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Lucasfilm / Cal Arts / Cg Protege Character Design Class

Our students were very fortunate to be able to learn character design from John Mahoney and Esther Shin, both lecturers from CAL Arts, who were here courtesy of Lucasfilm Singapore, where they are visiting lecturers for the Jedi Master Program. The character design course was open to all our present and past students at no cost. This is an ongoing effort to continuously upgrade all our students with the skills required in the industry.





Talk by Double Negative Visual Effects Ltd., London

Chris Burn, Head of 2D and Vic Rodgers, HR Manager from Double Negative, shared with our students the details of the EDB / Double Negative STRAT program. They also gave an interesting overview of the visual effects work Double Negative has produced for movies like Harry Potter, Hellboy II and Dark Knight.





Talk by Double Negative Visual Effects Ltd., London 

Lead TD and Supervisors from Double Negative who were in town for SIGGRAPH Asia came to our school  to share with our students their production experience. Eugenie von Tunzleman described how Double Negative developed a new fluid simulation system for Hellboy II's pyrokinetic character Liz, resulting in fast, highly detailed fire simulations and renders, whilst Kath Roberts and Graham Jack outlined some of the pipeline tricks and tools used to enable Double Negative to render the horde of 3 metre tall clockwork golden robots in Hellboy II





Talk by Lucasfilm

Tad Leckman, Director of Training, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore was here to share with our students the requirements for entry into the Jedi Master Program. He also shared with our students the kind of skill sets the industry is looking for.





Talk by Marc Tan

Marc has been in the computer graphics industry for more than 10 years. He is currently the lead modeller of Real U and previously he was also the lead modeller from various leading CG companies in Singapore. We were very fortunate to be able to invite him to share with our students his experience in the Computer Games industry.





Talk by Ubisoft Singapore

Olivier de Rotalier, Managing Director of Ubisoft Singapore, was here to share with our students the job requirements of Ubisoft and the kind of talents the company will be looking for.





Talk by Julian Khor

Julian is currently the lead modeller at Ubisoft Singapore, and has also been a lead modeller at Zealot, Koei and EBrilliant. Over the years, he has been sent to both Tokyo and Paris for training. Julian was very kind to share with our students his personal experience of how he continued to develop his skills over his years in the industry. He also gave insight into what are the skills our students need to showcase when preparing their reels.