FMX - Film & Media Exchange

🎇 For four days, FMX - Film & Media Exchange delivered on its theme and provided a space for CONNECTING IDEAS with 270 speakers, more than 3600 participants, spectacular presentations, intense Workshops and vibrant networking. 💡 “It’s been such a strong FMX: Connecting Ideas,“ says Conference Jan Pinkava, „The top studios, companies and talents have converged on Stuttgart to share the latest in film production, technology, and new insights. And everyone can’t wait to be back next year.“ 🫶 We would like to thank all our speakers, moderators, curators, partners, attendees and everyone else involved in making this edition of FMX a huge success! See you in 2025! 💃 📌 SAVE THE DATE: The 29th edition of FMX will take place May 06 to 09 2025. #FMX2024 #vfx #animation #stuttgart

📣 Creating Napoleon‘s armies for Ridley Scott: Q&A time with VFX supervisor Charley Henley 🎬 VFX supervisor Charley Henley has been working on „Harry Potter”, “X-Men”, Disney’s “Cinderella” – and several movies by famed director Ridley Scott, among them two “Alien” sequels and “Gladiator”. Their latest collaboration: “Napoleon”, where the magnitude of the battles has reached epic proportions. 🔐 At FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024, Charley unveiled, how they did it. In our Q&A, he talks about staging huge crowd scenes and Ridley Scott’s particular artistic approach. #FMX2024 #vfx #filmmaking

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📌 How to set up a forced perspective shoot: FMX Masterclass with Todd Sheridan Perry 🎞️ Todd Sheridan Perry works in the film industry as a freelance visual effects supervisor/artist as well as a screenwriter, editor and director. He played key roles in projects ranging from “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”, “Chronicles of Riddick”, and “2012” to Marvel productions like “Doctor Strange” and “Black Panther”. 💡 At FMX - Film & Media Exchange he went into detail about the “old-school” effects filmmaking in the Amazon series “I’m A Virgo” by director Boots Riley, including in-camera effects with forced perspective shooting, large and small puppets, miniatures, practical effects and many specialized scale set-ups. “I’m a Virgo” was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award for Best Practical FX. 🎯 The next day, Todd delivered a masterclass on how to set up a forced perspective shoot, right there at FMX as a hands-on demo for attendees. He was joined on stage by VFX journalist Ian Failes, the curator of the FMX track “Then & Now”. 🫶 And that's what we're sharing today. Enjoy! #FMX2024 #masterclass #vfx

💡 Why should animators know a thing or two about acting? Q&A time with Ed Hooks! 🌟 Ed Hooks pioneered acting training for animators instead of stage actors, his book "Acting for Animators" is a standard reference work. He has taught his Acting for Animators masterclass for most major animation studios and game companies – and at FMX - Film & Media Exchange for the past sixteen years. 📌 In our Q&A, Ed talks about the „seismic shift“ in the entertainment industry caused by A.I., storytelling and why animators should acquire some principal knowledge about acting. #FMX2024 #animation #masterclass #actingforanimators

📌 Why collaboration is better: the Change through Mentorship panel at FMX 2024 🔌 Building strong connections in the creative industries, improving professional networks for support, striving for equal opportunities and participation: Three successful women discussed these important topics at FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024 in a panel titled "Being the Change Through Mentorship". Imke Fehrmann, Curator of the Managing Change track at FMX, invited Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt and Julie Ann Crommett on stage. 🥉 All three are members of WIA (Women in Animation). Imke is the Global Head of Production at RISE | Visual Effects Studios and has been producing animation and visual effects for almost 30 years. She has managed and produced innovative projects all around the world, building and leading creative teams.   Julie Ann has been working in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) space for over fourteen years at companies like Google and The Walt Disney Company. As founder and CEO of Collective Moxie, she works with organizations large and small on revolutionizing their DEI strategies.   Nosipho is the founder and CEO of the production company Chocolate Tribe as well as the founder of the FMX partner event AVIJOZI, an animation, VFX and interactive gathering taking place in Johannesburg on September 14 and 15. #FMX2024 #mentorship #animation #vfx

About last week at ACM SIGGRAPH...

📌 Why do film studios pretend not to use CGI? Q&A Time with Jonas Ussing! 💥 With over a million views for his video expose series „‘NO CGI‘ is really just INVISIBLE CGI“, Danish VFX producer Jonas Ussing has highlighted a practice of minimizing the pivotal contributions of visual effects artistry. At FMX 2024 he released the fourth and final video of this compelling series. 💡 Jonas was on a panel with Nancy Ward and Kim Davidson from the Visual Effects Society (VES), discussing the root causes of today’s CGI backlash and the steps that the VFX industry can take to elevate visibility and respect for the craft and practitioners of visual effects. In our Q&A, he sums it all up in a nutshell.  #FMX2024 #cgi #vfx

Reminiscing about old memories? Yes, please! 🫶

🤖 Artificial Intelligence is the one topic affecting almost everyone. FMX - Film & Media Exchange is sharing a panel from this year’s conference: “AI is now at the Gates of VFX & Animation”. 💬 Andrew Cochrane, curator of this year’s Artificial Intelligence track at FMX, debated on stage at FMX with his speakers Elena Garces García, Ben Hansford and Bilawal Sidhu, joined by moderator Mike Seymour. They discussed the probable impact on the creative industries, the current oversupply of applications, the horror visions surrounding AI and the great opportunities it can hold for artists. 📌  Andy Cochrane is an immersive creator for interactive mediums such as virtual and augmented reality, installations, live events, large-scale domes. His extensive insight into both the creative and the technological aspects of modern content creation provides a unique blend of narrative focus, artistic savvy, and high-tech problem-solving. 📌 Elena Garcés García is a Director and Senior Research Scientist at SEDDI, where she leads the AI & Optics team. She has more than ten years of experience in computer graphics and vision, mainly focused on 3D digitization. 📌 Ben Hansford is Professor for Machine Learning & AI at University of Southern California (USC) - School of Cinematic Arts. He is also an award-winning Director with an unrequited love for storytelling, action-comedy, and Artificial Intelligence. 📌 Bilawal Sidhu is a creator, engineer, and product builder obsessed with blending reality and imagination using art and science. He has more than 1.4M+ followers garnering 360M+ views across YouTube and TikTok. 📌 Mike Seymour has a Ph.D in digital humans built on a B Sc. in Pure Maths from the University of Sydney where he also did his Masters. He has worked in R&D and in production, winning an AFI and being nominated for an Emmy. Want to gain more insights into the panel? Then follow the link below: ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eKw5pdCc #FMX2024 #ai #filmmaking