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Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH presents BLIZZARD CINEMATICS, with Jeff Chamberlain & Matt Samia, Wednesday, November 19 2008, 1:00 pm: Doors Open, 1:30 pm: Main Presentation,6:30 pm: Doors Open - Mixer, 7:30 pm: Main Presentation @ Vancouver International Film Centre, 1181 Seymour Street.
This is an evening with the Blizzard Entertainment cinematics team as they share some secrets from story and concepting to modelling, rigging, animation, simulation, lighting, FX and compositing.
Blizzard Entertainment produce computer-generated cinematics including "Diablo II" in 2000, showcasing the 'Wanderer', then won awards for their "Warcraft III" cinematics, before creating the epic opening piece for the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, "World of Warcraft"...