SIGGRAPH Talk: The Explosive World of "Ice Age: Collision Course"

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SIGGRAPH Talk: The Explosive World of "Ice Age: Collision Course"

February 8, 2017
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
New York, NY

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and New York Institute of Technology present a SIGGRAPH Talk by Blue Sky Studios:

A Cosmic Scratastrophe
The Explosive World of Ice Age: Collision Course

From giant volcanoes to a sky full of falling meteors, the Blue Sky team faced many effects challenges in completing their latest movie, Ice Age: Collision Course. Overcoming those challenges required developing new tools and techniques to maximize efficiency in simulation, processing, and render times, without sacrificing final image quality.

Speakers

  • David Quirus (Effects Supervisor)
  • Matthew Roach (Senior Effects TD)
  • Gregory Ecker (Effects TD)
  • Ravindra Dwivedi (Effects TD)
  • Ilan Gabai (Senior Effects TD)

Admission is free and open to all NYIT community members.

Blue Sky Studios is the Academy Award-winning animation studio behind such films as Ice Age, Ice Age—The Meltdown, Ice Age—Collision Course, Robots, Rio, and The Peanuts Movie. For more information about Blue Sky Studios, and a full filmography, please visit blueskystudios.com.

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