COLLADA Aug Mar 8
Tool Chain BOF: Effective content creation pipeline
What's this session about?
This in-depth session gives attendees an education on the very latest COLLADA tools available and most importantly, how to get the most from them. The objective of this session is to provide attendees with the skills needed to use and integrate COLLADA in a production pipeline.
Who should attend this session?
This session is intended for digital artists, and tools developers for video games and motion picture digital effects who are looking to expand their toolsets and creative opportunities using COLLADA.
What will you learn?
The audience will learn about COLLADA features, such as shaders and effects, character animation, and physics, as supported by leading commercial and open source tools. List en engage with industry speakers as they present and demonstrate COLLADA tools and production pipelines.
What topics will be covered
Topics will cover a range of tools that work together using COLLADA intermediate format to create content production pipelines for advanced 3D content for movies and video games.
What demos will be shown
See demonstrations of FX Composer 2.0, C4 Engine, 3DS Max, Maya, AgentFX, Poser, XSI, Anark Studio, COLLADA RT and Photoshop CS3.
COLLADA activity overview
We are happy to confirm that COLLADA has the following time allowed for public presentations:
| Conf. Room #2 | Wed Aug 8 |
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|---|---|---|
| COLLADA BOF | 2:00pm | 3:45pm |
We are happy to report that due to popular demand, the COLLADA sessions are in a much larger room this year!
As always, BOFS are free to everyone, but we like to collect registrations in advance when we can. If you would like to register to attend the BOF, or if you could please send this URL around to your associates that may also want to come, that would be great.
KHRONOS BOOTH #227
The COLLADA Work Group will have a demo station on the booth - come check us out.
Speakers and Demoers
| Company | Contact Person | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Terathon | Eric Lengyel | maybe presentation, demo |
| Feeling Software | Christian Laforte | presentation, demo, announcements |
| NVIDIA | Philippe Rollin | presentation, demo |
| E Frontier | Ulrich Klumpp | presnetation, demo |
| Agency9 | Khashayar Farmanbar | presentation, demo |
| SoftImage | Alexandre Jean-Claude | presentation, demo |
| Adobe | Pete Falco | presentation, demo |
| Anark | Stephen Jones | presentation, demo |
| Sony Computer Entertainment | Herbert Law | presentation, demo |