Concept Art Workshop: Dallas

Spark

Just wanted to let you guy's know of the upcoming Massive Black event here in Dallas. Hopefully some of you can attend, as it is looking to be a big one. Here is the link
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2091551#post2091551

Spark

Jeremy Lindstrom

sweet, any info on when? Where, how much?

tacit math

that's awesome Spark. noticed some of you id guys on the list. but short of robbing a bank i could never get there. is why dreams are free a

Emil Mujanovic

Depending on the dates, I may considering flying out for this one. Been looking for an excuse to come back to the US for a holiday.

-caseyjones

Quokimbo

I would love to attend!!

Asmuel

I went to the last one, it was awesome, and would have been totally amazing to have spark and alex there.

Anyone anywhere near this thing who doesn't attend is a damn fool

I'm moving to Europe myself, so no monies for more plane tickets, but next time I hope!

Heathmeister

Is this event likely to be a month or so away or what?

Also for anyone who has been to one... do they cost to get in?

I just wanna go to be inspired and learn from the pros!

Sandbag

I believe the going rate for this one is $600 US. They also accept first born children, testicles, and kidneys as payment. At least it's down from $900...

Jeremy Lindstrom

FUCK ME RUNNING... Guess I'm out..

Josh_Singh

I wonder if there is an industry discount.

Asmuel

I don't think there will be any discounts Josh, unless you mean hookups.

I think Sandbag is about right on the price, cost me around 500. But fuck it, people pay thousands to fly out to these things .

Not to get peoples hopes up, but the 2d guys at this thing totally blew my mind. And jason's color theory lecture will be useful for anyone who is self taught, or had a crap tertiary education.

tacit math

Asmuel wrote: »

Anyone anywhere near this thing who doesn't attend is a damn fool

yep

gavku

Yeah I'll echo whats been said above in that its definitely worth the price...plus you just claim all your expense's anyway so that takes a bit of the edge off.

Josh_Singh

well 600.00 bones is a lot of freaking money.
For 600.00 bucks I could buy a hell of a lot of art books and gnomon dvds.

Diverge Workshop is only around 55 bucks.
Just sayin.
But still, if I happen to have 600 bucks burning a hole in my wallet around that time, I would still love to go.

doc rob

also compare to the price of the Gnomon workshops, which run for 2 days, draw similar quality speakers (if not better and better prepared), are far better organized, and only cost $125. . .

Although, at the CA workshops they have dance parties and Android might show you his soul. . . so they've got that going for them.

Asmuel

Ask your work to shout you Josh. Tactic got away with it I think

Another way to get in might be to offer to do some zbrush sculpting demo's, as they usually seem to be low on 3d guys. Your well qualified. They had dudes sculpting on stage from massive black shanghai last time who wont be there this time. Just a thought.

gavku

Well I supposes its different when you have a variety of workshops etc to attend...we very seldom get any down here, so it was a bit of a no-brainer....Plus pretty much all the Aussies I know that went to the NZ workshop had their tickets paid for them by their companies.

konstruct

It better be cheaper that 600 bones this year. shit broke the bank last year, and lets face it, money is a bit iffy this year.

also Gavku- Unit 16 is the shit. why dont you post some of those sculpt on here :P? I dont know how I found it, but I see you posting there sometimes so I image I must have followed your bread crumbs at one point. / ed thread derail.

Jeremy Lindstrom

Nope..

ConceptArt.Org International Art and Design Workshop: DALLAS TEXAS - March 28-31 2009

The next workshop is coming hard and fast. Are you ready? We are.

Conceptart.org and Massive Black have put together a stellar list of instructors, great sponsors, and a fresh program covering aspects from the games, toy, film, and fine art industries. The venue is beautiful. We are right next door to a gorgeous museum full of world class art, and have more planned than ever before. When I say we have more planned, I am saying we are pulling out all the stops. Art, jobs, culture, music, performers, training, and even more will be happening. We have a great list of sponsors including Google, SMU, the Guildhall, ReelFX, the prestigious AFI film festival, Corel and many others. This is going to be a big show with more art than ever before.

Time is short. Much to do. The official announcement will come this week and all info will be released then.

Tuition is 600 bucks and we will have an early bird offer which includes free downloads, cheaper tuition, and more. All the info will come this next week. Start getting ready folks...we are going to Dallas and will be shaking the art world from the top to bottom.

We chose Dallas as it is central to everyone here in the US and is a very affordable city to travel to. Of course, the local sponsors are world class too. This is going to be a great show.

Early bird better be $200 or so

Lee3dee

Lorne Lanning from Oddworld must bring my copy of Stranger to get signed!

$600!!! Don't they know this is a recession! Usually they release dvd videos from this event. $200 is reasonable, $600 better come with extra fries.

adam

I went to the Seattle event and only got a smidgen of usefulness out of it. (I'm not a character artist nor an illustrator). It was mostly the key speakers and the polycounters I enjoyed, the rest was 'meh' IMO. Work paid my way, otherwise I would have not attended.

rawkstar

yeah gnomon is alot cheaper and better structured, but hey, don't have to fly to LA ...

oXYnary

I have to agree with Adam somewhat. The main thing I went for other than PC'ers and getting to see Kolby in action was SmellyBug creating a sculpture during the weekend.

He choose not to, so me and a few others decided to take it upon ourselves to sculpt concept figures on the second floor.

That and the figures were not nude, and had pretty crappy poses for the sketch sessions.

Don't get me wrong, the information presented was good, but there was nothing that really interested me except the figure lectures, and honestly what I experienced of those was minimal. You need a full class outside of a lecture to really start to get it.

I thought it was supposed to be in Shanghai this year? Was it decided it would be too limited?

Jeremy Lindstrom

shanghai will be late 2009

Murdoc

Hey, it's on my continent again, sweet. I may actually go to this as I'm more then curious.

AstroZombie

Yea, at $600 in these times I don't even feel good about asking work to pay for it ...

Jeremy Lindstrom

TUITION:

$520.00 USD (Before Feb 1st 2009) + includes two free downloads of your choice from media.massiveblack.com)

$555.00 USD (Between Feb 1st - Feb 15th) + includes one free download from media.massiveblack.com)

$595.00 USD (From Feb 15th - March 28th)

Guess I'm out.

Emil Mujanovic

DAMMIT! Just checked the dates for this thing and its being run about the time I was planning on traveling to the US, until my trip was cancelled due to work commitments!
Here's hoping I can make it out to the Shanghai workshop.

-caseyjones

richkid

i got my ticket. anyone in texas got a couch thats going, or anyone want to go in on a hotel together.

i went to the sf one but it wasnt structured like a workshop. from what i hear it was the most chaotic. and i still came back with lots of knowledge, and tons of inspiration. so that being said, i would imagine a normal workshop would double up on both of those. my main attraction is lorne lanning, i heard his talk in seattle was amazing.

spark, you are one of the instructors yes? what are you planning on covering? 2d, 3d, general ideas? cant wait

konstruct

lorne lannings talk was intresting. Part of me thought it was somewhat insightful- the other part, jesus this guys a nut job. The over all gist: "Acid will open your third eye."

0_0

it was a little odd to get such a huge endorsement for LSD on the first day from a keynote, but in some ways it was reminiscent of some Hunter S. Thompson, or Tom Wolfe logic, which somehow made it viable.

I loved every second of every oddworld game and was pumped to hear him give a talk, but I was a little bummed out after it was over.

Its possible I got entirely the wrong message out of it however, but it seemed to me to be pretty blunt

DoctorBone

I will be at Diverge and
Reverie looking forward to
meeting many of you.

The Bone Doctor
AKA Mentler

DoctorBone

I will be holding court in
the Fine Art/Figure Drawing venue
at the Reverie event in Dallas.

I live in Dallas so
if I can be of help let me know

The Bone Doctor
AKA Mentler

richkid

oh shit, mentler. i thought my browser was messing up. i refreshed a ca page and this page at the same time and all of the sudden your posts were up with your bright font on both pages. wierd. yeah, i would love to meet you though, ive cruised your sketch thread quite a few times on ca.
im sure ill have some questions on dallas as the event gets closer. ill shoot you a pm when i do.

Jeremy Lindstrom

I'll go if someone wants to give me $600...

richkid

well hot damn, im gonna jump on that offer! how far is lewisville though. if its close you should swing through and grab a drink or something

Jeremy Lindstrom

Lewisville is about 20 minutes from downtown Dallas.

richkid

well awesome, we should meet up then. maybe do a dinner the first night or something, that would be fun.

Spark

I think a meetup would be cool especially if we get alot of polycounters to the area. Not sure what my schedule is going to be as I will be trying to prepare for the event ( still figuring out what I will be demoing ) but I hope to see alot of you guys there.

Spark

Spark

Just wanted to bring this back to the top, as it is now a little less than a month away from the event. And to get some ideas on what I might present that would be of interest if you were attending. I was going to show some work arounds and some of the process that I take, along with answering some questions while modeling, but not sure if that is interesting enough. Any comments are appreciated, and if you are going to be there we should try and get a Polycount meetup for sure.

Spark

Gill Bates

This sucks because I'm only 20 min north in Frisco, TX, but I don't think my pockets can take the hit right now. Maybe next year. :poly141:

stimpack

Got my tix and everything lined up. Ill be there drop me a pm if u wanna meet up and hang with me and richkid.

richkid

phhiiiiiillllll, you finally found this thread.
gill- if you are only that far away, you should at least come down for a dinner
spark- any or your sculpting stuff would make me really happy for demos. your last couple dom war characters have had really clean sculpts that have a lot of tension to the surface. too many people overload it with alphas and everything gets lost in there.

i seriously cant wait for this.

richkid

ok, one question for my own curiosity and entertainment. if i go to the streets of dallas and yell out "the stars are bright, late at night" will everyone really chime in like in pee wee's big adventure...or will someone shout hippy and kick my ass?

rolfness

I dont work in the industry but Ive always followed massive black since it started up. Id love to attend once just to see what goes on. It looks fantastic.makes me jealous in a way.

Jason Manley

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the support. We have more than 200 demonstrations happening over the course of the event and all are within plain sight The other similar events who have followed since we have been doing this are lucky to have twenty and are shorter in duration. Every penny made goes into these shows. It is an all volunteer effort, including myself and everyone else.

Reverie presentations last up to three hours long and each one is supported by demos from killer talent, backing up with the speaker is talking about with action, not words There is one speaker per session and more than twenty screens surrounding the audience . Each screen has top pros supporting the speakers presentation with demonstrations. There are some surprises in store as well. If you are comparing how we did shows years ago, which inspired adapt, gnomon, cgcon and others, rest assured, our format has improved tremendously. I think those in Seattle last year can attest to this.

I am sooooo happy. The instructor list is killer and we have some very very special things happening. We hae partnered with the AFI film festival for the opening of the show which means there will be a host of film directors and producers also in attendance as well as hundreds of amazing artists from throughout the entertainment industry. Soon soon soon we will be in Dallas. Hope you can make it!

The focus of this show is on helping artists to maintain independence and financial success in this economy of studio closures and layoffs. We are covering all avenues for creative professional success including film, games, toys, Fine Art, the print market, and intellectual property development. It is the only event of this kind in the industry.

Each day is a balance of 2d, 3d, animation, drawing, painting and the final day is the business of art, legal matters for artists, and portfolio reviews/jobs fair. Marvel is on site the entire time scouting for talent as well as others.



Marko Djurdjevic - Illustrator-Concept Artist- Marvel
Jason Chan - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black/ConceptArt.Org
El Coro-Art Director - Massive Black Inc.
Justin Sweet- Art Director/Illustrator/Concept Artist - Carbon Canyon Studios
Vance Kovacs - 2d/3d Concept Artist/Art Director/Illustrator - Carbon Canyon Studios
Frank Beddor- Producer/Writer/Creator- Automatic Pictures (Something About Mary, Looking Glass Wars)
Paul Jaquays- Senior Artist- Ensemble Studios (Independent)
Andrew Jones - Massive Black/ConceptArt.Org
J.E. Sawyer - Lead Designer - Obsidian Entertainment
Jason Manley - President Massive Black/ConceptArt.Org
Jeff Brown - Senior Animator- LucasArts
Brett Briley- 3D Character Artist - id software
Alex Velazquez - 3D Character Artist - id software
Wes Burt - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black
Noxizmad - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black
Chris Hatala - Animation Director - Massive Black
James Kei - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black
Carl Dobsky - Founder ConceptArt Atelier / Fine Artist
Kemp Remillard - Sr. 2d/3d Concept Artist - Massive Black
Rich Doble - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black
Sam Brown - 2D/3D Concept Artist - Massive Black
Dan Staton- 3D Studio Director - Massive Black Shanghai
Phil Holland - Cinematographer- Rhythm and Hues
Nick Constantine - Sr. Concept Artist - Massive Black
Whit Brachna- Concept Artist- Massive Black
David Levy - Senior Concept Artist - Steambot
Sammy Hall- Concept Artist - Nintendo
Brad Clark - Technical Artist/Animator - Independent
Greg Manchess - Illustrator
Irene Gallo - Art Director - Tor
Jon Foster - Illustrator
Limbert Fabian - Art Director/Gallery Curator - Reel FX
John Mueller - Art Director - THQ
Dave Dorman - Illustrator - Independent
Aleksi Briclot - Art Director - DontNod Entertainment
Lorne Lanning - Creative Director/Executive- Oddworld Inhabitants
Sherry McKenna - CEO - Oddword Inhabitants
Vitaliy Naymushin - 3d Character Artist - id software
Christopher Appelhans- Senior Concept Artist - FrogHatStudios.com
Jason Felix - Artist - Independent
Marshall Vandruff - Artist/Educator - Independent
Michael Mentler- Artist/Educator - Independent
Shawn Barber - Fine Artist/Educator/illustrator - Independent
Kevin Llewellyn - Fine Artist - Independent
William Whitaker - Master Painter- Independent
Mike Bierek - Concept Artist - Massive Black
Mikko Kinnunen - Concept Artist - Bioware
Shaun Healey - Concept Artist - Spidermonk Entertainment
Bobby Chui - Illustrator - Imaginism Studios
Kei Acedera - Illustrator - Imaginism Studios
Jenova Chen- Founder - That Game Company
Manny Carrasco - Artist - Stray Bullet Games

Hope to see you there!!! For the hundreds who are attending, thank you so much for the support. This will be a very very special event and the only one for North America for quite a while. We do not do this for profit...we do this for the art of it and because right now, more than any before, artists need to understand paths to independence.

www.conceptart.org/workshop has more info.

Best,


Jason

richkid

ok, we are a less than a week away from this thing. any locals want to set up a meeting time or toss out some ideas for dinner?

Spark

Hey Richkid, I will be busy as hell that weekend but there is also a party for the Shortguys friday night before the saturday night event of Massive Black if you are in town. They are a group that does movies/games and I will be there, you can find info on it at www.abosg.org or be at the londoner in downtown rhichardson between 5-2am, I will be there around 7ish. Then of course I will be at the party saturday night, and not sure on the rest of the week. Hope to catch you around, and I will be demoing everyday so come find me.

Spark

richkid

hmmm, stimpack and i are flying in around 9 that night. so i doubt we will make it out there. but i will definetly come check out your demos. i didnt see you on the curriculum, are you just like a sideshow. "HEY KIDS, LOOK AT THE 3D GUY" hehe. anyway, you, vitaly, and some of the other 3d are the main things im there to check out this time around.

stimpack

I will be there mostly for the traditional stuff. Im really hoping someone will be there doing traditional sculpting!!

I was a bit with the seattle work shops demos of 3d. Nothing was advanced or ground breaking. It felt geared toward all the students walking around, not the ind pro's that know a bit already. I do hope you tailor yours a bit c ya at the shop.

Spark

Hey Richkid, I am up there on the reverie poster under ( Brett Briley ) still don't have my pictures of my work up there yet, as the web guy I guess is backlogged with things. I will be there all days so drop on by, and monday night is our demo. Stimpack, yeah it's kind of hard to hit huge technical or in depth talks that a few get, where if you hit more of the basics or thoughts on how you might approach things, and get a wider group appreciating it. We have a few hours marked out on monday night for our demo, so you might have to just hit us up on the side as we demo for a more in depth talk. Hope to see more people out there, as it is this Saturday-Tuesday!

Spark