoko had two major announcements on the product front in the last year, “First, with Rokoko Vision, our vision AI solution that allows for suit-less motion capture from any camera. We released the first iteration mainly to get to know the space and gather insights from early use of the product,” CEO and Founder Jakob Balslev comments. “It’s becoming increasingly clear to us what the users need, and we are excited to release more updates on that front.
Rokoko’s Coil Pro is the company’s recent innovation in motion capture hardware, featuring no drift and no occlusion through a fusion of EMF and IMU capture. (Image courtesy of Rokoko)
OptiTrack’s Primex 120 and Primex 120W cameras offer the company’s longest camera-to-marker range for Passive and Active markers. OptiTrack accuracy with more range enables very large tracking volumes for a wide variety of training and simulation scenarios, extreme ground or aerial robotic facilities and larger cinematic virtual production studios. (Image courtesy of OptiTrack)
OptiTrack’s Primex cameras quickly identify and track Passive and Active markers. (Image courtesy of OptiTrack)
He adds, “Second, we unveiled our Coil Pro – the biggest innovation we’ve ever done on the hardware side – and, in my eyes, probably the biggest innovation ever in motion capture. Through a fusion of EMF and IMU capture, the Coil Pro unlocks the holy grail of motion capture: No drift and no occlusion. With drift-free global position over time and no need for line of sight from optical solutions, the Coil Pro is the best of both worlds of mocap [IMU and optical]. The underlying platform, named Volta Tracking Technology, fuses EMF and IMU and will be at the core of all our motion capture hardware solutions going forward.”
DIGITALDOMAIN:CHARLATAN
Digital Domain is further developing its machine learning neural rendering software Charlatan (sometimes referred to as a face-swapping tool). “Acknowledging the expense and time associated with traditional methods, including our top-tier Masquerade [facial capture] system, we developed Charlatan to introduce efficiency and affordability,” Rabel comments. “Several years ago, Charlatan was created using machine learning techniques. This innovative approach involves utilizing real photography of an individual’s face and applying enhancements, seamlessly transferring it to another person’s face, or even manipulating discrete aspects such as aging or de-aging. Recently, we have been developing Charlatan 3D, which evolves this technology to produce full 3D geometry from this process but at a lower cost and simpler capture conditions than Masquerade. In essence, Charlatan represents a significant stride towards streamlining the creation of lifelike digital humans with unparalleled realism.”
OPTITRACK:NEWCAMERAS
OptiTrack provides tracking solutions that vary in use, including AAA game studios, medical labs, and consumer and prosumer budget solutions. In November the firm announced its three most advanced motion capture cameras; the PrimeX 120, PrimeX 120W and SlimX 120. “With higher resolution and increased field of view, these new additions enable larger tracking areas for a wider variety of training and simulation scenarios and larger cinematic virtual production studios,” says Anthony Lazzaro, Senior Director of Software at OptiTrack. All three cameras, which are designed and manufactured at OptiTrack’s headquarters in Corvallis, Oregon, feature their highest-yet resolution, 12 megapixels. With the PrimeX 120, customers benefit from a standard 24mm lens while the PrimeX 120W comes with an 18mm lens with a wider field of view. [And] we have 24mm or 18mm wide lens options available with the Slim X 120.”
Lazzaro continues, “We also released a more informative and intuitive version of our mocap software, which is now compatible with all OptiTrack mocap cameras. Motive 3.1 is aimed at simplifying high-quality, low-latency performance motion tracking, offering users easy-to-use presets and labeling for tracked items that deliver the best possible motion data while saving time and eliminating extra steps. Customers also have greater visibility into possible issues and can automatically resolve against the harshest of tracking environments.”
STRETCHSENSE:MOCAPGLOVES
Founded in Auckland in 2012, StretchSense took on the mission to build the world’s best stretchable sensors for comfortably measuring the human body. “Building on top of our sensor technology, in 2019 we pivoted the business to focus on motion capture gloves for AAA studios, indie studios, streamers, VR/AR, live shows and more,” explains StretchSense Co-Founder and VP Partnerships & New Markets Benjamin O’Brien.
“Our Studio Gloves are incredibly unobtrusive, with a less than 1mm thick sensor layer on top of breathable athletic fabric, and a small transmitting module,” O’Brien says. “This is more than just a comfort and style thing though; it means that our gloves don’t get in your way, and you can continue to type, use a mouse, hold a prop, use your phone or just get a pizza from the door. Once you start to think about mixed-reality applications, this becomes even more critical, as our gloves allow you to switch seamlessly between interacting with virtual spaces and the real world.”
O’Brien adds, “Our mission is to democratize motion capture, allowing independent content creators and streamers to create incredible and immersive stories and experiences. To achieve this, we have a long-term goal of getting our gloves down to a true consumer price point, which will really open up the space. At $795, we think our latest StretchSense Studio Glove is the biggest step the industry has ever taken towards this goal; less than two years ago, something with similar performance would have cost well over $5,000.”
ARCTURUSANDVOLUMETRICVIDEO
Based in Beverly Hills, Arcturus Studios was founded in 2016 by veterans of DreamWorks, YouTube, Autodesk, Netflix and other notable companies. “Together, they saw the potential for volumetric video and decided to work together to steer its development,” recalls Piotr Uzarowicz, Head of Partnerships and Marketing at Arcturus. “That led to the creation of the HoloSuite tools, consisting of HoloEdit – a tool that can edit the 3D performances of performers recorded with volumetric video – and HoloStream, software that can compress a completed volumetric video file and stream it to any 2D or 3D device, even if the broadband signal is unstable. Together, HoloSuite has helped make it possible to use volumetric video for everything from e-commerce to AR projects to virtual production and more.”
Uzarowicz continues, “Arcturus took over Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) business [in 2023], including the development of that capture system – the most sophisticated in the world – as well as the rights to maintain and supply MRCS licenses to studios around the world. That has put Arcturus in a unique position where it is now developing for all stages of volumetric video, from the capture and editing all the way to the final distribution.”
“One of our goals has always been to make volumetric video more accessible. We’re looking at new ways to make it easier to capture volumetric videos using fewer cameras, including the use of AI and machine learning. With the MRCS technology and our licensees, we are working with some of the best and most creative content creators in the world to find where the technology can evolve and improve the production experience,” comments Uzarowicz. “We just released a new video codec called Accelerated Volumetric Video (AVV) that makes it possible to add more volumetric characters to a digital environment. With the MRCS technology, the quality of a captured performance is better than ever. Volumetric video is constantly evolving,” he adds.
OptiTrack’s Motive 3.1 advanced motion capture software can be paired with any of OptiTrack’s motion capture cameras, including the premium PrimeX, Slim or low-cost Flex series. Motive 3.1 also offers trained markersets, enhanced sensor fusion and pre-defined settings. (Image courtesy of OptiTrack)
StretchSense makes motion capture gloves for major and indie studios, streamers, VR/AR and live shows. (Image courtesy of StretchSense)
StretchSense’s mocap gloves are unobtrusive, with a less than 1mm-thick sensor layer on top of breathable athletic fabric and a small transmitting module. StretchSense’s $795 Studio Glove is a step toward the company’s goal of getting its gloves down to a true consumer price point. (Image courtesy of StretchSense)
“The trend towards real-time capabilities has become prominent, allowing for immediate feedback and integration into virtual environments, video games and live events. As we integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning as tools to enhance these functions’ capabilities further, it will enable automated analysis and capture of movements in real-time, which will help save time on the process, leading to cost savings.”
—Peter Rabel, Technical Product Manager, Digital Domain
Arcturus took over Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) business in 2023, including development of the capture system, as well as rights to maintain and supply MRCS licenses to studios worldwide. Arcturus also now develops for all stages of volumetric video. (Image courtesy of Arcturus)
Arcturus’s HoloSuite tools consist of HoloEdit – a tool that can edit the 3D performances of performers recorded with volumetric video – and HoloStream, software that can compress a completed volumetric video file and stream it to any 2D or 3D device, even if the broadband signal is unstable. With HoloSuite it’s possible to use volumetric video for e-commerce, AR projects and virtual production. (Image courtesy of Arcturus)
MOVEAI
Move AI has announced the official release of a single-camera motion capture app, Move One, the company revealed in late November. “The app is now available to animators and creditors looking to bring realistic human motion to their 3D characters,” said the company. “Move AI makes it easy to capture and create 3D animations.”
AI/ML
“Arcturus is currently experimenting with AI and machine learning in several ways. From the moment we were founded, one of our main goals has always been to make volumetric video more accessible, and AI can help us do that in a few different ways,” Uzarowicz comments. “Among other things, one of the areas we are currently focusing on in our R&D is using AI to help us capture the same level of quality – or better – we can currently capture but use fewer cameras. One of the things that makes our MRCS technology the best in the world is the software that converts the multiple captured recordings into a single 3D file. With AI, we hope to improve that process.” Regarding AI/ML, O’Brien says, “We are seeing many companies using motion capture to create their own proprietary databases for training or tuning generative AI models, and we are looking at how we can lean into this. Finally, we are ourselves constantly investing in machine learning to improve the data quality [of ] our products.”
“Given our experience with machine learning, we see Gen AI as a tool like any other in our toolbox, enabling us to create artistically pleasing results efficiently in support of the story,” Digital Domains’s Rabel says. “We have found that the combination of powerful tools, such as machine learning and AI, with our artists’ creative talent produces the photorealistic, relatable, believable and lifelike performances we are striving for. We feel the nuances of an actor’s performance in combination with our AI and machine learning toolsets are critical to achieving photorealistic results that can captivate an audience and cross the uncanny valley.”
Lazzaro comments, “OptiTrack already uses ML algorithms to derive optimal solutions for things like continuous calibration and trained markersets. Continuous calibration takes existing visible objects in a scene, i.e. markers, and uses that data to determine how to make small adjustments to fix calibration issues related to bumps, heat or human error. Trained markersets allow you to feed marker data into an algorithm to make a model that can track objects that were previously not trackable, such as trampolines, jump ropes and other non-rigid objects. Lazzaro adds, “Advances in AI and ML will continue to shape the way that objects are tracked in the future.” Rokoko’s Balslev notes, “AI/ML will fundamentally change the motion capture space. Text-to-motion tools are emerging and maturing and will eventually completely disrupt the stock space for online marketplaces and libraries. These tools will however not be able to replace any custom mocap that requires acting and specific timing.”
Our mission is to democratize motion capture, allowing independent content creators and streamers to create incredible and immersive stories and experiences. To achieve this, we have a long-term goal of getting our gloves down to a true consumer price point, which will really open up the space. At $795, we think our latest StretchSense Studio Glove is the biggest step the industry has ever taken towards this goal; less than two years ago, something with similar performance would have cost
well over $5,000.”
—Benjamin O’Brien, Co-Founder and
VP Partnerships & New Markets, StretchSense
Move AI offers a single-camera motion capture app, Move One, for animators looking to bring realistic human motion to their 3D characters, making it easy to capture and create 3D animations. (Images courtesy of Move AI)
VR AND MOCAP
“We [Vicon and Dreamscape Immersive] are together mapping out just how far markerless mocap can go in providing a more true-to-life adventure than any other immersive VR experience by allowing for more free-flowing movement and exploration with even less user gear,” Vicon’s Finch comments. “Dreamscape has said it has long awaited the time when markerless could break from concept and into product, where the technology could support the precision required to realize its amazing potential. We’re testing that potential together now.” Finch adds, “Seeing people’s initial reactions to VR when they’re fully immersed is remarkable. The fantasy-reality line blurs, the more freedom you have in a VR space, which is reduced when a user is tethered and they feel the pull of the cable or know they’re wearing a backpack.” He continues, “There’s also the customer experience element that’s a central driver in all of this. People’s experience with markerless is a big wow moment. Markerless is going to lead to more magic – more wow.”
Lazzaro explains, “Mocap is used in all sorts of VR and AR applications. Typically, home systems use what is called inside-out tracking to have a head-mounted display [HMD] track the world around a user. This works great for HMD and controller tracking, but can’t be used to see other people wearing HMDs. OptiTrack uses an approach called outside-in tracking where we track the HMD, controllers and props using external cameras. This allows users to build location-based VR experiences in which multiple people can go through an experience together or engineers can work on designs in VR as a group.”
OUTLOOK
“We think these markets [motion capture, performance capture and volumetric video] will all be changed with the continued increase in accessibility,” comments StretchSense’s O’Brien. You can now do full-body mocap for less than the cost of a new iPhone, and basic volumetric capture can now be had for free on that same iPhone. This means different things for different markets: On a major AAA studio, you are going to see mocap happening on all of the people all of the time, and also on more ambitious projects that have more animated content than ever before. For independent creators, the financial costs of getting into mocap are dropping away so more people can join the space. Finally, there are millions of streamers worldwide who are getting new ways to connect with their community and make money while doing so by stepping into virtual worlds.”
“Mocap has a bright future in a variety of markets,” OptiTrack’s Lazzaro says. “This includes but is not limited to movies, video games, medical applications, robotics, measurement and VR. Mocap techniques are also becoming more commonplace with V-Tubers and other prosumer applications.”
A major visual effects undertaking was constructing the environment and crowd at Tsinghua University watching the torture of intellectuals during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
A computational conundrum occurs when the motion of three celestial bodies mutually influences each other’s gravitation pull. This serves as the premise for the science fiction series 3 Body Problem by novelist/series writer Liu Cixin, where an alien race living on an environmentally unstable planet caught between a trio of suns sets in motion a plan to invade Earth with the assistance of human conspirators. Adapting the novels for Netflix is Game of Thrones duo, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with True Blood veteran Alexander Woo. The first season of 3 Body Problem encompasses eight episodes that feature major visual effects spanning environment builds, a multi-dimensional supercomputer compressed into a proton, a sliced and diced oil tanker, characters being rehydrated/dehydrated and a virtual reality game that literally feels real. The epic scope of the project required the creation of 2,000 shots by Scanline VFX, Pixomondo, BUF, Image Engine, Screen Scene and El Ranchito. An in-house team took care of additional cleanups, which ranged from a character blinking too much to having to paint out an unwanted background element.
Previs was an indispensable tool. “It’s a complete game-changer being able to do everything in Unreal Engine,” Visual Effects Supervisor Stefen Fangmeier states. “We did nearly no storyboarding. It was essentially camerawork. The funny thing was they were trying to get me to use a camera controller, and I said, ‘No. I’m a curve guy.’ I set a keyframe here and a keyframe there and interpolate. I even reanimated characters, which you can do in Unreal Engine in the most elegant way. You can take a couple of big performances and mix them together; it’s a fantastic tool. We worked with NVIZ in London who would prep all of these scenes, do the animation, then I would go shoot and light it; that was a great joy for me, being interactive. What was so interesting about 3 Body Problem was there is an incredible variety of work.”
Vedette Lim as Vera Ye in one of the many environments given the desired scope and vastness through digital set extensions.
A unique cinematic moment involves an oil tanker being sliced by nanowires as part of an elaborate trap to capture a hard drive belonging to a cult that supports the San-Ti invading Earth. “People get sliced every 50 cm, which we did mostly with digital doubles and a few practically built hallways and interior buildings. When you slice something that heavy vertically at 50 cm increments, the weight of what’s above it keeps it in place until the bow hits the shoreline. The dish on top of it collapses into the Panama Canal, which we created as a full CG environment,” Fangmeier states.
Opening the series is a massive crowd gathering at Tsinghua University during the Chinese Cultural Revolution to watch the torture of intellectuals, and because of the controversial nature of the subject matter shooting in Beijing was not an option. “Ultimately, we built the environment from photography and then took some liberties,” Visual Effects Producer Steve Kullback describes. “We wanted it to be realistic, but how big is the quad? What did the buildings actually look like? I don’t think anybody is tracking it quite that precisely, but what we ended up with is having 100,000 screaming students in front of us, and that was all shot quite virtually with a stage set that was built out and extended. It was an array of bluescreens on Manitous that were set up to move around and reposition behind 150 extras.” Crowd tiling was minimal. “We did one shot, which was a poor artist’s motion control. The director wanted a shot where the camera is pushing out towards the stage over the crowd, so what we did was start in the foreground pushing over it, repeat the move pushing over it and move everyone up. We put the pieces together, and it worked quite well. We didn’t have a motion control crane, just a 50-foot Technocrane and a good team that was able to repeat their moves nicely,” Kullback says.
Bai Mulin (Yang Hewen) sits alongside Young Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng) who makes a fateful first contact with the San-Ti, which sets their invasion plans in motion.
A radar dish test at Red Coast Base kills a flock of birds that were entirely CG.
Sophon (Sea Shimooka) is an avatar in a VR game created by the San-Ti to illustrate the destructive environmental impact of living next to three suns.
The reflective quality of the VR headset meant that extensive photogrammetry had to be taken so each set piece could be reconstructed digitally.
One of the major environments simulated in the VR game is the observation deck of the Pleasure Dome constructed by Kublai Khan.
Another key environment build was the Red Coast Base where astrophysics prodigy Ye Wenjie makes first contact with the San-Ti in the 1960s, which sparks an invasion conspiracy. “For Red Coast Base, we had part of an observation base in Spain that was on a mountaintop, and it was a windy day with no rain, so we had some nice sunsets and great clouds,” Visual Effects Supervisor Rainer Gombos remarks. “Some of the buildings didn’t match what we wanted, and the main building was missing the large radar dish. We only had the base built for that. We had some concepts from the art department for how the extensions should work, and then we did additional concept work once we had the specific shots and knew how the sequence would play out.” The years leading up to the present day have not been kind to the Chinese national defense facility. “The roofs have collapsed, so we had to design that. It had to look like winter and cold when it was actually a hot spring day with lots of insects flying around, which had to be painted out. There is a sequence where the radar dish is being used for some test, and birds are flying from the forest and get confused by what is happening, fly close to the dish and die. There were a lot of full CG shots there and CG birds that had to be added. Also, one of the characters revisits the base to commit suicide, so we had to introduce a digital cliff that allowed her to walk up to the side of the dish and look over,” Gombos adds.
30 million Mongol soldiers appear in front of the Pleasure Dome before being lifted into the air because of the gravitational pull of the three suns.
Simulating what life is like on Trisolaris is a virtual reality experience developed by the San-Ti that demonstrates the global catastrophes caused by living in close proximity to three suns. “It was described as a simple arid desert landscape,” Fangmeier explains. “The more unique aspect of that was a certain lighting change. One sun, small and in the distance, was rising, and then suddenly that goes away and it’s night again. Having the light on the actors move that quickly was tricky to achieve on set. We decided along with Jonathan Freeman, the DP for Episodes 101 and 102, to shoot that in a LED stage with a bunch of sand on the ground where we could animate hot spots and the colors of the panels even though we were going to replace all of that in CG.” Being in the realm of VR meant that the destruction could be fantastical, such as 30 million Mongol soldiers being lifted in the air because gravity no longer exists, or witnessing the entire landscape engulfed by a sea of lava. Fangmeier explains, “Then, we have some pseudoscience, like going inside of a particle accelerator. The San-Ti have sent these two supercomputers the size of a proton to stop the progress of human technology, so when they arrive 400 years later [Trisolaris is over three light years from Earth], we won’t be able to easily destroy their fleet. The proton [referred to as a sophon] unfolds into this giant two-dimensional sphere that then gets etched with computer circuitry. We talked a lot about going from 10 dimensions down to two and then going back to a 10-dimensional object. It’s stuff where you go, ‘That’s what it said in the book and script. But how do you visualize that?’”
The VR game created by the San-Ti is so sophisticated that it stimulates the five senses of users such as Jin Cheng (Jess Hong).
The VR game setting allowed for a more hyper-real visual language and the ability to defy physics, like when Sophon (Sea Shimooka) talks with Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) and Jack Rooney (John Bradley) in Episode 103.
The Follower (Eve Ridley) and Sophon (Sea Shimooka) are San-Ti appearing in human form to make it easier for VR users from Earth to relate to them.
Eiza González portrays Auggie Salazar, a member of the Oxford Five, which attempts to foil the invasion plans of the San-Ti.
Cinematographer Jonathan Freeman made use of complex and specific lighting panels for the VR setting shots to emulate what it would be like surrounded by three suns.
To preserve their species until the chaotic era gives way to a stable one, the San-Ti have a specific methodology that involves dehydrating and rehydrating their bodies. “It happens in two places and provided us with unique challenges and creative opportunities,” Kullback observes. “The first time we see it is when the rolled-up dehydrated bodies are being tossed into the water by the army to bring our characters back to life. The rolled-up bodies that get rehydrated were a prop that was designed by the prosthetics artists and looked quite beautiful. We go underwater and see the roll land and begin to unfold. The camera is below it and the sun is above the water, so you have these beautiful caustics and an opportunity for all kinds of subsurface scattering and light effects that make the image magical and ethereal and support the birthing process that it’s meant to represent. At the end of the experience, you have a beautiful nude woman who comes to the surface. Then, you find there are other nude folks who have been rebirthed. We shot in a tank at Pinewood to have the underwater shots and the shots of the woman, who is the final realization of this rebirthing. For the elements of the roll landing in the water, we did shoot one for real, but ultimately that was CG. Then the environment above the surface was fully CG. But then you go to the virtual reality game where Jin Cheng is walking with the Emperor and the Follower, and a chaotic era suddenly comes upon us, and there is no room to hide behind a rock from the immense forces of the sun getting ready to melt everybody. The Follower lies down on the ground in a vast desert with the pyramid off in the distance and has to dehydrate. That one presented a bit more of a challenge because you didn’t have the opportunity to travel around her and have these beautiful caustics. We heavily researched the footage of things dehydrating, like fruit left in the sun rotting, to try to get a look that was like how the body would deflate when it was completely sapped of water.”
Being able to digitally reconstruct sets and locations was made even more important by having a highly reflective VR headset. “The reflective headset required some photogrammetry type work while you were shooting because it was often in smaller places, and there’s some crew, all of the lighting equipment, and everything is dressed in one direction,” Gombos remarks. “You had to capture that three-dimensionally because as production turned around, you needed it for the paint-out from the other direction. We had HDRI panorama photography of that, but then we also had good spatial information about the room and how that would connect to the shot lighting we would do. We wanted to be precise, and on top of that, we often did a special reconstruction shoot after we were done. I would come in for a few hours and do the photography and LiDAR required for locations. These assets were created on the fly, so we had them to review our work but also to send off to the vendors, and they were using them in post. The 3D assets were helpful in quality-controlling the work and a good tool for orienting our teams. I could have this little 3D representation of the set and share and discuss that with the DP or director. I would say, ‘If they are here, it’s going to look like this.’ It wasn’t theoretical but quite precise.”
“One thing that was a bit different for me was that I did a lot of the concept work,” Gombos observes. “I enjoyed doing that for set extensions that then Stefen and the visual effects vendor working with him would execute.” Fangmeier is intrigued by what the viewer reaction will be beyond hardcore sci-fi fans of the books. “It’s not your typical sci-fi where you spend a lot of time in outer space or meet aliens, and it’s not an alien invasion per se. It’s the first season, so it’s fairly mellow and highbrow. It’s deals with concepts other than the stuff that people are usually used to when they watch sci-fi. I’m curious what the mainstream viewer will think about that.”
There is a core mandate no matter the project for Kullback. “If we are able to help tell the story visually in areas where you can’t photograph something, then that’s our dimension. We’re never creating eye candy for the sake of eye candy. We work hard to have everything that we do fit into the greater whole and to do it in a seamless and attractive way. And, most importantly, in a way that communicates and moves the story forward and realizes the vision of the filmmakers.”
With the release of “Self,” a cautionary tale about the desire to please and be accepted by others, Searit Huluf got an opportunity to showcase her filmmaking talents as part of the Pixar SparkShort program. The project was partly inspired by her parents trying to adjust to life in America after immigrating from Ethiopia, which, at the time, was ravaged by civil war.
“My mom and dad separated, so it was just my mom looking after me. I had a lot more independence because she was working a lot. I mainly stayed in the east side of Los Angeles, which became my playground. It wasn’t until I got to UCLA that I started to explore more of Los Angeles, in particular the west side, which felt like being in a different country because everything is so clean, and there were a lot more shops.”
An opportunity presented itself to visit Ethiopia right before the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed international travel. “It was our first mother/daughter trip, and I had forgotten what it was like to be under my mom again,” Huluf recalls. “While in Ethiopia, my mother was cautious because the capital of Addis Ababa is not where my people are from, which is the Tigray region. It wasn’t until we got to Mekelew where my mom’s side of the family lives that we got to relax and meet people.” Huluf watched her aunts make coffee called ‘buna’ from scratch. “After roasting the coffee, they take it to everyone to smell to say thanks before grinding. Then you have to hand-grind the roasted coffee with a mortar and pestle. My friends and I made it every day. It was so much fun.”
Participating in sports was not an affordable option growing up, so Huluf consumed a heavy dose of anime consisting of Sailor Moon, Naruto, One Piece and Bleach. What was made available to her in high school was the ability to take community college classes on computer coding and engineering through STEM [Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics] programming. “I did a website competition inside of which there was a film competition, so I did a live-action short with all of the seniors in my group, and afterward I was like, ‘I want to go to art school.’” The art school in question was the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where she studied screenwriting and stop-motion animation. “I was trying to figure out what is the closest I could get to animation but not have to draw, and it was stop-motion; that was the happy medium because I do love live-action and animation. My schooling was live-action, but a lot of my internships were animation; that’s how I divided it up.”
Internships included Cartoon Network and DreamWorks Animation, then Pixar came to UCLA. “I kept in contact with the recruiter and started at Pixar as an intern in production management while making films on the side,” Huluf remarks. “I am also big in the employee resource groups within Pixar. I spearheaded the first celebration of Black History Month at Pixar and decided to make a documentary where Black Pixar employees talk about what it is like to be Black in America. The 19th Amendment documentary came about because I cared about people voting for the 2020 elections. It was a way to promote Pixar fans to go out and vote by having Pixar women talk about why they should do it and the complicated history of the 19th Amendment. Documentaries are scary because you go in with what’s there and make the story in the editing room. That was a lot of fun, and I gained more confidence to be a filmmaker, and I switched back to making narrative films.”
Soul was the first high-profile project at Pixar for Searit Huluf.
“I got to work with Tippett Studio, which I love! … There’s that Pixar comfort where everybody knows each other or someone adjacent. But these were complete strangers, and there was a big age gap between us. A little bit of me was going, ‘Are they not going to respect me?’ And it was the exact opposite. They were so loving and caring.”
—Searit Huluf, Writer and Director of “Self”
Critiquing, not writing, is where Huluf excels. “I went to a talk where a writer said that you have to wear different hats when you’re writing. When you’re wearing the writing hat, you’re writing all of your thoughts and ideas. Once you’re done writing, you put on the critique hat, and that’s where you start editing what you wrote. Is this actually good? Is it going to help your story? Is your structure right? You can’t wear both hats at the same time. I think a lot about that when I write. What is also great is that I went to UCLA and did screenwriting. I’m still in touch with all my screenwriting friends, and everyone is still writing. It’s nice to write something and the next week we do a writing session together and talk about the things that we’re writing.” Two individuals standout for their guidance, she says. “I still keep in touch with my UCLA professor, Kris Young, and am part of the Women in Animation mentorship program; [director] Mark Osborne is my mentor. It’s nice talking with him. He did Kung Fu Panda and The Little Prince. Mark is doing everything I want to do with my life! He’s doing live-action and animation. In this mentorship program, other women are working on their own projects. One Saturday we have it with him and the other Saturday is just us. That has been great.”
“Self” was inspired by Searit Huluf desiring to gain social acceptance as well as by the struggles her parents faced immigrating to America from Ethiopia.
“Self” marks the first time since WALL-E that live-action elements have been integrated with computer animation by Pixar.
Soul afforded Huluf the opportunity to work with one of her role models, writer/director Kemp Powers, who co-directed Soul.
Spearheading the first celebration of Black History Month at Pixar, Huluf went on to serve as a cultural consultant on Soul.
Searit Huluf helped to facilitate brainstorming sessions to make sure that there was cultural authenticity to the story, character designs and animation for Soul.
“[Director] Mark [Osbourne] is doing everything I want to do with my life! He’s doing live-action and animation. In this mentorship program, other women are working on their own projects. One Saturday we have it with him and the other Saturday is just us. That has been great.”
—Searit Huluf, Writer and Director of “Self”
Huluf has a support network at Pixar. “Luckily for me, I’m not the first Black shorts director at Pixar. Aphton Corbin made “Twenty Something,” so it‘s nice to be able to talk to her about it. Michael Yates did the Win or Lose streaming [series for Disney+], and I keep regular contact with Kemp Powers. It’s nice to talk to people who are in your arena. Personally, too, that’s why I do both live-action and animation, because there’s something about both mediums that gives me motivation and hope.”
Like Mark Osborne with The Little Prince, Huluf was able to combine computer animation and stop-motion to make “Self,” where the protagonist is a wooden puppet surrounded by environments and metallic characters created digitally. “I got to work with Tippett Studio, which I love! I studied stop-motion at UCLA, so I know what the process looks like, but I have never done it in a professional setting, and I’m not the animator; other people are doing this who have worked on James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas. There’s that Pixar comfort where everybody knows each other or someone adjacent. But these were complete strangers, and there was a big age gap between us. A little bit of me was going, ‘Are they not going to respect me?’ And it was the exact opposite. They were so loving and caring. I still text with them.”
“I spearheaded the first celebration of Black History Month at Pixar and decided to make a documentary where Black Pixar employees talk about what it is like to be Black in America. The 19th Amendment documentary came about because I cared about people voting for the 2020 elections. It was a way to promote Pixar fans to go out and vote by having Pixar women talk about why they should do it and the complicated history of the 19th Amendment.”
—Searit Huluf, Writer and Director of “Self”
Going through various characters designs for the character of Self.
A significant lesson was learned when making “Self.” “I did a lot of my independent films by myself, and this time I had people who are paid and wanted to be involved,” Huluf notes. “Working with the animators was one of the most insightful moments for me. I would film myself and say, ‘How about we do this?’ They would be like, ‘We could do that, but how about this?’ And it was so much better. In the beginning, I was very precious about it and slowly realized, ‘They know what this film is and what needs to be told, too.’ It was a learning curve for me.” The transition to feature directing is more likely to first occur in live-action rather than animation. “That’s primarily because the stakes are higher in animation than a live-action film. This is purely based on budgets.”
A comparison of Self with one of the female Goldies.
A personal joy for Huluf was being able to design the costume for Self.
“When I think about filmmakers I look up to, I see that they start with smaller indie features. Barry Jenkins is a perfect example. Moonlight was only a couple of million dollars, and then he made a higher-ground film If Beale Street Could Talk. I want to start small and slowly build myself up. The big jump for me now is to do a feature. Luckily for me, I’m not too intimidated to do it. It’s more about when someone will give me the chance. I do believe in my ideas and storytelling capabilities. Right now, I’m writing and seeing how things go. I look forward to people watching ‘Self’ and being able to talk to them about it because that’s something new for me.”
Tippett Studio Senior Art Director and Lead Puppeteer Mark Dubeau explains the puppet design to Searit Huluf.
The hair of Self was the hardest aspect to get right. It was inspired by the hairstyle of Searit Huluf.
A dream come true for Huluf was being able to collaborate with Tippett Studio on “Self.”
Showcasing the detailed eyeballs for the stop-motion puppet crafted by Tippett Studio.
Pixar SparkShorts Build “Self” Esteem for Emerging Filmmakers
Treading a path blazed by WALL-E where live-action footage was incorporated into the storytelling, the Pixar SparkShort “Self,” conceived by Searit Huluf, revolves around a wooden stop-motion puppet desperate to be accepted into a society of metallic beings.
“For me, it was, ‘I really want to do stop-motion. I want to visually see something alive onscreen that you can see the handprint of a human touching it,” Huluf states. “I wanted the story to be the reason it had to be stop-motion.”
A central theme is the personal cost of gaining social acceptance. “I will play this game in my head of hiding parts of myself so I can conform and be part of the group,” Huluf explains. “That’s how I visualized Self as she literally rips herself apart to be like everyone else. The other aspect is my mom immigrated to America from Ethiopia, and I wanted to talk about how immigrants are usually not seen or heard. I wanted Self to feel like she is Ethiopian, so she has natural wood that has been carved by a masterful craftsman. There is something nice about her being so natural herself but wanting to be something so shiny, plastic and fake. There is something visually beautiful about that. Another layer on top is that she is even animated differently. Self is stop-motion, so she’s animated on 2s and 3s versus the CG Goldies, which are on 1s and are so slick when they move. Self is poppy and jumpy at points when she tries to talk and interact with them.”
Excitement and fear were felt when working out the logistics for the project. “I was excited about doing something so different and unique, but at the same time I had no idea of how you properly schedule out and manage a stop-motion film,” remarks Eric Rosales, Producer of “Self.” “I was like, ‘Alright, let’s learn this on the fly.’ You’re taking this whole new element and trying to fit pieces into our puzzle and take their puzzle pieces and put them all together.” The other puzzle pieces belonged to Tippett Studio which constructed, animated and shot the stop-motion puppet. Rosales says, “It was a breath of fresh air in the sense that you get to see how other studios approach their scheduling, decision-making and problem-solving. It was exciting for us to learn from them as much as they were learning from us, and learn how to take the different aspects of the stop-motion process and incorporate it into our pipeline. And vice versa, how we would handle something and transfer that information back over to Tippett. We did a lot of back and forth with them and shared a lot of thoughts.”
Complimenting and informing the design of the physical puppet was the digital version. “We had a digital puppet that Pixar was able to move around in the computer and act out what they wanted the puppet to do. That informed us in terms of how we needed to build the puppet to be able to effectively move in those ways,” states Mark Dubeau, Senior Art Director and Lead Puppeteer at Tippett Studio. “There is a lot you can do digitally that you can’t do with a puppet, and so we knew probably that we would have to build about three or four puppets to be able to do that number of shots.” Nine different faces were constructed to express panic, sadness, happiness and anger.
For a long time, the digital double of Self was a placeholder for 19 shots that utilized stop-motion animation. “But as things progressed, we turned off our character as she is now being added in the comp,” states Nathan Fariss, Visual Effects Supervisor of “Self.” “The amount of color tweaking and general polish that was happening in comp, and even the color grading steps in post, were much more than any of our other projects because we needed to match a photographic element to our CG world and vice versa.”
“Self” Producer Eric Rosales and Huluf examine the various pieces that go into making a stop-motion puppet.
Various body parts and variations had to be created by Tippett Studio to give the stop-motion puppet the correct range of physicality and emotion.
Previs and layout dictated the shot design for the stop-motion scenes. “We had a first lighting pass that was already done and even before Tippett started lighting everything up,” Rosales remarks. “We sent members of our lighting team over there to do the last bits of tweaking. Searit acted out every single shot that Tippett was going to do. She did it in her living room by herself. To sell the foot contact, Tippett ended up building a concrete slab out of Styrofoam so we were able to see Self physically walking on top of something.”
Self makes a wish upon a falling star that enables her to exchange wooden body parts with metallic ones. “I usually talk about what the character is feeling at the moment,” Huluf states. “The way we talked about that scene of her jumping off of the roof, I wanted to show how she goes from, ‘Oh, cool these body pieces are falling from the sky,’ to slowly becoming more obsessive in finding them. That face is the last piece for her. ‘I’m going to finally belong.’ A lot of people do a lot of crazy things to belong. In Self’s case she’ll rip herself apart to be like everyone. Self-jumping off of the roof is the climax of the film because it’s her craziness and obsessiveness all wrapped into one as she falls into darkness. We had a lot of conversations about how she snaps out of it, and for me, your face is who you are. As she steps on her own face, it snaps her back into reality and makes her realize and go, ‘Oh, my God! Why did I do this?’”
The cityscape did not have to be heavily detailed. “We ended up settling up a look that was a flat color or a gradient so it felt like there was a little bit of life in the city and things were lit up,” Fariss reveals. “There were other people present in the buildings, but it didn’t necessarily draw the audience into the lives that are going on in the buildings around there. The cities were mostly hand-built. There wasn’t enough scope to warrant going a procedural route to put the cities together, so they were hand-dressed, and there was a lot of shot-by-shot scooting some buildings around to get a more pleasing composition.”
More problematic was getting the hair right for the puppet. States Dubeau, “Once we figured out what urethane to use then we did all of the hair. However, we found out it was too heavy for the head. We had to go back and make two pieces of hair that go down and frame either side of her face. Those were made out of that material and painted. We hollow-cast the ones on the back, which had a wire that went into the head, and then you could move those pieces around, but you couldn’t bend them. The ones in front could swing and twist. It totally worked. Now you got the sense of this light, fluffy hair that was bouncing around on her head.”
“Self” was an educational experience. “One of the things that we learned from Lisa Cooke [Stop-Motion Producer] at Tippett is you end up saving your time in your shot production,” Rosales notes. “It’s all of the pre-production and building where you’re going to spend the bulk of your money. There was a lesson in patience for us because with CG we can take everything up to the last minute and say, ‘I want to make this or that change.’ But here we needed to zero in and know what we’ve got going on. Once the animators get their hands on the puppet and start doing the shots, the first couple of shots take a little bit of time. After that handful of shots, they get a feel for the character, movement and puppet, and it starts moving quickly. Then we were able to get our team on, and they were able to start learning their cadence as well. It started becoming a nice little machine that we were putting together.”
Searit appreciated the collaborative spirit that made the stop-motion short possible. “I’m approving things at Tippett and going back to Pixar to approve all of the CG shots multiple times a week. We had a lot of people who were big fans of ‘Self’ and helped us while they were on other shows or even on vacation or working on the weekend because they were so passionate. I’m grateful that Jim Morris [President of Pixar] let me have this opportunity to make a stop-motion film, which has never been done before at Pixar.”
Actor Hiroyuki Sanada had a key role in making sure that period-accurate Japanese was spoken by the characters.
Inspired by the power struggle in feudal Japan that led to the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu to Shōgun and his relationship with English sailor William Adams, who became a key advisor, James Clavell authored the seminal historical fiction novel Shōgun, adapted into a classic NBC miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune. Forty-four years later, the story has been revisited by FX and Hulu as a limited 10-episode production under the creative guidance of Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo.
“What we felt made Shōgun interesting today would be to tell more of an E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial story of an outsider who has shown up in the world that we let the audience inhabit,” states Justin Marks, Creator, Executive Producer and Showrunner. “We worked with our producers and star, Hiroyuki Sanada, as well as Eriko Miyagawa [Producer], to use their expertise to craft the dialogue in the right kind of Japanese.”
Regarding depicting the Sengoku Period, compromises had to be made. “There will always be a gap between accuracy and authenticity, which means negotiating which spaces are necessary to keep distance and which ones you need to close the gap,” states Creator and Executive Producer Rachel Kondo. “We were constantly defining and redefining what we’re trying to be authentic to. Are we trying to be authentic to a time or people or specific place?” Originally, the plan was to shoot in Japan, but the [COVID-19] pandemic caused British Columbia to become the stand-in for the island nation. “Very little cleanup was required relative to what it would be in Japan where you would be removing power lines all day just to get something to look natural, and then you want to plus it to the premise of the story,” Marks says. “With Michael Cliett [Visual Effects Supervisor and Visual Effects Producer], we worked out a system that would keep us flexible in post-production with what we would call a high and low appetite version of a shot; that element of protection was for storytelling reasons but largely for budget reasons. Then, what it allowed us to do was to say, ‘This is a show about landscapes,’ and on some level, we have broad landscapes and what we called ‘landscapes of detail,’ such as close-ups of tatami mats because they were shot with macro lenses.”
Anna Sawai felt completely in the role of Toda Mariko when the Christian cross was hung around her neck.
Osaka was the most straightforward of the three cities to develop because extensive reference material exists from 1600 and the general topography has not changed. “Ajiro was a gorgeous little cove on the waterfront, but the area itself wasn’t quite large enough to create a whole village. So, we had to make a mental jump to say that the upper village is where the samurai class live and the lower village was where the much poorer fishing folk live,” Production Designer Helen Jarvis explains. “We ended up using two different locations and then knit them together in a few establishing shots. Edo [modern-day Tokyo] was the city that Yoshii Toranaga [cinematic persona of Tokugawa] was actually in the process of developing and building at the time. We saved a portion of the waterfront Osaka set and didn’t fully develop it until much later in the series knowing that we had to create two city blocks that were in the process of being built. One of our set designers did a preliminary model of the shape of the city and how the castle might relate to the city; that ended up being much more in Michael Cliett’s hands. He had people scanning the buildings that we had and we had various other 3D files of buildings that we would like to see represented, like temples.”
Kashigi Yabushige attempting to rescue Vasco Rodrigues from drowning was a challenge to assemble for Editor Maria Gonzales.
Exterior garden shots of Osaka Palace were captured inside of Mammoth Studios, requiring soundstage ceilings to be turned into CG skies. “There was a lot of fake bounce light as if the set was lit by the sky rather than sunshine,” reveals Christopher Ross, Cinematographer, Episodes 101 and 102. “We would light the garden as if it was an exterior and then each of the sets would not only have direct light from whatever lighting rig, but they also had borrowed light from the gardens themselves. The way to create chaos in the imagery was to allow the sun to splash across the garden at times then let that borrowed light from the splash of sun push itself into the environment. Thanks to the art department, all of the ceilings were painted wood paneling, and we could raise and open each of them. Each ceiling had a soft box, so for the interiors there was a soft-colored bounce fill light that we could utilize should we need to.” A complicated cinematic moment was executed onboard the galleon, which gets hit by a huge wave. “You start on deck, end up below deck then return to the top deck, all within the space of a two-and-half-minute sequence. It required a lot of pre-planning and collaboration between the departments and in total unison with the performers on the day, getting the camera to track with one character, change allegiance and track with a different character, and track with yet another. It forced everybody to be very collaborative. It was great that we could pull that sequence off, and it looks epic.”
Originally, the plan was to shoot in Japan, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused principal photography to take place throughout British Columbia.
Contributing to the collaborative spirit was Special Effects Supervisor Cameron Waldbauer. “You take the boat sequence, for example. We’re dumping water on a ship that is on a gimbal, and Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle [Stunt Coordinator] has guys going off the side of the boat, and we’re rehearsing that and putting that together. Then, Michael Cliett takes that, puts it out into an open ocean, and it looks seamless in the end,” Waldbauer says. Storyboards were provided early on. “We would do tests of things and make things that we wanted to do. We would almost go backward so they would get the information from those tests and put that into the storyboards that were presented to everybody else,” Waldbauer adds. Shōgun offered an opportunity to return to old-school special effects. “I’ve done several superhero movies with lots of greenscreen and stage work, and that wasn’t what this was. This was interesting for me and the crew to work outside for the next seven months. Now you’re dealing with all of the weather and elements, and you’re working on a show that doesn’t have the time to come back to do it later. You deal with what’s happening on the day. We did get the weather that we wanted for the most part. The desire to get everything in-camera meant incorporating effects rigs into sets and hiding them on location. We have tried to match what would actually happen on the day and what would happen at the time. A sword hits a person in 2024 the same way as it did in 1600. However, you need to make sure to get the look that the director wants out of it dramatically, instead of having to adhere to what it used to look like,” Waldbauer explains.
Hiroyuki Sanada portrays Yoshii Toranaga, who author James Cavell based on Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the last shogunate in Japan.
Serving as a translator between Yoshii Toranaga and John Blackthorne is Toda Mariko (based on Akechi Tama), portrayed by Anna Sawai. “For Shōgun, there wasn’t that much acting with visual effects,” Sawai notes. “It was more, we have an amazing set, and on top of that when they go in on a wider shot, they’ll be able to see through visual effects what Japan looks like. There is an ambush scene, which was supposed to be arrows flying and, obviously, they weren’t going to do that, so we had to pretend they were coming at us. For the ship scenes, I would have to look out into blackness because we were shooting that at night and visualize it being a beautiful ocean. It’s difficult when they zoom into my face, and you’re thinking about, ‘I’m visualizing this, but I’m actually seeing a camera thrown right in my face!’ Those things are hard, but it’s part of our job that we use our imagination.” Two years were spent training at Takase Dojo prior to production. “Then on Shōgun,” Sawai continues, “I found out that I had to do the naginata fighting, which is a completely different thing because now you’re working with something that is super long and hard to control because it’s heavy, which it should be because if it’s light it’s not going to show that you’re actually fighting.” Performing stunts is not a problem for Sawai. “I love it! I love it so much! I feel lucky that when Lash [Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle] saw me fighting, he was like, ‘Let’s try to use as much of you as we can, and other times we will go with Darlene Pineda [who did an amazing job as my stunt double].’”
The opening of the series was altered to have the Erasmus appear like a ghost ship during a vicious storm.
Osaka was the most straightforward city to construct because extensive reference material exists from 1600.
“We didn’t have a lot of previs for this show, which is unusual considering the scope of it,” observes Maria Gonzales, Editor, Episodes 101, 104, 107, 110. “We did have some storyboards and used those when we could. I stayed in touch with Michael Cliett as much as possible because he was my go-to in terms of understanding the potential for some of these shots. You try to put the thing together in the way that makes the most sense, and some of it we had to pick up later on once we met with the directors and talked with Michael. Sometimes, he was able to send me artwork that helped guide us in a certain direction.” Temp visual effects were created within the Avid Media Composer by the editorial team. Gonzales adds, “I did the pilot episode where there was a huge storm and some of those big reveals of Osaka. Our guys decided to pull in as many shots as they could to give an idea what the real scope of the scene was going to be.” The cliffside rescue of a drowning Vasco Rodrigues was a mindbender to assemble. Gonzales explains. “I had some of the close-ups and wider shots. I had no idea of what this was going to look like and what the height of the cliff really was. My first assembly was very different from what you saw in the final. Once Michael and Justin came to the cutting room, we were able to finesse it and get it to what you see today. But it was with Michael’s help that I was able to finally see what this was supposed to be. It’s like, ‘No. No. No. These guys are supposed to be way up and Kashigi Yabushige is supposed to be falling way down.’”
Three different locations were involved in creating the scene mentioned above. “We were on a six-foot-high set piece in a field of grass in Coquitlam, B.C.,” reveals Michael Cliett, Visual Effects Supervisor and Visual Effects Producer. “Everything on the top of the cliff was shot on that set piece. Every time you looked over the top, that was all CG water, coastline and Rodrigues. We did another set piece that was on the side of the cliff when Yabushige was repelling down. We shot all of the profile shots and him hanging from the top down on a vertical cliff piece in our backlot over where we had the Osaka set ready as well. Then we had the gulch where the water was out on a 60-foot tank special effects setup with the rocks. We were praying for the right weather and light at all three locations because each of them was outside.” Another dramatic water moment is when the Portuguese carrack known as the Black Ship attempts to prevent Toranaga from leaving the harbor of Osaka. “The galley was stationary, but we did put the Black Ship on 150 feet of track. We got the Black Ship from Peter Pan & Wendy that had just finished shooting here, chopped it up and made our own design. It’s roughly one-eighth of the ship. We did have some motion where it appeared that the ships were jostling for position. We shot a bunch of footage, but at the end of the day we weren’t quite sure how we were going to fill in the gaps, what the ships would be doing, what shots we needed of the ships that were going to be all visual effects and how that story was going to come together. ILP and I cut things together differently and tried to fill in those gaps. Over two months in the summer of 2022, we finally had it working with a bunch of greyshade postvis.”
Three different locations were assembled together for when Kashigi Yabushige descends a cliff to rescue a shipwrecked Vasco Rodrigues.
Over the 10 episodes, 2,900 shots were created by SSVFX, Important Looking Pirates, Goodbye Kansas Studios, Refuge VFX, Barnstorm VFX, Pixelloid Studios and Render Imagination, while Melody Mead joined the project as a Visual Effects Associate Producer, allowing Cliett to focus more on supervision side of the visual effects work. “At the beginning of Episode 105, Toranaga is arriving with his 100,000-person army, which was 99% digital, as we rise up and move past him,” Cliett remarks. “The Japanese have a way of moving and walking, so we did do a number of motion capture shoots with Japanese soldiers and instilled a lot of that into the digital versions of them.” Toranaga’s army establishes a base camp on an encampment that subsequently gets destroyed by a massive earthquake. “This is why we had to put mountains surrounding the training fields, because there are huge landslides that come down which bury the army, and we had to make it on the magnitude where we could sell that 75,000 people died,” Cliett notes. FX Networks Chairman John Landgraf raised a narrative question when trying to lock the pilot episode about how the Erasmus, the Dutch ship piloted by Blackthorne, gets to Ajiro. Cliett explains, “I said to Justin, ‘Why don’t we look into having the ship being towed in? The samurai are running about 50 skiffs, but the villagers are doing all of the work. Then, we can fly past the ship into Ajiro, which you get to see for the first time.’ Justin loved it. Then, John Landgraf loved it. I ended up taking a second unit out, directing that plate and doing that whole shot. It’s one of my favorite shots of the series.”
The prevailing question for Aaron Eaton in regard to holograms is how to make something that does not exist look like something that could be captured by a camera, such as this one featured in Avengers: Endgame. (Image courtesy of Cantina Creative and Marvel Studios)
When the final credits roll, it becomes quite clear that you literally need an army of talented individuals spanning a wide variety of professions to make a film or television production a reality. To take a more micro perspective, one can look at the visual effects section where hundreds upon hundreds of names are listed for each of the vendors, and then it truly sinks in – the number of unsung heroes who have contributed their time and talents far from the public spotlight. This lack of awareness also happens within the visual effects industry as generalists have given way to specialists who are more insulated from the contributions of their colleagues in other departments. In an effort to rectify the situation, a number of visual effects companies were asked to put forward candidates deserving of recognition for their exemplary professionalism and skillset. Think of those listed below as just a small sampling of people and occupations that are pivotal in making the visual spectacle and invisible transformation possible.
Aaron Eaton, VFX Supervisor, Cantina Creative
I like that I’m not specialized because I would hate to be doing one single thing all day long! I’m happy to have found Cantina Creative where I can still be a generalist even today. You don’t just work on a shot for an hour, send it off to somebody and never see it again. I’m able to work on something, and it can be very much my own, and you’re involved with it through all of the stages; that has been cool. Compositing is definitely my favorite. It’s that final creative push of bringing something extra to a shot that makes it sit in there and look awesome.
Holograms are a lot trickier than it seems because you’re working on something that doesn’t exist. How do you make the hologram absolutely believable as if it’s something you could film with a camera? There are numerous things that it takes to make the hologram feel integrated into the shot. It has a lot to do with mimicking everything that the camera is doing, with lots of depth in the element, textural elements, noise, grain and glitches. All kinds of subtle features that could come with all of these holograms because a hologram may not be perfection. You have to think about the technology that is projecting or creating the hologram and all of the aspects of how it would actually work.
Understanding composition and cinematography was important to Cameron Widen when doing the layout of the exterior train shots for Season 3 of Snowpiercer. (Image courtesy of Image Engine Design and TNT)
“As workflows and techniques are ever-evolving, for me, it is more important to be on top of the questions that often do not change. How do I stay efficient so that I can be creative? How do I continue to be inspired and to inspire? How do I stay proud of my work?”
—Jason Martin, Layout Artist, ILP
Alan Puah, Head of Systems, Territory Studio
Systems is responsible for some of the most critical parts of the pipeline, things like the storage, network and render farm, which form the backbone of the infrastructure in a visual effects studio. Sometimes the existing infrastructure will dictate how the pipeline works, but often it works the other way around, and we’ll need to upgrade and adapt things to support how a project pipeline is structured.
Creating CGI places some of the highest demands on the technology used, so it’s important to make sure that you’re keeping up with new technology. There is probably more happening now than at any other time as advancements in machine learning and how the exponential growth in computing power impacts our industry. But there’s also been some reversal in trends. For example, in some cases utilizing the cloud hasn’t been the best fit, so there’s been a migration back to on-premise for various reasons that include saving costs or maintaining more control over data and security.
Cameron Ward produced previs for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever sequence of Namora leading a squad of Taloncail to take out the sonic emitter on the Royal Sea Leopard. (Image courtesy of Digital Domain and Marvel Studios)
Technical animation had to be created by Jason Martin for Lost in Space Season 2 to support the effects needed for destruction shots. (Image courtesy of ILP and Netflix)
Jeremie Lodomez believes that compositing is vital to seamlessly blend CG, animation and live-action footage, which was the case for the Heroes of the Horn reveal in Season 2 of The Wheel of Time. (Image courtesy of Framestore and Prime Video)
It was the book The Art of The Lord of the Rings that made Jeremy Melton want to be involved with world-building for shows such as The Orville: New Horizons. (Image courtesy of FuseFX and Hulu)
For Maike Fiene, it’s important not to be too precious about visualization, as the needs of a production like Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey will evolve over time. (Image courtesy of Framestore and Netflix)
Alicia Carvalho, Senior Rigger, DNEG
I broadly describe my job to people who aren’t in VFX as “putting in the control structures so that animators can animate. “Coming mostly from feature animation, TV and game cinematics, working in a visual effects pipeline has been a really interesting experience, especially when you’re working on rigs where the end result has to match a plate. You have another layer of restrictions of what can move and in what way compared to the relatively free rein you have in Feature when the bounds of what you can do are based on the needs/imagination of an animator.
With machine learning and the move towards game engine integration, it’s going to be more important for artists to hold onto their foundational skills. In general, I’ve noticed a promising trend among companies discussing and wanting to move more female colleagues into supervisory or lead roles, but there doesn’t seem to be enough mentorship support once those positions are filled. There’s definitely always room to improve.
CameronWard,PrevisualizationArtist,DigitalDomain
I was on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and there were some beautiful renders of the boat as the hydro bombs kept coming and explode beneath it. We had a little time so we could dial it in and make it look great before delivering it to the client, but that’s not always the case. It depends on the project and what the client requires because sometimes they’re only looking for rough. However, sometimes lighting and composition can sell a shot.
Years ago, I was on The Fate of the Furious, and we went to get scans of the city. We were laying out the streets and the heights of the buildings. We got a Dodge Challenger and mounted a camera on its hood. When the day came for shooting, they weren’t paying craft services for four days’ worth of shoots, but for one because they got it all in a day. There’s that aspect as well. You’re cutting down the cost of an actual day of production because you already know your camera angle, focal length, how high you want the camera off the ground and how fast it will be going.
Cameron Widen, Layout, Image Engine
The word ‘layout’ means a different thing for every studio – and often with every person you speak with in a studio. Layout in feature animation is wrapped up a whole lot more in previs-type tasks, like figuring out camera angles and composition. In visual effects, most of the time we’re working with plates that have been shot, so there are not a lot of choices to be made by us in that regard. That said, in almost every project there will be some full CG shots that don’t have associated photography with them, and that’s where we get to flex our creative muscles and use our composition and cinematography skills. Recently, we’ve been getting a push to give our layout versions and presentation that we send for review a much nicer look than what I’m typically used to doing. My preference is to send grayshaded renders for review because then people will be commenting on composition, speed of the camera and camera framing. If our layout versions look too nice and polished then we will start getting visual effects supervisors or other people who will see an issue with a texture map or some shading that we have no control over, and they will fixate on that and won’t make any comment on the layout part.
Meliza Fermin created a futuristic Brooklyn Bridge for The Orville. (Image courtesy of FuseFX and Hulu)
As a workflow supervisor, Michael Billette spends time informing the various departments at Image Engine how to best utilize the pipeline when working on projects like Bloodshot. (Image courtesy of Image Engine Design and Columbia Pictures/Sony)
Concept art of Lucifer’s Palace door by Niklas Wallén for the Season 1 of The Sandman. (Image courtesy of ILP and Netflix)
During pre-production and through post on The Marvels, Patrick Haskew provided visualization that was used to help convey a whole crew being swallowed up by Flerkens. (Image courtesy of The Third Floor and Marvel Studios)
A large part of the job for Sam Keehan is providing the necessary support so that artists can concentrate on their job and produce the best results for clients like Marvel Studios on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. (Image courtesy of Territory Studio and Marvel Studios)
Turntables are indispensable when submitting textures for review to make sure that the final image has the right reflectivity and surface deformation, such as when working on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. (Image courtesy of Digital Domain and Marvel Studios)
GeorgeSears,HeadofVirtualProduction, The Imaginarium Studios
Essentially, my job is to look after all of the real-time technologies on our stage, and that’s everything from basic characters to in-camera effects to LED walls. We also tend to get involved with pre-production looking at assets, the things that we will be driving live and what the director wants to achieve. Then we put together a bunch of real-time technologies that we have at our disposal for that project. I essentially see the job as a tie-in with the animation, mocap and visual effects for films, video games, television, AR and the web. We use Unreal Engine 5 to stream all of our live motion-capture data onto, and that’s where we’ll do the live characters and virtual cameras to support the director. The main reason we do this is that the client can go away on the day, have signed off shots, know exactly what they’re doing and bringing into post-production and, depending on the workflow, sometimes walk away with a real-time edit. They can go into post-production confident that they’ve got everything, and generally it saves a bunch of money and time in the decision-making process. Also, I oversee our pipeline and head a R&D team.
JasonMartin,LayoutArtist,ILP
As workflows and techniques are ever-evolving, for me, it is more important to be on top of the questions that often do not change. How do I stay efficient so that I can be creative? How do I continue to be inspired and to inspire? How do I stay proud of my work? [One of the most complex tasks] would be something we call “Technical Animation” that I did on Lost in Space S1 and S2 to support effects on the destruction task where large environments or spacecrafts collapse or get destroyed. I would supply a semi-detailed version of the event to effect, made with various methods in Maya, like keyframe animation, rigid simulation, cloth simulation or deformation, that talented effects artists would enhance, develop or add to. This workflow enabled us to maintain a high level of artistic control on small-sized teams often consisting of me plus one to two persons, but the sheer amount made it complex.
Jeremie Lodomez, Global Head of 2D – Film & Episodic, Framestore
Compositing plays a vital role in the visual effects pipeline, seamlessly blending elements such as CG, animations and live-action footage in the final output. It enhances realism and supports storytelling by ensuring all elements are consistent in lighting, perspective, and color. My aspiration is for compositors to perform rapid iterations within their software. For instance, tweaking a CG environment without getting entangled in lengthy interdepartmental revisions. This approach would enable swift creative iterations, with the potential to integrate these fixes into later stages of the pipeline. The rise of technologies like USD and Unreal Engine heralds a future where compositors could emerge as more dynamic players in the field, evolving into Image Composition Artists. The fact that audiences are unable to discern our visual effects work speaks volumes about the quality and realism we achieve.
I saw The Art of The Lord of the Rings when it came out, and my mind was blown. I said, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ As an art director supervisor, I try to encourage everyone to be an artist, be the best that they can, and encourage them to go in the direction that they want to go. Not pigeonhole someone or make them do something that they don’t want to do. But at the same time there is the corporate side of making sure that the budgets and all of the rules are being followed, that we’re doing everything that we’re supposed to do. It’s wild. I was never trained in it. I worked into the position by experience. You have to be open, especially with the advent of AI using Blender or ZBrush, whatever helps the artist to get to where they need to be to create the best possible image. That’s one thing I want to encourage. Instead of, ‘This is how it’s done,’ let’s open it up.
Thomas Mouraille believes that the term ‘Environment/Generalist’ is better than ‘Matte Painter’ as it more accurately describes the work done for shots of the gulag in Black Widow. (Image courtesy of Wētā FX and Marvel Studios)
Thomas Mouraille makes use of 3D software, such as Maya, ZBrush and Substance combined with 2D elements created in Photoshop, to produce matte paintings for The Eternals. (Image courtesy of Wētā FX and Marvel Studios)
When creating technology for the big screen, one has to keep in mind how it would actually work, which was the case for Aaron Eaton when working on Black Adam. (Image courtesy of Cantina Creative and Warner Bros. Pictures)
When working with plate photography. Cameron Widen has a lot less creative freedom for layout than when dealing with full CG shots, as reflected in The Book of Boba Fett. (Image courtesy of Image Engine Design and Lucasfilm Ltd.)
There are constant questions that Jason Martin is always trying to answer, such as how to stay efficient in order to be creative when working on an image of Sundari in Season 3 of The Mandalorian. (Image courtesy of ILP and Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Being an art department supervisor means that Jeremey Melton also has to be conscious of budgetary restrictions when working on The Orville: New Horizons. (Image courtesy of FuseFX and Hulu)
Katie Corr, Lead Facial Animator and Facial Capture Technical Director, The Imaginarium Studios
It’s quite fun working with a lot of different clients because you’ve got some realistic projects that use metahumans, and that’s one of our pipelines. Then you have stylized projects that are cartoony, and I get to have a bit more freedom with that. My job begins from onstage with capture, and that means taking care of the actors, making sure that the client is happy, and capturing the date so that the post team can make sure that they get a good result on their tracking. Then, we move on and start tracking through one of our pipelines. From there we take it onto their provided rig and do final cleanup to their specs that they have been asked for depending on the game, movie, TV show or ad. Anything you can think of, we’ve attempted! The more time you spend on it, the higher quality it becomes. It’s quite a subjective area. You try to nail down little nuances like nose flares or when someone is breathing or little eye twitches. The fun part of the job is you get to hear the request from the client, then challenge yourself, find ways around it and maintain their expectations.
Maike Fiene, Visualization Supervisor, Framestore
Visualization being the first step to showing the interaction with the CG elements, it is essential to accept that there will be changes to the work as it develops, and you need to be able to adapt and cannot be too precious about it. It is also rewarding as you get to shape the interaction of fun and sweet character moments. This is a very fast-paced environment and requires a general skillset of: understanding of practical filming techniques; being able to interpret storyboards and scripts; general overview and intention of the sequence you are working on (tone, timing, what purpose does this sequence have in the film? What is the director trying to communicate?); general understanding of cinematography (staging, lighting, composition); and all-round technical troubleshooting skills.
In postvis, we’re often collaborating with the finals teams as they might have developed assets further or are developing character animations, and we try to incorporate as much of that as possible to stay true to the final look of the project. This gives the director a chance to shape his vision of the edits at an early stage and test out ideas, and it gives the finals teams a solid foundation to start from.
MelizaFermin,LeadDigitalMattePainter and Sr. Compositor
As a matte painter, you’re in the beginning of the process, and I prefer that because you have more time, it’s a lot more creative, and you’re choosing more of the elements that are going to be used. Our clients say, ‘I want New York in the 1960s.’ You have to create that, but I’m the one who chooses all of the photographic elements to put together so it works in that environment. You have some creative input. Some studios have me do the matte painting and comp it, or I have worked where I was strictly a matte painter and hand it off to the compositor. The nice thing about having both is I know the problems compositors are going to run into; I have already prepped the matte painting so it does work, and they don’t have to come back to me. Compositing is more technical than creative. Sometimes there’s no time to go back to CG or matte painting, so you have to find fast ways to fix it. You’re a problem-solver.
MichaelBillette,WorkflowSupervisor, Image Engine Design, Inc.
We’re constantly talking to every department about the challenges of their day-to-day job, and we think about how things can be improved and how can they utilize the parts of the pipeline we have already developed they might not be aware of or understand how it could be applied. We do a lot of trying to teach people how to use the tools. Then we also think about how can we improve upon our processes and keep things in sync. We can only do so much as a support department, and it’s not necessarily fast enough for what people need on the floor. Often times, if artists are developing their own workflows or tools, things get very fragmented very fast. Each person tries to do their own solution and can go down different roads. We try to keep things in line because it’s a lot easier for the technical teams to develop when they don’t have all of these parallel processes to work on. They can create some core features and make sure they can support the other workflows that are needed.
NiklasWallén,ConceptArtist,ILP
You need to have your fundamentals as a concept artist and some design rules that you can always apply that will make it look better. But sometimes I get given things and go, ‘I don’t see the problem here.’ When I began at ILP, my mentor, Martin Bergquist, told me, ‘Your job is to check out the art direction and documents from the client and what they had in mind from the start, be good with that and create a design rule book. But then you take those design rules and have fun with them.’ If you have these design rules in yourself always, it’s easy to spot when something is wrong with an image. Whether it’s The Mandalorian or The Sandman that have totally different shape languages, I can tell quickly if this is out of line because there’s usually someone who has built the stuff, has been with it for a long while, and maybe they have put themselves into a rabbit hole and forgotten what the shape language is. It’s my job to go in and say, ‘That will work better if I did this.’
Visualization helps build the foundation of what you see on the silver screen. Because you can iterate quickly and work closely with many collaborators – including the VFX Supervisor – from day one on the production, the process is invaluable in helping develop the look of the visuals as it relates to telling a believable [shootable] story. We are also able to provide and use technical visualization and virtual production tools that help connect what’s visualized to shots and equipment on set, and ensure that work and plans from pre-production carry through and can be built upon through post.
The industry is always trying to figure out how to make film and television cheaper and faster, and we are at the forefront of that endeavor. But, at the end of the day, the relationships built with the directors, producers and VFX supervisors are at the heart of the process. Technology will always change, but it all starts from an idea to tell a story audiences will love. We are in that room and help represent that storytelling vision.
PatrickSmith,HeadofVisualization,MPC
Visualization has grown out of its infancy and is starting to get into its teenage punk-rock years. With the advent of all the tools and real-time technology that is coming to the forefront with virtual production, visualization is certainly a key component of that evolving filmmaking pipeline, and it shines a spotlight on everything that we’re doing. It’s taken off like wildfire. Everybody and their brother have a visualization studio now, and every visual effects house is folding a visualization department into the front-end of their pipeline. The easiest way of understanding visualization is likening it to sculpture. Imagine starting with a giant slab of marble and saying, ‘We’re going to sculpt the Statue of David.’ And everybody is wondering, ‘What does that look like?’ What you’re doing is helping to develop and shape what the visual aesthetic of that actually looks like. You can consider previs to be your rough draft, go and shoot, and then finalizing what that draft is so you are setting up your finals team for success on the back-end of that.
Sam Keehan, Creative Director, Territory Studio
The most important thing about being a creative director has always been to try as often as I can – whether that be when we’re resourcing projects or hiring people – to surround myself with people who are better than me. There will be particular skills that people will be way better at than me. We can talk, and they can go and enjoy the thing that they’re really good at and come up with interesting stuff. I will be able to sit back and say, ‘Yes. That’s exactly what I was thinking.’ The inherent difficulty is if you’ve got multiple people across multiple jobs. You want to make sure that everyone is getting the best work out, but the only people getting the best work out are the ones getting enough support. For my job, in particular, it feels like a lot of it is facilitation and making sure that people have the support they need to just concentrate on the job that has to get finished.
StuartAnsley,LeadTextureArtist,DigitalDomain
The way I describe being a texture painter is to imagine if you went to a toy model shop, got a figurine or car and have to paint colors and details onto them. Sometimes there is metallic stuff or shiny things and you have to decide what color something is going to be, how reflective it is going to be and how dirty it is going to be. We put in all of those little details. In order to be good at the job, you have to have an eye for color, composition and detail. You have to see the little things. I get into trouble when sometimes I have conversations with people and I zone out and my eyes glaze over. It’s because I’m looking at their forehead pores or the way their eyes wrinkle. My wife will always call me out! Whenever submitting our work for review, we always view it in a turntable so the object itself is turning and the lights are turning around it as well, because it’s so important the way the light scrapes across the surface so that you’re getting the right reflectivity and surface deformation.
Thomas Mouraille, Lead Matte Painter, Wētā FX
In a nutshell, we could group the software we use in three categories. We use the first group for creating 3D assets, the second for assembling scenes and the third for creating and adjusting 2D content. We create 3D elements using software such as Maya, ZBrush, Substance and Mari, as well as Houdini and Gaea for terrain. The scene assembly process is done within Clarisse iFX and Houdini. The 2D elements are created and adjusted using Photoshop and Nuke. When required, we use specific software such as Terragen, Reality Capture or Unreal Engine for bespoke tasks.
The matte painting step represents around 10% to 20% of the entire work we actually produce on a show. The bulk of the work is now done using 3D packages. “Environment/Generalist” would be a more correct name to define what we do. The tools evolve quickly, and the current AI breakthrough will likely bring new tools to our toolbox soon. It is already happening with software like Photoshop and Nuke, which have some AI-driven tools. The real-time engines are also being incorporated into the visual effects industry as a solution to render final pixel. It is something we keep a close eye on, and are slowly integrating in our pipeline.
All photos by Danny Moloshok, Al Seib and Josh Lefkowitz.
Captions list all members of each Award-winning team even if some members were not present or out of frame. For more Show photos and a complete list of nominees and winners of the 22nd Annual VES Awards, visit vesglobal.org.
Nearly 1,200 guests from around the globe gathered at The Beverly Hilton for the 22nd Annual VES Awards.
Actor-comedian Jay Pharoah led the evening as the VES Awards show host.
VES Executive Director Nancy Ward welcomed guests and nominees.
The Visual Effects Society held the 22nd Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues, with generous support from our premier sponsor AMD.
Comedian and master impressionist Jay Pharoah served as host of the capacity crowd gala as nearly 1,200 guests gathered at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on February 21st to celebrate VFX talent in 25 awards categories.
TheCreator was named the photoreal feature winner, garnering five awards. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was named top animated film, winning four awards. The Last of Us was named best photoreal episode, winning four awards. Coca-Cola topped the commercial field. There was a historic tie in the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project category with honors going to both Rembrandt Immersive Artwork and Postcard From Earth.
Award-winning actor-producer Seth MacFarlane presented the VES Award for Creative Excellence to legendary actor-director William Shatner. Award-winning VFX Supervisor Richard Hollander, VES presented the VES Lifetime Achievement Award to pioneering VFX Producer Joyce Cox, VES. Award presenters included: The Creator director Gareth Edwards; actors Ernie Hudson, Fortune Feimster, Katee Sackhoff, Andrea Savage and Kiersey Clemons; and Leona Frank, Autodesk’s Director of Media & Entertainment Marketing, presented the VES-Autodesk Student Award.
VES Chair Kim Davidson kicked off the evening by presenting several VES Awards categories.
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature went to The Creator and the team of Jay Cooper, Julian Levi, Ian Comley, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould, VES.
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode went to The Last of Us; Season 1; Infected and the team of Alex Wang, Sean Nowlan, Stephen James, Simon Jung and Joel Whist.
The Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode went to Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty; Season 2; BEAT LA and the team of Raymond McIntyre Jr., Victor DiMichina, Javier Menéndez Platas and Damien Stantina.
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and the team of Alan Hawkins, Christian Hejnal, Michael Lasker and Matt Hausman.
The Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature went to Nyad and the team of Jake Braver, Fiona Campbell Westgate, R. Christopher White and Mohsen Mousavi.
Actor Ernie Hudson accepted the Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project on behalf of Alan Wake 2 and the team of Janne Pulkkinen, Johannes Richter, Daniel Konczyk and Damian Olechowski.
The Award for Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in a Commercial went to Coca-Cola; Masterpiece and the team of Ryan Knowles, Greg McKneally, Taran Spear, and Jordan Dunstall.
The Creator director Gareth Edwards cheered on the nominees.
Guests enjoyed the festive cocktail reception, thanks to generous support from Premier Sponsor AMD.
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project was a TIE and was awarded to both Postcard From Earth and the team of Aruna Inversin, Eric Wilson, Corey Turner and William George (pictured); as well as Rembrandt Immersive Artwork and the team of Andrew McNamara, Sebastian Read, Andrew Kinnear and Sam Matthews (not pictured).
The Award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature went to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3;Rocket and the team of Nathan McConnel, Andrea De Martis, Antony Magdalinidis and Rachel Williams.
The all-volunteer VES Awards Committee celebrated the success of the 22nd Annual VES Awards Show (Stephen Chiu, Daniel Rosen, Rob Blau, Olun Riley, David “DJ” Johnson, Kathryn Brillhart, Martin Rushworth, Sarah McGee, Den Serras, Lopsie Schwartz, Reid Paul, Sarah McGrail Michael Ramirez, Eric Greenlief, Scott Kilburn).
The Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Spot and the team of Christopher Mangnall, Craig Feifarek, Humberto Rosa and Nideep Varghese.
The Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature went to The Creator; Floating Village and the team of John Seru, Guy Williams, Vincent Techer and Timothée
Leona Frank, Director of Media & Entertainment Marketing, Autodesk, presented the VES Autodesk Student Award.
The Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode, Commercial, Game Cinematic or Real-Time Project went to The Last of Us; Endure and Survive;Bloater and the team of Gino Acevedo, Max Telfer, Dennis Yoo and Fabio Leporelli.
The Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Mumbattan City and the team of Taehyun Park, YJ Lee, Pepe Orozco and Kelly Han.
Comedian/ Actress Fortune Feimster brought the laughs to The Beverly Hilton.
Actress Andrea Savage (Tulsa King) presented several Award categories.
Academy Award-winning Senior VFX Producer, Richard Hollander, VES introduced VES Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Joyce Cox, VES.
The Award for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project went to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and the team of Joanna Davison, Cheyana Wilkinson, Michael Cozens and Jason Desjarlais.
The Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, Game Cinematic or Real-Time Project went to The Last of Us: Post-Outbreak Boston and the team of Melaina Mace, Adrien Lambert, Juan Carlos Barquet and Christopher Anciaume.
Joyce Cox, VES received the VES Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Award for Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project went to The Creator; Nomad and the team of Oliver Kane, Mat Monro, Florence Green and Serban Ungureanu.
The Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature went to The Creator and the team of Ludovic Ramisandraina, Raul Essig, Mathieu Chardonnet and Lewis Taylor.
The Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, Game Cinematic or Real-Time Project went to The Mandalorian; Season 3; Lake Monster Attack Water and the team of Travis Harkleroad, Florian Witzel, Rick Hankins and Aron Bonar.
The Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and the team of Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato and Nicola Finizio.
The Award for Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in a Feature went to The Creator; Bar and the team of Phil Prates, Min Kim, Nisarg Suthar and Toshiko Miura.
The Award for Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in an Episode went to The Last of Us; Endure and Survive; Infected Horde Battle and the team of Matthew Lumb, Ben Roberts, Ben Campbell and Quentin Hema.
The Award for Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in a Commercial went to Coca-Cola; Masterpiece and the team of Ryan Knowles, Greg McKneally, Taran Spear, and Jordan Dunstall.
The Award for Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project went to Oppenheimer and the team of Scott Fisher, James Rollins and Mario Vanillo.
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project (Award Sponsored by Autodesk) was awarded to Silhouette and the team of Alexis Lafuente, Antoni Nicolaï, Chloé Stricher, Elliot Dreuille (with Baptiste Gueusguin).
Actress Kiersey Clemons (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) joined the show as a presenter.
The VES Emerging Technology Award was awarded to The Flash; Volumetric Capture and the team of Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn, Oliver Pilarski and Lukas Lepicovsky.
Seth MacFarlane, award-winning Actor and Creator of Family Guy and The Orville, prepared to present William Shatner with the VES Award for Creative Excellence.
Board Chair Kim Davidson with Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Joyce Cox, VES, VFX Producer Richard Hollander, VES and Executive Director Nancy Ward.
The Creator director Gareth Edwards met up on the red carpet with Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One director and VFX Supervisor.
James Knight, left, Global Director, Media & Entertainment Visual Effects, AMD, with director Gareth Edwards.
Friends William Shatner and Seth MacFarlane enjoyed a moment together backstage.
Acclaimed Actor, Director and Producer William Shatner received the VES Award for Creative Excellence.
Actress Katee Sackhoff (The Mandalorian) congratulated all the nominees and winners.
The VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature went to The Creator, which garnered five VES Awards including Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature (Floating Village), Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project (Nomad), Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature and Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in a Feature (Bar). (Photos courtesy of Walt Disney Studios)
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which won four VES Awards including Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature (Spot), Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature (Mumbattan City) and Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature. (Photos courtesy of Columbia Pictures/Sony)
THE LAST OF US
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode went to The Last of Us; Season 1; Infected, which won four VES Awards including Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode, Commercial, Game Cinematic or Real-Time Project (Endure and Survive; Bloater), Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial or Real-Time Project (Post-Outbreak Boston) and Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in an Episode (Endure and Survive; Infected Horde Battle). (Photos courtesy of HBO)
Toronto-based Herne Hill Media worked on Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities soon after the firm opened its doors in Toronto. (Image courtesy of Herne Hill Media and Netflix)
Powered by studios in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, Canada continues to grow and evolve as a major hub of the global VFX industry. Tax incentives, immigration policy, quality of life, excellent VFX and animation schools and beneficial time zones have all contributed to Canada’s prominence in global VFX. Moreover, a consistent number of Hollywood productions are lensed there, confirming Canada’s reputation as a world-class source of talent and innovation.
“Canada has always been a leader in the industry from the early days of the National Film Board to companies like Alias (now Maya) and SideFX, who have defined the founding principles of VFX and animation,” says Dave Sauro, Partner and Executive Producer at Herne Hill Media, a Toronto studio founded in 2021. “Canada has become a center of excellence not just for VFX, but also for film production in its entirety. Whatever is scripted, we can bring it to life.” Herne Hill worked on Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities soon after the firm opened its doors. Sauro notes, “We are currently in various states of post-production on a few different projects, including In the Lost Lands, which is an adaptation of a George R.R. Martin short story directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.” The firm is also finalizing Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance and The First Omen.
On the other hand, perhaps Canada’s VFX success “has got something to do with the long, cold, dark winters?” asks Shawn Walsh, Visual Effects Executive Producer, General Manager & Cinesite Group Chief Operating Officer VFX at Image Engine. Founded in Vancouver in 1995, Image Engine merged with Cinesite in 2015. “When you spend a good deal of time indoors following your passions, that creates a kind of fertile ground for the focus, creativity, technical knowledge and innovation that high-end visual effects require. It seems to me that Canadians have never been shy [about] a little hard work either! Canadians have had a strong presence in Hollywood, animation and visual effects for a very long time.”
In recent years, Image Engine has worked on a healthy mixture of high-end series like GameofThrones, TheMandalorian, 3Body Problem and Lost in Space as well as the Fantastic Beasts films, Mulan and District 9, Elysium and CHAPPiE for director Neill Blomkamp, and Zero Dark Thirty for director Kathryn Bigelow.
COMPUTERANIMATION
“Canada has always been a front-runner when it comes to computer animation. Maya, and Softimage before Maya, began in Canada. Canadians filled many of the earliest positions because we were more familiar with the software and skills needed for those early films and TV shows,” says Scott Thompson, CEO and Co-Founder of Think Tank Training Centre in Vancouver. “That legacy helped Canadian schools better address the positions made available at studios that have settled north of the border.”
SideFX, co-founded in Toronto in 1987 by current President Kim Davidson, used its software, PRISMS, to lay the groundwork for Houdini. SideFX technology has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences five times for Houdini and its breakthrough procedural-based technology. Numerous VFX studios working on Oscar-winning and/or blockbuster films have used the software.
With its flagship product Houdini, SideFX has been a key driver in the growth and innovation of the Canadian VFX industry, particularly in Toronto,” comments Christopher Hebert, SideFX Senior Director of Marketing. The company’s work “has led to significant advancements in VFX and animation, making Houdini a staple in many studios and pushing the boundaries of visual effects capabilities. This influence extends to job creation and talent development, with SideFX employing a significant portion of its workforce in Canada. Their contribution to the software development ecosystem – as well as initiatives like the Houdini Internship Program – not only supports the local economy but also ensures a high level of VFX expertise within the country, fostering a robust and skilled VFX workforce.”
Also in Canada, Alias Research launched in Toronto in 1983 and Softimage in Montreal in 1986, eventually resulting, after various acquisitions and mergers, in (Autodesk) Maya, the award-winning, widely-used 3D model and animation software. In 2003, Alias was given an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the development of Maya software.
Image Engine Design in Vancouver has been a key contributor to the Netflix series 3 Body Problem. (Image courtesy of Netflix)
Recent projects for Montreal-based Raynault VFX include Secret Invasion Season 2 for Disney+ as well as Percy Jackson and the Olympians, All the Light We Cannot See, White Noise and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. (Image courtesy of Raynault VFX and Disney+)
MARZ in Toronto contributed VFX to Moon Knight as well as WandaVision, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Wednesday, Stranger Things and the Percy Jackson series. (Photo: Gabor Kotschy. Courtesy of Marvel Studios)
Canada’s early animation and VFX software legacy and long history with Hollywood have helped Canadian film and VFX schools, like the Think Tank Training Centre in Vancouver, consistently address the need for talent to fill available positions at studios. (Image courtesy of Think Tank Centre)
When new computer animation tools arrived, Canada’s art schools began “modifying their classical curriculums by adopting tech,” explains Lon Molnar, Co-Founder of MARZ, a VFX studio that launched in Toronto in 2018. “In the early days, Sheridan College outside of Toronto became a world-renowned leader for animation due to its talented faculty. In the ’90s, schools like Vancouver Film School built a reputation for training traditional and computer animation while cranking out amazing talent – and still do. The Canadian Government along with certain territories jumped on board and supported the industry with various incentives. Filmmaking in Canada as a stand-in for various locations grew while solid investment in soundstages in centers like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal followed the demand.
Add all this up and eventually you have a vibrant industry with a reputation to deliver.” MARZ contributed VFX to projects such as WandaVision, Moon Knight, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Wednesday, Stranger Things and the Percy Jackson series.
“[I]t’s hard to imagine a more multicultural, multinational visual effects company than a Canadian one. Canada has always been a tremendous draw for immigration, and the visual effects industry has been a strong contributor to that story. It seems like Canada has found the right soupy mixture of various factors that have created an environment that supports the talent that’s so crucial to visual effects work. The job now is to continue to grow that talent base through continuing immigration, creative and technical development opportunities and strong industry leadership.”
The acceleration of the visual effects industry in Canada over the last 25 years or so can also be attributed to “gradual factors such as the introduction of tax incentives in the late 1990s, strategic investments in education and the establishment of high-quality studios in cities like Vancouver and Montreal,” says Valérie Clément, VFX Producer for Raynault Visual Effects. In addition, Clément observes, “The boom in film and TV production in Canada has significantly boosted the exposure and vigor of the VFX and animation industry at large by creating increased demand for services, ensuring a steady flow of projects, fostering collaboration opportunities, contributing to the economy, driving talent development, gaining global recognition and spurring technological advancements.”
Clément points out, “Of course, the government incentives – generous tax credits, for example – played a huge role. There is also the skilled workforce, the strong infrastructure with more and more visual effects studios located mainly in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto.” Clement’s firm, Raynault VFX, was founded in Montreal in 2011 by industry legend Mathieu Raynault, He surrounded himself with a small, select team of artists and grew the studio into a full-service VFX facility. Some 2022-2023 projects have included Percy Jackson and the Olympians, All the Light We Cannot See, White Noise, His Dark Materials, Season 3, Thor: Love & Thunder, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Old Man and Invasion. Clément also emphasizes the advantage of Canada’s time zones compared to those of Hollywood. There is a limited or non-existent time difference, such as Vancouver sharing the same time zone as California as opposed to London being eight hours later.
Ryan Stasyshyn, Managing Director of Toronto-based Mavericks VFX, cites these reasons for Canada’s VFX success: generous tax incentives and rebates offered by various provinces, a skilled workforce, strong government support, a favorable exchange rate (vs. USD) and, as Clement notes, a significant amount of physical production taking place in Canada. Recent high-profile projects for Mavericks VFX are JohnWick:Chapter4,TheHandmaid’sTale, Fargo,FellowTravelers,TheOffer,Don’tWorryDarling,TheBoys, The Expanse and Halo.
Recent high-profile projects for Toronto-based Mavericks VFX include John Wick: Chapter 4 as well as Fargo, Fellow Travelers, The Offer, Don’t Worry Darling, The Boys, The Expanse and Halo. (Image courtesy of Lionsgate)
Toronto-based Mavericks VFX contributed VFX to the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale. (Image courtesy of Hulu)
TIPPINGPOINT–VANCOUVER
Walsh notes, “I think a key turning point in Vancouver’s history as a hub for high-end visual effects work was when Image Engine completed our work for Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 at more or less the same time that [Vancouver-based] The Embassy did some stunning work for Marvel’s first Iron Man and MPC created some solid work for Watchmen. I think this was around 2008-2009. This was the first time that Vancouver visual effects studios, broadly speaking, were really producing work that was the equal of any location, any company in the world. In fact, District 9 was the only project to beat Avatar in any category at the VES Awards that year! The town really grew from that point on. We were on the map, as they say. Since then, Vancouver has gone from strength to strength and has continued to lead the Canadian scene.”
LIFEPERKS
There are many advantages to living in the three major Canadian cities. In Toronto, Stasyshyn notes, “We have a vibrant cultural scene that’s extremely diverse. It’s also a very welcoming city with lots to explore and do.” Clément notes, “[Artists] also have access to all the perks of working and living in Canada: good quality of life, high living standards and a safe environment with the emphasis on a healthy work-life balance.”
Sauro also points to the opportunity to live and work in different parts of Canada. “Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are all important VFX hubs in the Canadian market, and each offer something different from a lifestyle perspective. Whether it’s the great outdoors of Vancouver, the big city living of Toronto or the European feel of Montreal with its excellent restaurants, each can allow you to not only earn a living doing what you love, but also live in a city that best fits your interests outside of work,” he explains.
In addition to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Toronto-based Herne Hill Media is involved in In the Lost Lands, which is an adaptation of a George R.R. Martin short story directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, as well as Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance and The First Omen. (Image courtesy of Herne Hill Media and Netflix)
MARZ in Toronto provided VFX for Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Photo: Matt Kennedy. Courtesy of Marvel Studios)
Image Engine Design in Vancouver has worked on the Fantastic Beasts films, including Secrets of Dumbledore, and high-end series such as Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian, 3 Body Problem and Lost in Space. (Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
Image Engine Design in Vancouver provided VFX for Venom: Let There Be Carnage. (Image courtesy of Columbia Pictures/Sony and Marvel Studios)
Image Engine Design provided VFX for 3BodyProblem. (Image courtesy of Netflix)
Montreal-based Raynault VFX contributed to FX Network series TheOldMan. (Image courtesy of Raynault VFX and FX Network)
BENEFITS&SUPPORT
In addition, “Employment standards in visual effects companies across Canada are generally very high,” Walsh notes. Wages are generally on par with anywhere in the world that’s doing equivalent levels of quality of execution. Aspects like healthcare and benefits again are on par or above those offered in other visual effects hubs around the world. And there’s a broadly diversified industry with many different companies in terms of shapes, sizes and focuses. [For artists], Canada represents a prime location to consider plying your trade.”
“Canada has a government that understands the importance of supporting the arts,” Sauro says. Part of that help comes in support for non-Canadians studying and working in VFX. Walsh notes that Canada “is a relatively open country that supports companies towards their immigration needs.” Aline Ngo, Image Engine recruiter, notes the importance of “facilitating the retention of skilled talent in Canada.” She says that enabling the stays of visual effects graduates with a government visa help is key. One path is “the possibility of getting a three-year post-graduate work permit after graduating.”
INCENTIVES
“Government support has played a pivotal role in Montreal’s VFX industry success,” Clément comments. “Generous tax incentives and subsidies attract studios, fostering growth. Investment in infrastructure and education ensures top-notch facilities and a skilled talent pool. In essence, government backing has been instrumental in shaping Montreal into a VFX pole.”
Walsh comments, “There’s great local support for the industry in the three main cities where the majority of the visual effects work transpires – Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Labor-based tax credit regimes certainly don’t hurt when attracting the client base, but without the talent to execute the work, no amount of tax credit will matter.” Likewise, Sauro affirms, “We can’t ignore the obvious benefits tax credits play, both at a provincial and federal level, in attracting studios and producers to Canada, but that alone is not enough.”
“When you look at the post-secondary institutions in this country, we’re fortunate to have some of the best for VFX, animation and design: OCAD University, Sheridan College,
Humber College, Vancouver Film School, etc. It’s an embarrassment of riches.”
—Dave Sauro, Partner and Executive Producer, Herne Hill Media
SCHOOLS
VFX and animation schools have also helped build the industry. Sauro comments, “When you look at the post-secondary institutions in this country, we’re fortunate to have some of the best for VFX, animation and design: OCAD University, Sheridan College, Humber College, Vancouver Film School, etc. It’s an embarrassment of riches.”
Stasyshyn points to Seneca College, Sheridan College and Vancouver Film School (VFS) as some of the top VFX and animation schools in Canada. “These schools have played a crucial role in shaping the skills of the Canadian VFX workforce. Their programs often include hands-on training, industry connections, networking events and exposure to some of the latest technologies.”
For SideFX, “The proximity to top-tier educational institutions – like the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, renowned for their software development and graphics labs, and colleges like Sheridan College, known for its CG education – ensures a steady stream of skilled graduates and potential innovations in VFX technology,” says Hebert. Clément adds, “In Montreal, the VFX talent pool has expanded through esteemed educational institutions like NAD [The School of Digital Arts, Animation and Design] providing industry-relevant education. The establishment of major VFX studios has also significantly expanded career opportunities for local artists.”
Noteworthy Canadian VFX/animation schools also include public schools Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Langara College, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and Capilano University and private institutions like Lost Boys School of Visual Effects, Think Tank and Vancouver Film School (VFS), according to Ngo.
“Government support has played a pivotal role in Montreal’s VFX industry success. Generous tax incentives and subsidies attract studios, fostering growth. Investment in infrastructure and education ensures top-notch facilities and a skilled talent pool. In essence, government backing has been instrumental in shaping
“With a focus on story and problem-solving, we have been serving our industry with students who are prepared for an adaptable career in VFX,” says Colin Giles, Head of the School for Animation & VFX at Vancouver Film School. “Given the rapid changes in techniques and technology, we continue to upgrade our facilities and curriculum to not only stay in tune with current methodologies, but prepare our students on why these changes can enchant their storytelling and help them find their artistic voice.” Thompson remarks, “Canadian-based studios have a substantial piece of the VFX pie, so students are very close geographically to their first VFX job. These studios also give Canadian schools access to instructors and mentors that are working on the biggest VFX films and TV shows being made. At Think Tank, we are continually polling the industry to better understand the software, workflows and demands of the FX industry.”
Vancouver Film School continues to upgrade its facilities and curriculum to stay in tune with current methodologies and better prepare students for the evolving industry. (Image courtesy of Vanouver Film School)
Think Tank Training Centre in Vancouver is among the wealth of animation and VFX schools in Canada developing a steady stream of creative and technical talent that keeps the industry growing. (Image courtesy of Think Tank Centre)
Canadian VFX/animation schools work hard to stay in demand and stay in touch with the VFX companies. Lost Boys Co-Founder and Director Ria Ambrose Benard comments, “We were the first school to teach Houdini for FX and Katana for lighting. This helped our students stay ahead of the curve and in demand when the industry was growing. The FX program and the lighting program were designed at a request from the studios in the industry years ago.” Giles notes, “The growing talent pool is being fueled by high school interest, and international students are attracted to animation schools across Canada. This has allowed the VFX industry to tap into deep tax credits and build a sustainable nationwide industry. In addition, like VFS, we are able to bring in top instructors and mentors from the expanding VFX footprint.”
Walsh continues, “Bringing visual effects work north seems to have been a natural progression. Initially, many of us left home to work abroad because that’s what you had to do to experience working on the visual effects shots that captivated our attention. However, there was a turning point around the late 2000s when many of us returned home and brought our new-found friends from around the world with us! Since then, it’s hard to imagine a more multicultural, multinational visual effects company than a Canadian one. Canada has always been a tremendous draw for immigration, and the visual effects industry has been a strong contributor to that story. It seems like Canada has found the right soupy mixture of various factors that have created an environment that supports the talent that’s so crucial to visual effects work. The job now is to continue to grow that talent base through continuing immigration, creative and technical development opportunities and strong industry leadership.”
VFXSTUDIOS
Other notable Canadian VFX/animation firms include Spin VFX (Toronto), Rocket Science VFX (Toronto), Rodeo FX (Montréal, Québec City, Toronto), Soho VFX (Toronto), Guru Studio (Toronto), Folks VFX (Toronto), Zoic Studios (Vancouver), The Embassy (Vancouver), Hybridge Ubisoft (Montréal), Artifex Animation Studios (Montréal) and Alchemy 24 (Montréal).
Branches of foreign VFX and animation companies have also contributed to Canada’s growth in visual effects. Vancouver has outposts of Wētā FX, ILM, Framestore, DNEG, Pixomondo, Sony ImageWorks, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Digital Domain, Crafty Apes VFX, FuseFX, Scanline VFX (owned by Netflix), Ghost VFX, Luma Pictures, Clear Angle Studios, Animal Logic, CoSA VFX, Barnstorm VFX and Ingenuity Studios, among others.
Montréal branches include Framestore, DNEG, Pixomondo, Sony ImageWorks, MPC (Technicolor), Mikros Animation (Technicolor), Digital Domain, Mathematic Studio, Crafty Apes, Folks VFX (Fuse Group), Outpost VFX and Scanline VFX. Toronto facilities include DNEG, Tippett Studio and Ghost VFX, among others.
The CARES Act is the third piece of federal emergency legislation to address the coronavirus pandemic. It was signed into law on March 27, 2020.
Emergency Increase in Unemployment Benefits (Section 2104):
States can increase the weekly benefit that an individual would otherwise qualify for by $600 a week. For example, the maximum California benefit is normally $450 a week; under this program, it will be $1,050 a week ($450 + $600)
Eligible recipients may receive the $600/week boost retroactive to the date their state signed an agreement with the federal government to implement the CARES Act; check with your state’s unemployment agency for details
A temporary 39-week program to provide unemployment benefits to those whose unemployment is related to COVID-19:
Who do not qualify under their state’s regular unemployment insurance program or who have exhausted UI benefits after July 1, 2019 and before the date their state commences this program, and
Who self-certify that they are (1) partially or fully unemployed, or (2) unable and unavailable to work because of any one of the following circumstances:
They have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have symptoms of it and are seeking diagnosis
A member of their household has been diagnosed with COVID-19
They are providing care for someone diagnosed with COVID-19
They are providing care for a child or other household member who can’t attend school or work because it is closed due to COVID-19
They can’t reach their place of employment due to a COVID-19 quarantine
They have been advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine due to COVID-19
They were scheduled to start employment, but the job no longer exists, or they cannot reach the place of employment due to a COVID-19 public health emergency
They have become the breadwinner for a household because the head of the household has died as a direct result of COVID-19
They had to quit their job as a direct result of COVID-19
Their place of employment is closed as a direct result of the COVID-19 public health emergency;
They are self-employed, seeking part-time employment, or do not have sufficient work history, or otherwise do not qualify for state UI.
The amount available will vary by state. For example, California has set its basic amount at $167 per week, plus the $600 a week boost
This program lasts up to 39 weeks, but the $600/week boost is only available until July 31, 2020
Even if your state is not yet paying PUA benefits, if you are approved, benefits can be retroactive to the date you state signed an agreement to implement the CARES Act; check with your state’s unemployment agency for details
Individuals receiving paid leave, who are teleworking, or who are otherwise employed full-time are not eligible
Individuals who are eligible for unemployment insurance cannot choose PUA; PUA is only for individuals who are not eligible for UI
Each program shall be immediately available to individuals without the normal one week waiting period.
Important caveat: States must opt-in to these programs. Since the enhanced payments are 100% federally funded, there is no reason for a state to deny these benefits to its residents, but they have option to do so. California and New York have already begun to implement the enhanced benefits.
A one-time tax credit, in the form of a direct payment of $1,200 ($2,400 for those filing jointly) and $500 per dependent child under 17 to all individuals—this benefit begins to phase out at $75,000 ($150,000 for those filing jointly), Those making $99,000 ($198,000 for those filing jointly) or more will not receive a rebate, even if they have dependent children.
Other than the income limitations, the only exclusions from this benefit are estates, trusts, nonresident aliens, and those claimed as a dependent on someone else’s tax return
As part of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, small businesses are eligible for emergency grants of up to $10,000 to maintain payroll, provide paid sick leave, pay rent/mortgage, etc.
Small businesses and 501(c)(3)s will also be eligible for loans on a more favorable basis than normal SBA loans
Paycheck Protection Program: Loan proceeds used to keep employees on payroll and pay mortgage/rent mortgage and utilities will be forgiven
Retirement account holders may make coronavirus-related withdrawals of up to $100,000 out of their 401(k)s without penalty Student Loans (Section 3513)
Student Loans (Section 3513):
All student loan and interest payments will be deferred through September 30, 2020 without penalty for federally owned student loans only (note this does not impact private loans, Perkins loans, and loans held by a bank)
Join VES-LA Section & Fuzzy Door Tech Real-Time Production Demo + Q&A event at Gnomon for a live demo of Fuzzy Door Tech’s ViewScreen suite of ProViz™ tools that simultaneously integrate VFX and the real world – in real time.
ViewScreen is transforming storytelling by making the invisible visible. The products use augmented reality (AR) to display VFX components in a live scene so the director, director of photography, camera operators and extended crew can see the entire scene and react instantly to what’s happening on set.
Hear from the people who conceived and developed the ViewScreen suite of tools and pioneered their use on Seth MacFarlane’s Ted TV series and The Orville: New Horizons. ViewScreen Scout was critical for planning and blocking shuttle landings as part of Hulu’s The Orville: New Horizons. ViewScreen Studio allowed MacFarlane to direct and animate Ted’s face and body movements during the filming of the Ted TV series and gave the extended team visibility to evaluate shots with Ted in real time.
Plus, we’ll share details about a new app in closed Beta that you will have the opportunity to download and test for yourself. We’ll also help you get started so you’ll have the app available to explore and test on your next project.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network, ask questions, and gain insights into the world of real-time VFX. See you there!
Date: April 27th, 2024
Times: 10:00am, 12:30pm or 3:00pm – Register to attend as space is limited during the three sessions
Event Location: Gnomon – 1015 N Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood CA 90038
Parking: There is a parking garage located one block South of campus, on the corner of Cahuenga and Romaine Street. We will validate your parking at the event.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Roadshow Attraction’s BOY KILLS WORLD
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
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Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
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Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
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Get the inside scoop on this summer’s one-of-a-kind Virtual Production experience.
As our industry pushes the boundaries of visual effects with VP, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is pushing to advance education in the area. In partnership with Synapse Virtual Production Studios, RIT is launching an exclusive course for those ready to earn their spot on tomorrow’s set.
Virtual Production Course from RIT Monday through Friday from June 10 to June 21, 2024
(VES members must login to see discount code and link below.)
The 10-day immersion is offered during two sessions in June 2024 at Synapse Studios, Los Angeles, where you’ll work with the same technology as award-winning directors and cinematographers.
Co-taught by Professor David Long of RIT’s MAGIC Center, the course will teach foundational skills of Virtual Production, including hands-on filmmaking, 3D graphics, computational photography, and real-time engine rendering.
Space is limited to jumpstart your career in VP; hurry to gain your spot on set before it’s gone!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ ABIGAIL
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Tuesday, April 23 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
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By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lions Gate’s THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, April 19 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of A24’s CIVIL WAR
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Monday, April 15, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, April 15 at 1:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
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In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Thei Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ GODZILLA V KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Tuesday, April 9 at 10:00AM) Screening Room 12 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Studios’ THE FIRST OMEN
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
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Monday, April 8, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, April 8 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Universal Pictures’ MONKEY MAN
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Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, April 5 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
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In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
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By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ DUNE: PART TWO
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Tuesday, March 12 at 10:00AM) Steven J. Ross theater on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
The Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) Open Source Forum 2024 takes place on Thursday, February 22, at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The annual event brings the technical community together for an afternoon of networking, socializing, and learning about the latest open source developments for visual effects and animation.
Thursday, February 22, 2024 from 12:00PM to 7:30PM (PST) (VES members must login for registration link and FREE code below)
Petersen Automotive Museum 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
The 22nd Annual VES Awards season is underway, and it’s going to be more exciting than ever! Nomination Event to be held worldwide on Saturday, January 13, 2024.
This year we will have virtual and in-person Nomination Events. Current VES members can apply to judge on ANY in-person event that you can travel to or or ANY virtual panel in ANY time zone. This is the must-attend event of the awards season. You will see exclusive behind-the-scenes clips of the most striking visual imagery of 2023, and you’ll enjoy the single best networking opportunity of the year! Don’t miss your chance to meet the best and brightest in the VFX field, catch up with old friends, and learn about new VFX techniques. Plus, you’ll have the satisfaction of helping to decide the best work to be presented to our colleagues in the industry and the press, as well as fans across the globe.
The Nomination Event is an all-day event and judges will receive details about specific times closer to the event. Please apply to a specific in-person location, or a particular time zone of a virtual panel (view the Region Map for the time zone that best fits your schedule). Please submit your Judge Application early to make this year’s VES Awards Nomination Event successful.
-The 22nd Annual VES Awards Committee
JUDGE APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED please contact cassidy@vesglobal.org with any questions
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 11:00AM (RSVPs close on Friday, January 5 at 4:00PM) Screening Room 5 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Netflix’s REBEL MOON Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Marcus Taormina, Special Effects Supervisor Michael Gaspar, Wētā FX Visual Effects Supervisor Ken McGaugh and Framestore Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Winter, moderated by VES Board member Robin Prybil. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 10:00AM (RSVPs close on Friday, January 5 at 4:00PM) Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ WONKA
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, December 18, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, December 18 at 10:00AM) Screening Room 12 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of GKIDS’s THE BOY AND THE HERON
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, December 11 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Toho Studios’ GODZILLA MINUS ONE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, December 8 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s SILENT NIGHT
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Thursday, December 7 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Apple TV+’s and Sony Pictures’ NAPOLEON
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, December 4 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ WISH followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Chris Buck, Visual Effects Supervisor Kyle Odermatt, Head of Characters and Technical Animation Avneet Kaur and Effects Animator Marie Tollec, moderated by VES Fellow Jeffrey Kleiser, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 12:00PM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Motion Pictures’ THE MARVELS followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Production Visual Effects Supervisor Tara DeMarco and Additional Visual Effects Supervisor Sarah Eim, moderated by former VES Board member Gene Kozicki, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members are Invited to Attend an Exclusive Showcase of the RDX LAB System from Rosco and FuseFX at the Sony Digital Media Production Center (DMPC)
Join Head of Technological Development (Imaging) at Rosco Laboratories, Inc. Phil Greenstreet for a demonstration of the RDX LAB System. This event is open to a very limited number of VES members, so no guests will be admitted.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up) Tuesday, November 7, 2023 from 12:30PM to 2:00PM
Registration begins at 12:00PM, Presentation at 12:30PM
(VES members must login to see venue information below)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, October 30, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, October 30 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Apple TV+’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday, October 20 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 12:00PM (PDT) & 3:00PM (EDT)
Mark your Calendars! The Visual Effects Society and TELUS Health (formerly Lifeworks) will present an overview of the services offered as part of the FREE VES Member Assistance Program. Don’t miss this chance to find out about the mental health, fitness, legal, financial, online resources, and more that are part of this amazing program. Don’t miss learning about all of these phenomenal benefits specifically for VES members throughout Canada and the United States!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, October 9, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, October 9 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Studios’ THE CREATOR followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Gareth Edwards, Visual Effects Supervisor Jay Cooper and On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor Andrew Roberts, moderated by VES Board Treasurer Jeffrey A. Okun, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE NUN II
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, September 18, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, September 18 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES members please register your name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Studios’ A HAUNTING IN VENICE
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Netflix’s HEART OF STONE
Netflix guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Wednesday, September 13 at 2:00PM) The Roma Theater in the Netflix Epic building 5901 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 (Complimentary parking is available in the structure on Bronson Ave.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ THE EQUALIZER 3
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, September 8 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Many VES members participate in Siggraph at various levels – join us for an online event that gathers a roundtable of Siggraph attendees, to recap for VES members who were unable to attend this year in Los Angeles. It’s a chance to get a glimpse of what the conference had to offer, hear about trending tech topics, and discover how the 50th anniversary was commemorated.
The format will be a 1-hour Zoom session with presenters sharing their observations, in a roundtable setting for conversations and multiple perspectives.
Thursday, August 31st 2023
7PM to 8PM (PDT)
Join us on Zoom here : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85896938750
If you have topics you would like to see addressed, please send an email in advance to the evening’s moderator:
Jeff A. Johnson, Secretary, Bay Area Board of Managers
pegasusgiraffe@gmail or bayareasecretary@vesglobal.org
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Sony Pictures’ GRAN TURISMO
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, August 25, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, August 25 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of MGM Studios’ LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, August 21, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, August 21 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
SIGGRAPH 2023 takes place from August 6 to 10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. VES members must login to see the discount code below.
VES members get FREE Exhibits Only passes to SIGGRAPH 2023, and a limited number of VES members receive complimentary Experience level registration or $195 off higher registration levels for SIGGRAPH 2023. Please register only if you plan to attend SIGGRAPH 2023 in-person in Los Angeles. There will be no refunds for prior purchases, quantity is limited, and VES members must login in order to see the discount codes below.
Celebrate 50 years of SIGGRAPH conferences, and make your mark on the next 50 years of innovation by joining us at SIGGRAPH 2023. Explore our various in-person registration options for the five-day conference in Los Angeles, as well as Virtual Access options to select the experience that is best for you.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES – MUTANT MAYHEM
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 11:00AM AMC Century City 10250 Santa Monica Blvd #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Click here for a map
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES members receive FREE passes to attend the two-day, invitation-only Production Summit L.A. with industry thought leaders discussing advancements in artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, virtual production, and cloud-based production showcasing some of the latest innovations, sponsored by Microsoft and AMD.
Speakers will include VES members Rick Champagne, Dan Cox, Phil Galler, Erick Geisler, Addy Ghani, James Knight, Jess Loren, Charlotte Nelson, Eric Reynolds, Kimball Thurston and Beck Veitch as well as many others. There will also be two evening networking receptions with a live band performance on Friday night.
VES members must login to RSVP and see the promo code below.
VES members receive FREE passes to attend the two-day, invitation-only Production Summit L.A. with industry thought leaders discussing advancements in artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, virtual production, and cloud-based production showcasing some of the latest innovations, sponsored by Microsoft and AMD.
Speakers will include VES members Rick Champagne, Dan Cox, Phil Galler, Erick Geisler, Addy Ghani, James Knight, Jess Loren, Charlotte Nelson, Eric Reynolds, Kimball Thurston and Beck Veitch as well as many others. There will also be two evening networking receptions with a live band performance on Friday night.
VES members must login to RSVP and see the promo code below.
VES Members and up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ BARBIE
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, July 31, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, July 31 at 10:00AM) Screening Room 12 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ HAUNTED MANSION
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs are closed
Saturday, July 29 at 2:00PM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 28) Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ HAUNTED MANSION
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs are closed
Saturday, July 29 at 11:00AM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 28) Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ OPPENHEIMER
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs are closed
Monday, July 24, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, July 24 at 12:00PM) Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided) 7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART 1
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs are closed as this event is overbooked
Monday, July 17, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, July 17 at 12:00PM) AMC Theater at The Grove 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (Parking validation in The Grove structure is available at the AMC theater. Parking at the Farmers Market will not be validated.) Click here for a map
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Los Angles section in collaboration with CGPRO are excited to bring this Producing Virtual Production workshop opportunity to our members. Through the thought process of breaking down a small script, considering it’s viability as an ICVFX production, then following through with segment producing, VAD, crewing and execution. Each of the guests will weigh in with their specific focus on the process in an open forum discussion and workshop environment.
Guests include:
Ben Baker – Virtual Production Specialist/Mesh
James Blevins – Senior VP Producer / Co-Founder Mesh
Scott Rosekrans – Virtual Production Supervisor / The Real Time Group at Zoic Studios
Dani Bellar Pilukas – Director of Physical Production Lux Machina
David Ethan Sanders – Producer/Cinematographer at CG Pro / ICVFX consultant
Edward Dawson-Taylor – VAD Supervisor / Head of School CG Pro
This is a Zoom event.
Please RSVP below (Members must login to register)
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
This screening is overbooked and RSVPs are closed
Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE FLASH
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, June 26, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, June 26 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Pixar Animation Studios’ ELEMENTAL followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Peter Sohn, Producer Denise Ream, Visual Effects Supervisor Sanjay Bakshi and Production Designer Don Shank, moderated by VES member and ASIFA Hollywood President Frank Gladstone. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
Paramount Pictures requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below Sunday, June 11, 2019 at 11:00AM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, June 5, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, June 5 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ THE MACHINE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Thursday, June 1 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE LITTLE MERMAID
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs for this screening are closed
Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 12:00PM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Advance Screening of Tim Webber’s Experimental Sci-fi Short FLITE made using Framestore’s new VFX and virtual production pipeline. Panelists will include Framestore CCO as well as VES Award-, Oscar-, BAFTA- and Emmy-winning GRAVITY Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Webber and Academy Award nominated Visual Effects Supervisor from CHRISTOPHER ROBINTheo Jones will discuss the cutting edge combination of LED Volume, Motion Capture, and Unreal Engine rendering that brought this stunning project to life.
They will discuss Framestore’s new toolset (FUSE) used to create VFX in Unreal Engine at a previously unachievable scale as well as the hybrid live action/CG approach to storytelling along with techniques that brought nuanced human performances in full CG worlds to the screen. Click here to watch the FLITE trailer.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Thursday, May 25 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Two (2) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night IMAX Screening of Universal Pictures’ FAST X
Masks are encouraged, but not required. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, May 19, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, May 19 at 12:00PM) IMAX West Coast Headquarters in Playa Vista 12582 Millennium Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90094 Click here for a map
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Ketchup Entertainment’s HYPNOTIC
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, May 15, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, May 15 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Sony Pictures’ KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, May 12, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, May 12 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 3 followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Stephane Ceretti and Sony Pictures Imageworks Visual Effects Supervisor Theo Bialek, moderated by Van Ling, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ BIG GEORGE FOREMAN: THE MIRACULOUS STORY OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, May 5, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, May 5 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Focus Features’ POLITE SOCIETY
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, April 28 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ THE POPE’S EXORCIST
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, April 17, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, April 17 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Universal Pictures’ RENFIELD
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Friday, April 14, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, April 14 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s AIR
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Monday, April 10, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, April 10 at 12:00PM)
The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
RSVPs are closed as this screening is overbooked
Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 1:45PM AMC Century City 10250 Santa Monica Blvd #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
RSVPs are closed as this screening is overbooked
Monday, April 3, 2023 at 7:30PM The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Focus Features’ A THOUSAND AND ONE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, March 31 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
RSVPs are closed as this screening is overbooked
Monday, March 27, 2023 at 7:30PM The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
The VES Los Angeles Section would like to invite our members to our a Recruiting Mixer and Happy Hour. Also, put your knowledge to a test.
Join us and socialize with fellow VES Members to enjoy some good food and fine drinks, and
please bring a VFX professional who is interested in joining VES as your +1.
We can help you find other members to write endorsement letters for your guest.
Please mark in your calendar: Sunday March 12, 2023 from 3:00 – 7:00 PM
Our social will take place at: The Cat & Fiddle 742 N. Highland Avenue Hollywood, CA
Members please login to your VES account to register.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable for any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
The VES Los Angeles Section would like to invite our members to our a Recruiting Mixer and Happy Hour. Also, put your knowledge to a test.
Join us and socialize with fellow VES Members to enjoy some good food and fine drinks, and
please bring a VFX professional who is interested in joining VES as your +1.
We can help you find other members to write endorsement letters for your guest.
Please mark in your calendar: Sunday March 12, 2023 from 3:00 – 7:00 PM
Our social will take place at: The Cat & Fiddle 742 N. Highland Avenue Hollywood, CA
Members please login to your VES account to register.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable for any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Studios’ COCAINE BEAR
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, March 6 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA
Masks or face coverings are encouraged, but not mandatory. Please observe social distancing whenever possible.
RSVPs are closed
Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 11:00AM Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members are invited to attend a hands-on workshop at disquise
Saturday, February, 11 1:00PM
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to register)
On February 11, disguise and the L.A. section of VES invite you to a virtual production technical workshop geared for VFX professionals, detailing how to execute the following types of Virtual Production shoots using disguise:
Video based driving plate car processing
Unreal Engine based interior scene
2.5D (artificial parallax with image layers) based exterior scene
Greenscreen with full incidental lighting
Data recording for post production and VFX
This will be on a working LED volume, and attendees may be asked to take roles such as talent, camera operator, director, etc.
Date: Saturday, February 11
Time:
Welcome Drinks/Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Technical Workshop: 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Questions & Networking: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
disguise is the premium tech platform consisting of hardware, software and third party plugins to centrally manage and control the entire tech stack of a Virtual Production stage. disguise is the only platform that allows seamless transition from game engines, to video plates to 2.5D. disguise not only equips stages, but supports them and trains the operators who run them.
Due to the hands-on nature of this event, space is limited.
Covid Language:
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable for any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
Visual Effects Society Los Angeles Section Holiday Party
Marina del Rey Marriott Hotel
VES Members and One (1) Guest are Invited to Celebrate the Season with Us!
RSVPs are FULL
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Bayview Terrace and Ballroom Holiday Cocktail Attire
5:30PM-6:30PM Cocktails
6:30PM-10:00PM Dinner party Appetizers, Buffet dinner, open bar (see times below) and prizes Open Bar from 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Cash Bar 8:30PM to 9:30PM
Bar Closed and Coffee Served 9:30PM to 10:00PM
Valet Parking $25.00 per vehicle (this is discounted for our event , parking is $45.00 normally)
VES Members and One (1) Guest are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D HFR Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and 20th Century Studios’ AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
Panelists will include VES Lifetime Achievement Award-winning Director-Writer-Producer-Editor James Cameron, Oscar winning Producer Jon Landau, Executive Producer, VES Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor at Wētā FX Richard Baneham, VES Georges Méliès Award-winning Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Wētā FX JoeLetteri, VES, Wētā Visual Effects Producer Lena Scanlan, VES Award-winning Head of FX at Wētā FX JohnathanNixon and VES Award-winning Animation Supervisor at Wētā FX Eric Reynolds, moderated by VES Chair Lisa Cooke. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
RSVPs are closed
Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:00AM (Please arrive early to allow time for check-in)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Two (2) Guests are Invited to a Revival Stereo 3D and 4K Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ AVATAR from 2009
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login in order to sign up)
Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Monday) Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ DEVOTION
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, December 2, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, December 2 at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Searchlight Pictures’ THE MENU
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, November 28, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday, November 28 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ STRANGE WORLD
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Friday, November 25, 2022 at 12:00PM (RSVPs close at 2:00PM on Wednesday, November 23) Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ THE FABELMANS
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday, November 18 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
RSVPs are closed
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 11:00AM (RSVPs closed at 10:00AM on Friday, November 11) Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Visual Effects Society Presents: “Creating Lifelike Digital Humans – Volumetric Video Capture Techniques for VFX Pipelines”
Wild Capture to Demo Volumetric Video Digital Human Characters at
Metastage State-of-the-Art Volumetric Video Capture Studio
Event Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022
2:00PM – 5:00PM Click here to RSVP
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wild Capture develops smart assets for the next generation of spatial media products that enable creators to produce high-quality digital humans with cutting-edge volumetric technologies and industry-standard practices. Wild Capture’s ‘Digital Human Platform’ offers a complete production pipeline that translates the human essence into volumetric video with the highest quality performance captures available to break the uncanny valley.
Launched in 2020 by filmmaking and VFX visionaries credited with pushing the evolution of new media productions over two decades, Wild Capture provides performance capture expertise at every stage of the creative process. From interactive CG fashion products and services to volumetric crowd kits, Wild Capture content inspires and engages realistic digital humans for use in media production, software development, and web-based applications.
Metastage is a premier XR production studio specializing in 3D capture technology — volumetric capture, or “volcap.” Metastage’s end-to-end system uses an array of 106 machine-vision cameras to capture authentic human performance from all angles and delivers a high-fidelity yet highly compressed 3D asset for streaming on mobile devices and AR/VR headsets, and allows for seamless integration within VFX workflows for framed content.
Since its launch in 2018, Metastage has completed 200+ productions with major brands, earning two Emmy nominations. As producers, technologists, and virtual world development experts, we collaborate with diverse clients to help them build and become leaders in the XR space.
VES LA Members and 1 Guest are invited on a field trip to Wild Capture’s presentation at Meta Stage, a state-of-the-art volumetric video capture stage, located at 12800 Foothill Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Demonstration is from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Refreshments sponsored by:
Setellite is an industry-standard platform for on-set VFX data organization.Setellite is developed in Amsterdam by the talented teams at Planet X Technologies in partnership with Unwind Creative Technology. Additional information on Setellite products is available here.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Focus Features’ ARMAGEDDON TIME
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, November 7, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ BLACK ADAM
RSVPs are closed (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday, November 4 at 10:00AM) Screening Room 12 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Infinity Festival Hollywood is the place where Hollywood meets Silicon Valley! The festival, a multi-day annual event held in the heart of Hollywood, celebrates story enabled by technology, bringing together Hollywood’s finest storytelling talent with the innovative creators of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology. The Infinity Festival environment includes panels, exhibitions, screenings, keynotes, a fine art gallery and more, all driven by today’s top innovators, creators and artists. Host to a Student Lab and networking events, the festival helps drive economic opportunities for Hollywood’s thriving media and entertainment business community while supporting the up-and-coming creator economy. This year’s festival also includes exciting nighttime events, including the US premiere of “Le Musk”, a 38 min full-length sensory cinematic experience by creator A.R. Rahman, a VIP showing at LightHouse ArtSpace, and a private screening of “Signs of Life” at the Griffith Observatory.
Infinity Festival Hollywood 2022 is presented by Z by HP, NVIDIA, XLA, and Snapdragon. Sponsors include Intel, Microsoft, Verizon, Paramount, IGN, The Wall Street Journal and OUTFRONT Media.
VES members must login to VES site in order to see promo code below
November 2-5, 2022
Goya Studios
1541 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ TICKET TO PARADISE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 2:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Los Angeles and the Cat & Fiddle invite Members and 1 guest to a
Halloween Pub Get Together
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to register.) Sunday, October 23, at 3:00PM
Cat & the Fiddle
742 Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90038
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable for any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ HALLOWEEN ENDS
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID for admission. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, October 17, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 2:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, October 10, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 2:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES LA Members and 1 Guest are invited on a field trip to XR Studios Hollywood,
a state-of-the-art, multi-building campus located in Los Angeles. Monday, Oct 3, 2022 at 9:30AM for Check-In Light Snacks and Coffee will be served Please login to RSVP below
XR Studios regularly pushes the boundaries of what is technically possible in the MR/XR/AR world. They are currently utilizing MegaPixelVR’s GhostFrame technology paired with some of their own IP (Intellectual Property) to achieve 2x frustums with accurate parallax, set extension, and AR at the same time. This allows them to use broadcast style transitions live to tape or live to broadcast, as well as allowing them to record 2x accurate perspectives simultaneously.
XR Studios warmly welcomes VES Members for a tour of the campus and a demonstration that includes:
A look at XR Studios’ XR Workflow for live entertainment, including workflow demonstrations, XR Studios-specific software and supporting software, and more!
The application of disguise’s xR platform for tracking, calibration, and sequencing
stYpe Camera Tracking for spatial Camera Tracking
RED Digital Cinema Camera usage and camera control conversations
Application of Megapixel VR’s GhostFrame integration, including XR Studios’ specific software integration for this multi-frustum solution.
The demonstration will be followed by an open Q&A with XR Studios’ leaders and technologists.
Join us for a day of insightful and collaborative conversations about this exciting and growing Extended Reality and Virtual Production space, plus learn more about the techniques, programs, tips, and tricks needed to tackle your innovative projects.
All attendees must show a photo ID and proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for admission. Everyone will be required to wear masks once they enter the XR Stage.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Space is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee admission.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19.
VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this “live event” infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from your participation
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ DON’T WORRY DARLING
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, September 30, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, September 30 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of The Avenue Entertainment’s MEDIEVAL
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, September 12, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of 20th Century Studios’ BARBARIAN
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login in order to sign up)
Friday, September 9, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday) Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of United Artists Releasing’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, August 29, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Please join your fellow LA VES members for a Beach BBQ!
August 27th from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Will Rogers State Beach
RSVPs are now closed
Event Details
Food, Games, and Fun for All Ages!
Restrooms & Free Parking (see map below)
VES Members and a Guest FREE with RSVP
Member children 17 & under are free!
Additional guest tickets can be purchased HERE
$25 in-advance online (through 8/26 at 5 pm)
$30 at-the-door (Credit or Check only)
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable for any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this “live event” infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Universal Pictures’ BEAST
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, August 19, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ BULLET TRAIN
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Re-Scheduled to Friday, August 12, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to two (2) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Panelists will include Academy and BAFTA nominated Special Photographic Effects Supervisor David Dryer, Academy and BAFTA Award-winning Action Prop Supervisor Michael L. Fink, VES, Technical Achievement Academy Award-winning Computer Engineer at Entertainment Effects Group (EEG) Richard Hollander, VES and Academy and BAFTA Award-winning Chief Model Maker at Entertainment Effects Group (EEG) Mark Stetson, VES, moderated by VES Fellow and former VES Board member Van Ling, VES.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, August 5, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Netflix’s THE GRAY MAN
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, July 25, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 12:00PM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
A brief history, overview, and practical advice on the Facial Action Coding System.
Click here to sign-up for the webinar and receive the link
Join us for a Zoom Session on July 23, 11: 00 AM – 12:30 M PDT
With
Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Facial expression scientist, author, and educator, Dr. Erika Rosenberg, will offer an overview of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for visual effects industry professionals. Her presentation will include: a history of FACS’s development, a brief dive into this anatomically-based methodology for facial measurement, and a discussion of crucial considerations for the application of this measurement tool and knowledge of its parts (namely the action units or AUs) to the creation of moving faces in the arts. Finally, Dr. Rosenberg will offer some ready-to-implement, “take-home” advice on how to use knowledge from FACS research on emotion to convey feeling in animated faces.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Universal Pictures’ NOPE
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Friday, July 22, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Imageworks Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.)
Monday, July 18, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and all unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
RSVPs are now closed
Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 11:00AM (RSVPs closed at 10:00AM on Friday, July 15) Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Virtual Production Group (VPG) has just opened its doors to a brand-new virtual production stage standing in the heart of Hollywood at Sunset Las Palmas Studios. VPG is a collective of seasoned industry professionals with leadership and experience across all sectors of film production. Their philosophy is simple; the design and implementation of virtual production for filmmakers by filmmakers.
Operating as the first truly vertically-integrated virtual production studio, VPG’s unique offerings consist of providing services encompassing all facets of virtual production: from script/content breakdown, pre/tech vis, the design and creation of Unreal Engine based virtual environment assets from the VAD, the optimization and operation of the Las Palmas LED volume stage with specialized VPG supervision with representatives from multiple department disciplines, and post production services.
VPG is comprised of Pangaea LED Technology, Drive Studios, VFX Technologies, and Background Images utilizing Epic/Unreal Engine, and Stype Camera Tracking systems giving the Virtual Production industry a true end-to-end suite of all VP services. They will show all tech aspects and systems related to virtual production as well as driving home the importance of having the proper teams and companies in place to drive the highly technical virtual production engine.
VPG warmly invites colleagues from VES and looks forward to sharing their insight into a new virtual production paradigm.
Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 10:00AM
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Sunset Las Palmas Studios – Stage 2
1040 N. Las Palmas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 Click here for a map
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
All attendees must show a photo ID and proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Space is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee admission.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this “live event” infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees, and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 4:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 4:00PM) AMC Century City 10250 Santa Monica Blvd #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067 (Complimentary concessions will be provided by the studio)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ ELVIS
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
RSVPs are now closed
Monday, June 27, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Celebration of the Centenary of the Late Academy and BAFTA Award-winning Makeup Artist Dick Smith (1922-2014). The evening will begin with a drinks reception plus a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ ALTERED STATES followed by a Q&A with Academy Scientific and Engineering and Technical Achievement Award-winner Bran Ferren who did Special Visual Effects on the picture and Emmy-winning Special Effects Makeup Artists Craig Reardon and Todd Masters as well as Emmy-winning Special Effects Technician Kevin Pike.
This event is presented by MastersFX and the Visual Effects Society.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login for location and to RSVP)
Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 6:00PM Reception at 6:00PM, Screening at 7:15PM
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Advance Screening of Netflix’s THE SEA BEAST followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Panelists will include Writer / Producer / Director Chris Williams, Producer Jed Schlanger, Production Designer Matthias Lechner, Animation Director Zach Parrish, Head of Character Animation Joshua Beveridge and VFX Supervisor R. Stirling Duguid.
Click here to RSVP (be sure to choose which screening you wish to attend.) Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 2:00PM Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Guests are Invited to a Special Fathers’ Day 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Pixar Animation Studios’ LIGHTYEAR.
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and any unvaccinated attendees must wear masks at all times indoors.
RSVPs are closed
Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 11:00AM (RSVPs closed at 10:00AM on Friday) Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Friday, June 17, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday, June 17 at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Please join us for an eye-opening presentation of new innovations in 3D display technology. From lasers to light fields, the panelists will decipher the physics of how we see and interpret objects in the third dimension.
Presenters will explain the differences between these next generation displays, plus the evolution of the technology and the future of the industry.
The group will also discuss best practices for crafting a holographic narrative, the benefits of light-field virtual sets, and the timeline for experiencing these new technologies firsthand.
Moderator: Brian Gaffney from Unity Technologies
Panel: Dr. Daniel Smalley, Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
Thaisa Yamamura, Head of Business Development, Sony Electronics
Jon Karafin, CEO of Light Field Lab.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign-up)
When: Saturday, May 21, 2022
When: 11am to 1pm
Where: Harmony Gold Theatre
7655 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Secured underground parking is accessible via driveway from Sunset Boulevard. An adjacent lot for overflow parking is located behind the building and can be accessed from Stanley Ave.
All VES members and guests must show photo ID and proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this “live event” infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and One (1) Guest are Invited On a Field Trip to PRG Virtual Production Studio
PRG rules require that all VES members must show photo ID and proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
The film industry in 2022 has changed drastically. Everything from day-to-day operations to the very way we budget, schedule, and film productions. Virtual Production has been a big part of the continued evolution of the industry. This has been propelled further through new studies coming out of the UK showing the carbon footprint savings of shooting in a “volume” (a large LED stage). “ICVFX” (In-camera visual effects) are among the most exciting and sought-after virtual production techniques today. In light of this, we will be having various Field Trips during the summer months to new Virtual Production Studios in LA.
The first field trip will be at PRG Virtual Production Studio.
PRG has recently redesigned their Virtual Production Stage. Check out their new Mobile Modular Stage as well as their VP Production Truck that can travel to any location to set up LED Walls on an empty warehouse or stage. You’ll see demos of N-Display, xR set extensions and NCam, and tour the Brain Bar and control room inside the truck.
The PRG R&D team have further developed the Ncam offering with a unique on-set solution, seamlessly integrated with Unreal Engine and Mk2 Hardware. Ncam Reality system is integrated in the custom set cart, which all work together to blend live action and CG content in any indoor or outdoor environment.
Members and a guest will have the chance to see what an actual LED Volume looks like and be shown some of the differences between the various virtual production technologies like ICVFX, XR, AR and how they can best be used. In addition, they will be shown the difference between using playback on the LED Walls and using a tracked cinema camera linked directly with a game engine (Unreal Engine) that connects the physical world with images on the LED Wall. There will also be an open discussion on methods outside of the full ICVFX experience that are being adopted.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP) Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:00AM
PRG Virtual Production Studio
1245 Aviation Place, San Fernando, CA 91340
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Space is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee admission.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this “live event” infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.
Walt Disney Studios safety guidelines require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID that matches their names on the RSVP list and wear masks at all times indoors.
RSVPs are Closed
Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 3:00PM (It is now too late to make any changes) Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to four (4) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Focus Features’ THE NORTHMAN.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
RSVPs are closed
Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Thursday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Monday, April 18, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Advance Screening of Universal Pictures’ and DreamWorks Animation’s THE BAD GUYS.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up)
Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 4:00PM The London Hotel screening room 1020 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 (Complimentary valet parking is provided by Universal.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
No masks will be required. Though unlikely, Los Angeles might still require VES members and guests (depending on age) to show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission. (Final confirmation will be announced 24 hours before the screening.)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Universal Pictures’ AMBULANCE.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
RSVPs are closed
Friday, April 8, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Three (3) Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ MORBIUS.
Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission.
RSVPs are now closed
Monday, April 4, 2022 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 10:00AM) The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to Four (4) Named Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE BATMAN
Warner Bros. rules require that all VES members and guests must show photo ID and upload proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 to their Passcard system for admission.
RSVPs are closed (VES members can make changes until Monday at 12:00PM via e-mail to ben@vesglobal.org)
Monday, March 14, 2022 at 7:00PM Steven J. Ross theater on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4 off Hollywood Way)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
All guests must show proof of full vaccination to attend this event by uploading their vaccination card information into the online Warner Bros. Passcard system.
On the day of the screening, guests will also be required to complete an online self-health screening via the online Warner Bros. Passcard system.
If you have any questions regarding these safety protocols and Warner Bros. Studios’ policies related to COVID-19, please call the Warner Bros. COVID-19 Response Hotline at (818) 954-2019.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members only are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate Pictures’ MOONFALL.Sony Pictures Imageworks guidelines require that all VES members must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and that masks must be worn over the nose and mouth at all times indoor while on the SPI/SPA lot. Additionally, everyone must maintain a social distance of at least 6 feet while in the Ray Harryhausen Theater. (Seating is extremely limited due to social distancing.)
RSVPs are closed, as this screening is full
Friday, February 25, 2022 at 7:30PM The Ray Harryhausen Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Complimentary parking is available in the underground lot on Washington.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to 4 Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME.Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close on Thursday at 10:00AM) The Cary Grant Theater on the Sony Pictures Studio Lot 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Please enter through the Culver/Motor gate and park in that structure.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ ENCANTO followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
Panelists will include Annie Award-winning Writer-Director Jared Bush, Producer Yvett Merino, VES Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Kersavage and Annie and VES Award-winning Head of Effects Animation Erin V. Ramos, moderated by VES Board member Camille Eden.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 11:00AM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Up to 4 Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Sony Pictures’ VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE.Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
RSVPs are closed
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 7:30PM The John Singleton Theater (formerly the Backstage) on Sony Pictures Studio Lot 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Parking instructions will be included in the reminder e-mail.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and One (1) Guest are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS. followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Glassand Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor Dane A. Davies, MPSE.
Warner Bros. rules and Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
RSVPs are closed, as this screening is overbooked.
Monday, December 13, 2021 at 7:00PM Steven J. Ross theater on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
All guests must show proof of full vaccination to attend this event by uploading their vaccination card information into the online Warner Bros Passcard system.
Based on the current Los Angeles County mandate, all guests will be required to wear masks while inside the theater.
On the day of the screening, guests will also be required to complete an online self-health screening via the online Warner Bros Passcard system.
If you have any questions regarding these safety protocols and Warner Bros. Studios’ policies related to COVID-19, please call the Warner Bros. COVID-19 Response Hotline at (818) 954-2019.
* Please help protect the mysteries inside of the Matrix and do not reveal plot points or twists in your social posts. Do not post any teases in advance. Social: Thursday, December 16 @ 6:30PM (PST), 9:30PM (EST) – Review: Tuesday, December 21 @ 8:00AM (PST), 11:00AM (EST)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Join the VES Los Angeles Section for some holiday cheer!
DATE: Sunday, December 12th
TIME: 3:00 to 7:00 PM
VENUE: The Cat and Fiddle, 742 N. Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
This is our first in person event for the LA Section. Come out and socialize with your fellow VES members, exchange ideas, discuss favorite (or not so favorite) projects.
Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings (except when eating or drinking).
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Please login to RSVP Below. VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ field and your guest in “Attendee 2” field.
VES Members and Up to 3 Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE.Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
This screening is overbooked and RSVPs are closed
Monday, November 22, 2021 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Monday at 12:00PM) The John Singleton Theater (formerly the Backstage) on Sony Pictures Studio Lot 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Parking instructions will be included in this weekend’s reminder e-mail.)
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 25th Anniversary Screening of Paramount Pictures’ STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Followed by a Discussion with the Filmmakers. This event is presented by MastersFX, the Visual Effects Society with a print from Paramount. Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
Panelists will include award-winning Director-Actor Jonathan Frakes and Emmy-winning Borg Design Supervisor Todd Masters of MastersFX as well as VES, Academy, BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll, moderated by VES and Emmy Award-winner Dan Curry, VES.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login for location and to RSVP)
Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 7:00PM
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and up to 3 Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ ETERNALS. Los Angeles City Ordinance #187219 requires that all VES members and guests must show photo ID & proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for admission and masks must be worn at all times in indoor public settings (except while actively enjoying concessions).Click here for theater specific terms and conditions.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 3:30PM El Capitan Theatre (Parking at the Hollywood & Highland Center is $3 for 4 hours with theatre validation.) 6838 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Infinity Festival Hollywood is back live this November! For 2021, the theme of “Story Enabled by Technology” continues with a new slate of innovative programming, including industry-leading speakers, panels, exhibitions, innovation labs and a fine art gallery, each with an emerging-tech focus. Reserve your tickets now at infinityfestival.com. (VES members must login to see code for Free tickets.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of United Artists’ NO TIME TO DIE. Theater rules and L.A. County Public Health guidelines require that masks or face coverings must be worn over the nose and mouth at all times in indoor public settings.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 7:00PM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please enter your first and last name in the “Attendee 1″ fields***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Join us for a fun Halloween Movie Night featuring the movie classic Scream!
DATE: Thursday, October 28th
TIME: Gates Open at 7:00 PM / Movie Starts at 7:30 PM
PLACE: Drive Up at Santa Monica Airport
3233 Donald Douglas Loop S * Santa Monica Interim Open Space * Santa Monica, CA 90405
Enjoy the movie from inside your car or enjoy lawn seating.
Concession Stand: Enjoy classic cinema concessions like candy, soda and fresh popcorn, available with contactless order and pick-up. You’re also welcome to bring your own food to enjoy with your movie!
This time we are going truly GLOBAL! The LA section has arranged for an opportunity to virtually meet with VES members in AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and INDIA
You could make 5+ new international VFX industry connections in just one hour. If you have not made it to one of these fast paced sessions before, this is the one you simply can’t miss!
Friday 15th October 2021
7:00 pm PDT
Members can register for FREE at the link below (Members must login to the website).
VES Members and up to 4 Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ DUNE, followed by a discussion with award-winning Director/Producer/Co-Writer Denis Villeneuve and VES, Academy and BAFTA Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Lambert, moderated by Award-winning VES member Rob Legato, ASC. Theater rules and L.A. County Public Health guidelines require that face coverings must be worn at all times in indoor public settings (except while actively enjoying food and drinks).
RSVPs are closed, as this screening is overbooked (Any changes should go to ben@vesglobal.org)
Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 11:00AM Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood (Parking is $5 after rebate at the theater box office. General parking price is $28 payable before the rebate.) 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please register your name as “Attendee 1″***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and up to 4 Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE SUICIDE SQUAD. Warner Bros. Studios rules and L.A. County Public Health guidelines require that face coverings must be worn at all times in indoor public settings.
RSVPs are Closed
Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 4:00PM (RSVPs close on Friday at 12:00PM) Screening Room 12 on the Warner Bros. Studio Lot (Please enter through Gate 4)
4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank CA 91502 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please register your name as “Attendee 1″***
Please note that all guests of the WB facilities need to bring a valid photo ID and are required to complete their Self-Health Screening tool called Passcard. The self-health screening process is as follows:
Enter the following when prompted for the Location Code: 220-162-396
When prompted on the Vaccination Status screen, please select: “The WarnerMedia Vaccine Policy does not apply to me…” option
Upon completion of the screening tool, you will receive aGREEN or a RED result.
If GREEN, you need to show the GREENresult to security upon arrival for access.
If RED, do not come to WB facilities, and, if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, you may need to contact your primary health care provider.
Your GREENresult is only valid on the date completed.
Everyone’s safety is important to Warner Bros. Your access to the Studio Lot is conditioned on full compliance with the Safety Protocols. Please especially remember the three W’s:
Wear a face covering or a mask.
Watch your distance. Stay at least six feet from other people.
Wash your hands frequently.
If you have any questions regarding these safety protocols and Warner Bros. Studios’ policies related to COVID-19, please call the Warner Bros. COVID-19 Response Hotline at (818) 954-2019.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and up to 2 Guests are Invited to a Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Theater rules and L.A. County Public Health guidelines require that face coverings must be worn at all times in indoor public settings (except while actively enjoying concessions).Click herefor theater specific terms and conditions.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 3:30PM El Capitan Theatre (Parking at the Hollywood & Highland Center is $3 for 4 hours with theatre validation.) 6838 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
***VES Members: Please register your name as “Attendee 1″***
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of DreamWorks Animation’s and Universal Pictures’ THE BOSS BABY: FAMILY BUSINESS. Theater rules require that masks or face coverings must be worn at all times while in the building.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 4:00PM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ BLACK WIDOW. Theater rules require that face coverings must be worn at all times (except while actively enjoying concessions). Click here for theater specific terms and conditions.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP)
Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 12:00PM El Capitan Theatre (Parking at the Hollywood & Highland Center is $3 for 4 hours with theatre validation.) 6838 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we ask that you or your guests do not attend VES events if you are experiencing any symptoms or if you have been exposed to the virus.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By signing up for this on-site, in-person screening/event sponsored by VES (Visual Effects Society), you willingly accept any potential inherent risks associated with COVID-19. VES cannot be held liable from any consequences that may transpire from said risk. Therefore, signing up for this screening/event infers implied consent of yourself and your party and hereby indemnifies and holds harmless VES, its directors, its employees and any other affiliated persons from any adverse medical or financial impact that may result from our participation.
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Master Production Designer, Oscar and BAFTA nominee and Emmy Award winner, James D. Bissell.
The event will be moderated by Jeffrey A. Okun, VES and will be followed by a Q&A session.
DATE:Saturday, May 29, 2021
TIME: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
PLACE: Zoom of Course
James’ list of credits include: Good Night, and Good Luck, 300, Mission: Impossible-GhostProtocol,E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and most recently, The Midnight Sky.
Join us for our first LA hosted West Coast VES section members networking event!
DATE: Wednesday 26th
TIME: 7:00 pm
This is an amazing opportunity for ‘Speed Networking’ with West Coast members of the VES hosted by the LA section. This fast paced session uses Meetaway’s digital platform with targeted matching, to ensure you can connect directly with the people you want for a 1-1 conversation. You could make 5 new industry connections in the VES in just one hour!
Please login to register below!
More about the event format:
For anyone new to the Meetaway format, Meetaways are online events that intelligently match attendees for a series of 1-on-1 video calls. After each conversation, attendees automatically rotate to the next one. You just log in to the event and Meetaway will handle the rest.
Additionally, you’ll want to join the event on a laptop or desktop with a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or new Edge. Meetaway does not support mobile devices because the screen movements are often distracting and having everyone on a laptop or desktop results in a better overall experience.
Join us for our first virtual VES LA Spring Membership Mixer!
This is an amazing opportunity for ‘Speed Networking’ with members of the VES LA Section. Meetaway’s digital platform with targeted matching ensures you can connect directly with the people you want for a 1-1 conversation.
VES LA Members who register by 3/9 will receive a $20 Doordash credit.
Members are encouraged to invite their industry colleagues interested in learning more about joining the VES. This is also a great opportunity for our current members, just to check in with your peers and see how everyone is doing.
The spring membership deadline is Monday, March 15th, so be sure to attend this event if you are interested in joining the Visual Effects Society Los Angels Section. The event will provide valuable information about the benefits members enjoy, as well as offering the opportunity to network with 5 or more VFX colleagues for a chance to create meaningful connections.
Join us for our first virtual VES LA Spring Membership Mixer!
This is an amazing opportunity for ‘Speed Networking’ with members of the VES LA Section. Meetaway’s digital platform with targeted matching ensures you can connect directly with the people you want for a 1-1 conversation.
VES LA Members who register by 3/9 will receive a $20 Doordash credit.
Members are encouraged to invite their industry colleagues interested in learning more about joining the VES. This is also a great opportunity for our current members, just to check in with your peers and see how everyone is doing.
The spring membership deadline is Monday, March 15th, so be sure to attend this event if you are interested in joining the Visual Effects Society Los Angels Section. The event will provide valuable information about the benefits members enjoy, as well as offering the opportunity to network with 5 or more VFX colleagues for a chance to create meaningful connections.
Please join us for special screening of the hit comedy AIRPLANE with an after show Q&A with special guest Writer-Director, Jerry Zucker!
Saturday February 13th 2021 at 4:00 PM PST.
The event will showcase a new streaming/test screening platform where all the regular items: chat room, recording faces watching the movie, and a lively discussion post the film with the director can occur.
In all cases, we record the viewer and reactions and sync them to the timeline of the movie. A link will be sent out to those who will participate with a password.
We look forward to having you attend this very special event!
The screening is open to VES LA members and is limited to 50 participants.
The Los Angeles Section of the Visual Effects Society presents:
PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL PRODUCTION FROM HOME
Saturday, November 7th at 11 AM; PST Hosted by: James Markham Hall, Jr.
Join us as we discuss state-of-the-art virtual production tools and techniques used remotely to create professional level content beyond studio specifications.
National Geographic and Disney+ Invite VES Members and One Guest to Attend the World Premiere Drive-In Screening of THE RIGHT STUFF: THE RACE TO BE FIRST IN SPACE plus Q&A with the cast.
Monday, October 5, 2020 at 7:30PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport
3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404
Featuring Emmy-nominated talent for Outstanding Sound Editing from What We Do in the Shadows “The Return”.
What does a CG bat fight sound like?
How do you create troll footsteps when you’ve never seen a troll?
Join us for an engaging discussion about how VFX & sound inform each other in on-screen storytelling, and help create a show that’s half supernatural, half documentary, and 100% hilarious.
Panelists include: * Steffan Falesitch, Supervising Sound Editor * Jackie Jones, SVP Broadcast Formosa Group * Diego Gat, Re-Recording Mixer * David Barbee, FX Editor * Sam Ejnes, Re-Recording Mixer * Sara McGrail, VES L.A. Board Co-Chair
Bay Area, Washington, Vancouver and Los Angeles Sections present:
West Coast Happy Hour Wednesday, August 26th
6:00-7:00pm (PST – Of Course!)
It’s time for all of the VES’ West Coast Members to step up and mingle:
* Have a great recipe to share?
* Recommendation on new shows to binge?
* Who has the cutest cat, doggie or turtle?
Prizes too! Have a chance to WIN a copy of the newly released third edition of the VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures!
To join THIS party, use Chrome desktop browser (with the Netflix Party extension installed) and click on the party URL above, which will redirect to Netflix’s website. You must click on the “NP” button next to the address bar to automatically join the party. The Chat will start around 7:00 pm with screening to begin @ 7:10 pm.
FINE PRINT: NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE. DON’T HAVE AN ACCOUNT? SIGN UP AT NETFLIX.COM FOR A FREE 30 DAY SUBSCRIPTION. NETFLIX PARTY CHROME EXTENSION REQUIRED TO BE INSTALLED. THIS IS AN UNMODERATED EVENT. PLEASE BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER.
Join us for your chance to WIN a copy of the newly released third edition of the VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures!
VES LA Happy Hour Wednesday, July 29th 6:00-7:00pm
Have a great recipe to share?
Best new show to binge watch?
Hookup for comfy corona masks?
It’s time to fraternize, chat & connect!
The LA Section of the Visual Effects Society invites you to its next panel:
LED Stage Production
Sunday, June 28th @ 11 AM (PST)
via ZOOM
The worlds of game development and film production have collided and created a brand new world for filmmakers to explore: LED Stage Production.
This panel is designed to give a general Introduction of LED Stages and their impact on Pre-Production, Production and Post. Additional focus will be on the future of content production in a COVID19 world.
This is a free educational webinar panel, followed by a Q&A.
You are invited to our first-ever, VES Netflix Party where you choose the movie – Click here to vote for the movie!
Then on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 PM we will watch the winning movie together and join an online chat with our fellow west coast VES colleagues from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Washington Sections.
Look for your Netflix Party url email invitation and on this page one hour before showtime where you’ll find out the winning movie when you log in.
Fine Print: Netflix subscription required to participate. Don’t have an account? Sign up at Netflix.com for a FREE 30 day subscription. You will receive an email invite with a private URL one hour prior to the screening. Netflix Party Chrome Extension required to be installed. Instructions will be included with your invitation. This is an unmoderated event. Please be kind to one another.
This online presentation will discuss and demonstrate how new advancements in virtual production and visualization can be used to help all content creators raise the bar with creative ideas and new technical approaches.
THE THIRD FLOOR is one of the world’s leading visualization studios. It is a major contributor to today’s most popular films and TV series — from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and STAR WARS Franchise to HBO’s GAME OF THRONES.
Our speakers from THE THIRD FLOOR are: Eric Carney, Founder, Global CTO/Visual FX Supervisor; Gary Marshall, R&D Innovation Director; Dane Smith, Vice President; and Lara Cawsey, Business Development Manager
Our event will be hosted by Scott Squires, VES a VES Fellow who has worked in the visual effects industry for decades as a VFX supervisor and technical developer. He has multiple VFX Academy Award nominations and worked on such films as THE MASK, DRAGONHEART, and STAR WARS: EPISODE 1- THE PHANTOM MENACE.
The VES Los Angeles Screening of Paramount Pictures’ A QUIET PLACE PART II has been cancelled because the studio has postponed the release due to concerns related to the COVID19 outbreak.
The VES Los Angeles Screening of Sony Pictures’ BLOODSHOThas been cancelled because the studio has postponed the release due to concerns related to the COVID19 outbreak.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE WAY BACK
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID19, we ask you or your guests who may show any symptoms or who might have been exposed to the virus do not attend VES events.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information) (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Monday, March 9) Monday, March 9, 2020 at 8:00PM
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Pixar Animation Studios’ ONWARD
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 6) Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 12:00PM
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ THE INVISIBLE MAN
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information) (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, February 28) Friday, February 28, 2020 at 8:00PM
**See old friends & meet some new ones**
**Learn about VES events & programs**
**Find or be someone to write a new-member endorsement letter**Beer, wine & light bites
Fabulous raffle prizes!
* Bring a potential new member for an extra ticket!Venue graciously provided by: Pixomondo Los Angeles 2055 S Barrington Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90025
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century’s THE CALL OF THE WILD
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, February 21) Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 2:00PM
MastersFX Presents a Celebration of Practical Effects with a Special Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Screening of TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT followed by a discussion with Todd Masters and others to be announced.
Click here to RSVP (Space is limited, so please sign up soon) Monday, January 13, 2020 at 8:00PM Arclight (Cinerama Dome) Hollywood
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Todd Masters and His Special Guests will reflect on the making of this iconic movie with “tales” of the challenges of the practical effects, and how they integrated with the live action performances. Never before seen slides from behind-the-scenes of the making of DEMON KNIGHT will also be presented!
For more information, please call Dan Harary at Asbury PR Agency at (310) 859-1831
Join us at the VES Bake-Off After-Party!
Immediately after the AMPAS Bake-Off, please join us for the VES Bake-Off Bash After-Party for fun, friends, food and libations at Via Alloro restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Saturday, January 4, 2020 VES Bake-Off After-Party 9:00PM to 11:30PM **The Academy’s VFX Bake-Off is a separate event and handled through AMPAS.
Via Alloro (less than a mile from the Academy’s Goldwyn Theater). 301 N Canon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Complimentary Valet Parking is available at the restaurant.
Tickets are non-refundable / non-transferable. All tickets are sold individually. Space is limited and this event will sell out, please get your tickets NOW!
Member Ticket Price = $65.00
Non-Member Ticket Price = $125.00
We look forward to celebrating with our members and colleagues from around the globe and making this a festive international gathering!
For Sponsorship opportunities, please click here and contact Nancy Ward at (818) 981-7861 by Friday, December 13.
Now that the 18th Annual VES Awards season is underway, we once again invite VES members to participate in our Nomination Panels. The Nomination Event will be held worldwide on January 4, 2020.
Any active VES member who can travel to one of the cities listed below may participate.
This is your chance to determine who will ultimately walk up to the podium on January 29, 2020, to collect a coveted VES Award. A single vote may make the difference between being nominated… or not… and that vote could be yours!
Past participants know that this is the must-attend event of the awards season. Not only will you view some of the most amazing visual imagery of 2019, you’ll get to see exclusive behind-the-scenes footage while participating in the single best networking opportunity of the year. It’s a chance to see old friends, meet the best and brightest in the visual effects field, and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own craft. All of that, plus the satisfaction of knowing that you have participated in choosing what will ultimately be the Nominations announced to the press for the 18th Annual VES Awards.
Judges who register to participate will receive information about specific times and locations from their local section representatives once their applications are received. If you are ready to make a difference, please submit your Panel Judge Application BELOW. Make sure you check the box indicating which of the Nomination Event locations you are applying for.
The Nomination Event is a full-day event held on Saturday, January 4, 2020 around the globe. Nominees will be announced on Monday, January 6, 2020. We look forward to receiving your Judge Application to make this year’s Nomination Event a success!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director J.J. Abrams as well as Visual Effects Supervisors Roger Guyett and Patrick Tubach, moderated by VES 1st Vice Chair Jeffrey A. Okun, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 20) Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 11:00AM
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Universal Pictures’ 1917
(VES members must login in order to see venue information and RSVP.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Sony Pictures’ JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL
(VES members must login in order to see venue information and RSVP.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Netflix’s THE IRISHMAN followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Pablo Helman, moderated by VES Fellow Paul Debevec, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.) There will also be a reception off of the lobby of the theater immediately after the discussion.
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 6) Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 11:00AM
Join us for the most wonderful party of the year!
Exciting raffle prizes, great food & drinks, interactive exhibits, music, and a Sky Slide 70 floors up! (Come early! Free sky slide tickets for the first 100 guests!)
Members +1 free with RSVP (Please log-in to RSVP on this page)
RSVP & Ticket sales close Fri, Nov 29th at 12:00pm
The Visual Effects Society in collaboration with the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) invite a limited number of VES members to attend the hands-on Practical Lighting for CG Artists masterclass at the Sony Digital Media Production Center (DMPC).
Among those scheduled to appear are 6-time Oscar nominee and ASC Lifetime Achievement Award-winning Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, ASC, and VES Founders Award recipient, Fellow and Lifetime Member Bill Taylor, VES, ASC, who’s won the Academy’s Technical Achievement Award and the Medal of Commendation as well as an Emmy. Join us for the eighth incarnation of the wildly popular and informative one-day seminar geared toward helping digital artists develop the sensibilities and sensitivities of a cinematographer.
Click here to purchase tickets ($25 tickets include Mexican buffet lunch with vegan & gluten free options) Tuesday, December 3, 2019 from 11:00AM to 5:00PM
Registration begins at 10:30AM, Masterclass at 11:00AM
(VES members must login to see venue information below)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Blue Sky Studios’ SPIES IN DISGUISE followed by a Q&A with Director Nick Bruno, moderated by Pete Hammond
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 29) Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 11:00AM
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ FROZEN 2
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 22) Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 4:00PM
WET, also known as WET Design, is a water feature design firm based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1983 by former Disney Imagineers Mark Fuller, Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson, the company has designed over two hundred fountains and water features using water, fire, ice, fog, and lights.
Please log-in to RSVP.
Strict guest list required – Space is limited to first 30 members!
Please only RSVP if you’re able to attend.
Join us for a VES-exclusive look at the latest Dreamscape VR experiences!
The Vision: Combine the emotional power of Hollywood storytelling, the visceral excitement
of great theme-park rides, and this extraordinary new technology to create stories and worlds
that push the limits of virtual reality.
Tuesday, Nov 19th
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Please plan to arrive between 1:00-1:30pm, and stay for the duration until 3:00pm.
Shows last approximately 30 minutes, so guests may be able to do more than one experience.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s MIDWAY followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Roland Emmerich, Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Travers and Visual Effects Producer Tricia Mulgrew, moderated by VES Board member Jeffrey Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information) Monday, November 18, 2019 at 7:30PM
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s FORD V FERRARI followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Olivier Dumont, Visual Effects Producer Kathy Siegel and Special Effects Supervisor Mark R. Byers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to RSVP and see venue information)
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 15) Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 11:00AM
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ DOCTOR SLEEP
(VES members must login in order to see venue information and RSVP.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE GOLDFINCH
Please RSVP below
Friday, September 13, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Kids Run The Bases (kids 14 & under after the game)
Dodgers Foundation Memorabilia Silent Auction (located outside the Vin Scully Press box on Club Level 5)
Tickets: $35 (Please log-in to purchase tickets.)
All You Can Eat Right Field Pavilion, Section 306
Limited seats! Purchase today!
Tickets include unlimited Dodger Dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, Coke products and water through the 7th inning. Alcohol is not included, but is available for purchase. Outside food can also be brought into the stadium, as well as sealed bottles of soda and water, up to 1 liter each.
Parking & Game Entry
Parking gates open 2.5 hours prior to the start of the game.
Stadium gates open approximately 2 hours prior to the first pitch.
Parking for automobiles and motorcycles is $17 in advance and $25 at the gate.
Preferred parking is $40 in advance and $50 at the gate. Parking for large vehicles including buses, motor homes, limousines and other oversized vehicles is $40 in advance and $50 at the gate.
For only $5 (in advance or upon arrival), purchase parking for Lots 13 and 14. These first-come, first-serve lots are located offsite on Stadium Way – between Elysian Park Avenue and the 110 – and allow for easy entrance and exit. Note that there is an uphill walk to the stadium from these lots, of approximately 10 to 15 minutes. A free shuttle is available for fans with disabilities, call Fan Services (323) 224-2611. Go online to www.dodgers.com to purchase parking in advance.
Kids Run The Bases (kids 14 & under after the game)
Dodgers Foundation Memorabilia Silent Auction (located outside the Vin Scully Press box on Club Level 5)
Tickets: $35 (Please log-in to purchase tickets.)
All You Can Eat Right Field Pavilion, Section 306
Limited seats! Purchase today!
Tickets include unlimited Dodger Dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, Coke products and water through the 7th inning. Alcohol is not included, but is available for purchase. Outside food can also be brought into the stadium, as well as sealed bottles of soda and water, up to 1 liter each.
Parking & Game Entry
Parking gates open 2.5 hours prior to the start of the game.
Stadium gates open approximately 2 hours prior to the first pitch.
Parking for automobiles and motorcycles is $17 in advance and $25 at the gate.
Preferred parking is $40 in advance and $50 at the gate. Parking for large vehicles including buses, motor homes, limousines and other oversized vehicles is $40 in advance and $50 at the gate.
For only $5 (in advance or upon arrival), purchase parking for Lots 13 and 14. These first-come, first-serve lots are located offsite on Stadium Way – between Elysian Park Avenue and the 110 – and allow for easy entrance and exit. Note that there is an uphill walk to the stadium from these lots, of approximately 10 to 15 minutes. A free shuttle is available for fans with disabilities, call Fan Services (323) 224-2611. Go online to www.dodgers.com to purchase parking in advance.
VES Members and Their Guests in are Invited to aPre-Release Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ IT CHAPTER TWO
Please RSVP below Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 7:00PM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Thursday, September 5)
Warner Bros. Studio screening room #5
4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91522 (Please enter through the Gate #4/Hollywood Way and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Millenium Films’ ANGEL HAS FALLEN
Please RSVP below
Friday, August 30, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ GOOD BOYS
Please RSVP below
Friday, August 23, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
This film is Rated R for strong crude sexual content, drug and alcohol material, and language throughout – all involving tweens.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Grab a friend or two. All are welcome to join for coffee, tea, and conversation!
Topic: Diversity & Inclusion in Hiring & Career Development
How diverse is your workplace?
What are best practices in recruitment & career dev you’ve seen, or would like to see?
Are you looking for talent, your next gig, or making a career move?
Bring your VFX friends, feedback, ideas, and resumes or job posts!
Priscilla’s Coffee
4150 W Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91505
Grab a friend or two. All are welcome to join for coffee, tea, and conversation!
Topic: Diversity & Inclusion in Hiring & Career Development
How diverse is your workplace?
What are best practices in recruitment & career dev you’ve seen, or would like to see?
Are you looking for talent, your next gig, or making a career move?
Bring your VFX friends, feedback, ideas, and resumes or job posts!
Priscilla’s Coffee
4150 W Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91505
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
Please RSVP below Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 9) Blakeley Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW
Please RSVP below
Friday, August 9, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and their Guests are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) – A Tribute to Emmy®-Winning Production Designer Stuart Wurtzel
The Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403 Click here for a map.
Production Designer Stuart WurtzelADG created a valentine to classic Hollywood and the films of the depression era. The film’s movie-with-in-the-movie is an RKO-style screwball comedy set in a glittering Manhattan penthouse. The outer world of the film is set in New Jersey amid the dreams of a simple housewife, Mia Farrow, whose world is turned upside down when the hero of the film, Jeff Daniels, steps out of her neighborhood movie theater’s screen and into her real-life world. A beloved film by many, the expert blending of the film’s fiction and reality blur the lines between fantasy and romance in memorable ways. It’s “perfect-pitch” Production Design by a master of the New York school and a visual delight for all to behold.
Emmy winning Production Designer Stuart Wurtzel ADG will be interviewed by moderator John Iacovelli ADG, Production Designer.
VES Members and their Guests are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) – A Tribute to Emmy®-Winning Production Designer Stuart Wurtzel
The Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403 Click here for a map.
Production Designer Stuart WurtzelADG created a valentine to classic Hollywood and the films of the depression era. The film’s movie-with-in-the-movie is an RKO-style screwball comedy set in a glittering Manhattan penthouse. The outer world of the film is set in New Jersey amid the dreams of a simple housewife, Mia Farrow, whose world is turned upside down when the hero of the film, Jeff Daniels, steps out of her neighborhood movie theater’s screen and into her real-life world. A beloved film by many, the expert blending of the film’s fiction and reality blur the lines between fantasy and romance in memorable ways. It’s “perfect-pitch” Production Design by a master of the New York school and a visual delight for all to behold.
Emmy winning Production Designer Stuart Wurtzel ADG will be interviewed by moderator John Iacovelli ADG, Production Designer.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE LION KING followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Jon Favreau, Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato, and Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, ASC, moderated by Michael Fink, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 26) Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 11:00AM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of 20th Century Fox’s STUBER
Please RSVP below Friday, July 12, 2018 at 8:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 12) Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME followed by a Q&A with the Visual Effects Team
Panelists will include Visual Effects Producer Cyndi Ochs, Luma Pictures Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Souls, Imageworks Visual Effects Supervisor Theo Bialek, Imageworks CG Supervisor Joe Pepper and Scanline’s Sequence Supervisor Curtis Carlson, moderated by VES Board member Andrew Bly. (Panelists’ participation is based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Monday, July 8, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Visual Effects Society has Secured a Very Limited Number of Tickets for VES Members and a Guest to Attend a Double Feature of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) and a 70mm film print of the Original STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE (1977).
It has been twenty-two years since the Special Editions of the original STAR WARS trilogy were released, effectively preventing anyone from being able to watch the 1977 theatrical version of that seminal film as it was originally shown. Join us for chronological screenings of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, relating how the Rebel Alliance took possession of the plans for the dreaded Death Star, followed by the original STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE, in which you’ll be among the first in more than two decades to watch Han Solo shoot first!
This is a 5 hour event with no food available.
Please RSVP below (Sign up ASAP, as tickets are already SOLD OUT.) Saturday, June 29 at 10:00AM to 3:00PM
(Be in your seat by 9:45AM or it may be forfeited, and be sure to eat a hearty breakfast!) There will be a 30 minute break between films and the Academy does not allow any food or drinks in the theater. (Security will search all bags.)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for FREE parking information and the Academy’s food & beverage policy. Click here for a map.
*You must attend the first screening in order to attend the second, and nobody will be re-admitted once they leave.
The Visual Effects Society has Secured a Very Limited Number of Tickets for VES Members and a Guest to Attend a Double Feature of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) and a 70mm film print of the Original STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE (1977).
It has been twenty-two years since the Special Editions of the original STAR WARS trilogy were released, effectively preventing anyone from being able to watch the 1977 theatrical version of that seminal film as it was originally shown. Join us for chronological screenings of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, relating how the Rebel Alliance took possession of the plans for the dreaded Death Star, followed by the original STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE, in which you’ll be among the first in more than two decades to watch Han Solo shoot first!
This is a 5 hour event with no food available.
Please RSVP below (Sign up ASAP, as tickets are already SOLD OUT.) Saturday, June 29 at 10:00AM to 3:00PM
(Be in your seat by 9:45AM or it may be forfeited, and be sure to eat a hearty breakfast!) There will be a 30 minute break between films and the Academy does not allow any food or drinks in the theater. (Security will search all bags.)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for FREE parking information and the Academy’s food & beverage policy. Click here for a map.
*You must attend the first screening in order to attend the second, and nobody will be re-admitted once they leave.
(You will be able to stream this event for up to 48 hours afterward.)
Over the last 40 years, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. But the impetus to create and inspire remains the same. This event will contrast the analog technologies developed for the first STAR WARS released in 1977 with the all-digital toolsets used to create ROGUE ONE released in 2016.
Key contributors from both STAR WARS and ROGUE ONE will share the journey of creating the impossible with their breakthrough visual effects. Our list of stellar participants includes John Dykstra, Dennis Muren, VES, John Knoll, Ben Burtt, Marcia Lucas, Bill George, Harrison Ellenshaw, Bruce Nicholson, Richard Edlund, VES and Rachel Rose. Hosted by Kiri Hart, co-producer of ROGUE ONE, this event promises to be both inspiring and insightful.
Please RSVP below
Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 7:30PM
(There are very few seats allotted for VES members, and tickets for the public are already sold out.)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for FREE parking information.
*Due to limited ticket availability, please be sure to RSVP as soon as possible.
(You will be able to stream this event for up to 48 hours afterward.)
Over the last 40 years, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. But the impetus to create and inspire remains the same. This event will contrast the analog technologies developed for the first STAR WARS released in 1977 with the all-digital toolsets used to create ROGUE ONE released in 2016.
Key contributors from both STAR WARS and ROGUE ONE will share the journey of creating the impossible with their breakthrough visual effects. Our list of stellar participants includes John Dykstra, Dennis Muren, VES, John Knoll, Ben Burtt, Marcia Lucas, Bill George, Harrison Ellenshaw, Bruce Nicholson, Richard Edlund, VES and Rachel Rose. Hosted by Kiri Hart, co-producer of ROGUE ONE, this event promises to be both inspiring and insightful.
Please RSVP below
Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 7:30PM
(There are very few seats allotted for VES members, and tickets for the public are already sold out.)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for FREE parking information.
*Due to limited ticket availability, please be sure to RSVP as soon as possible.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), a Tribute to Production Designer Joe Alves
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Ray Bradbury declared CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND as the greatest science fiction film ever made. Joe Alves, ADG the film’s Production Designer, began his career as an animator on the 1956 MGM classic, FORBIDDEN PLANET. A master Close Encounters, Mr. Alves will be in attendance to share highlights from his long career as a motion picture Designer and Illustrator. Close Encounters was written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO). Director Jean Renoir compared Spielberg’s storytelling to that of Jules Verne and Georges Méliès. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Spielberg’s landmark film, a special Digitally Remastered 4K version of the Director’s Cut will be shown.
Production DesignerJoe Alves ADG, will be interviewed by moderator Thomas A. Walsh ADG, Production Designer and Film Series Co-chair.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), a Tribute to Production Designer Joe Alves
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Ray Bradbury declared CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND as the greatest science fiction film ever made. Joe Alves, ADG the film’s Production Designer, began his career as an animator on the 1956 MGM classic, FORBIDDEN PLANET. A master Close Encounters, Mr. Alves will be in attendance to share highlights from his long career as a motion picture Designer and Illustrator. Close Encounters was written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO). Director Jean Renoir compared Spielberg’s storytelling to that of Jules Verne and Georges Méliès. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Spielberg’s landmark film, a special Digitally Remastered 4K version of the Director’s Cut will be shown.
Production DesignerJoe Alves ADG, will be interviewed by moderator Thomas A. Walsh ADG, Production Designer and Film Series Co-chair.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL
Please RSVP below
Friday, June 21, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Mark your calendars and join us on June 18-20 for the DelliVR Conference, a hands-on 360/VR/AR training event. The conference will feature technical training, business management classes, and social activities. VES members receive 20% off passes. (VES member must login to see the discount code below.)
Mark your calendars and join us on June 18-20 for the DelliVR Conference, a hands-on 360/VR/AR training event. The conference will feature technical training, business management classes, and social activities. VES members receive 20% off passes. (VES member must login to see the discount code below.)
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release 3D Screening of Disney•Pixar’s TOY STORY 4
Please RSVP below Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 5:00PM (RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 14)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Focus Features’ THE DEAD DON’T DIE
Please RSVP below
Friday, June 14, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
June 12th – doors open 7:00PM (CEST) and there will be beer and pizza!
ZOOM stream starts at 7:30PM (CEST)
Masterclass starts at 8:00PM (CEST)
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The VES invites you to our 3rd MEGABRAIN Masterclass where you can learn and share your knowledge with colleagues in the VFX industry. The idea is not to simply present show reels – but to teach actual techniques that help every artist to improve their skillset. This event will take place on June 12th 7:00PM at multiple locations and will also be streamed via ZOOM.
RSVP for your specific location on the appropriate event pages please:
Efficient facial rigging tools for emotionally believable digital humans
presented by Volker Helzle – Head of Research & Development at Filmakademie
Live from Munich Using Machine-learning to classify a VFXElements Library
presented by Jonas Kluger – Pipeline TD at ARRI
Live from Berlin Camera Technology: Sensors, Noise Properties, and Raw Processing
presented by Charles Poynton, PhD
We are overbooking to compensate for no-shows.
Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.
An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES-Members and their registered guests only (except for Ludwigsburg and Cologne). No admission without registration – also at the streaming locations!
The event will also be recorded for everyone who can’t make it.
The event will be streamed live from (and to) Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. For the first time we also provide direct access to the ZOOM stream for ALL VES MEMBERS around the world!
VES Germany is a proud Partner of the FMX Conference in Stuttgart.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Marvel Studios’ DARK PHOENIX
Please RSVP below Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 7) Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.) Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:00PM (Enter from Gate 1 on Lankershim Blvd.)
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 7)
Universal Studios Theater #2
4050 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening ofWarner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Entertainment’s GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Guillaume Rocheron, MPC Senior Animation Supervisor Spencer Cook, Method Studios Visual Effects SupervisorDaryl Sawchuk and Double Negative Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Connor, moderated by VES Board member Richard Winn Taylor II, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 11:00AM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Paramount Pictures’ ROCKETMAN
Please RSVP below
Friday, May 31, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Screen Gems’ and Sony Pictures Entertainment’s BRIGHTBURN
Please RSVP below
Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members Receive FREE Exhibit Passes to Cine Gear Expo L.A. 2019 Through May 25!
Cine Gear Expo 2019 is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the film and entertainment technology industry. Taking place May 30th – June 2nd at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California, Cine Gear features 300 exhibits, new product and service introductions, 30+ complimentary seminars led by industry leaders, master classes, film competition, awards ceremony, special screenings in state of the art theaters, and ample opportunity to network with peers within a studio environment.
May 30 – Film Series Competition Screenings
May 30 & June 1 – Exhibits, Premier Seminars, Exclusive Screenings, Awards Presentations, Special Events
June 3 – Master Classes
Badge registration is now open for Cine Gear 2019. All attendees must complete this FREE registration process to obtain their credentials. Registration is free until 11:59PM (PDT), May 25, 2019.
VES Members Receive FREE Exhibit Passes to Cine Gear Expo L.A. 2019 Through May 25!
Cine Gear Expo 2019 is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the film and entertainment technology industry. Taking place May 30th – June 2nd at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California, Cine Gear features 300 exhibits, new product and service introductions, 30+ complimentary seminars led by industry leaders, master classes, film competition, awards ceremony, special screenings in state of the art theaters, and ample opportunity to network with peers within a studio environment.
May 30 – Film Series Competition Screenings
May 30 & June 1 – Exhibits, Premier Seminars, Exclusive Screenings, Awards Presentations, Special Events
June 3 – Master Classes
Badge registration is now open for Cine Gear 2019. All attendees must complete this FREE registration process to obtain their credentials. Registration is free until 11:59PM (PDT), May 25, 2019.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ ALADDIN
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 24) Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 4:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Summit Entertainment’s JOHN WICK 3: PARABELLUM
Please RSVP below
Friday, May 24, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of THE 10TH VICTIM (1965) Exploring a Futuristic Op-Art Classic followed by a conversation with KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton, USC’s Annenberg School Professor and Author of PROJECTING TOMORROWNicholas J. Cull and two time Oscar nominated Production Designer Guy Hendrix Dyas ADG, (PASSENGERS and INCEPTION), moderated by Production Designer John Muto ADG.
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
THE 10th VICTIM is a futuristic Italian socio-political sex-and-murder action comedy starring the impossibly glamorous Ursula Andress and Italian megastar, Marcello Mastroianni. Anticipating the rise of out-of-control reality TV by 50 years, the film matches the pair by computer as hunter and victim in The Big Hunt, a deadly game designed to stifle human aggression by offering individuals the opportunity to kill or be killed, earning status, fame, and money on live TV. Directed by Elio Petri (INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION), the film is written by Tonino Guerra (BLOW UP) and designed by Piero Poletto (RED DESERT). THE 10th VICTIM takes place in a future Rome, mixing classical architecture with ultramodern Op Art design, retro-glamorous haute-couture, and pulsating electro pop jazz by Piero Piccioni.
Panel discussion will include host of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture Frances Anderton, USC’s Annenberg School Professor and Author of PROJECTING TOMORROWNicholas J. Cull and two time Oscar nominated Production Designer Guy Hendrix Dyas ADG, (PASSENGERS and INCEPTION), moderated by Production Designer John Muto ADG, Film Society Founder and Co-chair.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of THE 10TH VICTIM (1965) Exploring a Futuristic Op-Art Classic followed by a conversation with KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton, USC’s Annenberg School Professor and Author of PROJECTING TOMORROWNicholas J. Cull and two time Oscar nominated Production Designer Guy Hendrix Dyas ADG, (PASSENGERS and INCEPTION), moderated by Production Designer John Muto ADG.
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
THE 10th VICTIM is a futuristic Italian socio-political sex-and-murder action comedy starring the impossibly glamorous Ursula Andress and Italian megastar, Marcello Mastroianni. Anticipating the rise of out-of-control reality TV by 50 years, the film matches the pair by computer as hunter and victim in The Big Hunt, a deadly game designed to stifle human aggression by offering individuals the opportunity to kill or be killed, earning status, fame, and money on live TV. Directed by Elio Petri (INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION), the film is written by Tonino Guerra (BLOW UP) and designed by Piero Poletto (RED DESERT). THE 10th VICTIM takes place in a future Rome, mixing classical architecture with ultramodern Op Art design, retro-glamorous haute-couture, and pulsating electro pop jazz by Piero Piccioni.
Panel discussion will include host of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture Frances Anderton, USC’s Annenberg School Professor and Author of PROJECTING TOMORROWNicholas J. Cull and two time Oscar nominated Production Designer Guy Hendrix Dyas ADG, (PASSENGERS and INCEPTION), moderated by Production Designer John Muto ADG, Film Society Founder and Co-chair.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Entertainment’s POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU
Please RSVP below
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: ENDGAME followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Visual Effects Producer Jen Underdahl, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Russell Earl, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Kelly Port, and Associate Visual Effects Supervisor Mårten Larsson, moderated by VES Board member Jeff Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 3) Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 3:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of STX Entertainment’s UGLYDOLLS
Please RSVP below
Monday, April 29, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of MARY POPPINS (1964) Practically Perfect in Every Way: Celebrating the Artists Behind a Classic! followed by a conversation with Production & Costume Designer Tony Walton, VES Founders Award recipient Harrison Ellenshaw and writer-director-producer Theodore Thomas moderated by Jeff Kurtti and Thomas A. Walsh ADG.
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Besides being an enduring motion picture classic, Mary Poppins was a masterfully creative and technical milestone for the Walt Disney Studio. We will be celebrating the visual magicians behind the scenes by sharing untold stories and a unique perspective of the film, its artisans, and their creative legacy. Joining our panel will be Tony Walton the film’s Costume and Design Consultant, Harrison Ellenshaw, son of Peter Ellenshaw, the film’s special effects and master matte artist, and Theodore Thomas, son of Frank Thomas, one of Disney’s revered nine-old men, and the animator behind the dancing penguins. For this special event we will be screening the 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition of the film.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Annapurna Pictures’ MISSING LINK
Please RSVP below
Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 11:00AM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028,
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Enter parking lot from Homewood Avenue, which is a one-way street heading east. Recommended to approach from south, via Cahuenga Avenue. Parking lot opens one hour prior to event, and will be closed and locked 30 minutes after the conclusion of the event. Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
An enlightening presentation and panel discussion on the value of live, on-set prosthetics and animatronics work in the digital age, and how digital artists can work in collaboration with these cinematic artforms for even more effective creative storytelling; set in the midst of a fascinatingmuseum exhibit showcasing the work of the artists of Amalgamated Dynamics.
Panelists:Tom Woodruff, Jr., and key members of his creative team at ADI
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s HELLBOY
Please RSVP below
Monday, April 15, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ PET SEMATARY
Please RSVP below Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ DUMBO
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, April 5) Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 6:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES LA is offering discounted group tickets for members & their guests.
MUST PURCHASE AHEAD OF TIME – Please log in for member link.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
4:00pm Self-guided Group Tour
Meet at 3:45p at the Main Box Office
3D: Double Vision is the first American exhibition to survey a full range of artworks, dating from 1838 to the present, that produce the illusion of three dimensions. These artworks function by activating binocular vision—the process by which our brains synthesize the information received by our two eyes into a single, volumetric image.
Drawn from the realms of art, science, mass culture, and entertainment, the artworks in 3D: Double Vision will dazzle the eyes and provoke the imagination. Ultimately, to experience 3D is to engage with questions about the nature of perception, the allure of illusionism, and our relationship with the technologies that create such images.
* Guests who qualify for free admission can simply check-in ahead of time & meet by the Box Office at 3:45pm (i.e., LACMA members, Children 17 & under, and registered NextGen families — child member & adult must be present).
After touring the exhibit, members may choose to go diner together at one of the many nearby restaurants, or there is a free concert that evening at LACMA:
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ WONDER PARK
Please RSVP below Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 3:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN MARVEL followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers. Panelists will include Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck as well as Additional Visual Effects Supervisor Janelle Croshaw Ralla, moderated by Bill Taylor, VES, ASC. (Panelists will be announced as they are confirmed.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 8) Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 11:00AM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures’ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD followed by a Q&A with Director Dean DeBlois, Producer Brad Lewis, Visual Effects Supervisor Dave Walvood, Head of Character Animation Simon Otto and Head of Effects Li-Ming ‘Lawrence’ Lee moderated by Director Bill Kroyer. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 11:00AM
DreamWorks Animation Studios’ Campanile theater 1000 Flower St, Glendale, CA 91201 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
Please RSVP below Sunday, February 17, 2018 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, February 15) Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART
Please RSVP below
Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Paul will present Google’s latest breakthroughs with light field technology and discuss the making of Google VR’s award-winning VR experience, Welcome to Light Fields.
Ivan Neulander, Lead Rendering Engineer at Google
Rendering Google’s Playground
Ivan will present an overview of lighting and rendering techniques deployed inPlayground, Google’s creative AR app for Android phones.
Moderator:
Scott Squires, Technical Academy Award-winning VFX Supervisor, CTO/Creative Director ofPixvana, a company dedicated to bringing VR experiences to life.
The event includes refreshments and VR demos after the presentations.
LA ACM SIGGRAPH & VES Los Angeles Section Present:
STEVE WRIGHT: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COMPOSITING VISUAL EFFECTS
Steve Wright gives an in-person overview of VFX compositing techniques to those artists who RSVP to deepen their understanding of its critical role in visual effects.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
6:30 – 7:30 PM Social Hour
7:30 – 9:15 PM Program Presentation
Description
Join the members of the VES Los Angeles Section & LA ACM SIGGRAPH as we engage in a tour of the tools, techniques, and artistic requirements for compositing visual effects.
Demonstrations of how compositing is used for camera tracking, set extension, camera projection, blue/green screen keying, color correcting, tracking, clean plate construction, and multi-pass CGI compositing. Advance your knowledge of what compositors do and how they do it.
A rare look into the math and science behind the incredible technology used in Nuke, the de facto industry standard visual effects compositing software by the Foundry, coupled with demonstrations of its applications to movie magic in today’s blockbuster films. We peer behind the black curtain at how hi-tech visual effects shots are executed and what it takes to set one up with advanced concepts like Deep Compositing, Alembic Geometry, Camera Projection and CGI AOV’s.
Compositing now holds a high position in the artistic expression of visual effects as compositors are now required to not only make shots compiled from multiple disparate sources merge together photo realistically, but to also make them look “cool”. Compositors are now providing the final “look” to the shot with their blending of multiple cgi lighting passes and artistically driven color correction.
LA ACM SIGGRAPH & VES Los Angeles Section Present:
STEVE WRIGHT: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COMPOSITING VISUAL EFFECTS
Steve Wright gives an in-person overview of VFX compositing techniques to those artists who RSVP to deepen their understanding of its critical role in visual effects.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
6:30 – 7:30 PM Social Hour
7:30 – 9:15 PM Program Presentation
Description
Join the members of the VES Los Angeles Section & LA ACM SIGGRAPH as we engage in a tour of the tools, techniques, and artistic requirements for compositing visual effects.
Demonstrations of how compositing is used for camera tracking, set extension, camera projection, blue/green screen keying, color correcting, tracking, clean plate construction, and multi-pass CGI compositing. Advance your knowledge of what compositors do and how they do it.
A rare look into the math and science behind the incredible technology used in Nuke, the de facto industry standard visual effects compositing software by the Foundry, coupled with demonstrations of its applications to movie magic in today’s blockbuster films. We peer behind the black curtain at how hi-tech visual effects shots are executed and what it takes to set one up with advanced concepts like Deep Compositing, Alembic Geometry, Camera Projection and CGI AOV’s.
Compositing now holds a high position in the artistic expression of visual effects as compositors are now required to not only make shots compiled from multiple disparate sources merge together photo realistically, but to also make them look “cool”. Compositors are now providing the final “look” to the shot with their blending of multiple cgi lighting passes and artistically driven color correction.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ BUMBLEBEE
Please RSVP below Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 8:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Sony Pictures Animation’s SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Please RSVP below
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening Of Universal Pictures’ WELCOME TO MARWEN followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Baillie, Miniature Effects Supervisor Dave Asling and Production Designer Stefan Dechant moderated by VES Founders Award recipient Gene Kozicki. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 6:00PM
RealD Screening Room
100 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Walt Disney Studios’ MARY POPPINS RETURNS
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 4:00PM on Friday, December 14) Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 4:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ ALPHA followed by a Q&A with Director Albert Hughes and Visual Effects Supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun, VES moderated by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Monday, December 10, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Universal Pictures’ MORTAL ENGINES followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Ken McGaugh, Animation Supervisor Dennis Yoo, Visual Effects Supervisor Luke Millar and Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Smith moderated by VES Board member Jeff Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 11:00AM (RSVPs close at 5:00PM on Friday, November 30)
AMC Century City 10250 Santa Monica Blvd #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Netflix’s MOWGLI followed by a Q&A with Director Andy Serkis, Animation Supervisor Max Solomon and Members of the Visual Effects Team T.B.A. moderated by VES Board member Richard Winn Taylor II, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 11:00AM (RSVPs close at 5:00PM on Friday, November 30)
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Netflix’s THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND followed by a live Q&A that will originate from San Francisco. Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll and Whiskytree Visual Effects Supervisor Jonathan Harb moderated by VES Board member Rose Duignan. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Friday, November 30, 2018 at 8:00PM
Netflix’s Upside Down screening room
(This is a very small room, so please sign up only if you can attend.)
5808 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Please enter through the Van Ness gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in San Francisco) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESWELLES, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.) Sunday, November 18, 2017 at 4:00PM (Enter from Gate 1 on Lankershim Blvd.)
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 16)
Universal Studios Theater #1
4050 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Kersavage, Character Look Development Supervisor Michelle Robinson and Head of Effects Animation Cesar Velazquezmoderated by VES Board member Charlie Iturriaga. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 16) Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 11:00AM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ OVERLORD
Click here to RSVP Monday, November 12, 2018 at 8:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Columbia Pictures’ THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB
Please RSVP below
Friday, November 9, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Please RSVP below Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 2) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS
Please RSVP below Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 2)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES members are invited to Infinity Film Festival™ (IFF) in Beverly Hills, November 1 – 4, 2018,with Title Sponsor RYOT andpresented by Epic Games, Unreal Engine, and co-presented by D-BOX. Celebrating story advanced by technology, the festival’s 80+ advisors from the leading studios, talent agencies and technology companies invite you to experience unique moments in time through more than 75 hours of screenings, 30 technology exhibitions and over 100 industry-leading speakers from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach. Networking opportunities and gala evening events include an Opening Night VIP Reception, in partnership with CTA, to feature the “CES 2019 Preview,” hosted at United Talent Agency.
• Screenings, Speakers and Exhibitions to be featured at The Paley Center for Media, the Writers Guild Theater and more
• November 1 – 4, 2018
• World Premiere Feature: The Restoration of “War of the Worlds” by Paramount Pictures Studios
• Blockchain programming by Greenfence
• Art + Museums programming by Sotheby’s
• Shorts programming in partnership with Audience Awards
• Animation programming by GLAS Animation Festival and Creative Capers
• IFF Tech Lab™ Presented By Epic Games and Unreal Engine (Makers of “Fortnite”)
• IFF Student Lab™ Presented by Presented by Chapman University and UT Austin
• Luxury Real Estate Partner: Hilton & Hyland
• Media Partners: Los Angeles Times, Variety, Fast Company, OUTFRONT Media, Regan Arts, TAG – The Awareness Group, Mashable, IGN, TechCrunch
• Cutting-Edge Technology Exhibitions to include: Sotheby’s, D-Box, Walt Disney Studios, Intel, Positron, Hologate, The Third Floor and more
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ HALLOWEEN
Please RSVP below
Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER followed by a live interactive Q&A with Writer/Director Ryan Coogler, Visual Effects Supervisor Geoffrey Baumann, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Craig Hammack, Additional Visual Effects Supervisor Jesse James Chisholm and Special Effects Supervisor Dan Sudick moderated by VES Board member David Tanaka. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 12:00PM
Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451 Click here for a map
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in San Francisco) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESWAKANDA4EVER, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Get your tickets now for the 2nd annual ANIMATION IS FILM Festival on October 19-21, 2018 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood for one weekend of the year’s best in animation. The films in this year’s program include world premieres and retrospectives, studio previews and international indies, Oscar favorites and dark horses.
The Festival will present a highly selective showcase of the best animated films from around the world, plus red carpet, filmmaker Q&As, special events, receptions, and both juried and audience awards.
(VES members must login in order to see the discount code below.)
Get your tickets now for the 2nd annual ANIMATION IS FILM Festival on October 19-21, 2018 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood for one weekend of the year’s best in animation. The films in this year’s program include world premieres and retrospectives, studio previews and international indies, Oscar favorites and dark horses.
The Festival will present a highly selective showcase of the best animated films from around the world, plus red carpet, filmmaker Q&As, special events, receptions, and both juried and audience awards.
(VES members must login in order to see the discount code below.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE
Please RSVP below
Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ VENOM
Please RSVP below
Monday, October 8, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release IMAX Screening of Universal Pictures’ FIRST MAN followed by a Presentation and Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Lambert, Miniature Effects Supervisor Ian Hunter and Special Effects Supervisor J.D. Schwalm moderated by VES 1st Vice Chair Jeffrey A. Okun, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, October 5) Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 12:00PM
IMAX Playa Vista 12582 Millennium Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90094 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Join DGA members and other industry professionals for learning and networking around the creative, technical and business issues emerging from new technologies. With panels, presentations, exhibits, hands-on demos and MORE.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS
Please RSVP below
Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Annapurna Pictures’ THE SISTERS BROTHERS
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES receive FREE Passes to the 5th Annual UCFTI Expo
Connect and collaborate at the 5th Annual U.S. China Film and Television Industry Expo, Sept. 26-27 at the LA Convention Center. Hear industry experts discuss how to capture an international audience and hear how the latest technologies are transforming the global movie industry from VES members. Click here for more informatation about the program.
(VES members must login to see the code for free passes below.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE PREDATOR
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, September 14) Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs close on Friday, September 14 at 2:00PM)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of Sony Pictures’ WHITE BOY RICK
Please RSVP below
Friday, September 14, 2018 at 8:00PM
(RSVPs close on Friday, September 14 at 2:00PM)
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of STX Entertainment’s PEPPERMINT
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Monday, September 10, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening of STX Entertainment’s THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS followed by a Q&A with Director Brian Henson, Actors and Puppeteers Bill Barretta and Drew Massey, Visual Effects Producer Melissa Brockman, Compositing Supervisor Caleb Knueven and CG Supervisor Efram Potelle moderated by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
This film is Rated R, and is not intended for children. Click here to watch the trailer.
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Friday, August 24, 2018 at 7:00PM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ ALPHA
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Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Focus Features’ BLACKkKLANSMAN
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Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE IN 3D (1983) followed by a conversation with Production Designer Jackson De Govia , Special Visual Effects Supervisor Gene Warren Jr. and Costume Designer Julie Weiss moderated by ADG Film Society Co-Chair John Muto..
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
In the wake of the STAR WARS phenomenon of the 70s, the 80s brought us the low-budget apocalyptic space opera — often in 3D — and generally from Roger Corman or Albert Band; such pictures as STARCRASH, GALAXINA, METALSTORM, and ICE PIRATES. The August screening of SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE is something very different.
Though featuring a galactic bounty hunter menaced by a mechanical madman (on a ruined world (of course), it is well written and directed, very well cast and acted (Molly Ringwald, Peter Strauss, Ernie Hudson) and boasts particularly imaginative sets by Jackson DeGovia, costumes by Julie Weiss, and visual effects by Gene Warren Jr. The Film Society will be presenting SPACEHUNTER in 3D on a silver screen specially installed for the occasion.
SPACEHUNTER‘s Emmy winning Production Designer Jackson de Govia, has had a remarkably eclectic career. He has designed such disparate films as DIE HARD, BOWFINGER, SPEED, FORGETING SARAH MARSHALL, THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN, and SISTER ACT among many others.
He is delighted to have the opportunity to discuss his early career adventure bringing SPACEHUNTER to the 3D screen. Joining Jack to discuss their work on SPACEHUNTER will be Costume Designer Julie Weiss (FRIDA, 12 MONKEYS, BLADES OF GLORY, AMERICAN BEAUTY), and visual effects legend Gene Warren Jr. (TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, THE EXPENDABLES, MOONRISE KINGDOM, UNDERWORLD).
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT
Click here to RSVP Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 12:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
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(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 3) Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 6:30PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE DARKEST MINDS
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(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 3) Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 3:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ THE EQUALIZER 2
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Monday, July 23, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Will your favorite movie or TV show be available to your children or grandchildren?
Preservation and restoration are complicated and challenging issues. What should be saved? How should it be preserved? Who pays? How will future generations access media content from today and the past 100 years?
It would be impossible to cover every aspect of this topic in one evening. However, we have invited some of Hollywood’s best and brightest preservation specialists to describe what they and their companies are doing to protect valuable content…and what we can do to help.
This special event is a co-production of the Visual Effects Society Los Angeles Section and The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Hollywood Section. Dick May, Anthony Magliocco of Entertainment and Media Technology and Linda Rosner of Artisans PR invite you to join us on July 17th at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater in Hollywood.
DATE: July 17, 2018 Time: 6:30 PM Reception, program starts at 7:15 PM Location: Linwood Dunn Theater of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1313 Vine Street Hollywood, CA
Planned Presenters include:
Jan-Christopher Horak – Director at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Grover Crisp – EVP Asset Management, Film Restoration & Digital Mastering at Sony Pictures Entertainment Andrew Oran – VP Large Format Restoration – Fotokem Larry Chernoff – CEO – MTI Film Theo Gluck – Dir: Library Restoration and Preservation at The Walt Disney Studios Sheri Eisenberg – Senior Colorist Roundabout Entertainment, Inc.
This is a free event. The entrance to the theater is in the rear where you will find free parking.
The Cinema Audio Society Invites VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend a 4K Screening of THE MATRIX (1999) with the Newly Completed and Unscreened Dolby Atmos Mix followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The screening will be preceded by a reception with appetizers and a no-host bar at 5:30PM at The Federal, located at 5303 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601.
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Saturday, July 14, 2018 Screening begins at 7:00PM
(Reception at The Federal begins at 5:30PM)
Television Academy
5220 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
(Click here for a map.)
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Sony Pictures Animation’s HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION
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Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 10:30AM
The TCL Chinese 6 Theaters at the Hollywood & Highland Center 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Complimentary parking vouchers will be provided in the Hollywood & Highland Center’s underground lot.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ SKYSCRAPER
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Friday, July 13, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Blumhouse Pictures’ THE FIRST PURGE
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Monday, July 9, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP followed by a Q&A with Director Peyton Reed as well as Visual Effects Supervisor Stephane Ceretti moderated by VES Archives Committee Chair Gene Kozicki. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 6) Saturday, July 7, 2018 at 5:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of PLANET OF THE APES (1968) followed by a conversation with Production Designer Bill Creber moderated by ADG Film Society Co-Chair John Muto..
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Production Designer William Creber, nominated for three Oscars, is virtually the last of the Golden Age Production Designers. He is best known for his designs for PLANET OF THE APES as well as THE POSEIDEN ADVENTURE and THE TOWERING INFERNO, among many others.
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary as a science-fiction classic, PLANET OF THE APES garnered two Oscar-nominations and combines sensational high adventure, “thinking man’s” science fiction, and social commentary.
The film became a critical and commercial hit, and has spawned three sequels, a television show, a 90s remake, three acclaimed re-imaginings and a myriad of product tie-ins. William Creber’s sets for the original film, principally Ape City, set a high bar and have not aged a day in fifty years.
PLANET OF THE APES was scripted by Rod Serling, famed creator of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and directed by Oscar-winner Franklin J. Schaffner (LIONHEART, PAPILLON and PATTON).
PLANET OF THE APES maroons three astronauts on a desolate wasteland planet. Finding their way to a lush valley they encounter a tribe of mute, backward humans just as they are suddenly attacked by fierce, rifle-carrying gorillas on horseback — a human hunting expedition.
Taylor (Charlton Heston), the lead astronaut, is injured in the attack; now rendered mute, he is taken to a nightmarish Ape City and thrown into a human zoo. Surrounded by apes walking upright and speaking English, Taylor is befriended by a sympathetic chimpanzee scientist — whom he hopes might help him escape.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Special Fathers’ Day 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM followed by a Live Interactive Q&A with Director J.A. Bayona, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor David Vickery, ILM Animation Director Jance Rubinchik and ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Alex Wuttke with moderation by VES London Section Secretary Gavin Graham (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 11:00AM (RSVPs close at 5:00PM on Friday, June 15)
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in London) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESJURASSIC, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Pixar Animation Studios’ INCREDIBLES 2
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(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 15) Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 6:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Global Road Entertainment’s HOTEL ARTEMIS
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Friday, June 15, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Academy Science and Technology Council Invites VES Los Angeles Section Members to attend
“Acting and Performance Capture: a Revolution in Technology and Collaboration”
Co-hosted by actress CCH Pounder (AVATAR) and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor John Nelson (GLADIATOR and BLADE RUNNER 2049), this special program offers an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes tour through the collaborative and rapidly evolving world of performance capture.
Click here to RSVP
Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs close on Monday, June 11 at close of business.)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for FREE parking information.
To purchase tickets for non-VES member guests and for more information, click here..
*Due to limited ticket availability, please be sure to RSVP as soon as possible.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Lucasfilm Ltd’s SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY followed by a live interactive Q&A with Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Bredow, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Pat Tubach, ILM Roto/Paint Supervisor Beth D’Amato and Hybride Visual Effects Supervisor Joseph Kasparian with moderation by VES Board member David Tanaka. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 25) Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in San Francisco) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESSOLO, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of THE CONFORMIST (1970) followed by a conversation with Production Designer Hannah Beachler.
The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
As we look up toward the designers that inspire us as filmmakers and designers, we ask them what inspired them. This year, Production Designer Hannah Beachler (BLACK PANTHER, MOONLIGHT, CREED, LEMONADE) is in the spotlight and chose THE CONFORMIST as one of the films that inspired her to become a designer.
The film was directed by Oscar-winning Writer/Director/Producer Bernardo Bertolucci, and designed by Oscar-winning Production Designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, best known for THE LAST EMPEROR, TOYS and LAST TANGO IN PARIS.
In THE CONFORMIST, Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a member of the secret police in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy. He and his new bride, Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli), travel to Paris for their honeymoon, where Marcello also plans to assassinate his former college professor Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), an outspoken anti-Fascist living in exile. But when Marcello meets the professor’s young wife, Anna (Dominique Sanda), both his romantic and his political loyalties are tested. Moderating the discussion with Production Designer Hannah Beachler will be Art Director Michael Allen Glover.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Special Event Celebrating the Crafts of Netflix
For your consideration event TIME WARP – Craft Panel Series
Netflix Talent Including:
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS Cynthia Summers – Costume Designer Bo Welch – Director & Production Designer
ALTERED CARBON Everett Burrell – VFX Supervisor Ann Foley – Costume Designer Neville Kidd – Director of Photography Carey Meyer – Production Designer
GLOW Todd Fjelsted – Production Designer Beth Morgan – Costume Designer
GODLESS Tarra Day – Makeup Department Head Betsy Heimann – Costume Designer Steven Miezler – Director of Photography Carlos Rafael Rivera – Composer Michelle Tesoro – Editor
LOST IN SPACE Sam McCurdy, BSC – Director of Photography Terron Pratt – VFX Producer Jabbar Raisani – VFX Supervisor Marion Spates – Digital Effects Supervisor Angus Strathie – Costume Designer
Click here to RSVP
Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 5:00PM
(Doors open at 4:00PM, panel begins at 5:00PM) Reception to follow
NETFLIX FYSEE Raleigh Studios 5300 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Click here for a map.)
Complimentary parking available at the parking garageat 662 N. Van Ness, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Check-in will take place at the Bronson Entrance, guides will be onsite to provide walking directions
We recommend arriving early. The event is first come, first served and RSVPs do not guarantee seating as screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows.
~Paid for by Netflix~
This screening and moderated Q&A will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording devices into the theatre and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, including camera phones, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theatre and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s DEADPOOL 2
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 18) Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 7:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR followed by a Q&A with Visual Effects Producers Jen Underdahl and Lisa Marra, Weta Digital Visual Effects Supervisor Matt Aitken, Industrial Light + Magic Visual Effects Supervisor Russell Earl and Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Kelly Port with moderation by VES Board member Jeff Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 4) Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night Screening Of Focus Features’ TULLY
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Friday, May 4, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild Screening of GRAND HOTEL (1932) with a Tribute to MGM’s Legendary Oscar® Winning Supervising Art Director Cedric Gibbons (1892-1960)
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403
GRAND HOTEL (1932) will launch the Art Directors Guild Film Society’s 2018 screening series with a spotlight on Cedric Gibbons, whose record 11 Academy Awards and 39 nominations include honors for SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951), GASLIGHT (1944), THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940), PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940), THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) and THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (1935).
Regarded by those that knew him best as the “Mercury of Hollywood,” Gibbons was the design trendsetter most responsible for bringing glamour and sophistication with a touch of surrealism to Depression-era audiences.
As one of Hollywood’s most influential executives, his four-decade tenure as Supervising Art Director at MGM from 1924-1956 (almost as long as the life of the studio) saw his stamp of approval on a record 1500 films. Dark and handsome, and always elegantly dressed, he was seen as an arbiter of taste and fashion and his career was closely followed in the 1930s by gossip columnists — particularly when he was married to actress Delores Del Rio. Gibbons was clearly the most influential Supervising Art Director of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
GRAND HOTEL takes place at a luxurious Berlin hotel between the wars where the once-wealthy Baron Felix von Gaigern (John Barrymore) supports himself as a thief and gambler. In this lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), and teams with dying accountant Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) against his former boss, crooked industrialist Preysing (Wallace Beery), and his ambitious stenographer, Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford).
Production Designer and Film Society co-chair Thomas Walsh ADG will moderate a discussion with Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of Gary Cooper and great niece of Cedric Gibbons. They will explore the legacy of Gibbon’s work and spotlight in the Golden Age of Hollywood socialites.
Director: Edmund Goulding Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ A QUIET PLACE
Please RSVP below
Monday, April 9, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s READY PLAYER ONE followed by a Q&A with Co-Producer and Visual Effects Producer Jennifer Meislohn, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Grady Cofer, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler and Digital Domain Previsualization Supervisor Scott Meadows as well as Digital Domain Virtual Production Supervisor Gary Roberts, moderated by VES Board member Charlie Iturriaga. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 12:00PM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Fox Searchlight’s ISLE OF DOGS
Please RSVP below Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, March 29) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Renowned Director/Creative Director Richard Winn Taylor II, VES, will take us on trip down memory lane, using images and video to illustrate the diverse road he has taken through out his career. From light shows, commercials, feature films, television, games and special venue projects, Richard is now immersed in 3D VR. Hear how he has evolved with the latest technologies and venues to stay current and transfer his skills to the
evolution of entertainment.
Registration
Free event
Registration is on a first come, first served basis.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening Of Universal Pictures’ PACIFIC RIM UPRISING
Please RSVP below
Friday, March 23, 2018 at 8:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Augmented/Virtual Reality revenue forecast has been revised to hit $120 billion by 2020. Our panelists have made the transition to VR and want to share what they have learned about the process with their fellow artists.
Panelists:
Craig Barron, Creative Director of Magnopus
Mariana Acuna Acosta, Co-Founder of Opaque Studios, Founder of JoltVR
Richard Kidd, Founder of Perilous Orbit
Moderator:
Jeff Barnes, EVP, Light Field Lab
The event includes refreshments and VR Demos before and after the panel.
Registration
Free event
Registration is on a first come, first served basis.
All attendees must RSVP below
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ A WRINKLE IN TIME followed by a Live Interactive Q&A with Visual Effects Supervisor Rich McBride and Previs Supervisor Chris Batty with moderation by VES Board member Lisa Cooke.
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 16) Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in San Francisco) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESWRINKLE, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s RED SPARROW
Please RSVP below Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 8:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 9) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, February 23) Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 4:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Riverside gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate Pictures’ and Aardman Animation’s EARLY MAN followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Nick Park and Animation Directors Will Becher andMerlin Crossingham. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP Friday, February 9, 2018 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on February 7) Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Learn directly from the experts at Epic Games at Gnomon School of VFX on Saturday, January 20. Discover the fundamental concepts and workflows that drive real-time performance with two free masterclasses.
Covering how to build a better pipeline for Unreal Engine 4, the first masterclass will offer a comprehensive overview of the content pipeline; you will learn everything from working with larger teams, managing meshes, textures and working with materials, to essential skills for performance and optimization. In part two, the masterclasses continue with a look at the rendering pipeline in Unreal Engine, its terminology, and best practices for rendering scenes in real-time. Attendees will also see the all-important guidelines and profiling techniques that improve the debugging process for both CPU and GPU performance improvements.
Join Epic Games at the Gnomon Stage on Saturday, January 20, 2018, from 11:00AM. Complimentary brunch, mid-afternoon buffet, and closing drinks will be served. For those that can’t attend in person, please join us live from 12:00PM (PST) on Gnomon’s Livestream channel or via the official Gnomon Facebook page.
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Schedule
11:00AM – 12:00PM: Registration & Networking with Complimentary Brunch & Coffee
12:00PM – 3:00PM: Masterclass Part One: Building Better Pipelines for Unreal Engine 4
3:00PM – 4:00PM: Intermission with Complimentary Buffet & Networking
4:00PM – 7:00PM: Masterclass Part Two: Rendering with Unreal Engine
7:00 PM – 8:00PM: Closing Reception with Complimentary Drinks
Guest Speakers
Martin Sevigny – Support Manager, Epic Games
As Support Manager of the Enterprise division at Epic Games, Martin Sevigny oversees a team of talented technical artists who assist licensees in reaching the highest quality results in their projects. Prior to joining Epic Games, Martin was the Director of Technology at WB Games Montréal. In addition to playing a key role in the creation of the studio, he contributed to three titles in the Batman Arkham series, in collaboration with Rocksteady Studios. Martin also worked for Autodesk in the creation of the games group, and at Ubisoft Montreal as part of the revival of the Prince of Persia franchise.
Homam Bahnassi – Technical Artist, Epic Games
A veteran technical artist and engineer in the games industry, Homam Bahnassi has more than 15 years of experience developing AAA games across a variety of platforms. He’s worked for several studios including EA and Warner Bros., and has had multiple publications and contributions in real-time rendering and art workflows published in ShaderX and GPU Pro books. His impressive engineering background in AI allows him to develop and implement novel techniques for generating real-time effects and procedural content in Unreal Engine.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Columbia Pictures’ JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Please RSVP below
Thursay, December 21, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of TriStar Pictures’ ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Location: Bayview Ballroom of the Marina del Rey Marriott, CA
Address: 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, California 90292
Time: 4:30 to 8:00pm
Wine, soft drinks, and hors-d’oeuvres will be served. A cash bar will also be available.
Parking: Valet $15.00. Hourly parking across the street at “Mother’s Beach”
Dress: Cocktail Attire
Join the members of the Los Angeles Section and their guests as we celebrate the holiday season!
Enjoy music, food and drinks as well as one of the most spectacular views in the Los Angeles area on the rooftop ballroom with a spectacular 360-degree view of the ocean and Los Angeles. The event is centered on what should be a beautiful sunset. (weather permitting).
Here is a chance to have some great food, and wine and celebrate the season with your VES friends. Be there and you may win an amazing door prize.
About the Four Star Marriott Marina Del Rey: ranked #6 out of the hotels in Marina Del Rey on TripAdvisor!
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Lucasfilm Ltd.’s STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI plus a Q&A.
Panelists will include Writer/Director Rian Johnson, ILM San Francisco Visual Effects Supervisor Eddie Pasquarello, ILM Vancouver Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Seddon, Cinematographer Steve Yedlin, ASC and Editor Bob Ducsay with moderation by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 15) Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE POST
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 15) Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 7:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Blue Sky Studios’ FERDINAND
Please RSVP below Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 1:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 15) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Blue Sky Studios’ FERDINAND
Please RSVP below Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 10:30AM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 15) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
From director Denis Villeneuve comes “Blade Runner 2049.”Blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows.
A Valid 2017 VES Membership ID is Required.
RSVPs do not guarantee seating.No one will be admitted once the film has started.
This screening is paid for by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Behind The Screen
New Methods in Real-Time Virtual Production
Lightcraft Technology and NantStudio invite VES members and guests to peek into the world of virtual production.
Virtual production — everyone is talking about it. If you haven’t had an opportunity to work on a project using this exciting technology, you can have a chance to look “behind the screen”.
Presented by Lightcraft Technology and Nantstudio in cooperation with the Los Angeles section of the Visual Effects Society.
WHERE: NantStudio, 8601 Hayden Place, Culver City, 90232
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Fox Searchlight’s THE SHAPE OF WATER plus a Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director Guillermo del Toro, Production Designer Paul Austerberry, Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Berardi, Costume Designer Luis Sequeira, Creature Designer & Sculptor Mike Hill and Legacy Effects Supervisor & Co-Creature Designer Shane Mahan. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP
(RSVPs close at 5:00PM on Tuesday, December 5) Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 7:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
(Before 6:00PM enter through the Galaxy Gate on Galaxy Way/After 6:00PM enter through the Pico gate at Motor.)
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Click here to RSVP
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs close at 5:00PM on Saturday, November 25)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA, 90211
(Click here for a map.)
Presented by the Academy Science and Technology Council in Collaboration with NASA
Join us for a special public program featuring the filmmakers behind Hidden Figures and NASA “Modern Figures” scientists. Moderated by Beverly J. Wood, the panel will include Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler, writer-director-producer Theodore Melfi, film editor Peter Teschner, cinematographer Mandy Walker, NASA historian Dr. Bill Barry and NASA engineers Tracy Drain, Jennifer Trosper and Powtawche Valerino (schedules permitting).
Hidden Figures, which received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, deals with racism, gender bias, technology and triumph. Set at NASA’s facility in Hampton, Virginia, in the early 1960s, it tells the story of African-American women “computers” who fought to make a contribution to the space race, despite how they were viewed by society during this era of segregation and sexism. The program will include clips from the film and a panel discussion about the past, present and future in space math, diversity and the movies.
This Academy Science and Technology Council program is made possible by generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
WHERE: Canon Burbank 3400 West Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA
It’s no surprise that Wonder Women is one of the highest grossing action films at the box office this year. How does the relationship between Director, Cinematographer, and VFX team create the look of narrative content, to create the magic on the screen? Assuring that the skillsets and vision of the core creative team is in sync is pivotal to a smooth collaborative production. This high profile panelist from our industry will provide first-hand accounts and anecdotes from their vantage points inside the cinema industry. This unique and candid discussion will offer you insight on how you can master this coordination for your next film. Join us for an evening of networking and a great discussion.
PRESENTERS: Helena Packer – VFX Supervisor – Her work includes feature films, episodic TV, VR and animation. Helena is an accomplished VFX artist with expertise in preproduction, set supervision and all aspects of post-production.
Katie Stetson– VFX Production Manager/Producer – Her work includes several feature films: Inception, Red, The Darkest Hour, The Dark Knight Rises, Red 2, Transcendence, Interstellar, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Dunkirk.
More panelists to TBA soon, please join us for an evening of networking and a great discussion.
This event is produced in cooperation with the Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), Visual Effects Society (VES) and The International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC).
PARKING: PARKING: There is an underground parking lot is accessible off Olive Ave at Lima St.
Collect your parking ticket for us to validate at the event. Please park in any non-reserved spot then take the stairs or the elevator to PL. Look for IHeartMedia building and follow the signs for Canon and enter the east side entrance of the iHeartmedia building. Take the elevator to the second floor and the Canon entrance is on your left.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Please RSVP below Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 10) Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Jake Morrison, Visual Effects Producer Cyndi Ochs, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Chad Wiebe and Special Effects Supervisor Bruce Steinheimer with moderation by VES Board member Charlie Iturriaga. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 10) Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 6:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Directions: North side of Hollywood Blvd, mid-block between Vine St and Ivar Ave
The increasingly Global VFX industry has artists, VFX Supervisors and VFX Producers working all over the world.
Our panelists have worked in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Lesotho, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England, India, Hong Kong, Mexico, England, Germany and the US. They will share with us their experiences, what they learned and what they wish they had known before they left.
Panelists:
• Jeff Okun, VFX Supervisor and 1st Vice Chair of the VES; feature credits include Alpha, Geostorm, Blood Diamond, and the Fantastic Four.
• Bob Coleman, President of the Digital Artists Agency and Co-Chair of the VES Business, Labor and Law Committee
• Ruth Irvine Hauer, Executive Producer at Proof Inc.: recently completed VFX producing War for the Planet of the Apes at WETA in New Zealand
• Pierre Couture, Account Executive, Media & Entertainment, North America, Lenovo: working with vfx facilities, animation facilities and game companies in US and Canada every day.
Moderator:
Scott Squires, VES, Creative Director at Pixvana
Registration
Free event
Registration is on a first come, first served basis.
All attendees must RSVP below
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. A RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Parking instructions:
The closest parking is the Vine Street Garage Lot 702.
Address is 1627 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(West side of Vine Street just South of Hollywood Boulevard)
This is a self-parking parking lot)
If this lot is full, there are other parking lots close by.
Join members of JPL’s computer graphics community in von Karman Auditorium, November 7, from 7:30 to 9:15 PM as they discuss their work supporting various aspects of JPL’s space through innovative and compelling scientific data visualization tools, animations, techniques, and technologies
WHEN: November 7, 2017
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Social Hour.
Attendees can enjoy free food
and tour JPL Museum.
7:30 PM – 7:40 PM Welcome
7:45 PM – 9:15 PM Presentations
NOTES: Everyone needs to RSVP to get on the gate list by Friday, November 3 at noon. The Von Karman auditorium can hold about 200. JPL would like to be aware of non-US/LPR citizens who attend event at JPL. We need to work with JPL to provide by Friday, November 3 at noon, the RSVP list of any attendees are non-US/LPR and if so what is their country of citizenship.
This is an LA-SIGGRAPH & VES-LA-Section MEMBERS event. VES Members attend free of charge. Valid photo ID (ie. Driver’s License) will be required for entry into JPL main gate.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Pixar Animation Studios’ COCO followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Lee Unkrich, Producer Darla Anderson, and Co-Director Adrian Molina and Composer Michael Giacchino with moderation by Bruce Carse. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 11:00AM
Writers Guild Theater 135 S Doheny Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ SUBURBICON
Please RSVP below
Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
We invite you to attend this highly informative evening at the iconic Griffith Observatory. With its spectacular Zeiss star projector, state-of-the-art 8k 360 projection system, surround sound and theatrical lighting, the 290-seat Samuel Oschin Planetarium theater is the finest planetarium in the world.
Guest speakers will present an overview of the 360 theaters marketplace, emerging 360 entertainment markets, production workflow for digital domes with case studies followed by a showcase off full dome content including animation and live action.
RSVP’s are required for each person, each attendee must be a member of a sponsoring organization, and parking is limited. Please carpool or use alternative means of transportation.
VES Members are Invited to Join the VES Los Angeles Section for a Discussion with Doug Trumbull, VES and Dennis Muren, VES About the Making of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND in Honor of its 40th Anniversary.
Please RSVP below
Friday, October 27, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
20th Century Fox invites VES members and a guest to the following special screening and Q&A of
with the following panelists: Directorkenneth branagh, JOSH GAD, Leslie Odom Jr., andWriter MICHAEL GREEN Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 7:30PM SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER
70 MM PRESENTATION
8949 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
8920 Wilshire Blvd – 228 spots available | Opens at 6:00 pm With valet assistance.Entrance is south of Wilshire Blvd via S La Peer Dr. 9025 Wilshire Blvd – 50 spots available | Opens at 6:30 pm Entrance is north of Wilshire Blvd via N Wetherly Dr. 9100 Wilshire Blvd – Validation Required | 1000 spots available Entrance is south of Wilshire Blvd via the alley off of Doheny Dr. Park on 4th floor or above, and observe any reserved signs. Validations available at Academy Security Desk. PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EARLY. SCREENINGS ARE
OVERBOOKED TO COMPENSATE FOR NO-SHOWS. RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE SEATING.
PLEASE PRESENT YOUR OFFICIAL VES I.D. CARD PRIOR TO ENTRY. FOR ANY ADDITIONAL HELP OR QUESTIONS – PLEASE E-MAIL: FoxAwardsHELP@gmail.com
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Universal Pictures’ THE SNOWMAN
Please RSVP below
Monday, October 23, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ BLADE RUNNER 2049 followed by a discussion with Visual Effects Supervisor John Nelson moderated by VES Fellow Mark Stetson, VES.
Please RSVP below
Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 12:00PM Harmony Gold (complimentary parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
By turns, serious war movie and epic adventure, this soulful saga sees Caesar and his followers forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. Both leaders have to face their darker instincts in a thought-provoking meditation on what it means to be human, and humane. Breathtaking state of the art effects married with powerful performances and a poignant narrative create a measured and timely study of war and intolerance.
NOT PAID FOR BY VES. PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EARLY. YOU MUST PRESENT YOUR VES MEMBERSHIP CARD PRIOR TO ENTRY.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Universal Pictures’ AMERICAN MADE
Please RSVP below
Friday, October 6, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
Walt Disney Imagineering – WED Room
1401 Flower St
Glendale, CA 91201
VES Los Angeles Section members are invited to Walt Disney Imagineering’s Digital Arts Studio Open House for a unique look at how Disney Imagineers create cutting-edge effects. Walt Disney Imagineering is the creative force behind Walt Disney Parks and Resorts that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions and cruise ships around the world. Its strength comes from the dynamic global team of creative and technical professionals building on the Disney legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity.
The Digital Arts Studio is known for media creation, performance of Audio-Animatronics figures, visualization of upcoming attractions, projection mapping, scenic illusions and installation.
Signed NDAs are required upon arrival or sent ahead of time to your VES representative. Scanned copies of physically signed NDAs are acceptable. Please note that photography and recording of any kind is prohibited.
Please be advised that due to the number of events occurring, there will be a significant increase in the number of people trying to park on the Glendale campus. We ask that, if feasible, use carpooling for this event.
On the day of the event, parking will be available in the GC3 Garage, which is accessible via Flower Gate 3. We ask that you proceed to Flower Gate 3 and have a form of personal ID ready for processing at the gate. In the event that the GC3 parking structure reaches capacity, you will be directed to 1625 Flower parking lot across the street from Sonora. Please allow for extra time to park.
Complimentary beverages and a light menu fare will be provided.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Focus Features’ VICTORIA & ABDUL
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s KINGSMEN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, September 22) Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 3:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ MOTHER!
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
An end of Summer BBQ Recipe!
Good food
Good friends
Cold Beer
….and more!
Location ZOIC – 3582 Eastham Dr. Culver City, CA 90232
Come and enjoy the food and fun as well as networking and toasting goodbye to summer with!
Give-aways and fun, food and drink and it is free to VES Members and guests!
BBQ Food and deserts will abound! And our good friends at PBAST BLUE RIBBON will be supplying the Beer for one and all.
A Special Gift – 1 year subscription of Mocha Pro plug-in. All VES members who attend the can register for this special gift from Boris FX. (registration details to be sent to attendees)
ZŌIC is giving away 10 swag bags!
PERILOUS ORBIT will give away 20 free licenses to the hit VR social experience, SportsBarVR, playable on
Steam, Oculus Home or PlayStation
ALL FREE AND A GREAT OPPORTUNITY to Meet, Greet and Mix with fellow VES’ers, family and friends
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s and Millennium Films’ THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
Please RSVP below
Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Columbia Pictures’ THE DARK TOWER
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.) Friday, August 11, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of The Weinstein Company’s WIND RIVER
RSVPs are closed
Friday, August 4, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Focus Features’ ATOMIC BLONDE
Please RSVP below
Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Visual Effects Society Co-Hosts Their 2017 Reception with an Art Display Centered Around CG Historical Art and Science Gallery with Art from the Archives until 9:00PM
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.) Tuesday, August 1, 2017 from 6:00PM to 9:00PM
J.W. Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. Live, Gold Ballroom, Salon 1
900 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Click here for a map.
Unwind from all the action of the conference and enjoy a beverage and some nibbles with fellow VES movers and shakers from around the globe!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening Of Sony Pictures Animation’s THE EMOJI MOVIE
RSVPs are closed
Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 5:00PM
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 28)
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of STX Entertainment’s VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Stokdyk, Visual Effects Producer Sophie Leclerc, Rodeo FX Associate Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Nofz and Weta Digital Visual Effects Supervisor Martin Hill with moderation by VES Board member Bill Taylor, VES, ASC. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 12:00PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members Receive 15% Off Exhibits Plus Passes to SIGGRAPH 2017
Click here to RSVP (VES members must login to see the discount code at the bottom of this page) Sunday, July 30 through Thursday, August 3, 2017
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Click here for a map.
Join us at SIGGRAPH 2017 to see innovations and new activities. We cannot wait to share all of it with you, your colleagues, and friends!
A live giraffe as the model in a unique animal drawing workshop
Two Panels hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
An off-site reception that will bring you up close with the Space Shuttle Endeavor
Niantic, Inc., creator of Pokemon Go, will release a rare Pikachu
A one-of-a-kind production gallery with physical props and artifacts from film studios such as Sony Pictures and Marvel Entertainment
Studio tours of the Walt Disney Animation Studios and Sony Pictures lots
There will be no refunds given for prior purchases. Many of the events above have limited availability or require certain registration levels to access, so please register as soon as possible. SIGGRAPH is, most importantly, about the talented people who continue to push creative and scientific boundaries — where the greatest minds in research, development, science, mobile, film, virtual reality, art, and more converge to meet and share new innovations and solutions with one another.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 70mm Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ DUNKIRK
Please RSVP below
Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 3:00PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
When 400,000 men couldn’t get home… home came for them.
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan (INTERSTELLAR, INCEPTION, THE DARK KNIGHT Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller DUNKIRK DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
The story unfolds on land, sea and air. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army. DUNKIRK features a multigenerational ensemble cast, including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.
Nolan directed DUNKIRK from his own screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen. The film was produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer.
The behind-the-scenes creative team on DUNKIRK included director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer. DUNKIRK was filmed on location in France, Holland, the UK and Los Angeles.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production, a film by Christopher Nolan. DUNKIRK opened in conventional theatres and IMAX on July 21, 2017, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This film has been rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.
Dunkirkmovie.com
Please note that programming is subject to change.
PANELS & PRESENTATIONS IN THEATERS
VISUALIZING THE STORY: A LOOK INSIDE PREVIS, POSTVIS AND PITCHVIS
Enter Disney’s Beauty and the Beast through previs, postvis, technical planning and on-set visualization that helped sync up live action and animation across the film’s signature set piece sequences. Presenters:Shannon Justison (Previs Supervisor, The Third Floor) and Casey Schatz (Head of Virtual Production, The Third Floor).
Learn about the breakdown of previs on Logan, the pitchvis process, and how it expands creative freedom, helps shape and realize the story, tailored to a director’s creative vision before cameras begin rolling. Presenter:Tefft Smith II (VFX Supervisor, Halon Entertainment).
ENHANCING THE STORY: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN DIRECTORS AND THEIR VFX TEAMS
An in-depth conversation with Directors and their VFX Supervisors about the use of visual effects in television and features with a range in budgets. Panelists:Michael Goi (Director, American Horror Story, Megan is Missing, Shadowhunters), Richie Keen (Director, Fist Fight, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Goldbergs), Chris LeDoux (VFX Supervisor, Fist Fight, Hidden Figures, La La Land), Jason Piccioni (VFX Supervisor, American Horror Story, Megan is Missing, Snowfall) and Brad Powell (VFX Supervisor, Bull, CSI:NY, Elementary). Moderator:Oz Scott (Director, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., CSI:NY, The Night Shift).
HONING THE STORY: THE DIRECTOR / EDITOR RELATIONSHIP
An inside look at the Director/Editor relationship and how they work together to cut the story for the screen. Panelists:Mark Cendrowski (Director, The Big Bang Theory, Super Donuts, The Carmichael Show), Billy Fox (Editor, Granite Mountain Hotshots, Lowriders, Straight Outta Compton), Nisha Ganatra (Director, You Me Her, Girls, Transparent), Eleanor Infante (Editor, You Me Her, Lore, Pete’s Christmas) and Joseph Kosinski (Director, Granite Mountain Hotshots, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy). Moderator:Gregory Plotkin (Editor, Get Out / Director, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension).
TOOLS FOR PRODUCTION
An overview of creative and production apps for Directors and Director’s team members. Presenter:Susan Zwerman (DGA AD/UPM VFX/Digital Technology Committee Chair).
Protect the creative vision: Learn how the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) digital production standard enables consistent color from set to screen, and protects your content now and for the future. Presenters:Glenn S. Gainor (UPM / Head of Physical Production, Screen Gems), Andy Maltz (Managing Director, AMPAS Science and Technology Council) and Jake Morrison (VFX Supervisor, Ant-Man, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok).
LOBBY EXHIBITS & HANDS-ON DEMOS
EXPERIENCE the most recent tools from Premiere Pro and learn how to transform 2D characters into live animations using Character Animator. (Demo by Adobe)
SEE the latest features in one of the industry’s leading creative editorial tools, Avid | Media Composer, now featuring ScriptSync and PhraseFind. (Demo by Avid)
ENHANCE your vision using pre-visualization, visual effects, and post-production creative services for television, feature films, commercials and more. (Demo by CBS Digital)
INNOVATE new camera moves with the AntigravityCam, providing perfect stability from floor to nine feet overhead without heavy counterweights or long set up times. (Demo by Cinema Devices)
TAP into the creativity of young artists on the autism spectrum as they demonstrate their skills in VFX and Animation. (Demo by Exceptional Minds Studio)
DISCOVER the latest in visual effects for episodic television and virtual reality. (Demo by FuseFX)
EXPLORE the limits of your imagination and creative vision with Previs(ualization). (Demo by Halon Entertainment)
NAVIGATE 3D models of real-life locations using an all-in-one interactive reality capture system that changes the way individuals and crews interact with physical spaces. (Demo by Home3D.us / Matterport)
EXAMINE volumetric capture and computational cinematography solutions designed to impact traditional image making and emerging forms of content. (Demos curated by International Cinematographers Guild)
LEARN how to maintain audiences for VOD and live TV and increase ROI through onscreen content recognition, using AI-based facial recognition. (Demo by Reminiz)
STREAMLINE production and cut days off of wrap with modern software for the crew. (Demo by SyncOnSet)
MEET the AI that sees, hears and understands what’s inside videos. (Demo by Valossa)
AND MORE…
Participation or mention of any company or product in the program does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Directors Guild of America.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES plus a Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri and Director Matt Reeves with moderation by VES Board member Jeff Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 14) Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 12:00PM
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening Of Columbia Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Please RSVP below
Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 5:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT
Please RSVP below
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s DESPICABLE ME 3
Please RSVP below (VES members must login to sign up.) Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 2:00PM (Enter from Gate 1 on Lankershim Blvd.)
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 23)
Universal Studios Theater #2
4050 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Visual Effects Society of Los Angeles and The Hollywood Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers invite you to join us for this informative and stimulating evening.
While you were putting on VR headsets, folks have been figuring out how to show us new and interesting things without disconnecting us from “Reality.” “AR” Augmented Reality and or “XR” offer us a new view of our world. Now with the help of cloud-based supercomputers or new mobile devices with “AI” Artificial Intelligence hardware we will see the world differently.
Our presenters will give us an overview of the landscape and technologies, insights into business opportunities, tools you will need to jump into this new communication media. And some other surprises. What are these pioneers facing to deliver content for this exciting genre?
Southern California companies who are creating content and technologies will be on hand to help us learn and whet our appetite for more knowledge in this very exciting new field.
Our producers for this event:
Ramón Bretón – CTO 3rd i QC Board of Managers of The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Anthony Magliocco – Entertainment and Media Technology Marketing, Inc., Secretary of the Visual Effects Society Los Angeles Section
A partial list of speakers include:
Ed Lantz – President and CTO VORTEX Immersion Media Inc. www.vortexdomes.com
Theo Skye – Partner and Chief Innovation Officer, The Visionary www.thevisory.com Eddie Offerman – VR/AR Researcher and Software Architect, Mirada Studioshttp://mirada.com/ Ralph Barbagallo – Fouder of FLARB,Ralph has produced AR projects for Hololens, Gear VR and Google Tango http://www.flarb.com Greg Berkin – Managing Director Concours Ventures – Developing AR applications for film buffs! www.ttinet.com
VES members are invited to attend the second meeting of the VR Committee. Multiple VR camera rigs (such as the AXA ARRI and AXA Red) and VR viewing devices will be presented by Radiant Images’ co-founder Michael Mansouri, followed by a case study of the VR movie MY BROTHERS KEEPER by directors Connor Hair, Alex Meader and producer Brian Hurst. We will also discuss the production of our short film, VIRTUALLY ENGAGED.
Radiant Images
2702 Media Center Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90065 Click here for a map.
The agenda:
6:00PM – Doors open and light food served
7:00PM – Call to order and VR Committee announcements
7:15PM – Hands-on overview of VR cameras and VR viewing devices
8:00PM – Case study of MY BROTHERS KEEPER w/ filmmakers
8:45PM – VR Committee short film discussion.
9:30PM – Adjourn
The Joint Technology Subcommittee on Virtual Reality (VR Committee) was created by the American Society of Cinematographers Technology Committee in 2016 with the mandate to explore the role of the cinematographer in the creation of virtual reality experiences. The International Cinematographers Guild and the Visual Effects Society joined the committee shortly after its inception.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Universal Pictures’ THE MUMMY
Please RSVP below
Monday, June 12, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Walt Disney Studios’ and Pixar Animation Studios’ CARS 3 Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Brian Gee and Producer Kevin Reher with moderation by Bruce Carse.
RSVPs are closed for any further sign-ups
Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 4:00PM
Harmony Gold Theater
7655 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 (Complimentary parking is available) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ WONDER WOMAN
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL
Please RSVP below Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 3:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 2) Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and DreamWorks Animation’s CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE
Please RSVP below Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 1:00PM Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
There are more than 2 billion video game players worldwide. Virtual reality has a bright future within gaming, as 58% of the most frequent gamers intend to play games on VR! And VR gaming represents even more opportunities for VFX artists. These presentations will cover the in latest VR game development techniques—including challenges and solutions.
Principal Speakers:
Brooks Brown, GlobalDirector of VR for Starbreeze Studios, will take us behind the scenes of their immersive game, John Wick Chronicles VR, a gamebuilt from the ground up for virtual reality.
Bob Rafei, Co-Founder and CEO, Big Red Button Entertainment, will share the inside story of his new first person shooter VR game, The Arcslinger, a cyber western where you play the unlikely hero.
Cory Strassburger, Emmy Award winning VFX artist,Director and Co-Founder of Kite and Lightning, will take us on a tour through the creation of his new VR game, Bebylon Battle Royale, described as a comedic party brawler, complete with babies fighting each other in souped up cars.
Moderator:Scott Squires, VES, Academy Tech Award Winning VFX Supervisor and Co-Founder/Creative Director of Pixvana
09:15am-09:45am Registration and Refreshments
09:45am-11:45am Event
11:45am-12:45pm VR Demos outside the theatre
Registration
Free for VES members
Students may attend for $10. All other non-members $20
Registration is on a first-come, first served basis. If the event is overbooked and paid registered guests cannot be seated, refunds will be issued.
Ok, dust off your favorite instrument, warm up those vocal pipes, because now is your time to share your Musical talent. This is the 1st ever VES musical Jam and Drink night
So, come out and Jam with our house band or solo! We supply the refreshments, amps, keyboards and microphones and you bring your instrument.
Don’t want to perform, then come for the drinks, comrade and have a great time listening! It’s going to be a great evening.
Date: May 30, 2017
Time: 8pm till 1am Where:Skinny’s Lounge North Hollywood 4923 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 9160
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
RSVPs are closed for this screening
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 26) Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 2:30PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Please note this is an invite only event. Free parking is available in the garages at 8920 Wilshire and 9025 Wilshire. Please note the strictly-enforced residential parking permit requirements on the side streets. City ordinance prohibits parking in the alleys.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world — Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
~Paid for by Netflix~
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording devices into the theater and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, including camera phones, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theatre and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s ALIEN: COVENANT
Please RSVP below Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 12:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, May 19)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Please note this is an invite only event. Complimentary self-parking is available. Parking lot entrance is located off of S. Almont.
Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of our lives; in every home; on every desk; in every palm – a plasma screen; a monitor; a Smartphone – a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us. The series is created and written by Charlie Brooker, and executive produced by Brooker and Annabel Jones.
~Paid for by Netflix~
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
This event will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording devices into the theater and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, including camera phones, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theater and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD
Please RSVP below
Monday, May 15, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Please note this is an invite only event. Parking/valet will be provided at the venue. No parking will be allowed on residential streets.
After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city – forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury.
~Paid for by Netflix~
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
This event will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording devices into the theater and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, including camera phones, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theater and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.
Join us for an exciting evening going behind the scenes with the multiple award-nominated TV series, Marvel’s Agents of Shield! Visual Effects Supervisor, Mark Kolpack, Visual Effects Producer, Sabrina Arnold and members of their team will share how they deliver roughly 2000 Marvel feature quality for TVVFX shots in a 22 episode season.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2
RSVPs are closed
(This screening is now overbooked) Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 1:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VFX Master Class – VFX Workflow: Creative & Logistics
Presented by the Visual Effects Society in conjunction with the Producers Guild of America
RSVPs are closed for this event
(This event is limited to VES members and PGA members only, no guests.) Saturday, April 22, 2017
Registration and Refreshments: 9:00AM – 9:30AM
Panel, Visual Presentations and Q&A: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Soapbox Films
1015 W. Isabel Street, Burbank, CA 91506 Click here for a map.
Parking is available in the lots in front of 1015 and 1011 W. Isabel, and street parking. (Please observe posted signs and restrictions.)
Enter through the double orange doors in front of 1011 W. Isabel
“VFX Workflow…Understanding how to maximize for the greatest creative value”
The current environment of storytelling, whether in features or television, almost without exception is enhanced by technologies that lend to telling those stories in visually dynamic and compelling ways, providing both realism and fantasy as well as enhancing the narrative. It is a rare project that does not have at least some amount of augmentation through VFX and some projects literally rely upon the elements of VFX to realize story points. The more knowledgeable and adept producers and visual effects professionals are at navigating the VFX workflow and its impact on production from start to finish, the better we will be able to guide productions through this process and achieve the highest level of creative content within the means of the resources of each of our projects. Join us to hear about: Workflow (script to breakdown and bidding to photography to editorial and delivery), Key Factors to Decision Making (creative, logistic and financial) and various Categories of VFX.
Panelists will include Independent VFX Producer, formerly EP with Sony Imageworks Debbie Denise, who started at Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1995 as a VFX producer, Exec VFX Producer, EVP Production and Infrastructure. Her experience in VFX spans 25 years including as a VFX producer at ILM for such films as DEATH BECOMES HER and FORREST GUMP. Her credits include CONTACT, CAST AWAY, STUART LITTLE, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN franchise, POLAR EXPRESS, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS and the ALICE IN WONDERLAND franchise; Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Producer and Visual Effects Producer Arnon Manor, who started his career as a visual effects artist in 1994, working on the French movie THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, and went on to be the Digital Effects Supervisor on GARFIELD in 2003. He then switched to producing and joined Sony as an executive in 2011. His executive credits include CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, THE INTERVIEW, THE SHALLOWS and PASSENGERS; Pixomondo Executive Producer Joni Jacobson is a former Executive Producer and Head of Business Development at CafeFX and was previously Executive in Charge of Production Marketing for Industrial Light & Magic ;VES L.A. Section Board member, Independent VFX Coordinator and former Production Manager with Rhythm & Hues Gene Kozicki, who’s worked for more than 25 years as a VFX Coordinator, Digital Production Manager, and VFX Producer. His credits include TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, TITANIC, MONEYBALL and Saban’s POWER RANGERS; with moderation by VES Chair and Independent VFX Producer Mike Chambers, who has been producing Visual Effects for over 25 years. He is currently working on DUNKIRK with Producer/Director Christopher Nolan. Some of his more recent credits include ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, TRANSCENDENCE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, INCEPTION, I AM LEGEND and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
Schedule
9:00AM – 9:30AM Registration (coffee, water & pastries)
9:30AM – 10:30AM Intro of topic, visual presentation, Workflow (with Q&A)
10:30AM – 12:00PM Key Factors for Decision Making (with Q&A)
12:00PM – 12:30PM Categories of VFX (scope of work)/show & tell
VES Members Receive 30% Discount for VRLA Expo Professional Pass
VES members are invited to attend VRLA Expo 2017, the premiere virtual and augmented reality expo on April 14th and 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Join thousands of immersive technology professionals and see cutting-edge demos of the most exciting projects in development for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR and more. Check out hundreds of VR experiences and new technology news from major industry players alongside a host of indie VR game and entertainment developers. Don’t miss out on first of their kind VR and AR demos debuting at the event! VRLA is extending an exclusive a 30% discount to the first 50 VES members who sign up for a VRLA Friday/Saturday professional pass. Click here to buy your pass, and be sure to use the discount code: VRLA_VESvibes
VES Members Receive 30% Discount for VRLA Expo Professional Pass
VES members are invited to attend VRLA Expo 2017, the premiere virtual and augmented reality expo on April 14th and 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Join thousands of immersive technology professionals and see cutting-edge demos of the most exciting projects in development for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR and more. Check out hundreds of VR experiences and new technology news from major industry players alongside a host of indie VR game and entertainment developers. Don’t miss out on first of their kind VR and AR demos debuting at the event! VRLA is extending an exclusive a 30% discount to the first 50 VES members who sign up for a VRLA Friday/Saturday professional pass. Click here to buy your pass, and be sure to use the discount code: VRLA_VESvibes
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of Sony Pictures Animation’s SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE
Please RSVP below
Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 2:00PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an IMAX 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ GHOST IN THE SHELL
Please RSVP below
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7:30PM (RSVPs close on Wednesday, April 5 at 12:00PM)
AMC Century City 15 IMAX Westfield Century City, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and DreamWorks Animation’s BOSS BABY
Please RSVP below Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 2:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 31)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 24) Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 3:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
September Storm 3D Screening, One Show only at the Downtown Independent Theater
Sunday March 19th at 2 PM.
When: Sun March 19th 2PM
Where: Downtown Independent Theater
251 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Type: Screening 3D
Cost: VES Members $5.00
We have been invited to join the LA 3D Club for an encore screening of the restored 1960 3-D feature film, SEPTEMBER STORM. This drama of treasure hunters exploring the Mediterranean Sea was the last 3-D picture filmed in the 1950s, and the first to be released in 3-D CinemaScope. Hoping to impress New York model Joanne Dru, sailor Asher Dann borrows his boss’s boat; con men Mark Stevens and Robert Strauss convince the couple to search for a fortune in sunken gold coins. Director Byron Haskin is best known for the 1953 classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; the script is by noir legend W. R. Burnett (THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, HIGH SIERRA). The first feature to include color underwater 3-D footage, SEPTEMBER STORM was long considered lost until the original negative elements were located for this digital restoration by the 3-D Film Archive.
$5 for current VES, LA3DClub members and 3-D SPACE patrons
$10 at the door for non-members (admission is waived with USC Student ID)
Note: Paid parking is available at many parking lots in the adjacent area and street parking is free on Sundays. The theater is also only several blocks from the MTA Red Line. http://la3dclub.com/319-september-storm-3-d-screening/
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Please RSVP below
Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s LOGAN
RSVPs are closed for this screening Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 6:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, March 3)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members are Invited to the Art Directors Guild’s Emerging Technologies Expo
The ADG’s Professional Development Committee is pleased to announce the third event in their series of Education Expos. This Exposition will focus attention on Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality and other next-step technologies, such as advanced manufacturing and visual effects.
As ADG member and USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Alex McDowell recently wrote:
“We are confronting change within our entertainment media platforms at a scale unobserved since the early days of film, more than a hundred years ago. The medium and practice of cinema has evolved beyond recognition. And in parallel we recognize the rapid development of other, more recent, entertainment media and understand that it is essential to examine the impact of these radical changes and their potential infuence on one another. There is no longer reasonable justification for considering the crafts of lm, animation, television, interactive media, and post- cinematic media space of mixed, virtual and augmented reality to be distinct and separate.”
Confirmed presenters for Saturday, March 4th:
Harrison Ellenshaw – Artist extraordinaire who will share his experiences from the birth of modern visual effects. http://www.harrisonellenshaw.com/
Guy Martin – Principal at Guy Martin Design and member of the Association of Robots in Architecture, counts among his clients: SpaceX, Philippe Starck, and many others. Guy shares his design-centric approach to automation.
Alex Oliver – Principal of Skillwire, an important training partner to the ADG specializing in Sketchup, will be introducing attendees to Trimble’s Hololens plug-in. Try out Microsoft’s groundbreaking augmented reality headset with one of your own models (details to follow). https://goo.gl/6bRV7g
Greg Brown – Creative Specialist with Foundry will be demonstrating the real-time and VR capabilities in the 3D app MODO.
Gare Cline – ADG – Explores the interface between visual effects and the art department. www.banksyde.com
Steve Kaplan – International Representative at the IATSE West Coast Office will be on hand to discuss the the union’s efforts in organizing visual effects and answer questions.
Confirmed presenters for Sunday, March 5th:
Michael Chambliss – of the International Cinematographers Guild & IATSE Local 600 will kick off Day Two, providing a new perspective on the changes in technology. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1095761/
Karl Meyer – of Burbank-based Gentle Giant – on the front lines with 3D scanning and printing; prepare to be impressed. http://www.gentlegiantstudios.com
Alex Oliver – Principal of Skillwire is back with more Sketchup and augmented reality demos.
Sean Kennedy – Former Rhythm and Hues VFX compositor and with CoSA, Sean demonstrates how VFX artists creatively approach their craft. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448332/
Steve Kaplan – International Representative at the IATSE West Coast Office will be on hand to discuss the the union’s efforts in organizing visual effects and answer questions.
We’ll also have a continuous “show floor” with VR / AR demos and vendors booths throughout the whole weekend.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Producers Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde
Invite VES Members and a Guest to Join Us as We Toast
Visual Effects Supervisor
Louis Morin
Click here to RSVP
Friday, January 6, 2017
7:00PM – Screening of ARRIVAL
Real D Theater
100 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Click here for a map. A RECEPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWS IN THE ROTUNDA AT 9:00PM
Complimentary parking provided under the building. Enter off Crescent.
Casual Attire
Please let us know if you will attend the screening, the reception or both when leaving your RSVP.
For other screenings and event opportunities, check our web site. It is updated often.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Lucasfilm Ltd.’s ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY plus a Q&A.
Panelists will include Executive Producer and Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll and Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel with moderation by VES 1st Vice Chair Jeffrey A. Okun, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 16) Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Columbia Pictures’ PASSENGERS, plus a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Pete Dionne, Co-Producer Greg Baxter, Film Editor Maryann Brandon and Production Designer Guy Hendrix Dyas with moderation by VES Board member Jeff Kleiser. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 12:00PM
The Cary Grant Theater on the Sony Pictures lot
10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
(Please enter through the Culver gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions Invite VES Members and a Guest to a Special Screening of MANCHESTER BY THE SEA followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Click here to RSVP
Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 10:00AM
Harmony Gold Preview House
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 *complimentary valet parking will be provided
Arrive early for complimentary donuts and coffee before the screening!
Followed by a Q&A with Writer/Director Kenneth Lonergan and Production Designer Ruth De Jong.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA tells the story of the Chandlers, a working class family from a Massachusetts fishing village. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his janitor job in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is the new film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (YOU CAN COUNT ON ME; MARGARET).
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes, Editor Jennifer Lame, Production Designer Ruth De Jong, Set Decorator Florencia Martin, Costume Designer Melissa Toth, Hair & Make-Up Frank Barbossa and Liz Bernstrom, Production Sound Mixer Kevin Parker, Re-recording Mixers Jacob Ribicoff and Roland Vajs, Supervising Sound Editor Jacob Ribicoff, Original Score Lesley Barber.
STARRING Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, and C.J. Wilson DIRECTED BY Kenneth Lonergan WRITTEN BY Kenneth Lonergan PRODUCED BY Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
SCREENINGS ARE OVERBOOKED TO COMPENSATE FOR NO-SHOWS. You may be asked to present your guild card at the door.
PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EARLY AS RSVPS DO NOT GUARANTEE SEATING. SEATING AND PARKING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ and Illumination Entertainment’s SING
RSVPs are closed for this event Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 2:00PM (Enter from Gate 1 on Lankershim Blvd.)
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 2)
Universal Studios Theater #2
4050 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Lionsgate Awards Invites VES Members and a Guest to a Screening of HACKSAW RIDGE followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Click here to RSVP
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 1:00PM
Harmony Gold (complimentary valet parking will be provided)
7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Click here for a map.
For your consideration in all categories, including Best Picture
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Mel Gibson, Actors Andrew Garfield, Luke Bracey and Vince Vaughn, Production Designer Barry Robison and Sound Mixer Kevin O’Connell.
HACKSAW RIDGE is based on the true story of small town boy turned army medic Desmond Doss (played by Andrew Garfield) who, in the battle of Okinawa during World War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. A “conscientious objector,” Doss fought on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. The film, which also stars Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths and Vince Vaughn, was directed by Mel Gibson from an adapted screenplay by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight. HACKSAW RIDGE was produced by David Permut, p.g.a., Bill Mechanic, p.g.a., Brian Oliver, William D. Johnson, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie and Terry Benedict; with cinematography by Simon Duggan, ACS; production design by Barry Robison and set decorator Rebecca Cohen; film editing by John Gilbert, ACE; music by Rupert Gregson-Williams; costume design by Lizzy Gardiner; make up and hair styling by Shane Thomas; sound mixing by Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace; sound editing by Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright; and visual effects by Chris Godfrey.
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
A Lionsgate Company
Seating is based on a first come, first serve basis. This invitation is non-transferable. Please bring photo ID for admittance. No cameras and no recording permitted. Violation of this prohibition is subject to civil and criminal liabilities. Dates, times and locations subject to change. Talent subject to availability.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
RSVPs are closed for this screening
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ MOANA
Please RSVP below
Monday, November 21, 2016 at 7:00PM
DGA Theater #1
7920 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a 3D Screening of Focus Features’ and Laika Entertainment’s PARANORMAN as part of their free family matinee series, “Laika: A Decade of Making the Impossible Real”.
This horror-comedy hit follows 11-year-old Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a boy whose ability to speak with the dead is doubted by almost all around him. But when his hometown is threatened by an ancient witch, Norman’s unusual power proves crucial. John Goodman, Casey Affleck and Elaine Stritch costar in this Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, which pairs its theme of acceptance for outsiders with state-of-the-art stop-motion techniques (including innovative use of full-color 3-D printers).
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger glided his commercial airliner onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded worldwide for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
The film is directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay by Todd Komarnicki based on the book Highest Duty by Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. The film is produced by Eastwood, Frank Marshall, Allyn Stewart and Tim Moore. The film stars Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart and Laura Linney. Eastwood’s below-the-line collaborators include director of photography Tom Stern, A.F.C., A.S.C., production designer by James J. Murakami, editor Blu Murray, costume designer Deborah Hopper, casting by Geoffrey Miclat, C.SA., visual effects supervisor Michael Owens and music by Christian Jacob.
Rated: PG-13. Run Time: 95 Minutes.
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows.
RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
A Valid 2016 VES Membership ID is Required.
This screening is paid for by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions Invite VES Members and a Guest to a Special Screening of MANCHESTER BY THE SEA followed by a Q&A with Writer-Director Kenneth Lonergan and additional guests to be announced. Concessions will be included, as well as validated parking. (Please see below)
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:00PM
Fox Bruin Theater
948 Broxton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Click here for a map
*VALIDATED PARKING AT UCLA LOT 1/MEDICAL PLAZA | 100 MEDICAL PLAZA DRIVEWAY, LOS ANGELES, CA 90024*
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA tells the story of the Chandlers, a working class family from a Massachusetts fishing
village. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that
Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his janitor job in Boston,
Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, and is forced to
deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was
born and raised. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is the new film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (YOU
CAN COUNT ON ME; MARGARET).
STARRING Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, and C.J. Wilson
DIRECTED BY Kenneth Lonergan
WRITTEN BY Kenneth Lonergan
PRODUCED BY Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
IN SELECT THEATERS NOVEMBER 18, 2016
SCREENINGS ARE OVERBOOKED TO COMPENSATE FOR NO-SHOWS. A VALID PHOTO ID MUST BE PRESENTED AT THE DOOR. PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EARLY.
RSVPS DO NOT GUARANTEE SEATING.
This venue does not allow any food, beverages (including water bottles, gum, mints, or candy) inside the theater.
PARKING AND SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE
THIS INVITATION IS NON-TRANSFERABLE
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a 3D Screening of Focus Features’ and Laika Entertainment’s KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS with an introduction by Director Travis Knight, as part of their free family matinee series, “Laika: A Decade of Making the Impossible Real”.
Laika animator Travis Knight’s feature directorial debut is this magic-filled, stop-motion adventure set in ancient Japan. Aided by his friends Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), young Kubo (Art Parkinson) must reassemble the missing pieces of his samurai father’s armor to protect himself from his evil aunts and his grandfather, the Moon King (Ralph Fiennes). “A dark yet thrilling adventure quest that stands as the crowning achievement in Laika’s already impressive oeuvre.” – Peter Debruge, Variety.
Los Angeles VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of Paramount Pictures’ ARRIVAL
Please call (800) 905-6918 to RSVP (be sure to specify the date, time and location of the screening you’d like to attend) Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 1:00PM
Writers Guild Theater
135 South Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating. Click here for more studio screenings.
A Very Limited Number of VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an Opening Day 3D High Frame Rate (HFR) Screening of TriStar Pictures’ BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK
RSVPs are closed for this screening Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:30AM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, November 10)
Arclight Hollywood
6360 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Panelists will include Director Mark Osborne, Stop Motion Creative Director Jamie Caliri, Executive Producer Jinko Gotoh, Stop Motion Production Designer Alex Juhasz, Film Editors Carole Kravetz and Matt Landon and Screenwriter Bob Persichetti.
From director Mark Osborne and Netflix, THE LITTLE PRINCEis a feature length animated film inspired by the French novella LE PETIT PRINCE. First published in 1943 by poet, author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. THE LITTLE PRINCE focuses on a young girl we come to know as “The Little Girl,” who is being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which they live. As The Little Girl adjusts to a new home, school and surroundings, her world is suddenly interrupted by an eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor we come to know as “The Aviator.” The Aviator introduces her to a new world where anything is possible, a world that he himself was initiated into long ago by “The Little Prince.” It’s there that The Little Girl embarks on a personal odyssey into the universe of The Little Prince, a world where it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. THE LITTLE PRINCE was produced by Aton Soumache, Dimitri Rassam and Alexis Vonar. THE LITTLE PRINCE includes an original score and songs by Hans Zimmer & Richard Harvey featuring Camille, stop-motion creative director Jamie Caliri, production design by Lou Romano, Alexander Juhasz and Céline Desrumaux, character design by Alexander Juhasz and Peter de Seve, editing by Matt Landon and Carole Kravetz, sound design by Tim Nielson, and an adapted screenplay by Irena Brignull and Bob Persichetti, based on a story conceived by Osborne.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an IMAX 3D Screening of Marvel Studios’ and Walt Disney Pictures’ DOCTOR STRANGE followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Scott Derrickson, Executive Producer Victoria Alonso, Visual Effects Supervisor Stephane Ceretti, ILM’s Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Bluff and Luma Pictures’ Visual Effects Supervisor Vince Cirelli with moderation by VES Founders Award winning Fellow and Board member Bill Taylor, VES, ASC. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:30PM AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and DreamWorks Animation’s TROLLS
RSVPs are closed for this screening Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 1:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 4)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 7:30PM
DGA Theater #1
7920 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening Of Columbia Pictures’ INFERNO
RSVPs are closed
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE ACCOUNTANT
RSVPs are closed for this screening Friday, October 21, 2016 at 7:30PM
(Sign-ups close at 12:00PM on Friday, October 21)
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend Screening of 20th Century Fox’s MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Please RSVP below
Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 2:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, September 30)
The Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Sony Pictures’ and MGM’s THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Please RSVP below
Friday, September 30, 2016 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests in Los Angeles are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Lionsgate’s and Summit Entertainment’s DEEPWATER HORIZON, plus a live interactive Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director Peter Berg, Special Effects Supervisors Burt Dalton and Matt Kutcher and Lead Post-Vis Artist at ILM Keith Johnson with moderation by VES Board member Dan Schrecker. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 12:00PM
AMC Burbank 16 theater 125 E Palm Ave, Burbank, CA 91502 Click here for a map.
Please tweet your questions after the screening in order to participate in the Q&A panel (which will take place in New York) immediately following the screening. (be sure to include the hashtag, #VESDEEPWATERHORIZON, in your tweet.)
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Synopsis:
On April 20th, 2010, one of the world’s largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (LONE SURVIVOR), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever. Click here to watch the trailer
RSVP and save Sept 16th for our wildly popular “Cool Things” Series.
*UPDATE*
THIS EVENT IS 21 AND OVER ONLY
Because of the scope and variety of the activities the companies of Vanaheim Studios are providing for this event, “Cool Things” @ Fonco has been extended to 10pm! The activities will start to wrap up at 9pm, but between the food, drink and 16,000 square feet of awesomeness, we know you will want to have more time to continue to enjoy the event, and mingle with your fellow professionals with some after-activity drinks.
What kinds of activities are we looking at? Try your hand at doing a miniature shoot; a sample set up with a couple cameras for you to see how different a simple set can become in camera, and professionals on hand for you to ask questions both for technique and for production considerations. How about archery? Yes, that’s right, you’ll have the opportunity to shoot arrows on one of the stages with a trained stunt professional giving you pointers or lessons. Ever wonder how they shape foam core or make molds? Want to play with facial motion capture? Let’s just say there are plenty of hands-on activities, eye candy, and information- And its not just about the practicals – its also about the integration with CG.
Fonco has procured additional parking with the church next door, so there is plenty of parking. The entrance to the lot is on Arvia St. immediately on the right hand side.
Fonco plans to have Blue Moon on tap, along with a mixologist to provide something beyond the wine and beer we normally have at “Cool Things”. And of course there will be some nibbles. Hey, its Friday night, and what a great way to wrap up the week!
The one caveat? WE NEED YOUR NAME ON THE LIST! It is better to RSVP even if you are not sure if you are going to make it. If your guest is coming separately, you MUST provide their name. You can switch out a guest’s name if they arrive with the VES Member, but any non-member guest who arrives without a member CANNOT BE ADMITTED. There will be security and enforcement to ensure this, so please RSVP TODAY! RSVPs will close Thursday night. And remember that guests must be 21 AND OVER.
Please come out to a special edition of Coffee Talk. Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Normally our meetings are held at local cafes or coffee shops, but this month EFILM has graciously offered to sponsor the event, and we are opening this special edition of Coffee Talk to ALL MEMBERS, regardless of gender.
We hope to have some small groups set up with pertinent topics but with a loose structure so as to allow everyone a comfortable platform to expand upon. We will also have a small room with children’s programing playing so you can pick up your child and bring them with you (there will not be a babysitter, but it gives a little help in bringing your child, and you are welcome to bring infants with you if you feel they will not be too distracting for the group). There will also be a coffee roaster who is one of creators of one of EFILM’s signature roasts, and she will be sharing the joys and intricacies of her coffee business.
Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. Space is limited, EFILM is providing a wonderful array of coffees, teas, and other beverages, and Panera is donating some nibbles.
All VES members, regardless of gender, are welcome to attend, and women in VFX and Animation who are not members yet but have attended previous Coffee Talk are encouraged to attend as well. If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email to WomenInVFX@veslosangeles.com
About EFILM
Clients have come to Deluxe’s EFILM for color grading and finishing for three decades. Recognized with an AMPAS Sci-Tech Award, the company continues to break new ground in digital color and finishing for feature film, television and trailers. EFILM’s roster of top colorists are available via real-time, calibrated color grading sessions between EFILM and Deluxe locations anywhere in the world. EFILM provides location services, EC3, through custom configured hardware and software solutions, and highly skilled field technicians. Through EFILM, clients also have access to The Portal, a unique technology-based service that automates the cumbersome process of pulling camera original material and distributing it to VFX companies; converting the process from days to hours. Part of the Deluxe Creative Artists Group of companies, EFILM gives clients streamlined access to an unparalleled network of post-production services. Recent completed full features include Pete’s Dragon, The Secret Life of Pets, Deadpool, and Star Trek Beyond.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
Please RSVP below Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 12:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 26.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ PETE’S DRAGON
SIGNUPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 2:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 19.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Come out with your family and friends to the VES Los Angeles Family Beach Day!
We have scouted a great spot at the southern end of the Marvin Braude Bike Trail in Torrance – There is ample inexpensive parking, a snack shop, a rental shop, volley ball nets, restrooms and showers.
We will stake out a spot between the PA Lifeguard Tower and the BLUFF Lifeguard tower near the volleyball nets early in the morning with popup shades, so look for VES banner in that area.
VES-LA will provide a simple lunch and some snacks, and we’ll stock up coolers with cold drinks-including juices and waters for little ones.
All members and their families are welcome, as are potential VES members and industry friends. Please RSVP with the number of adults and children coming so we can plan for food, drink and shade accordingly!
RSVPs are closed for this screening
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of Focus Features’ and Laika Entertainment’s KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers
Panelists will include Director Travis Knight, Visual Effects Supervisor Steve Emerson, Head of Rapid Prototyping Brian McLean, Animation Supervisor Brad Schiff, Head of Rigging Ollie Jones and Production Designer Nelson Lowry with moderation by VES member Lenny Lipton.
Please RSVP below
Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, August 12.)
From animation studio LAIKA comes an action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan. Clever, kindhearted Kubo (Art Parkinson) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town. But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past which storms down from the heavens to enforce an age-old vendetta. Now on the run, Kubo joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), and sets out on a quest to save his family and solve the mystery of his fallen samurai warrior father. With the help of his shamisen – a magical musical instrument – Kubo must battle gods and monsters, including the vengeful Moon King (Ralph Fiennes) and the evil twin Sisters (Rooney Mara), to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfill his heroic destiny. The film, produced by Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner, also features the voices of George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Brenda Vaccaro.
Continuing on our discovery of cool places in LA, this month’s “PUBNIGHT!” will be this Thursday at Lock and Key, a delightful speakeasy in Koreatown.
Do not be dissuaded by the grungy exterior common to the streets of this part of Los Angeles. The red door of Lock and key will open to a surprisingly handsome marble corridor cluttered with an amazing amount of doorknobs and keyholes – the trick is to figure out which door opens the rabbit hole. I recommend coming with a few people so you have a quicker time of figuring it out – or you can ask the hostess or bouncer if you really get stuck.
There is a dress code which includes no shorts, baseball caps, or flip flops – just a warning since this is the common VFX workwear. Jeans are OK, and even T-shirts can be ok, but dress on the nicer side to enter without hassle to this speakeasy.
Lock and Key is intimate and cozy –as would be expected of a speakeasy — but like last month’s Fun Times at Davy Wayne’s, it has an open air patio that helps keep your agoraphobia in check . We will probably be scattered all over the venue, so look for Lopsie (the Los Angeles Section Events Committee Chair) passing out the blinking VES pins to help identify our party. At our last “PUBNIGHT!” we realized that people can’t see the flashing pins in daylight on the patio – so if you have your VES Man in the Moon pin, or other VES paraphernalia, wear it so we can help identify each other.
Remember that the VES fall membership period is here, so bring a friend or two to enjoy the venue and meet some of your fellow VES members!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Warner Brothers’ SUICIDE SQUAD
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 7:30PM
Sony Pictures Imageworks – Ray Harryhausen Theater
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening Of Universal Pictures’ JASON BOURNE
Please RSVP below
Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:00PM
RealD Screening Room
100 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, August 4th, at 7:00pm at Akasha in Culver City! We will be moving the Westside meetings to a different location after this, so if you are nearby, please come out for this before we leave!
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Look for us in the coffee section of Akasha (and btw, you can order a drink or food from the restaurant/bar and bring it to the coffee section) Akasha’s has plentiful parking in the structure behind it.
You do not need to be a VES member to attend, so bring that VFX non-VES girlfriend of yours to come network with the rest of us! Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
3-D SPACE: The Center For Stereoscopic Photography, Art, Cinema, and Education presents 2 screenings of the winner of the Best Live-Action Short award at the 2016 Advanced Imaging Society Creative Arts Award, HARD RESET is a 42-minute science-fiction action film the first 3-D graduate student thesis film at The University of Texas at Austin centered around a young detective investigating an impending artificial intelligence revolution. He is forced to choose between humanity and his android girlfriend after she is infected with a virus that gives her full consciousness. Q&A following the film with director Deepak Chetty and additional crew members.
We will be screening HARD RESET twice – at 2:00PM and 3:30PM – Your ticket will get you into either show.
In the distant future: a controlling corporate government, GOVCentral, aims to eliminate a faction of rebels called the EMANCIPATORS whose goal is to provide freedom for all SYNTHS, the artificially intelligent bio-mechanical androids that are restricted into subservient roles within every strata of society. The Emancipators believe that restricting the Synths, who are capable of true sentience like any human being is tantamount to slavery, and wish to break their bonds and let them control their own destiny. A young detective named Miles Archer is thrust into the center of this struggle after a botched hard-reset leads to him colliding paths with Jane, a rogue Pleasure-Model Synthetic infected with the “emancipation virus”. For the first time in her existence she feels emotions as an individual yearning for freedom. Knowing that her memory core holds the key to Synthetic liberation, she enlightens Archer to the moral and ethical opportunity he has to help her achieve this goal. After being labeled a traitor, Archer is
forced to choose between his newfound empathy toward Synthetics and his duty as a GovCentral officer.
VISUAL & THEMATIC STYLE:
The distant future, where monolithic super structures dotted with neon holographic signs fade into the clouds as highways of flying cars crisscross against the horizon. Synths are everywhere. They are your bank tellers, construction workers, prostitutes and even your schoolteachers. Hard Reset is influenced heavily by contemporary noir science fiction seen in films like Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total Recall. A
distant future fraught with moral ambiguity brought on by extreme advancements in technology. Borrowing from the success of these themes we take a unique approach to timeless questions of social equality, moral responsibility, fear of the unknown and the complex nature of humanity.
THE FILMMAKERS
Deepak Chetty: Director/Co-Writer
is a Director, Visual Effects artist and Cinematographer based in Austin, Texas. After graduating with honors from the Pratt
Institute and UTs MFA program in Film Production, his work as a director has been featured in AFS 10 Under 10 series, The Longhorn Network and through viral media propagation (Looper 8-Bit). Deepak is serving as a consultant and researcher in regards to R&D of postproduction tools and workflow standards with The Washington Post and the UT School of Journalism, as well as lecturing at UT Austin in the field of Immersive Media (Virtual Reality and Stereoscopic Imaging).
David Bukstein: Producer/Co-Writer
is a film, television and commercial Producer/Director working in Austin Texas since 2006. Two of his recent producing projects premiered at the 2012 and 2013 SXSW film festival. He Associate Produced and starred in the documentary web-series “Undergrads South” by Executive Producer James Franco. He wrote and directed the PBS/KLRU miniseries
“East Austin Stories Presents.” Gay Cake, a comedy sketch he recently Produced was featured on Funny-or-Die and Comedy Centrals Tosh.0. Currently he works as a creative Producer/Director at Golden Arm Media in Austin Texas.
Taylor Michelle Thompson: Co-Producer/Editor
is film producer and editor, currently living in Austin, Texas. She has produced and edited a variety of projects, ranging from high action sci-fis to fast paced music series. She has worked in the editorial department for multiple productions and directors, including acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick. The Love Inside, an indie feature she produced has been screened at
multiple film festivals and has gone on to receive distribution. Various other projects Th.ompson has been a part of have gone onto frequent festivals around the country, including Sundance, South by Southwest, Dallas International Film Festival, and Slamdance
Registration fee is $40 (Includes Lunch & Refreshments)
Saturday, July 30, 2016 Doors open at 9:00AM
Theater Program: 10:30AM to 4:00PM
Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046
Please note that programming is subject to change.
PANELS & PRESENTATIONS IN THEATERS 1 & 2
DIGITAL LANDSCAPE: INSIDE THE JUNGLE BOOK
Discover the cutting-edge VFX used in THE JUNGLE BOOK. Presented by Director Jon Favreau and 2nd Unit Director/VFX Supervisor Rob Legato.
EXPAND SCOPE: VIRTUAL REALITY & MIXED REALITY
An in-depth conversation with Chris Milk, Founder and CEO of Within/Founder and Creative Director of Here Be Dragons. Moderated by Director Jeremy Kagan, DGA Special Projects Committee Chair.
Join Chris and other pioneer directors in the virtual reality industry as they discuss how to build narratives in a new medium for storytelling. Panelists: David Gelb (HOVERBOARD); Randal Kleiser (DEFROST); Co-founder/Creative Director of Felix & Paul Studios, Paul Raphaёl (LEBRON JAMES–STRIVING FOR GREATNESS); and Lucy Walker (A HISTORY OF CUBAN DANCE).
Embrace real humans for Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality storytelling using Holographic Video developed for HoloLens. Presented by Steve Sullivan, Leader of Holographic Video Team at Microsoft.
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE OF CINEMA
See the latest advancements in camera and new technologies used for storytelling. Panelists: Paul Debevec, Chief Visual Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies; Jon Karafin, Head of Light Field Video, Lytro; Dave Stump, ASC (Cinematographer, BUDS); and Cevat Yerli, Founder, CEO and President, Crytek. Moderated by Director Randal Kleiser.
AESTHETIC & TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT LENS
Hear Dan Sasaki, VP of Optical Engineering, Panavision, explain how choices in optics can evoke a unique aesthetic, tailored to a director’s creative vision.
Focus on lens mapping and decisions that interplay with lens choices. Presented by Larry Fong, ASC (BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE) and Mark Weingartner, ASC (Visual Effects Director of Photography, INTERSTELLAR).
SURVIVING & THRIVING INTO THE NEXT DIGITAL ERA
Examine how the adoption of UHD, HDR, and WCG technologies is creating a tipping point and changing how content will be distributed and consumed in the near future. Presented by Michael Cioni, President, Light Iron.
LOBBY EXHIBITS & HANDS-ON DEMOS
DISCOVER how Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) can give consistent color from set to screen on your next production and protect it for the coming High Dynamic Range future. (Demo by ACES – Academy Color Encoding System)
LEARN about the latest developments in technology-enabled payroll and digital production-management services to better streamline your payroll, accounting, residuals, workers’ compensation and production incentive needs. (Demo by Cast & Crew)
IMMERSE yourself in the second episode of DEFROST, shot stereoscopically in 360 degrees using Nokia’s OZO camera. (Demo by Feral Dog Productions)
UNLEASH your creative potential and bring your vision to life with Film Engine’s virtual production tools, and sample the future of linear VR storytelling with CODE NAME: SKYHARBOR. (Demo by Film Engine)
EXAMINE some of the most popular and advanced VR camera rigs for a wide range of budgets and content with knowledgeable and experienced VR DPs and DITs and manufacturer reps. (Demo by International Cinematographers Guild (ICG))
EXPLORE the ultimate creative tool for cinema and broadcast, providing breakthrough capabilities and unparalleled flexibility on set and in post-production. (Demo by Lytro Cinema)
TRANSFORM your environment with mixed reality that allows you to interact simultaneously with both 3D holographic content and the physical world around you. (Demo by Microsoft HoloLens)
ENHANCE your pre-production processes with a 20 foot interactive wall coupled with collaborative software. (Demo by Nureva Span Ideation System)
EXPERIENCE groundbreaking large-format cinematography with the new Millennium DXL and internally motorized Primo 70 lenses. (Demo by Panavision)
DESIGN your next film using VR Shot Designer, based on real world cameras and techniques that allow film makers the ability to scout, prep, block, and shoot virtual and real locations. (Demo by Tangerine Apps)
INTEGRATE live-action performances into CGI 3D or stereo 3D scenes by converting the footage into photorealistic CGI objects that can be fully interacted with CGI fluid, fire, and physics simulations. (Demo by True3D™)
STEP inside extraordinary, story-driven VR experiences. (Demo by Within and Here Be Dragons)
CONTROL the creative process from production to post with a game-changing wireless tablet that provides real time monitoring, recording and playback, generates and shares time stamped notes, and syncs script to recorded content and more. (Demo by Zullavision)
The VES and Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) Invite VES Members to Meet-up at Siggraph 2016 in Anaheim
Join top artists and technicians for presentations and discussion about ACEScc and ACEScg. Hear how it was used on recent projects. Expand your toolset with tips for working more effectively with ACES. Ask questions and gain understanding on how ACES benefits pipelines, workflows and the creative process in animation, VFX and in the colorist suite.
Click here to RSVP Wednesday, July 27, 10:30AM to 12:00PM
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 213D
Refreshments will be served!
Speakers will include Double Negative Color Science Lead Mark Boorer, FotoKem Senior Colorist John Daro, Framestore Head of Imaging Kevin Wheatley and Rodeo FX R&D engineer and pipeline TD Marie Fetiveau.
The Visual Effects Society and the VES Los Angeles Section invite you to celebrate SIGGRAPH in Anaheim.
Unwind from all the action of the conference and enjoy a beverage and some nibbles with fellow VES movers and shakers from around the globe! Jon 9 from Holonyne Studios will VJ on the HIPPOTIZER/V4 realtime media server from Green Hippo, projecting original 4K visuals for the party. Open to all VES members and a guest (RSVP Below)
Tuesday, 26 July 6 – 8:00 pm Anaheim Hilton California-B Ballroom
777 W. Convention Way
Anaheim CA 92802
The Visual Effects Society and the VES Los Angeles Section invite you to celebrate SIGGRAPH in Anaheim.
Unwind from all the action of the conference and enjoy a beverage and some nibbles with fellow VES movers and shakers from around the globe! Jon 9 from Holonyne Studios will VJ on the HIPPOTIZER/V4 realtime media server from Green Hippo, projecting original 4K visuals for the party. Open to all VES members and a guest (RSVP Below)
Tuesday, 26 July 6 – 8:00 pm Anaheim Hilton California-B Ballroom
777 W. Convention Way
Anaheim CA 92802
Doors open at 6:00PM, presentation from 6:30PM to 8:00PM, drinks & hors d’oeuvres from 8:00PM to 11:30PM
Known as the chemical compound that gives chili peppers their intense heat, Capsaicin excites the nervous system, producing endorphins that result in a mild addiction that encourages you to want more, much like the exciting announcements and experiences Radeon Technologies Group have planned this year at Siggraph. Capsaicin Siggraph will reveal new, industry changing graphics technologies and partnerships that will shape the CG community and to the rest of the World for years to come.
High-profile guest speakers presenting future insights and technologies exclusively to the Capsaicin audience
Never before seen VR technologies announcements to redefine the term “truly immersive VR experiences”
Industry changing, next generation “Polaris” graphics technologies designed to bring stable and affordable 3D graphics to the world
New and exciting partner announcements to inspire and benefit the entire CG and developer community
Capsaicin Siggraph will reshape the future of the graphics community and this is your chance to be where it all started.
Seats during the presentation will be available on a first come first serve basis.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE
RSVPs are closed for this screening
Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 4:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 22)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ STAR TREK BEYOND, plus a Q&A with the visual effects team.
Panelists will include Kelvin Optical Visual Effects Supervisor Stefano Trivelli, Visual Effects Producer Ron Ames, Atomic Fiction Visual Effects Supervisor Ryan Tudhope with moderation by VES Fellow and Founders Award winner Bill Taylor, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 12:00PM
The Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount studio lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS
Please RSVP below Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Come out and mingle with your fellow VES members and their friends at some of the coolest hotspots in town! VES-LA has started PUB NIGHTS where we will meet up at different bars, lounges or clubs throughout the LA area. Each time will be a different “must see” place- a perfect opportunity to check out that place you keep hearing about, or discover an awesome hidden jewel you didn’t know existed! It’s an informal get together, so you can bring your friends, co-workers or Sig-Other, but there will always be at least one or two board members present in case you want to have a cocktail-napkin-meeting. 🙂
Start your week off with a little 70’s throwback and a secret entrance with our PUB NIGHT on July 18th at Good Times at Davy Wayne’s. After showing ID, you may wonder why you were pointed to a funky garage sale. Walk like a pro straight to the refrigerator and open the “secret door” to the lounge. To distinguish ourselves from the usual patrons we will be giving out flashing VES pins to VES members. Just walk up to anyone with a flashing pin and let them know you are a member and to point you to the person giving them out (like how we gave you a conversation starter there? You’re welcome.). Or if you want to just skip all conversation with strangers and you know Lopsie, look for her in the patio area wearing her flashing pin and ordering a drink from the airstream trailer or some food from the BBQ to get your flashing pin.
See you there, and keep an eye out for another PUB NIGHT coming up later this month again, with another secret entrance!
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE BFG
RSVPs are closed Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 8.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE BFG
RSVPs are closed Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 8.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where: USC Stark Theatre, 900 West 34th St., Los Angeles, CA
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Film Festivals—content distribution channels are multiplying at a staggering rate. And who is going to fill those distribution channels? You! Because you are the only one who can express your own vision in your own voice. These presentations will cover how three inspired directors are sharing their creativity in film and animation.
Principal Speakers:
Joshua Caldwell, a director, writer, producer and MTV Movie Movie award winner will share his process on his debut feature film, Layover. Layover, made for $6000, had its world premiere at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival where it was nominated for the prestigious FIPRESCI New American Cinema Award.
Andrew Wood, a USC Masters student will present his work on his award winning live action/animation film, When Pigs Fly. This project for which he raised $21,713 on Kickstarter, won the prestigeous Fox Fellowship grant and is his USC M.F.A thesis film about never outgrowing your imagination.
Sam Wickert, a Chapman University student in digital arts and production will present the directing, editing and vfx work that he used to create the videos on his YouTube channel, SoKrispyMedia which has over 69 million views and over 336,000 subscribers.
Moderator: Michael Fink, Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor,
Chair, Film and Television Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Registration – 9:30am-10:00am
Free for VES members and USC Students
LA ACM SIGGRAPH members $10. All other non-members $20.
Where: USC Stark Theatre, 900 West 34th St., Los Angeles, CA
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Film Festivals—content distribution channels are multiplying at a staggering rate. And who is going to fill those distribution channels? You! Because you are the only one who can express your own vision in your own voice. These presentations will cover how three inspired directors are sharing their creativity in film and animation.
Principal Speakers:
Joshua Caldwell, a director, writer, producer and MTV Movie Movie award winner will share his process on his debut feature film, Layover. Layover, made for $6000, had its world premiere at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival where it was nominated for the prestigious FIPRESCI New American Cinema Award.
Andrew Wood, a USC Masters student will present his work on his award winning live action/animation film, When Pigs Fly. This project for which he raised $21,713 on Kickstarter, won the prestigeous Fox Fellowship grant and is his USC M.F.A thesis film about never outgrowing your imagination.
Sam Wickert, a Chapman University student in digital arts and production will present the directing, editing and vfx work that he used to create the videos on his YouTube channel, SoKrispyMedia which has over 69 million views and over 336,000 subscribers.
Moderator: Michael Fink, Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor,
Chair, Film and Television Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Registration – 9:30am-10:00am
Free for VES members and USC Students
LA ACM SIGGRAPH members $10. All other non-members $20.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
Please RSVP below Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly, welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, July 7th, at 7:00pm at Priscilla’s Coffee in Burbank.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP).
Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group! Don’t forget to bring your business cards, and any woman in VFX is welcome. Watch the VES Website for updates on future events as well.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Sony Pictures’ THE SHALLOWS
Please RSVP below Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
RSVPs are Closed Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 4:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 24)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Weekend 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
RSVPs are Closed Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 4:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 24)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s Original Film from 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY
Please RSVP below Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, June 23)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s Original Film from 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY
Please RSVP below Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, June 23)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 2D Screening of Disney’s & Pixar’s FINDING DORY followed by a Q&A with Director Andrew Stanton and Producer Lindsey Collins and Composer Thomas Newman.
Please RSVP below Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11:00AM
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, June 10.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Virtual Explorationsis educational and networking workshop featuring today’s leads in VR, Virtual Production, and VFX Cinematography.
Join us for a morning filled with live VR Demonstrations, 3D Scanning, and a stimulating discussion regarding the future of our industry. Filmmakers and Visual Effects Unite!
Seats are limited for this event and we want you to be there! Secure a FREE TICKET with the following promotional code: VESVR03
Joyce Cox is an award winning VFX Producer whose recent work includes: The Jungle Book, The Great Gatsby, Avatar, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Fantasia 2000, and Titanic. Her extensive experience with Virtual Production and CG Workflow is very unique!
Justin Denton is both a Director and VR Supervisor. In the past 14 years he has worked for some of the best in the business. Collaborating with directors such as Peter Berg, Ridley Scott, DJ Caruso, Rupert Sanders, Rob Cohen, “Spaz” Williams, and McG has given him a unique capability for storytelling and demystifying project workflow. He currently holds an Executive Technical Director position at Vrse VR.
Mat Beck, ASC, is a VFX Supervisor, Producer, Cinematographer and Director known for his work on over 70 motion pictures, numerous TV shows, commercials and music videos.
He started out shooting personal films and documentary footage, then began designing and programming digital tools for the VFX industry, including what was likely the first microcomputer motion control system.
Beck founded Light Matters, Inc. in 1994, was an original partner of Pixel Envy, and founded Entity FX in 2002.
Brian Ali Harding is an accomplished Cinematographer, Photographer and VFX Supervisor, who combines a love of images and storytelling with the craft of visual effects. Over more than a decade in the industry, he has lent creative and technical expertise to a wide-range of productions — from Oscar-winning movies to popular television dramas to innovative independent films.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT GOLD SPONSORS!!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Please RSVP below Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
A Limited Number of VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an IMAX 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ WARCRAFT
RSVPs for this screening are closed Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 7:00PM
(Another 50 seats have become available to VES members, and RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Tuesday, June 7.)
Universal City Walk
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is extremely limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
RSVPs are closed for this screening. Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 2:30PM
(RSVPs closed at 5:00PM on Friday, June 3.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
RSVPs are closed for this screening. Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 2:30PM
(RSVPs closed at 5:00PM on Friday, June 3.)
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Please RSVP below Friday, June 3, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, June 2)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Please RSVP below Friday, June 3, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Thursday, June 2)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
RSVP’s for this Screening are CLOSED Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Wednesday, June 1)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
RSVP’s for this Screening are CLOSED Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Wednesday, June 1)
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
This screening is overbooked, and RSVPs are closed. Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 11:00AM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
Priscilla’s Coffee
4150 W. Riverside Dr.
Burbank 91505
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly, welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, May 5th, at 7:00pm at Priscilla’s Coffee in Burbank.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group! Watch the VES Website for updates on future events as well.
RSVP and information: WomenInVFX@veslosangeles.com
Where:
Priscilla’s Coffee
4150 W. Riverside Dr.
Burbank 91505
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly, welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, May 5th, at 7:00pm at Priscilla’s Coffee in Burbank.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group! Watch the VES Website for updates on future events as well.
RSVP and information: WomenInVFX@veslosangeles.com
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE JUNGLE BOOK
RSVPs are closed for this screening, as it is overbooked. Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 2:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ THE JUNGLE BOOK
RSVPs are closed for this screening, as it is overbooked. Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 2:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, April 7th, at 7:00pm at Akasha in Culver City!
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Watch the VES Website for updates on future events as well.
You do not need to be a VES member to attend, so bring that VFX non-VES girlfriend of yours to come network with the rest of us! Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, April 7th, at 7:00pm at Akasha in Culver City!
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Watch the VES Website for updates on future events as well.
You do not need to be a VES member to attend, so bring that VFX non-VES girlfriend of yours to come network with the rest of us! Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
VES Members and their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ZOOTOPIA Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include Directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, Producer Clark Spencer, Editor Fabienne Rawley, Production Designer Dave Goetz and Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Kersavage. (Panelists’ presence is based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 4:00PM (Panel at 5:50PM)
4:00PM – Screening
5:50PM – Panel Discussion
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings and events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ZOOTOPIA Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include Directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, Producer Clark Spencer, Editor Fabienne Rawley, Production Designer Dave Goetz and Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Kersavage. (Panelists’ presence is based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 4:00PM (Panel at 5:50PM)
4:00PM – Screening
5:50PM – Panel Discussion
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings and events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Revenues from virtual reality and augmented reality are projected to hit $150 billion by 2020! Visual effects artists are on the front lines to deliver that immersive content. These presentations will cover the latest live action VR post production techniques which are currently being used to realize the dream of VR.
Principal Speakers:
Mariana Acuña Acosta, Media & Production Creative Manager, The Foundry, will describe the latest set of tools that The Foundry is working on to help solve the day to day problems of working with VR.
Gawain Lilliard, VFX Supervisor, The Mill and his team, will present the methodology and techniques they used to deliver the Google Spotlight live action VR project “Help”, directed Justin Lin, of “Fast and Furious” fame.
Jason Schugardt, Head of CG/VFX Supervisor with MPC LA will share the tools and techniques used to create the live action/CG VR adventure, “Goosebumps”. Goosebumps VR is a stereoscopic special venue experience that premiered in conjunction with Sony’s feature film in select theatre lobbies.
Chris Healer, Founder and CEO of The Molecule will talk about the ins and out of the stitching, rendering, and visual effects workflow on Doug Lyman’s “Invisible”, the first episodic action-adventure series created in immersive virtual reality.
Moderator:Scott Squires, Academy Tech Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Developer
Saturday, March 12, 2016
08:45am- 09:15am Registration and Refreshments
09:15am-11:35am Event
11:35am-12:30pm VR Demos
Venue
Sony Harryhausen Theatre
9050 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA
Directions
On the south side of Washington between Culver (west) and National (East).
Registration
Free for VES and LA ACM SIGGRAPH members.
Students may attend for $10. All other non-members $20.
Registration is on a first come, first served basis. If the event is overbooked and paid registered guests cannot be seated, refunds will be issued.
LA SIGGRAPH will have a table at the event for attendees to join LA SIGGRAPH (and thus get in as part of their new membership). Memberships will be accepted for $40/person. The chapter accepts checks, cash, or credit cards (Mastercard or Visa only) for all dues or fees.
Special Thanks
Sony Pictures Imageworks; The Foundry, Mariana Acuna; For the VES: Toni Pace Carstensen, Scott Squires, Susan Thurmond O’Neal, Rob Stauffer; For MacMall Pro, Keith Scott and Jim Reisman; For LA ACM SIGGRAPH Joan Collins, Mike Amron, and all the volunteers.
Do you have a friend that wants to join VES? Are they having trouble finding fellow VES members for letters of recommendation? Or are they just curious about the VES? Bring them out to our Pub Night Meet and Greet!
Don’t have a friend that is trying to join? WELL that probably means that you are available to write a recommendation letter — and someone you already know may need your help! Your friend may not even realize you are a VES member, or maybe you didn’t realize that this friend is now working near you and seeking to join. Best way to find out if you can help is to come out to the pub night and see who’s there!
Let’s come out in force~ tell your fellow VES members about the pub night. Members who bring a non-member friend will get special drink discounts, so bring a friend too!
Dress for outdoors, as we’ll be mingling underneath the stars in the patio of Burbank’s Gordon Biersch!
RSVP please, so we can reserve an appropriate amount of space.
Do you have a friend that wants to join VES? Are they having trouble finding fellow VES members for letters of recommendation? Or are they just curious about the VES? Bring them out to our Pub Night Meet and Greet!
Don’t have a friend that is trying to join? WELL that probably means that you are available to write a recommendation letter — and someone you already know may need your help! Your friend may not even realize you are a VES member, or maybe you didn’t realize that this friend is now working near you and seeking to join. Best way to find out if you can help is to come out to the pub night and see who’s there!
Let’s come out in force~ tell your fellow VES members about the pub night. Members who bring a non-member friend will get special drink discounts, so bring a friend too!
Dress for outdoors, as we’ll be mingling underneath the stars in the patio of Burbank’s Gordon Biersch!
RSVP please, so we can reserve an appropriate amount of space.
The Visual Effects Society and the Alliance of Women Directors Invites You to Attend Discovering Visual Effects
Click here to RSVP
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 from 7:30PM to 9:30PM
General Assembly Santa Monica 1520 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Please join us for our first collaboration! This event is tailored for independent visual effects professionals who are interested in working on projects that include VFX artists as key members of the team. Working with global vendors is highly important, but for many independent filmmakers working with local artists is their only option. The VES and AWD are teaming up in Los Angeles to bring directors and VFX specialists together for a night to network and learn more about each others’ craft. We hope to see you there.
Speakers Include: Tammy Sutton – Emmy Winning VFX Supervisor with more than 15 years of experience. She has over 80 visual effects credits, most of which are for feature films such as: CELL, CITY OF DEAD MEN, MILES AHEAD, TWILIGHT, HARRY POTTER, AVATAR, MR. & MRS. SMITH, GANGSTER SQUAD, SHREK, and THE LAST SAMURAI to name a few. If you are looking for someone who can help technically execute your creative vision and communicate it to a team of artists, Tammy is your go to VFX Supervisor!
Lauren Ellis – VFX Producer at The Molecule, a Visual Effects and Motion Graphics company located in both Los Angeles and New York. Having secured ABC & Netflix shows for the company’s L.A. office, she continues to work toward her return to a feature client base while maintaining a positive workplace culture. Lauren’s experience in Feature Films, Television, Photogrammetry, and VR set her apart. Some of her credits include: THE COUP, THE LABYRINTH, and FRUITVALE STATION. If you are looking for someone to help figure out the most creative and cost effective approach to including visual effects in your next project, Lauren is the person to talk to!
Kathryn Brillhart – VFX Coordinator at Zoic Studios, a Visual Effects company that specializes in Virtual Production, Feature Film, Television, and Commercials. For several years prior, Kathryn was part of a VFX team that worked directly for the King of Jordan on multiple 6k Stereoscopic Immersive Media projects. Kathryn’s experience in both Production and Post Visual Effects give her a unique perspective on workflow and an ability to blend unlikely approaches to achieve the best results.
“Knowledge is power and here it is free.” -- Film Powered
This event is open to Women In Moving Pictures, Film Fatales, AWD Members, VES Members, and Women who are part of the Local 600.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s DEADPOOL
RSVPs have closed for this screening Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 5:00PM on Thursday, February 18)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s DEADPOOL
RSVPs have closed for this screening Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 5:00PM on Thursday, February 18)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of DreamWorks Animation’s and 20th Century Fox’s KUNG FU PANDA 3
Please RSVP below Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 2:00PM on Friday, February 5)
The Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of DreamWorks Animation’s and 20th Century Fox’s KUNG FU PANDA 3
Please RSVP below Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 2:00PM on Friday, February 5)
The Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ THE 5TH WAVE
Please RSVP below Friday, February 5, 2016 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Ready for 2016? Coffee Talk is back in swing and our first gathering for the year will be at Priscilla’s in Burbank!!
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP).
You do not need to be a VES member to attend, so bring that VFX non-VES girlfriend of yours to come network with the rest of us! Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
Ready for 2016? Coffee Talk is back in swing and our first gathering for the year will be at Priscilla’s in Burbank!!
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP).
You do not need to be a VES member to attend, so bring that VFX non-VES girlfriend of yours to come network with the rest of us! Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
A members only event to meet the candidates, vote for our incoming Los Angeles Section Board of Managers and discuss Section issues. You do not have to attend this event in order to cast a vote in the Section election. There will be an online vote sent via email as well after the in-person meeting concludes. We would really like to see you there but if you can’t make it, we are experimenting with remote options.
Webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwGH7Dz0EE
Phone in details… NOTE: the phone and webcast will be significantly out of sync. It is recommended you listen to the audio on the YouTube stream until the Q+A portion of the event. Please mute your phone if you are not talking.
A members only event to meet the candidates, vote for our incoming Los Angeles Section Board of Managers and discuss Section issues. You do not have to attend this event in order to cast a vote in the Section election. There will be an online vote sent via email as well after the in-person meeting concludes. We would really like to see you there but if you can’t make it, we are experimenting with remote options.
Webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwGH7Dz0EE
Phone in details… NOTE: the phone and webcast will be significantly out of sync. It is recommended you listen to the audio on the YouTube stream until the Q+A portion of the event. Please mute your phone if you are not talking.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, plus a Q&A with the visual effects team.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach, Special Effects Supervisor Chris Corbould and Creature Effects Supervisor Neal Scanlan with moderation by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
RSVPs are closed, as this screening is overbooked. Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, plus a Q&A with the visual effects team.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach, Special Effects Supervisor Chris Corbould and Creature Effects Supervisor Neal Scanlan with moderation by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
RSVPs are closed, as this screening is overbooked. Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an Intimate Discussion with Editor Pietro Scalia, ACE and Re-Recording Mixer Paul Massey on 20th Century Fox’s THE MARTIAN
Directed by Ridley Scott
Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Produced by Simon Kinberg and Ridley Scott
Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski
About the film
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bringTHE MARTIANhome, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return. Based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott,THE MARTIANfeatures a star studded cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an Intimate Discussion with Editor Pietro Scalia, ACE and Re-Recording Mixer Paul Massey on 20th Century Fox’s THE MARTIAN
Directed by Ridley Scott
Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Produced by Simon Kinberg and Ridley Scott
Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski
About the film
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bringTHE MARTIANhome, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return. Based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott,THE MARTIANfeatures a star studded cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover.
A24 Invites VES Members and a Guest to a Screening of EX MACHINA
Winner
British Independent Film Awards
Best Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Outstanding Achievement in Craft (Visual Effects)
“In the history of the movies, there may be no robot more alluring, more eerily fascinating to look at, than Ava, the star and subject ofEX MACHINA.”
Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
“Ava has enough allure and cunning to become a classic noir robot vixen – an apocalyptic, silicon femme fatale.”
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
“One reason for the success ofEX MACHINAis that Ava is such a remarkable and compelling creation. Her look is an edgy combination of human and machine.”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), an A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined. Written and directed by Alex Garland.
Click hereor call646-568-6044 to RSVP
Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 1:00PM
A24 Invites VES Members and a Guest to a Screening of EX MACHINA
Winner
British Independent Film Awards
Best Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Outstanding Achievement in Craft (Visual Effects)
“In the history of the movies, there may be no robot more alluring, more eerily fascinating to look at, than Ava, the star and subject ofEX MACHINA.”
Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
“Ava has enough allure and cunning to become a classic noir robot vixen – an apocalyptic, silicon femme fatale.”
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
“One reason for the success ofEX MACHINAis that Ava is such a remarkable and compelling creation. Her look is an edgy combination of human and machine.”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), an A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined. Written and directed by Alex Garland.
Click hereor call646-568-6044 to RSVP
Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 1:00PM
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and New Regency Enterprises’ THE REVENANT followed by a Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Supervisor Rich McBride and Costume Designer Jacqueline West.
Click here to RSVP Friday, December 18, 2015 at 7:00PM
Blakely Theater on the 20th Century Fox lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map.
Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is an epic story of survival and transformation on the American frontier. While on an expedition into the uncharted wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brutally mauled by a bear, then abandoned by members of his own hunting team. Alone and near death, Glass refuses to succumb. Driven by sheer will and his love for his Native American wife and son, he undertakes a 200 mile odyssey through the vast and untamed West on the trail of the man who betrayed him: John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). What begins as a relentless quest for revenge becomes a heroic saga against all odds towards home and redemption. THE REVENANT is directed and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Please arrive at least 40 minutes early. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating. You must present your VES membership card prior to entry.
Where:
FantaSea Yacht Club 4215 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
[map]
Los Angeles-based VES members and a guest celebrated the holiday season, welcomed the newest Los Angeles Section members, and closed out our first year as a section at the fabulous FantaSea Yacht Club in Marina del Rey.
Where:
FantaSea Yacht Club 4215 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
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Los Angeles-based VES members and a guest celebrated the holiday season, welcomed the newest Los Angeles Section members, and closed out our first year as a section at the fabulous FantaSea Yacht Club in Marina del Rey.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Regency Pictures’ THE REVENANT
RSVPs are closed for this screening Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 11)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Pre-Release Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Regency Pictures’ THE REVENANT
RSVPs are closed for this screening Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 11)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
A24 & J.J. Abrams Invite VES Members and a Guest to Join Alex Garland & Oscar Isaac to a Special Screening of EX MACHINA
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), an A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined. Directed by Alex Garland.
“In the history of the movies, there may be no robot more alluring, more eerily fascinating to look at, than Ava, the star and subject of EX MACHINA.” – Ty Burr / The Boston Globe
Click here or call 646-568-6044 to RSVP Friday, December 4, 2015 at 6:00PM
The London West Hollywood
1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
*Reception to follow
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS:
Los Angeles: Dec. 19, 2015; Rodeo Screening Room, 150 S. Rodeo Drive
New York City: Dec. 16, 2015; Light Iron Screening Room; 580 Broadway, 8th Fl.
San Francisco: Dec. 7, 2015; Delancey Street Screening Room; 600 Embarcadero
RSVP at www.a24screenings.com/ex-machina/screenings
A24 & J.J. Abrams Invite VES Members and a Guest to Join Alex Garland & Oscar Isaac to a Special Screening of EX MACHINA
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), an A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined. Directed by Alex Garland.
“In the history of the movies, there may be no robot more alluring, more eerily fascinating to look at, than Ava, the star and subject of EX MACHINA.” – Ty Burr / The Boston Globe
Click here or call 646-568-6044 to RSVP Friday, December 4, 2015 at 6:00PM
The London West Hollywood
1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
*Reception to follow
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS:
Los Angeles: Dec. 19, 2015; Rodeo Screening Room, 150 S. Rodeo Drive
New York City: Dec. 16, 2015; Light Iron Screening Room; 580 Broadway, 8th Fl.
San Francisco: Dec. 7, 2015; Delancey Street Screening Room; 600 Embarcadero
RSVP at www.a24screenings.com/ex-machina/screenings
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Special Screening of ANT-MAN Followed by a Conversation and Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Russell Earl, Sound Editor Shannon Mills, Sound Mixer Juan Peralta and EVP, Physical Production, Marvel Studios Victoria Alonso. (Speakers are subject to availability.)
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Special Screening of ANT-MAN Followed by a Conversation and Q&A with the Filmmakers.
Panelists will include ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Russell Earl, Sound Editor Shannon Mills, Sound Mixer Juan Peralta and EVP, Physical Production, Marvel Studios Victoria Alonso. (Speakers are subject to availability.)
(Image from Light Field Capture device – Photo provided by Lytro)
Light Field Imaging is a technology designed to capture and re-create light rays in a three dimensional scene. It has applications in entertainment, consumer devices, industrial applications and medical imaging. The presentations will cover the latest research in this technology which promises to revolutionize virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
Check out videos of the event at the links below:
Light Field Imaging: The Future of VR-AR-MR- Part 1: Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec, Chief Visual Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, will present the latest technologies being developed at USC ICT on light fields and photoreal virtual actors for Virtual Reality. He will cover the areas of high-resolution face scanning, real-time photoreal digital characters, and light field capture and playback for creating breathtaking realistic and interactive VR content.
Mark Bolas, Director for Mixed Reality Research at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, will describe the MxR Lab and Studio’s recent work on: Discovering Near Field VR Stop Motion with a Touch of Light Fields and a Dash of Redirection which won the Best VR/AR competition at SIGGRAPH 2015.
Jules Urbach, Founder & CEO of OTOY will discuss OTOY’s cutting edge light field rendering toolset and platform.
Jon Karafin, Head of Light Field Video for Lytro, a company which develops light field cameras will discuss light field technologies and their application in visual effects workflows, cinematography and virtual reality as well as the next generation of state-of-the-art capture systems
Moderator:Scott Squires, VES, Academy Tech Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Developer
RSVPs are closed for this event
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:00PM
(6:30PM-7:00PM, Registration & Refreshments; 7:00PM to 9:30PM, Event)
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
(Image from Light Field Capture device – Photo provided by Lytro)
Light Field Imaging is a technology designed to capture and re-create light rays in a three dimensional scene. It has applications in entertainment, consumer devices, industrial applications and medical imaging. The presentations will cover the latest research in this technology which promises to revolutionize virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
Check out videos of the event at the links below:
Light Field Imaging: The Future of VR-AR-MR- Part 1: Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec, Chief Visual Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, will present the latest technologies being developed at USC ICT on light fields and photoreal virtual actors for Virtual Reality. He will cover the areas of high-resolution face scanning, real-time photoreal digital characters, and light field capture and playback for creating breathtaking realistic and interactive VR content.
Mark Bolas, Director for Mixed Reality Research at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, will describe the MxR Lab and Studio’s recent work on: Discovering Near Field VR Stop Motion with a Touch of Light Fields and a Dash of Redirection which won the Best VR/AR competition at SIGGRAPH 2015.
Jules Urbach, Founder & CEO of OTOY will discuss OTOY’s cutting edge light field rendering toolset and platform.
Jon Karafin, Head of Light Field Video for Lytro, a company which develops light field cameras will discuss light field technologies and their application in visual effects workflows, cinematography and virtual reality as well as the next generation of state-of-the-art capture systems
Moderator:Scott Squires, VES, Academy Tech Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Developer
RSVPs are closed for this event
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:00PM
(6:30PM-7:00PM, Registration & Refreshments; 7:00PM to 9:30PM, Event)
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
Followed by a conversation and Q&A with ILM Visual Effects SupervisorBen Snow, Sound EditorChristopher Boyes and Sound Mixer Lora Hirschberg. (Panelists subject to availability.)
Marvel Studios PresentsAVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Written and Directed by Joss Whedon
Produced by Kevin Feige, p.g.a.
Robert Downey, Jr. Chris Hemsworth
Mark Ruffalo Chris Evans Jeremy Renner James Spader
Scarlett Johansson
Don Cheadle Aaron Taylor-Johnson Paul Battany Anthony Mackie
Idris Elba Stellan Skarsgard Samuel L. Jackson Elizabeth Olsen
Cobie Smulders Hayley Atwell Linda Cardelini
Cinematography Ben Davis, BSC
Editors Jeffrey Ford, ACE, Lisa Lassek
Production Designer Charles Woodset Decorator Richard Roberts
Costume Design Alexandra Byrne
Make Up and Hirstyling Jeremy Woodhead
Re-Recording Mixers Christopher Boyes, Lora Hirschberg
Sound Mixer Peter Lindsay
Supervising Sound Editors Christopher Boyes, Frank Fulner
Visual EffectsChristopherTownsend, Ben Snow,
Allesandro Cioffi, Paul Corbould
Score Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman
Running Time: 141 Minutes
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This Film is Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of Sci-Fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments.
Followed by a conversation and Q&A with ILM Visual Effects SupervisorBen Snow, Sound EditorChristopher Boyes and Sound Mixer Lora Hirschberg. (Panelists subject to availability.)
Marvel Studios PresentsAVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Written and Directed by Joss Whedon
Produced by Kevin Feige, p.g.a.
Robert Downey, Jr. Chris Hemsworth
Mark Ruffalo Chris Evans Jeremy Renner James Spader
Scarlett Johansson
Don Cheadle Aaron Taylor-Johnson Paul Battany Anthony Mackie
Idris Elba Stellan Skarsgard Samuel L. Jackson Elizabeth Olsen
Cobie Smulders Hayley Atwell Linda Cardelini
Cinematography Ben Davis, BSC
Editors Jeffrey Ford, ACE, Lisa Lassek
Production Designer Charles Woodset Decorator Richard Roberts
Costume Design Alexandra Byrne
Make Up and Hirstyling Jeremy Woodhead
Re-Recording Mixers Christopher Boyes, Lora Hirschberg
Sound Mixer Peter Lindsay
Supervising Sound Editors Christopher Boyes, Frank Fulner
Visual EffectsChristopherTownsend, Ben Snow,
Allesandro Cioffi, Paul Corbould
Score Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman
Running Time: 141 Minutes
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This Film is Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of Sci-Fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Special Advance Screening of ANOMALISA Followed by a conversation with Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, Directors Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman and Producer Rosa Tran
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis
Michael Stone (David Thewlis), husband, father and respected author of How May I Help You Help Them? is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he’s scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, Michael checks into the Fregoli Hotel and meets Lisa Hesselman (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a socially awkward sales rep from Akron who may or may not be the love of his life. Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson and written by Charlie Kaufman comes a darkly comedic, stop-motion journey.
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early to allow time for parking and check-in. A valid 2015 VES card and photo ID will be required for admittance. Guests must accompany the VES member at check-in. RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Running Time: 90 minutes
Rated: R – FOR STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT, GRAPHIC NUDITY AND LANGUAGE
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Special Advance Screening of ANOMALISA Followed by a conversation with Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, Directors Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman and Producer Rosa Tran
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis
Michael Stone (David Thewlis), husband, father and respected author of How May I Help You Help Them? is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he’s scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, Michael checks into the Fregoli Hotel and meets Lisa Hesselman (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a socially awkward sales rep from Akron who may or may not be the love of his life. Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson and written by Charlie Kaufman comes a darkly comedic, stop-motion journey.
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early to allow time for parking and check-in. A valid 2015 VES card and photo ID will be required for admittance. Guests must accompany the VES member at check-in. RSVPs do not guarantee seating.
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Running Time: 90 minutes
Rated: R – FOR STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT, GRAPHIC NUDITY AND LANGUAGE
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of MGM’s, Columbia Pictures’ and Eon Productions’ SPECTRE
Please RSVP below Monday, November 9, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Monday, November 9, 2015.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE PEANUTS MOVIE
RSVPs are closed for this event Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 6:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 6)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE PEANUTS MOVIE
RSVPs are closed for this event Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 6:30PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, November 6)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 5th at 7:00pm at Philz Coffee in Santa Monica
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!Where:
Philz Coffee
525 Santa Monica Blvd
Ste 100
Santa Monica, CA 90401
RSVP and Information: WomenInVFX@veslosangeles.com
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 5th at 7:00pm at Philz Coffee in Santa Monica
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!Where:
Philz Coffee
525 Santa Monica Blvd
Ste 100
Santa Monica, CA 90401
RSVP and Information: WomenInVFX@veslosangeles.com
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of DreamWorks SKG’s BRIDGE OF SPIES
Click here to RSVP
(You’ll need to choose which screening to sign up for through the DreamWorks SKG awards website.) Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:00PM
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of DreamWorks SKG’s BRIDGE OF SPIES
Click here to RSVP
(You’ll need to choose which screening to sign up for through the DreamWorks SKG awards website.) Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:00PM
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ CRIMSON PEAK Followed by a Q&A with Writer-Director-Producer Guillermo Del Toro moderated by Quentin Tarantino.
Click here to RSVP or call (818) 777-4239 Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7:00PM
Writers Guild Theater
135 S. Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ CRIMSON PEAK Followed by a Q&A with Writer-Director-Producer Guillermo Del Toro moderated by Quentin Tarantino.
Click here to RSVP or call (818) 777-4239 Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7:00PM
Writers Guild Theater
135 S. Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES members receive discounted tickets for Boris Karloff’s Third and Final Performance as the Monster in Universal’s 1939 Film SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, plus a Q&A with Sara Karloff & Bela Lugosi Jr., discussing their fathers’ careers and the horror films that made them famous moderated by David Weiner, Managing Editor of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ magazine.
VES Members receive discounted tickets priced at $12.50 (including online fees) Enter Promotional Code: VisualEffectsSociety
Click here to purchase tickets Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7:30PM
The Alex Theater
216 North Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203
($1 parking for 4 hours with validation at the Orange St., Exchange Parking and Glendale Marketplace parking structures.)
By 1938, Universal Studios was certain that the public appetite for horror films had faded and they abandoned the genre. That same year, a nationwide re-issue of DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN on a double bill played to packed theatres across the nation and quickly brought them to their senses. Instead of a low-budget cheapie to cash in on the re-born craze for horror films, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN under the direction of Rowland V. Lee, proved to be a handsomely-produced entry in the cycle.
Filmed on the most expressionistic sets of any horror film since THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, George Robinson’s gorgeous black-and-white cinematography captures every shadow, every out-sized distortion beautifully.
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN is also blessed with perhaps the greatest horror film cast ever. Karloff gives his farewell performance as the creature and Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of Ygor is creepy, roguish, even pitiable, and one is reminded of what a fine actor he could have been with a role worthy of his talent. Presiding over all of this is the solid presence of Basil Rathbone as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein. Watch for scene-stealer Lionel Atwill, who delivers his definitive screen role as the one-arm Inspector Krogh.
This first-rate production gave a whole new meaning to the Baron’s famous shout out: “It’s alive!”
VES members receive discounted tickets for films presented by the Alex Film Society at Glendale’s Alex Theatre. Their programs include classic feature films, cartoons, newsreels and short subjects together with guest appearances by notable personalities. Thier mission is to entertain and educate the audience while demonstrating to film owners that there is a market for classic films and the financial risks involved in film preservation are worthwhile.
Thier goal is to present the best possible prints so patrons can enjoy films in the manner for which they were intended. At the same time the Alex Film Society must pay the expenses associated with our programs and strengthen our ability to maintain and upgrade the film capabilities of the Alex.
General admission is $16 / $12 seniors (65+) and students (full time with ID) and $11 Alex Film Society members. (Some special events are higher, please see schedule page. Alex Facility Fee is included; additional box office fees may apply)
VES members are invited to join Steve Smith and his team from Aircover Inflatables for their AMPAS demonstration of a 32 foot x 80 foot version of their Airwall modular inflatable green screens.
Airwall is the first choice in very large outdoor VFX screens. They have been used on CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016), SUICIDE SQUAD (2016), X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016), STAR TREK BEYOND (2016), PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (2017), AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015), TOMORROWLAND (2015), MONSTER TRUCKS (2015), GAME OF THRONES (2014), GODZILLA (2014) & BIG EYES(2014).
VES members are invited to join Steve Smith and his team from Aircover Inflatables for their AMPAS demonstration of a 32 foot x 80 foot version of their Airwall modular inflatable green screens.
Airwall is the first choice in very large outdoor VFX screens. They have been used on CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016), SUICIDE SQUAD (2016), X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016), STAR TREK BEYOND (2016), PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (2017), AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015), TOMORROWLAND (2015), MONSTER TRUCKS (2015), GAME OF THRONES (2014), GODZILLA (2014) & BIG EYES(2014).
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ PAN
Please RSVP below Monday, October 19, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Pre-Release IMAX® 3D Screening of TriStar Pictures’ in Association with LStar Capital’s THE WALK, Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director Robert Zemeckis, Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Baillie, Visual Effects and Stereo Producer Camille Cellucci, Music by Alan Silvestri,and Supervising Sound Mixer & Designer Randy Thom. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here or call (323) 300-5084 to RSVP
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 7:00PM
TCL Chinese Theater
6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Christopher Browne
Based on the book “To Reach the Clouds” By Philippe Petit
Produced by Steve Starkey, p.g.a., Robert Zemeckis, p.g.a., Jack Rapke, p.g.a.
Executive Producers Cherylanne Martin, Jacqueline Levine, Ben Waisbren
Director of Photography Dariusz Wolski, ASC
Production Designer Naomi Shohan
Edited by Jeremiah O’Driscoll
Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Baillie
Music by Alan Silvestri
Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale
Synopsis: THE WALK – Twelve people have walked on the moon. Only one has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), is aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, who overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the master director of such marvels as FORREST GUMP, CAST AWAY, BACK TO THE FUTURE, POLAR EXPRESS and FLIGHT, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX® 3D wizardry, The Walk is genuine big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds.
It is also one of the rare live-action films that is a PG-rated, all-audience entertainment for moviegoers 8 to 80 – and a triumphant true story to boot. It is unlike anything audiences have seen before, a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the towers of the World Trade Center.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Pre-Release IMAX® 3D Screening of TriStar Pictures’ in Association with LStar Capital’s THE WALK, Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director Robert Zemeckis, Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Baillie, Visual Effects and Stereo Producer Camille Cellucci, Music by Alan Silvestri,and Supervising Sound Mixer & Designer Randy Thom. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here or call (323) 300-5084 to RSVP
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 7:00PM
TCL Chinese Theater
6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Christopher Browne
Based on the book “To Reach the Clouds” By Philippe Petit
Produced by Steve Starkey, p.g.a., Robert Zemeckis, p.g.a., Jack Rapke, p.g.a.
Executive Producers Cherylanne Martin, Jacqueline Levine, Ben Waisbren
Director of Photography Dariusz Wolski, ASC
Production Designer Naomi Shohan
Edited by Jeremiah O’Driscoll
Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Baillie
Music by Alan Silvestri
Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale
Synopsis: THE WALK – Twelve people have walked on the moon. Only one has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), is aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, who overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the master director of such marvels as FORREST GUMP, CAST AWAY, BACK TO THE FUTURE, POLAR EXPRESS and FLIGHT, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX® 3D wizardry, The Walk is genuine big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds.
It is also one of the rare live-action films that is a PG-rated, all-audience entertainment for moviegoers 8 to 80 – and a triumphant true story to boot. It is unlike anything audiences have seen before, a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the towers of the World Trade Center.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ EVEREST
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 7:30PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ EVEREST
Please RSVP below
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 7:30PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE MARTIAN
RSVPs are closed for this screening Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, October 2)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of 20th Century Fox’s THE MARTIAN
RSVPs are closed for this screening Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 3:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, October 2)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, October 1st, at 7:00pm at Priscilla’s in Burbank.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, October 1st, at 7:00pm at Priscilla’s in Burbank.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Remember to bring your business cards and come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
VES Members are Invited to the High Dynamic Range and Virtual Reality Seminar Presented by the Advanced Imaging Society and NAB.
Click here to RSVP
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 from 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Registration at 8:00AM
HDR Seminar from 9:00AM to 12:30PM
VR Seminar from 2:30PM to 5:30PM
Paramount Theater
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Hollywood’s Next Gen Content Strategy
Rarely have Hollywood stakeholders been so united in their enthusiasm for a new technology. In development for several years, High Dynamic Range (HDR) content will deliver brighter, more colorful, and more exciting experiences for audiences. HDR adds a “WOW” factor to content that consumer’s notice immediately.
What’s Hollywood’s game plan for HDR? How will it be promoted and used for this year’s biggest blockbusters? What are the creative decisions that need to be made when producing HDR content? What do you and your team need to know about using and maximizing HDRs power?
To get the latest information and answers to these and other key questions please join us on September 30, 2015 for The Advanced Imaging Society’s HDR Workshop at Paramount Pictures Studios.
This seminar is open to colorists, producers, directors, and creative teams interested in the latest industry information and in gaining HDR expertise.
VES Members are Invited to the High Dynamic Range and Virtual Reality Seminar Presented by the Advanced Imaging Society and NAB.
Click here to RSVP
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 from 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Registration at 8:00AM
HDR Seminar from 9:00AM to 12:30PM
VR Seminar from 2:30PM to 5:30PM
Paramount Theater
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Hollywood’s Next Gen Content Strategy
Rarely have Hollywood stakeholders been so united in their enthusiasm for a new technology. In development for several years, High Dynamic Range (HDR) content will deliver brighter, more colorful, and more exciting experiences for audiences. HDR adds a “WOW” factor to content that consumer’s notice immediately.
What’s Hollywood’s game plan for HDR? How will it be promoted and used for this year’s biggest blockbusters? What are the creative decisions that need to be made when producing HDR content? What do you and your team need to know about using and maximizing HDRs power?
To get the latest information and answers to these and other key questions please join us on September 30, 2015 for The Advanced Imaging Society’s HDR Workshop at Paramount Pictures Studios.
This seminar is open to colorists, producers, directors, and creative teams interested in the latest industry information and in gaining HDR expertise.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Sony Pictures Animation’s HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2
Please RSVP below Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 2:00PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to an Advanced Screening of Crackle’s New Stop-Motion Animated Original Series SUPERMANSION, Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include series creators Matthew Senreich and Zeb Wells, along with additional guests. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7:00PM
(Doors open at 6:00PM for free pizza and refreshments.)
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Titanium Rex (Bryan Cranston) is the leader of a motley band of past-their-prime super heroes who live together in a SUPERMANSION. Titanium Rex struggles to live and fight alongside the Millennial-aged, lackadaisical members of The League of Freedom as they battle against arch-enemies and struggle to remain relevant in today’s world.
Cranston also serves as executive producer, alongside Seth Green, John Harvatine, Eric Towner and James Degus. The series features the voice talents of Keegan-Michael Key, Jillian Bell, Tucker Gilmore, Tom Root, Heidi Lynn Gardner, and Zeb Wells.
SUPERMANSION premieres on October 8, 2015 with the first three episodes and new episodes weekly through December 17, 2015.
VES members will need to show their membership card at the door. Additional details to follow upon confirmation.
(Please note: Some content in SUPERMANSION is not appropriate for children.)
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of the International Critically Acclaimed film BAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING, Presented by Advanced Micro Devices, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director S.S. Rajamouli, the team from Makuta FX, and Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP
Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 7:30PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of the International Critically Acclaimed film BAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING, Presented by Advanced Micro Devices, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Director S.S. Rajamouli, the team from Makuta FX, and Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Click here to RSVP
Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 7:30PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
Akasha Restaurant
9543 Culver Boulevard, Culver City CA 90232
[map]
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, September 3rd, at 7:00pm at Akasha Restaurant in Culver City.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
Where:
Akasha Restaurant
9543 Culver Boulevard, Culver City CA 90232
[map]
Coffee Talk is a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our next meeting will be Thursday, September 3rd, at 7:00pm at Akasha Restaurant in Culver City.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Please RSVP below Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Marvel’s FANTASTIC FOUR
RSVPs are closed for this screening Friday, August 14 at 7:30PM
Fox Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of 20th Century Fox’s and Marvel’s FANTASTIC FOUR
RSVPs are closed for this screening Friday, August 14 at 7:30PM
Fox Little Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live
Platinum Ballroom D
900 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
[map]
The Visual Effects Society and the VES Los Angeles Section invite you to celebrate SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles.
Unwind from all the action of the conference and enjoy a beverage and some nibbles with fellow VES movers and shakers from around the globe! DJ Don Gatito will also be spinning some old skool vinyl for the party. Open to all VES members and a guest.
Where:
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live
Platinum Ballroom D
900 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
[map]
The Visual Effects Society and the VES Los Angeles Section invite you to celebrate SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles.
Unwind from all the action of the conference and enjoy a beverage and some nibbles with fellow VES movers and shakers from around the globe! DJ Don Gatito will also be spinning some old skool vinyl for the party. Open to all VES members and a guest.
Start off the conference right at this informal Birds of a Feather meet-up with fellow Los Angeles Section members.
Have a bit of coffee, relax, coordinate and discuss. RSVP requested but not required — please let us know you will be there by emailing: events@veslosangeles.com, subject: Morning BOF Coffee.
Start off the conference right at this informal Birds of a Feather meet-up with fellow Los Angeles Section members.
Have a bit of coffee, relax, coordinate and discuss. RSVP requested but not required — please let us know you will be there by emailing: events@veslosangeles.com, subject: Morning BOF Coffee.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION, Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Producer Maricel Pagulayan, and Production Designer James Bissell and moderated by Ian Hunter. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
This screening is overbooked
Friday, August 7, 2015 at 8:00PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Paramount Pictures’ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION, Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Panelists will include Visual Effects Producer Maricel Pagulayan, and Production Designer James Bissell and moderated by Ian Hunter. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
This screening is overbooked
Friday, August 7, 2015 at 8:00PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
10121 Riverside Dr., Toluca Lake
[map]
Come be a part of our new coffee talk hosted by the VES Los Angeles Section.
Our intention is to be a monthly gathering for women in visual effects to build community through mutual sharing of information and ideas in a friendly welcoming environment. Our first meeting will be this Thursday, August 6th at 7:00pm.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people might be there (but feel free to show up even if you don’t RSVP). Come out and have a voice in the direction of this new group!
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Lionsgate’s, Studio Canal’s and Aardman’s SHAUN THE SHEEP
Click here or call (310) 231-5203 to RSVP Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 12:00PM
(Interactive Red Carpet experinece begins at 10:30AM)
Regency Westwood Village Theater
961 Broxton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Click here for a map.
You must RSVP by Thursday, July 30 to attend. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Columbia Pictures’ PIXELS
RSVPs are closed Monday, July 27, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to the Art Directors Guild Film Society Screening of CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002) followed by a conversation with Production Designer Jim Bissell
The discussion will take place between the picture’s Production Designer Jim Bissell and Production Designer John Muto.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to the Art Directors Guild Film Society Screening of CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002) followed by a conversation with Production Designer Jim Bissell
The discussion will take place between the picture’s Production Designer Jim Bissell and Production Designer John Muto.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN
RSVPs are closed
(RSVPs close at 12:00PM on Friday, July 24) Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 5:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Panelists: Rob Bredow (VES member, Head of New Media & VP Advanced Development Group, Lucasfilm) • Matthew Gratzner (VES member and Director of THE MISSION, HOT BATH AN’ A STIFF DRINK and HUNTIN’) • Mark Kudsi (Director, THE ART OF PATRÓN VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE, APPLE iMAC WITH RETINA DISPLAY, KATY PERRY’S ROAR) • Guy Shelmerdine (Director of CATATONIC, MINI COOPER and VITAMIN WATER). Moderator: Randal Kleiser (VES member and Director of GREASE, THE BLUE LAGOON and THE NINA FOCH COURSE FOR FILMMAKERS AND ACTORS).
• Learn how groundbreaking immersive technology is changing the storytelling landscape.
• Hear Directors of interactive 360˚ projects tell how they overcame technical and logistical challenges.
Clones: Rapid Prototyping & Digital Doubles
Presenters: Paul Debevec (VES member and Chief Visual Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies) • Jason Lopes (Lead Systems Engineer, Legacy Effects) • Raymond McIntyre, Jr. (VES member and VFX Supervisor/VP, Pixel Magic) • Karl Meyer (VP of Entertainment, 3D Systems/Founder of Gentle Giant Studios). Moderator: Shannon Gans (VES member & CEO, New Deal Studios).
• Learn how 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling and computer-assisted fabrication can be used in production to save time and money in creating props, sets, wardrobe, costumes, miniature VFX, and more.
• See how digital doubles are created with 3D scanning and digital effects to create digital actors, and populate crowd scenes and stunts.
Drones: Opening New Vistas for Storytellers
Panelists: Austin Harris (Aerial Director of Photography/Camera Operator, Aerial MOB) • Matthew Libatique, ASC (Director of Photography, AUDI A6 DRONES, IRON MAN, BLACK SWAN) • Matt Rodgers (Aerial Director of Photography/Camera Operator, Vortex Aerial) • Chris Schuster (Aerial Director of Photography/Chief Pilot, Vortex Aerial) • Tony Thompson (Aerial Director of Photography/Pilot, Aerial MOB) • David Wagreich (CEO and Aerial Director of Photography/ Pilot, Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems). Moderator: Michael Chambliss (Technologist and Business Representative, International Cinematographers Guild).
• Learn how unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) enable Directors and DPs to position cameras and create dynamic camera moves never before possible.
• Gain knowledge of key FAA guidelines and best practices for using drones on set.
• Learn from Directors and their collaborators the practical considerations needed to plan and execute drone shots.
Demos & Exhibits in Lobby, Theaters 2 & 3
• Watch the future of the cinema experience with Barco’s new DP4K- 60L Digital Cinema Laser Projector: Be engrossed in the story by the blackest of blacks and the most brilliant of colors. (Demo by Barco)
• Immerse yourself in the frightening virtual reality of CATATONIC, created by Guy Shelmerdine and VR production company Vrse.works, with post-production by MPC VR. (Demo by Vrse.works)
• Discover the potential of 3D printing for designing and creating animatronic parts and character effects. (Demo by Legacy Effects)
• Transform digital data into real world objects, from props to consumer products using 3D printing. (Demo by 3D Systems, Manufacturing the Future)
• Learn methods for developing convincing crowd shots by using individuals created with CG, green screen, and clones of practical people. (Demo by Pixel Magic)
• See how USC’s Light Stage was utilized to capture the first 3-D portrait of a sitting President, capturing high resolution geometry and textures. (Demo by USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
• Soar through Patron’s tequila distillery from the POV of a honeybee in THE ART OF PATRÓN experience, utilizing 360-degree drone technology, R-Kill software and 3D conversion pipeline. (Demo by Legend3D)
• Experience the Great Escape WWII battle of THE MISSION directed by Matthew Gratzner and created by New Deal Studios and JauntVR. (Demo by New Deal Studios)
• Manipulate VR content in real time using a VR headset and the world’s first real time VR editing, grading, VFX, and finishing system. (Demo by Local Hero and Assimilate)
• Explore the groundbreaking potential of immersive 360 degree video and CG VFX with the premiere showing of DEFROST, created by Randal Kleiser. (Demo by Immersive Media)
• View Exhibits from UAV Companies Aerial MOB, Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems, Team5 Aerial Systems and Vortex Aerial.
Programming subject to change – For updates see Digital Day notice on www.dga.org
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ MINIONS
RSVPs are closed for this screening Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Reception and Discussion on VFX Best Practices Presented by Molecule.
Join us in discussing visual effects from the VFX Producer’s seat. The industry vets behind some of your favorite films & TV shows will swap tips, share lessons learned and how the job has evolved in our changing industry.
Panelists will include Founder of Baked FX George Loucas, Head of Production at Hammerhead Michelle Eisenreich, CEO at Creative Cartel Jenny Fulle, CEO/CTO of Molecule Chris Healer, and freelance VFX Producer Karin Joy.
Click here to RSVP
Monday, July 20, 2015 from 6:30PM to 9:00PM
(Reception at 6:30PM; Discussion at 7:30PM)
Panavision Woodland Hills
6101 Variel Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Click here for a map.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Reception and Discussion on VFX Best Practices Presented by Molecule.
Join us in discussing visual effects from the VFX Producer’s seat. The industry vets behind some of your favorite films & TV shows will swap tips, share lessons learned and how the job has evolved in our changing industry.
Panelists will include Founder of Baked FX George Loucas, Head of Production at Hammerhead Michelle Eisenreich, CEO at Creative Cartel Jenny Fulle, CEO/CTO of Molecule Chris Healer, and freelance VFX Producer Karin Joy.
Click here to RSVP
Monday, July 20, 2015 from 6:30PM to 9:00PM
(Reception at 6:30PM; Discussion at 7:30PM)
Panavision Woodland Hills
6101 Variel Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Click here for a map.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ TERMINATOR GENISYS
RSVPs are Closed for this Screening
Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:00PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a 3D Screening of Paramount Pictures’ TERMINATOR GENISYS
RSVPs are Closed for this Screening
Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:00PM
Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios
(Complimentary parking in the Van Ness structure South of Melrose.)
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Artemple Hollywood
10321 Jefferson Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
[map]
The VES Los Angeles Section Managers invited all new and current members to attend our first New Member Reception!
On June 30th LA Section members gathered to meet with our new arrivals, visit with long-term members, and the new members met their section Managers, VES staff and Board Members. This was a great opportunity to get to know fellow VES members in a more intimate and casual setting. Artemple co-hosted the event. We welcomed our new members and enjoyed a grand night of fabulous food, drinks, and networking at Artemple’s facility in Culver City.
About our hosts:
Artemple-Hollywood is a high-end visual effects and design creative studio that launched in January 2014. The company specializes in Features, Television, Commercials, Themed Entertainment, Special Venue Projects, and Content creation. Located in Culver City, Artemple’s 5,000 square foot facility is state-of-the-art and equipped with a top of the line screening room for 2K client reviews.
Within Artemple’s first year and a half, the company has produced visual effects for David Fincher’s blockbuster hit film, “Gone Girl,” for 20th Century Fox and was the sole visual effects company on Warner Bros. “Entourage.” Additionally, the company is currently working with David Fincher again on an HBO series and gearing up for a new studio project as the sole VFX company. Other clients include Fox Sports and Wieden+Kennedy among others.
The VES Vision and Education Committees Invite VES Members and Vrideo Guests to Brave New Worlds: The Artist’s Way.
Join us for an inspiring evening with visual effects artists and producers who have successfully left the world of feature film visual effects to use their skills and expertise in the brave new worlds of emerging technologies—virtual reality, space, and software.
Moderator: Award-Winning VARIETY Senior Features Editor, David Cohen
Panelists will include: Kevin Mack, an Academy awarding winning VFX Supervisor (WHAT DREAMS MAY COME) now creating amazing experiences in Virtual Reality. Michael Clive, formerly a Technical Director at Digital Domain (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END), now an Automation Engineer with a company revolutionizing space technology. Timothy Brandt, at Sony Pictures Imageworks for nine years as a Sr. Technical Director (CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2), now an IOS developer at Originate, building innovative mobile, web and data driven applications. Tram Le-Jones, former VFX Producer for Framestore and Method Studios (TOWER HEIST), now working as a Shotgun Product Support Specialist at Autodesk, a company that helps people imagine, design and create a better world.
RSVPs are closed for this event
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:30PM
(Registration: 6:30PM-7:00PM, Presentation: 7:00PM-9:00PM, Networking & Refreshments: 9:00PM-9:30PM)
Attendees will have the opportunity to experience demonstrations of streaming immersive VR content from http://www.vrideo.com.
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 2D Screening of Disney’s and Pixar’s INSIDE OUT
RSVPs are closed for this screening
Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 3:00PM
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 2D Screening of Disney’s and Pixar’s INSIDE OUT
RSVPs are closed for this screening
Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 3:00PM
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Discussion with the Visual Effects Team Behind Universal Pictures’ FURIOUS 7 Followed by a Reception and Preceded by a Screening of the Picture.
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisors Mike Wassel and Kelvin McIlwain, Special Effects Supervisor Dan Sudick, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Weta Digital Joe Letteri, Visual Effects Supervisor at Weta Digital Martin Hill and Visual Effects Supervisor at Digital Domain Jay Barton, moderated by VES Chair Mike Chambers.
Please RSVP below
Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:00PM (Panel at 7:30PM)
5:00PM – Screening (optional)
7:30PM – Panel Discussion
Reception with drinks & buffet dinner immediately after the panel
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Due to the nature of the conversation, everyone will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) upon admission. There will be no electronic devices permitted in the theater. The VES may not be recording this event, so we recommend that you attend in person.
Screenings and events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Discussion with the Visual Effects Team Behind Universal Pictures’ FURIOUS 7 Followed by a Reception and Preceded by a Screening of the Picture.
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisors Mike Wassel and Kelvin McIlwain, Special Effects Supervisor Dan Sudick, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Weta Digital Joe Letteri, Visual Effects Supervisor at Weta Digital Martin Hill and Visual Effects Supervisor at Digital Domain Jay Barton, moderated by VES Chair Mike Chambers.
Please RSVP below
Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:00PM (Panel at 7:30PM)
5:00PM – Screening (optional)
7:30PM – Panel Discussion
Reception with drinks & buffet dinner immediately after the panel
Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater
(Complimentary parking in the PDC structure. Enter on Melrose.)
8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 Click here for a map.
Due to the nature of the conversation, everyone will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) upon admission. There will be no electronic devices permitted in the theater. The VES may not be recording this event, so we recommend that you attend in person.
Screenings and events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ JURASSIC WORLD, Followed by a Q&A with the Visual Effects Team.
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander, and Animation Supervisor Glen McIntosh and moderated by VES 2nd Vice Chair Richard Winn Taylor II, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
RSVPs for this event are closed
Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 12:00PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Universal Pictures’ JURASSIC WORLD, Followed by a Q&A with the Visual Effects Team.
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander, and Animation Supervisor Glen McIntosh and moderated by VES 2nd Vice Chair Richard Winn Taylor II, VES. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
RSVPs for this event are closed
Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 12:00PM
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(Free parking off Homewood Avenue, one block North of Fountain) Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The VES Vision Committee Invites VES Members and a Guest to Entrepreneurship in Entertainment Technology
Join us for an afternoon with Carl Rosendahl, former VES Chair, VES Fellow, recipient of the VES Founders Award and current Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. Carl will present his analysis of the history of feature film visual effects and gaming plus his perspective on where the opportunities lie for the future.
New technologies in Virtual and Augmented Reality will change the way we consume and interact with media and the world. Expect a lively discussion of possibilities for artists, technologists, and creatives.
RSVPs for this event are closed.
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 12:00PM
(11:15AM-12:00PM Registration, Networking & Refreshments)
(12:00PM-2:00PM Presentation)
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The VES Vision Committee Invites VES Members and a Guest to Entrepreneurship in Entertainment Technology
Join us for an afternoon with Carl Rosendahl, former VES Chair, VES Fellow, recipient of the VES Founders Award and current Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. Carl will present his analysis of the history of feature film visual effects and gaming plus his perspective on where the opportunities lie for the future.
New technologies in Virtual and Augmented Reality will change the way we consume and interact with media and the world. Expect a lively discussion of possibilities for artists, technologists, and creatives.
RSVPs for this event are closed.
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 12:00PM
(11:15AM-12:00PM Registration, Networking & Refreshments)
(12:00PM-2:00PM Presentation)
Events are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ TOMORROWLAND
Please RSVP below
Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2:30PM
Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ TOMORROWLAND
Please RSVP below
Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2:30PM
Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ TOMORROWLAND
Please RSVP below
Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 12:00PM
Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ TOMORROWLAND
Please RSVP below
Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 12:00PM
Frank G. Wells Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot
(Please enter through the Alameda Gate East of Buena Vista)
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ SAN ANDREAS
Please RSVP below Friday, May 29, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
Walt Disney Imagineering
1401 Flower St
Glendale, CA
VES Los Angeles Section members were invited to a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the effects work being done at Walt Disney Imagineering. Each event in the “Cool Things” series features a company or our individual members showing off, well, something “cool,” while also giving us all a great opportunity to get together, network and talk about interests of the section.
Imagineering is the unique, creative force behind Walt Disney Parks and Resorts that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, cruise ships, real estate developments, and regional entertainment venues worldwide. Its strength comes from the dynamic global team of creative and technical professionals building on the Disney legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity. This opportunity to look behind some of the magic that goes into creating these unique experiences was incredibly well attended. Complimentary drinks (beer, wine, water, soda) and a light menu fare were provided.
Where:
Walt Disney Imagineering
1401 Flower St
Glendale, CA
VES Los Angeles Section members were invited to a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the effects work being done at Walt Disney Imagineering. Each event in the “Cool Things” series features a company or our individual members showing off, well, something “cool,” while also giving us all a great opportunity to get together, network and talk about interests of the section.
Imagineering is the unique, creative force behind Walt Disney Parks and Resorts that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, cruise ships, real estate developments, and regional entertainment venues worldwide. Its strength comes from the dynamic global team of creative and technical professionals building on the Disney legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity. This opportunity to look behind some of the magic that goes into creating these unique experiences was incredibly well attended. Complimentary drinks (beer, wine, water, soda) and a light menu fare were provided.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to a 3D Screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, plus a Q&A with the visual effects team
Panelists will include Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Christopher Townsend, Additional Visual Effects Supervisor Geoffrey Baumann, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Ben Snow, ILM Animation Supervisor Marc Chu, Trixter Animation Supervisor Simone Kraus and moderated by VES Chair Mike Chambers. (All panelists’ participation based on availability.)
Please RSVP below
(RSVPs close at 2:00PM on Friday, May 15) Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 12:00PM
Walt Disney Studios Main Theater
500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91451
(Please enter through the Alameda gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to an Opening Night 3D Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Please RSVP below Friday, May 15, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Advanced Imaging Society and Women In Film International Committee Invite VES members and a Guest to Attend “AROUND THE WORLD” WOMEN 3D DIRECTORS
Join us for an evening with the leading women in 3D storytelling followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Lee & special guests!
Click here to RSVP Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 7:30PM to 9:30PM
Paramount Pictures’ Sherry Lansing Theater
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Jennifer Lee, Director of the FROZEN franchise, will be joined by special guests to share their perspective
You will also be taken “Around the World” as we showcase 3D clips which demonstrate excellence in stereoscopic storytelling. Various genres and formats will be presented that were selected by a jury composed of specialist 3D filmmakers. Clips will include Live Action, Animated, Shorts, Music Videos and more. These screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and other leading women in 3D storytelling.
Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. You will need a photo ID in order to enter the Paramount lot. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The Advanced Imaging Society and Women In Film International Committee Invite VES members and a Guest to Attend “AROUND THE WORLD” WOMEN 3D DIRECTORS
Join us for an evening with the leading women in 3D storytelling followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Lee & special guests!
Click here to RSVP Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 7:30PM to 9:30PM
Paramount Pictures’ Sherry Lansing Theater
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 Click here for a map.
Jennifer Lee, Director of the FROZEN franchise, will be joined by special guests to share their perspective
You will also be taken “Around the World” as we showcase 3D clips which demonstrate excellence in stereoscopic storytelling. Various genres and formats will be presented that were selected by a jury composed of specialist 3D filmmakers. Clips will include Live Action, Animated, Shorts, Music Videos and more. These screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and other leading women in 3D storytelling.
Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. You will need a photo ID in order to enter the Paramount lot. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of A24’s EX MACHINA
Please RSVP below Friday, May 1, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
California’s Film & Television Tax Credit 2.0 Webinar
California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program is about to get a lot more competitive as it more than triples in size (from $100 million to $330 million annually) and is expanded to include a range of project types that were previously ineligible.
California Film Commission Executive Director Amy Lemisch and Program Director Nancy Rae Stone will present an introduction to California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0. They will be covering eligibility, application procedures and deadlines, key dates, the new competitive ranking system, qualified and non-qualified expenditures, expenditure tagging information and other program procedures. Included in the discussion will be the new increased tax incentive for specified visual effects expenditures in the state. This is your chance to hear direct from the source about the state’s expanded incentive program.
Participants will have the ability to submit written questions for the Q & A portion of the webinar.
California’s Film & Television Tax Credit 2.0 Webinar
California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program is about to get a lot more competitive as it more than triples in size (from $100 million to $330 million annually) and is expanded to include a range of project types that were previously ineligible.
California Film Commission Executive Director Amy Lemisch and Program Director Nancy Rae Stone will present an introduction to California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0. They will be covering eligibility, application procedures and deadlines, key dates, the new competitive ranking system, qualified and non-qualified expenditures, expenditure tagging information and other program procedures. Included in the discussion will be the new increased tax incentive for specified visual effects expenditures in the state. This is your chance to hear direct from the source about the state’s expanded incentive program.
Participants will have the ability to submit written questions for the Q & A portion of the webinar.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to a Screening of Universal Pictures’ FURIOUS 7
Please RSVP below Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Guests are Invited to a Screening of Columbia Pictures’ CHAPPIE
RSVPs are closed for this screening Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:30PM
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Where:
Zoic Studios
3582 Eastham Drive
Culver City, CA 90232
VES Los Angeles Section Kickoff Event at Zoic Studios
Zoic Studios opened its doors and sponsored the first VES LA Section event: a mixer in the “Cool Things” Series. Each event in the series features a studio or visual effects facility hosting wine & beer with nibbles and showing “something cool.”
Zoic showcased some of their Mobile Virtual Production apps, streamlined integration with Shotgun, and pipeline related tools and techniques that they have built to meet the aggressive demands of production. Their priority on research and constant creative growth has led Zoic to distinguish themselves as one of the leaders in technology and visual effects.
Members and non-members alike came out, had a drink, met the new LA Section Managers, mingled with friends and saw something COOL!
Event photos are courtesy of Section member and volunteer, Kathryn Brillhart.
VES Los Angeles section members get half off admission at Digital LA – Virtual Realty for Movies, Games and Other Worlds.
The event features two panels including VR Filmmaking with experts from Fox Studios and others discussing VR and film storytelling, and a panel on VR developers showcasing new technologies and platforms. If you’ve never tried Oculus / VR, you can put on headgear goggles yourself in the Demo Arcade with several VR companies showcasing their projects.
VES Los Angeles section members get half off admission at Digital LA – Virtual Realty for Movies, Games and Other Worlds.
The event features two panels including VR Filmmaking with experts from Fox Studios and others discussing VR and film storytelling, and a panel on VR developers showcasing new technologies and platforms. If you’ve never tried Oculus / VR, you can put on headgear goggles yourself in the Demo Arcade with several VR companies showcasing their projects.
VES Members are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild’s Education Expedition Weekend
Click here to RSVP
Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, 2015 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Registration begins at 9:00AM, and refreshments will be provided.
ADG Headquarters Office
(Free parking in the ADG lot or street parking.)
11969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Join the ADG for two days of free exhibits and presentations on the latest and greatest tools, technology and processes for production. This intimate weekend will feature talks and demonstrations geared to give you up-to-date information on subjects which will include drones, 3D scanning, multi-monitor displays, 3D printers, stereo viewers, alternative input devices and education sources.
VES Members are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild’s Education Expedition Weekend
Click here to RSVP
Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, 2015 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Registration begins at 9:00AM, and refreshments will be provided.
ADG Headquarters Office
(Free parking in the ADG lot or street parking.)
11969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Join the ADG for two days of free exhibits and presentations on the latest and greatest tools, technology and processes for production. This intimate weekend will feature talks and demonstrations geared to give you up-to-date information on subjects which will include drones, 3D scanning, multi-monitor displays, 3D printers, stereo viewers, alternative input devices and education sources.
VES Members are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild’s Education Expedition Weekend
Click here to RSVP
Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, 2015 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Registration begins at 9:00AM, and refreshments will be provided.
ADG Headquarters Office
(Free parking in the ADG lot or street parking.)
11969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Join the ADG for two days of free exhibits and presentations on the latest and greatest tools, technology and processes for production. This intimate weekend will feature talks and demonstrations geared to give you up-to-date information on subjects which will include drones, 3D scanning, multi-monitor displays, 3D printers, stereo viewers, alternative input devices and education sources.
VES Members are Invited to Attend the Art Directors Guild’s Education Expedition Weekend
Click here to RSVP
Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, 2015 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Registration begins at 9:00AM, and refreshments will be provided.
ADG Headquarters Office
(Free parking in the ADG lot or street parking.)
11969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 Click here for a map.
Join the ADG for two days of free exhibits and presentations on the latest and greatest tools, technology and processes for production. This intimate weekend will feature talks and demonstrations geared to give you up-to-date information on subjects which will include drones, 3D scanning, multi-monitor displays, 3D printers, stereo viewers, alternative input devices and education sources.
VES Members and a guest are invited to the ninth meeting of the Virtual Production Committee featuring a case study of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”.
Directed by Matt Reeves, the epic sequel to “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” features an expanded cast of characters that were realized through the latest developments in virtual production. For the occasion the committee welcomes VES member, Dan Lemmon, who was Visual Effects Supervisor on the movie. Dan will guide us through the case study and explain, amongst other topics, how performance capture was “liberated” from the constraints of indoor sound stages and brought outside. For a preview, please read this article.
RSVP to johnscheeleRSVP@gmail.com if you intend to attend. We need to provide the list of attendees to Fox Studios Lot security. John will send parking instructions and directions.
VES Members and a guest are invited to the ninth meeting of the Virtual Production Committee featuring a case study of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”.
Directed by Matt Reeves, the epic sequel to “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” features an expanded cast of characters that were realized through the latest developments in virtual production. For the occasion the committee welcomes VES member, Dan Lemmon, who was Visual Effects Supervisor on the movie. Dan will guide us through the case study and explain, amongst other topics, how performance capture was “liberated” from the constraints of indoor sound stages and brought outside. For a preview, please read this article.
RSVP to johnscheeleRSVP@gmail.com if you intend to attend. We need to provide the list of attendees to Fox Studios Lot security. John will send parking instructions and directions.
VES Members Receive 30% Discount for to 3D Printer World Expo
3D Printer World Expo brings the entire 3D printing ecosystem under one roof to showcase commercial, professional and desktop 3D printers, software solutions, service bureau offerings, imaging technology and various materials used in 3D printing. Attendees are also treated to “wow factor” displays of printed objects including architectural feats, medical marvels, jewelry, fine art, creature art and much, much more. Top-notch seminars will include 3D Printing Boot Camp as well as looking at various markets and applications.
Click here to purchase tickets
(Enter promo code 3DP44 to receive discount) Thursday, Friday & Saturday, January 29, 30 & 31, 2015
Marriott Convention Center
2500 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505 Click here for a map.
VES Members Receive 30% Discount for to 3D Printer World Expo
3D Printer World Expo brings the entire 3D printing ecosystem under one roof to showcase commercial, professional and desktop 3D printers, software solutions, service bureau offerings, imaging technology and various materials used in 3D printing. Attendees are also treated to “wow factor” displays of printed objects including architectural feats, medical marvels, jewelry, fine art, creature art and much, much more. Top-notch seminars will include 3D Printing Boot Camp as well as looking at various markets and applications.
Click here to purchase tickets
(Enter promo code 3DP44 to receive discount) Thursday, Friday & Saturday, January 29, 30 & 31, 2015
Marriott Convention Center
2500 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505 Click here for a map.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend a 3D Screening of DreamWorks Animation Studios’ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 followed by a Q&A with Kit Harington, America Ferrera and Bonnie Arnold.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and a Guest are Invited to Attend a 3D Screening of DreamWorks Animation Studios’ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 followed by a Q&A with Kit Harington, America Ferrera and Bonnie Arnold.
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members and Their Families are Invited to Attend 3D Screenings of Focus Features’ and LAIKA’s CORALINE, PARANORMAN and THE BOXTROLLS followed by a Q&A with THE BOXTROLLS filmmakers and special guests.
VES Members And Their Families Are Invited To A 3D Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION followed be a conversation with the Sound Team.
Panelists will include Supervising Sound Editor/Designers Ethan van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, Sound Mixer Peter J. Devlin, CAS, and Re-Recording Mixers Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and Jeffrey J. Haboush.
Click here to RSVP
Friday, December 19, 2014 at 7:00PM
Paramount Theater on the Paramount Pictures lot
5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Please enter through the Melrose gate and park as directed.) Click here for a map
Due to studio security, all guest names must be entered in order to get onto the lot. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Paramount Pictures and WME Invite VES Members and a Guest to join Casey Affleck for a Special IMAX Screening Of INTERSTELLAR followed by a reception.
Click here to RSVP Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 7:00PM
IMAX Headquarters
3003 Exposition Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404
(Complimentary parking is available on-site.) Click here for a map
Directed by
Christopher Nolan
Written by
Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Starring
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo and Michael Caine
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
Paramount Pictures and CAA Invite VES Members and a Guest to join Anne Hathaway for a Special Screening Of INTERSTELLAR followed by a reception.
Click here to RSVP Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 7:00PM
Ray Kurtzman Theater at CAA
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA, 90067
(Complementary valet parking provided.) Click here for a map
Directed by
Christopher Nolan
Written by
Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Starring
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo and Michael Caine
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Los Angeles Section Interim Chair Bill Taylor, VES, ASC and the VES office invited L.A. Section members to attend the first meeting of the newly formed VES Los Angeles Section. Those in physical and virtual attendance elected the eleven (11) member Board of Managers.
Monday, December 8, 2014 at 7:00PM (PST) (Refreshments at 6:30PM)
(RSVPs are required for in-person attendees only.)
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
The VES Los Angeles Section Board of Managers are as follow:
Rob Engle – Chair Toni Pace Carstensen – Secretary/Treasurer
Mat Beck, ASC John Decker Richard Edlund, VES, ASC Pam Hogarth Ruth Irvine-Hauer Van Ling Barry Sandrew Lopsie Schwartz Susan Zwerman
VES Members And Their Families Are Invited To A 3D Pre-Release Screening Of 20th Century Fox’s EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
RSVPs are closed Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 11:00AM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Friday, December 5)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
VES Members And Their Families Are Invited To A Pre-Release Screening Of 20th Century Fox’s NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
RSVPs are closed for this event *Be sure to list the full names of each of your guests for studio security. Monday, December 1, 2014 at 7:00PM
(RSVPs will close at 12:00PM on Monday, December 1)
Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox Studio lot
10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064-2606 Click here for a map
Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee seating.
The VES Vision Committee and the PGA present Storytelling In Virtual Reality
RSVPs are closed for this event Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 2:00PM
1:00PM to 2:00PM – Registration
2:00PM to 3:30PM – Theater Presentations
3:30PM to 5:00PM – VR Demos outside the theater with refreshments
Ray Harryhausen Theater at Sony Pictures Imageworks
9050 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 Click here for a map.
Free for VES and PGA, Members – No guests allowed— Limited seating!
You will need to show your membership card at the door for free admission.
Moderator: Andrew Wallenstein, Editor in Chief, VARIETY
Principal Speakers:
James Milward, Executive Producer, The Secret Location will guide the audience through the process of creating the virtual reality projects, SLEEPY HOLLOW developed for Fox Studio and BALL UP (developed for the Street Basketball Association).
Cory Strassburger, Director and Co-Founder of the creative development studio Kite and Lightning, will take the audience on a tour through the virtual world of SENZA PESO, a VR mini-opera 5 years in the making.
David Sanger, Head of Production for New Deal Studios and Producer of the VR shorts, THE MISSION, BLACK MASS, and THE KAIJU FURY will present the challenges and workflow used to create live action virtual reality action adventures.
Dale Carman, Executive Creative Director, Reel FX, will lead us through the experience of creating the VR experiences for PACIFIC RIM (Jaeger Pilot VR) and THE BOOK OF LIFE.
VES Members And A Guest Are Invited To An IMAX Screening Of Paramount Pictures’ INTERSTELLAR followed by a Q&A with with Director Christopher Nolan, Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, Production Designer Nathan Crowley, Set Decorator Gary Fettis, Editor Lee Smith, Costume Designer Mary Zophres, Composer Hans Zimmer, Sound Mixer Mark Weingarten, Re-recording Mixers Gary Rizzo and Gregg Landaker, Sound Designer Richard King, Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Franklin and Special Effects Supervisor Scott Fisher.
Click here to RSVP
Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 1:00PM
TLC Chinese Theatre IMAX
6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028 Click here for a map.
(Complimentary parking located in the Hollywood/Highland parking structure. Enter off Highland. Keep your parking ticket and have it validated at check in.)
Rated PG-13
Running time: 169 minutes
Paid for by Paramount Pictures
This invitation is non-transferable. RSVPs do not guarantee seating. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. No cameras allowed during the screening and Q&A.
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