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Monday January 2nd, 2006
FEATURED ARTIST:
Yan Shvalb Using Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Motion and DVD Studio Pro, Yan was project director, designer and author of the DVD “The Ultimate Collection: Billie Holiday”. Yan will discuss his workflow and give some great tidbits on all these applications. Yan Shvalb developed his chops in the digital arts through commercial work, teaching and consulting. He studied art at Brooklyn College and took to it so readily he was teaching graduate-level courses in 3D animation, compositing and non-linear editing while still an undergrad. Through an internship at Sony he learned to do high-end 3D animation and compositing on Avid, Flame and SoftImage systems. Shvalb learned DVD authoring at Crush, one of the first such facilities in the country; there, he worked on titles for Criterion, pioneer of the now-standard “added features” on DVDs. Shvalb moved to Michigan to run a DVD authoring facility at General TV Network, then to Florida to serve as chief technical officer and CIO at Inflight Online, where he earned patents in air-to-ground communications technologies and “crazy stuff for in-flight entertainment.” In 2001 he returned to New York to start his own company, VizualFX. He currently offers custom training, contract video services, DVD authoring and consulting for workflow design and other production and post-production processes. Yan is also co-host of NYCMG.org, a non-profit motion graphics organization the holds monthly meetings at the Apple Store in Soho, New York City.
FEATURED ARTIST:
William Hartland William Hartland will be here to show Mr. Smoothy, an incredible use of After Effects and Stop Motion/puppet animation. He'll describe a little bit about the techniques he used to create Smoothy. Currently Willy lives in New York City, where he’s worked for such clients as Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Disney, MTV, and Nickelodeon amoung others. He’s worked on many animated series including “Beavis and Butthead,” “Daria,” and most recently “I Spy” for HBO Family. This past year, Willy worked with the late actor/director Christopher Reeve, creating storyboards on the animated feature "Yankee Irving," to be released by IDT Entertainment. His latest vision is “Mister Smoothy,” an amalgam of animation techniques and ideas that have accumulated from his many years of working in the medium.
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