FMX 2013 to Showcase Pixar, Cloud Computing & More

March 1, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from AWN. Author: Editorial Staff.

Two months before FMX opens its doors, Europe’s most influential Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia is pleased to announce that two Pixar films are part of the FMX Conference program. Firstly, the Director and Scriptwriter Saschka Unseld presents his latest work, the Pixar animated short The Blue Umbrella, in Stuttgart. Furthermore, newly-awarded Oscar winner Brave has been confirmed for a presentation.

In April 2013, the technical focus at FMX includes a series on "Cloud Gaming" and "Cloud Computing" opened by keynote speaker Jon Peddie (JPR). What’s more, Austria, Toronto and Turkey count among this year’s "Innovative Places." In addition, market leaders such as Adobe and Autodesk invite attendees to take part in exciting Workshops, while the premiere of the "Fast Forward Education" seeks to build bridges between academia and industry…

The 3D animated comedy Monster’s University, the prequel to 2001’s Monsters, Inc., is released June 21st. The highly anticipated movie is preceded by the Disney Pixar short The Blue Umbrella. Two months before the actual release date, Director and Script-Writer Saschka Unseld, who successfully completed his studies at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2004 and started working at Pixar in Los Angeles in 2008, presents the short film at FMX…

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