The speakers for this years 10th Anniversary Stupid RenderMan Tricks at the Pixar User Group and it is an impressive lineup:

• Steve Agland — Animal Logic
• Ted Burge — Industrial Light & Magic
• Laurent Charbonnel
• Bernard Edlington — Nexus International LLC, and Yosuke Katsura — OLM Digital Inc.
• Daniel Maskit, Hanzhi Tang, Lauralea Otis, and Shoichi Matsubara — Digital Domain
• Rob Pieké
• Dan Piponi — Industrial Light & Magic
• Ian Stephenson — Bournemouth University/NCCA

There are also a lot of updates on Meteor Studios employees seeking their unpaid wages. The main point of information is this thread on cgtalk. There are articles in The Montreal Gazette, Playback Online, and CBC Radio. Brendan Fraser – who starred in Meteor’s last project Journey To the Center of the Earth – has put his support behind the artists.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 10:39 pm and is filed under news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.