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ConferencesThe Festival’s warm reception and the ever-growing number of visitors each year has captured the attention of important Spanish production companies wishing to take part in Animacor’08 in order to show their latest productions in a didactic and enjoyable way, with access for all audiences. This activity is designed so all those interested in the world of audiovisual creation might learn more about the origins of each project, the creative process, the characteristics of the design used or the technology used on the production of one specific film. The artists themselves will be the ones who explain the development phases they work through before reaching the final product, all ready for commercialization and distribution. VENUE: CENTRO CULTURAL CAJASUR (SALÓN DE ACTOS). | Monday 3rd, 10am | 3D in Animation | ESTUDIO KOTOC |
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| Wednesday 5th, 10am | Creativity in animation |
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The Barcelona based studio Kotoc was founded in 2005 by Freddy and David. Its strong team does the entire development process of production, from the creative beginnings through to the final creation. Its work has been seen by more than fifteen million Spaniards on television through the Cuatrobots pieces for the UEFA Euro‘08 campaign on TV channel Cuatro. In 2003 it produced the short film La Habitación Inclinada, nominated for the Spanish Film Academy’s Goya Award, and it has been awarded at the Sitges Festival, among others. While they work on image projects for TV channels and corporations, promotions, music videos, advertising and short films, they are also preparing their new project: the comic series Los Extras. Directed by Freddy Córdoba Schwaneberg with an original screenplay by Óscar Dalmau and Óscar Andreu, Los Extras might become a landmark series because of its innovative nature, which combines 3D with illustration and collage. Animacor ‘08 is hosting this company for its two conferences to explain to the public two different creative processes in animation production. 3D in Animation Freddy Córdoba, director of Kotoc, and David Diéguez, executive producer, will show the public the creative process from the point of view of 3D animation directing. They will explain the work process in successive phases of modeling, animation, lighting, rendering, pipeline, etc. Creativity in animation The second conference will present the public with the work process in animation from the artistic directing point of view. Rubén Córdoba, art director and director of the company Freddy Córdoba, will give a detailed explanation of the phases of this line of work through sketches, illustrations and storyboards, etc. |
| Tuesday 4th, 10am | From paper to screen:
the search for an
original style | FORMA ANIMADA |
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The audiovisual production company Forma Animada will offer this conference led by Juanma Suárez, director of Pizzel 3D Studios, and Enrique F. Guzmán, executive producer of Forma Animada. Both speakers will describe the creative process for a 3D production, with special attention on the search for a style and how to go from 2D to 3D. They will illustrate their explanations using one of the company’s main projects: the full-length film KiaN, a futuristic, science fiction drama for teenage and adult audiences, a film that also has support from the Ministry of Culture of the Andalusian Regional Government. Forma Animada SLL is an audiovisual production company located in Sevilla that has been operating for more than fourteen years. Since its beginnings, this production company has made a commitment to animation and computer generated images. It has recently completed the first Andalusian full-length film in 3D animation: Misión en Mocland: Una Aventura Superespacial, which is to be released nationally this coming November 7th and will participate in the Official Competitive Section of Animacor ‘08. It has also produced the series Andaluna y Samir, Mocland and Miscelánea. Along with the full-length film KiaN, it is also preparing an enjoyable series in co-production with France, Evita Percances / Abby Careful. |
| Thursday 6th, 10am | Production of
"The Missing Lynx" | KANDOR GRAPHICS |
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Kandor Graphics is a truly Andalusian company that after sixteen years of experience has managed to gain fully international recognition, even more now that it has joined Antonio Banderas’ production company Green Moon to produce full-length animation films. The union has taken effect with the full-length film The Missing Lynx, which will be released this Christmas in 35 countries. The conference will give an overview of the technical and artistic aspects of the production process on The Missing Lynx and will show us how to optimize processes to get the best results with limited budgets. Kandor Graphics does audiovisual production with computer graphics in many different formats, such as feature films, short films, scientific simulations, advertising, virtual stage design, documentaries, digital effects for film, programs for planetariums, material for exhibitions, etc. In this line, it has worked for such important clients as NASA, the FBI, Filmax and BRB Internacional, among others. It qualified for the 2007 Cartoon Movie Forum as “one of the companies with the greatest growth and internationalization potential in European Animation” though it now has a partner company in the United States: R&R Communications. Its particular work method and technology applied to the creative and artistic process have been featured in several articles in publications such as the magazine Muy Interesante, the press and television channels such as Arte (France and Germany). |
| Friday 7th, 10am | Models for co-production and development of animation projects | CROMOSOMA |
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The Cromosoma company visits Animacor‘08 on its twentieth anniversary. Twenty years of work, the products of which (such as the famous series Las Tres Mellizas have earned well-deserved recognition from professionals and the public. In its experience, Cromosoma has worked with the most important public European channels and is currently combining its animation projects with the development of other formats, such as documentaries and multi-platform and non-conventional projects, the latter through the label Digital 360º. The conference will be given by Toni Marín Vila, director of development at Cromosoma and Digital 360º, and project manager and talent hunter for the Digitalent Foundation. Under his guidance, we will learn about both companies and the different projects they develop. The main portion of this conference also provides an exhibition of the models for coproduction structured around three of the company’s cases. The first of these, foreign co-production, will be illustrated using the series Tom, an animation co-production with the UER. The second case is that of national co-production, exemplified with the children’s series Asha, a project made in co-production with TVE, TVC, Pontas and the Jaume Bofill Foundation. Lastly, and by way of the series project Lila, we will learn about the development process for animation projects. As a conclusion, Toni Marín will tell us about new projects, formats and targets for the company through the IHP cases: Infinite horrors planet, Aztrónimo and Vegetal & Qual. |
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