It’s my pleasure to announce the first ever VFX Boot Camp. The Boot Camp will be a full day of sessions hosted at GDC 2017 on Tuesday February 28. Other disciplines like Technical Art and Animation have had boot camps for years, and it’s high time our smoldering corner of the development world gets one too.
The main goals of the boot camp are to nurture our growing community, share awesome tips & tricks, and have some fun face to face. In addition, we need fresh talent coming into this field, so if you’re reading this and considering pursuing a career in VFX we’d love for you to come and check it out.
It will be a melting pot of VFX ideas and inspiration.
Confirmed Speakers
Jason Keyser (Riot)
Hadidjah Chamberlin (Blizzard)
Christina Wun (Riot)
Andreas Glad (Partikel)
Keith Guerrette (Beyond-FX)
Drew Skillman (Google)
Topics (more to come!)
VFX & The Rise of Real Time
Getting Scrappy With It: A guide to turning your dysfunctional VFX group into an industry powerhouse
Like a mace to the face - Leaving the Battlefield to go it alone
Artistic Foundations of Handcrafted VFX
Rapid Fire Lightning Talks
Remember to look into travel/accomodations soon. San Francisco gets booked up fast these days. The GDC site has some tips on that.
Post here or reach out to one of the co-organizers (@Keith, @Keyserito, @Christina, @Drew ) if you have other questions or comments. Look forward to seeing you there - more details to come.
Awesome to see vfx get their own bootcamp, one question though!
Will any of this bootcamp be available in the gdc vault or elsewhere to view after the event?
In the past other boot camps have ended up in the vaults, but I don’t believe they are all recorded. So I think you can expect slides but not necessarily videos. We’ll be encouraging our speakers to share their presentations directly on this site as well.
I went three years in a row when I was in school, and as soon as I stopped going there was a ton of VFX related stuff that happened last year and now this year I’m going to have a nice long chat with my wallet as well
This is great to see! I may miss it as that’s the day I arrive, so hopefully it’s available for reading later. This will be my first time at GDC, excited to meet some more Fx artists, we get lonely up here in Canada.
Hey all! Just pinging this thread because one thing we could use help with is getting the word out about this boot camp to the broader Film VFX industry. I don’t have a lot of contacts in that area, but I think for Film VFX folks who are curious to learn more about realtime, this is going to be an awesome opportunity to dive in, make connections, and leave with a variety of useful tips & tricks.
In addition, it would just be great to have them more involved.
If anyone has connections and can help spread the word, please do! Thx!
Maybe I can do some side work and save up for a better pass option