MOVE + Conference

Each day of the conference will feature focused presentations on particular practices within the motion design field: film and television titles, advertising, gaming, character creation, and animated film effects.

Friday’s sessions lead into the Opening Night Reception featuring generous cocktails, light snacks, and major moving images. VJ: Mumbleboy.

DAY ONE: Friday 29 April 2005

Check-in and on-site registration
11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Skirball Center, upper lobby

Auditorium Opens
12:30 p.m.

Session A
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Skirball Center, auditorium

Opening Remarks
Peter Hall, moderator
When graphics move on buildings, in museums, on big screens and little screens, across distances and disciplines, what problems and opportunities emerge? And what can we learn from the past?

Discover The Recipes You Are Using And Abandon Them
Keira Alexandra, Sundance Channel
In 1975 Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt created a desk of cards called Oblique Strategies when they found they both needed to jog their minds during stressful work situations. Keira Alexandra will use the cards, “to frame and explain the thinking generated, the choices made and the final outcomes of story and design structures.”

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From Pen to Projector
Keith Stichweh, Pixar
Story is the vital ingredient in making a successful animated movie. But the Pixar definition of “story” isn’t limited to ink on paper. Keith Stichweh will provide a behind-the-scenes journey from the initial concept to the final film seen in the cinema.

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed (excerpt)
The oldest existing (and possibly first) full-length animated film was the creation of female director Lotte Reiniger (b. Germany, 1899). She cut figures out of black cardboard with a pair of scissors, then joined movable parts with thread to animate them.

Siesta
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Session B
4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Adobe Presents
Adobe creative tools are the cornerstone of professional production environments. See how two award-winning studios use Adobe After Effects to produce truly innovative work.

Brand New School is a bi-coastal studio of designers, film makers, illustrators and photographers working in all fields of commercial art from type design to music video.

Plus et Plus is a creative services agency that runs the gamut of inspiration and innovation with a mission to energize and motivate audiences through cutting edge visual design.

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New Euro Eye Candy
The desktop animation revolution started in North America but today’s most heated rebellion is on the right side of the Atlantic. This interstitial segment highlights recent motion design projects from young studios in the UK, Scandinavia, France, Germany and the Netherlands who are bravely pummeling pixels into brand new shapes.

Filmmaking With Machinima
Paul Marino and Katie Salen
Machinima (machine cinema) is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre which offers the potential of rendering computer-generated imagery (CGI) using low-end 3D engines in video games. It is a convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development where the established ideas of motion graphics are being questioned.

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Electronic Gaming
The gaming industry continues to trample Hollywood in gross sales per year and part of the reason is the superlative production values and narrative scope of the support materials that introduce or promote games. We’ll screen three cinematics, and one promotional animation, which are all noteworthy for their mastery of the tools of animated filmmaking and storytelling.

Get Lucky With Friends With You
Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval, Friends With You
Sam and Arturo both have a grand mixture of fine art and design backgrounds. They combined forces in 2002 and have been spreading their art around the globe ever since. In their performance/presentation they have one concept in mind—to become Friends With You.

Opening Night Reception
9:00 p.m. to Midnight
Styled by Bumble and bumble
After the Friday presentations are completed, MOVE continues at the Opening Night Reception, styled (and hosted) by Bumble and bumble. Head west across the Village to the Bumble headquarters for generous cocktails, light snacks and major moving images. VJ Mumbleboy will fill the screen with the whimsical animations that have developed him something of a cult following.

DAY TWO: Saturday 30 April 2005

Check-in and on-site registration
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Skirball Center, upper lobby

Session C
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Skirball Center, auditorium

Apple Computer Presents: Motion and Shake Showcase
Dion Scoppettuolo + Joe Bierne
Apple provides the ideal platform for capturing, editing, compositing and outputting video. Shake artists have taken home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for the past seven years; it offers resolution-independent digital effects compositing. Apple’s Motion lets you explore new creative territory using self-propelled behavior and title animation and integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro 3.

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Animated Viral Films

Motion Graphics Showcase
MK12 is an artist collective and design lab founded by art school fugitives. Their output includes broadcast and commercial design work for international clients and brands.

PES is a self-taught animator and director who hails from New Jersey; he made his first foray into short films in 2002. Always experimenting with new techniques, both live action and animation, he has created a number of memorable short films such as “Roof Sex,” featuring two chairs in compromising positions.

Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Session D
3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Artist, Composer, Performer, Engineer
Golan Levin
Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. He will present excerpts from installation/performances and discuss the creative twists he applies to digital technologies that highlight the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity.

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The Films Of Oskar Fischinger
German artist Oskar Fischinger made more than 50 short experimental films using abstract patterns and shapes choreographed to music, which pre-date computer graphics and music videos by several decades.

Is It An Ad?
Geordie Stephens, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
The integrated campaigns from this agency have changed the way many think of the ad game. Geordie Stephens will give an overview of the current work that moves him; describe the creative process at his agency and explain why he believes non-conventional ideas in advertising and design will be at the forefront of communication in the future.

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In the Digital Kitchen
Paul Matthaeus, Digital Kitchen
This creative powerhouse was founded in 1995 as the digital studio for an independent advertising agency in Seattle. Their output includes title sequences for “Six Feet Under,” and “Nip Tuck.” Paul Matthaeus has been a guest speaker for the national Broadcast Design Association, the American Advertising Federation and the Graphic Artist Guild.

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Conference Wrap-Up