Promised Land Art Festival

MiAlx · Jun 2016

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share that on September 27th - 30th, CD Projekt Red will be co-organizing an Art festival in the city of Łódź, Poland, with lots of super talented speakers, workshops and art exhibitions (some are still TBA).

You guys should check it out! I will be most probably there with a bunch of people from CDPR and it would be really awesome to meet some polycounters there and grab a few (or many) beers.

Here's the festival website.

Facebook page

Hope to see you there

beefaroni · Jun 2016

That's pretty awesome.

I'm not even close to Poland but it's good to see that CD Projekt Red is helping to foster a 3d community in a country with a smaller industry.

MiAlx · Jun 2016

Yeah, I think it's a cool thing too. Personally, I am very excited because awesome animators like Jeremy Collins will be holding lectures and it's a great opportunity to meet and learn from the best.

MiAlx · Jul 2016

Woo!
Eytan Zana, a concept artist from Naughty Dog and Leon Enriquez, 3D Modeller at Framestore will be speakers at the Festival!

Can't wait!

EpicBeardMan · Jul 2016

Just gonna sub here and confirm I will be there.

See ya there.

Cheers!

MiAlx · Sep 2016

@EpicBeardMan sorry I didn't get a notification for your post, but yeah dude, awesome! See you there.

Just wanted to share the schedule for the festival/conference, it'd be great to meet polycounters there

This is the schedule.

And the main website.

Biomag · Sep 2016

Damn, this sounds like a really great event. Would love to be there, but the timing is bad for me

MiAlx · Sep 2016

Of course, next time dude!

wasker · Sep 2016

I'll be there too! Tall, blonde swede with my hair in a knot or with a cap! See you there!

Jakub · Sep 2016

I'll be there

MiAlx · Sep 2016

Awesome! I will be looking for a bearded guy, a tall blond guy and a panda called Jakub then

Snefer · Sep 2016

I'll be there aswell, holding some kind of a presentation

Biomag · Sep 2016

...you keep kicking me in my ballz...

MiAlx · Sep 2016

@Snefer oh damn, that's great! I won't miss it. Go kick some ass.

EpicBeardMan · Sep 2016

Are there any level design presentations at the festival?

MiAlx · Sep 2016

I am not sure to be honest. If I remember right there might be one, but most of the presentations are character oriented.

EpicBeardMan · Sep 2016

I keep seeing the pattern with these kinds of events where there are tons of 3D character presentations, whereas there are close to NONE for 3D environments and/or level design.
For example, this years IFCC in Croatia had 0 level design presentations.
Pretty frustrating.

MiAlx · Sep 2016

That's true, I can't remember seeing a conference with many presentations about environment art or design. Last time I went to GDC (that was in 2009 i think), I remember only two, one about mirror's edge level design and I think crytek had something about their environments.

Tell you what, when I get the chance to talk to the people at cdpr who organized the festival, I will let them know about that. I can't do much more than that, it's totally their call after all, but who knows, maybe for the next one they will consider it.

EpicBeardMan · Sep 2016

It's alright. I haven't really had much expectations on level design front, but it would be a huge plus if there were some.
I would offer myself, but not yet, maybe in 2-3 years.
Cheers!

Snefer · Sep 2016

At GDC there is often env art/level design stuff.

One reason why there is not so many talks by env artists/level designers is that people dont pay as much attention to env art as they do to characters and guns. So its alot harder to be a "rockstar" as an env artist

Jakub · Sep 2016

@MiAlx

I'll make it easier

Just look for a 2m tall guy with dark short hair, I doubt it there will be more than one

@Snefer

Looking forward to seeing you do your magic!

Snefer · Sep 2016

@Jakub
haha, thanks! Will not be doing any live modelling I think, but mostly talk about hardsurface design and workflow

Jakub · Sep 2016

@Snefer

Enough for me!

lamb · Sep 2016

Haha, glad to hear that fellow polycounters are attending too. I am a totally inconspicuous guy though -I will be wearing a skullgirls and/or BlazBlue T-shirts, which would hopefully be a good dead giveaway

I'd love to hang out if there is a chance. So see you Tuesday.

EpicBeardMan · Sep 2016

I'm traveling to Lodz today, therefore, I'll have a whole Monday for free, so if anyone's there earlier, we can do some pre-festival meetup(drinkup) or something.

Cheers!

lamb · Sep 2016

Sounds good. I'm arriving on Monday in the afternoon, so if you have nothing better to do by then, I'm in.

MiAlx · Sep 2016

Unfortunately I won't be there until Monday night

wasker · Sep 2016

Do you know if it's too late to get a ticket? There was some confusion about who were to order it and now it looks like I ended up without one - I ordered one on but it looks like it has go through some sort of approval?

MiAlx · Sep 2016

@wasker check your pm

Promised Land Art Festival

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