Promised Land Art Festival

MiAlx

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

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

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

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

Just gonna sub here and confirm I will be there.

See ya there.

Cheers!

MiAlx

@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

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

MiAlx

Of course, next time dude!

wasker

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

Jakub

I'll be there

MiAlx

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

Snefer

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

Biomag

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

MiAlx

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

EpicBeardMan

Are there any level design presentations at the festival?

MiAlx

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

EpicBeardMan

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

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

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

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

@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

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

Jakub

@Snefer

Enough for me!

lamb

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

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

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

MiAlx

Unfortunately I won't be there until Monday night

wasker

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

@wasker check your pm