Imagination College Workshops
These small-group, hands-on, intensive workshops run 10am to 5pm. Each student gets a fully-loaded Macintosh computer, or may use your own laptop. Workshop Instructors lead students in case studies and tutorials which clearly demonstrate tricks of the trade. Workshops location will be announced soon.
Workshop take place at Bay Area Video Coalition, 2727 Mariposa St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Friday 30 July Workshop
Mastering Motion's Camera :: 10am - 5pm
Facilitated by Mark Spencer
Come learn how to take control of Motion's camera to create dynamic, engaging 3D motion graphics.
Motion's 3D implementation is a natural extension of the Motion interface and makes working in 3D surprisingly intuitive - but there tricks to getting just the results you want. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to harness the power of Motion's 3D space and cameras, including:
• Setting up 3D scenes for camera animation
• Understanding the difference between viewpoint and framing cameras
• Positioning cameras in 3D space
• Cutting between cameras
• Working with angle of view and depth of field
• Animating cameras with behaviors and keyframes
Mark Spencer is a freelance producer, editor, teacher and writer based in the Bay Area. His company Day Street Productions is a production and post studio focused on corporate and industrial video. He is an Apple-certified Master Trainer for Final Cut Pro and Motion, teaching for organizations such as NAB, BAVC, Stanford University, DVExpo, MacWorld, and consulting for corporations and individuals. He is the author or co-author of 5 books on Motion including the Apple Pro Training Series book Motion 4 from Peachpit Press, and has written for print and online publications including DV Magazine, EditWell, ProVideo Coalition and kenstone.net. He maintains www.applemotion.net, a resource for Motion. Mark has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Saturday 31 July Workshop
Cinema 4D with Mograph :: 10am - 5pm
Facilitated by Darrin Frankovitz, Maxon Lead Trainer
This workshop will cover 3D Fundamentals using CINEMA 4D R11.5, including Navigating in 3D Space, Lights and Cameras, Textures and Materials, Multi-pass Rendering, Keyframe Animation, Using the Timeline, After Effects integration and more.
As Lead Trainer of the Cineversity 1on1 Training program Darrin Frankovitz has trained groups of designers from Apple Inc. to artists at National Geographic Magazine, CNN, FOX, and individual freelancers across North America.
Darrin may be contacted via email: darrin (at) maxon (dot) net.
http://www.cineversity.com
Sunday 1 August Workshop
Creative Motion Design with After Effects and Photoshop :: 10am - 5pm
Facilitated by Mason Dixon, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
This workshop provides a 1 day crash course in the fundamentals of After Effects. It is designed to bring anyone up to speed on keyframes animation, visual effects, compositing, time bending, basic 3D and character animation with Adobe After Effects.
A dropout from University of Texas's Advanced Communications Theory Laboratory, Jameson Wallace, then Sfear Bebopanaut, went to work for a small internet start-up, iChat, designing the first version of Yahoo's chat community. After iChat's IPO, Sfear organized a team of hackers to detect vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems before the 2000 presidential election. After 9/11, Sfear changed his name to Mason Dixon and moved to Chicago, where he now resides as an instructor of Motion Graphics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His public sculptures and video performances have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, SIGGRAPH, South By Southwest, Lollapalooza, Boston Center for the Arts, Cambridge University UK, US Botanical Gardens in DC and the Burning Man freedom festival. He has produced over 70 exhibitions in 10 US cities and has shown with artists such Mia Liu, Carl Cox, Shepard Fairey, String Cheese Incident, American Analog Set and DJ Spooky.
Friday 30 July Screenings
Saturday 31 July Showcase
Sunday 1 July Showcase