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With over 20 years of experience in the film industry, Jan Christian Frugård will share his insights and demonstrate how he uses ChatGPT4, Midjourney, and his own bots to conceptualize and visualize projects in his work as a director at our seminar.

Another thrilling catch for our seminar day, with an interesting bag of knowledge and a diverse set of skills and experience! We are looking forward to Frugård talk and enrich our future at the seminar, on the 8th of june. Have you gotten your tickets yet?

As a director with over two decades of extensive experience in film production, I am deeply committed to advancing the integration of Artificial Intelligence within the industry. My career spans a broad spectrum of responsibilities overseeing creative processes from inception to completion.

My hands-on experience as a 1st AD and Editor has endowed me with a profound understanding of film set dynamics and the intricacies of post-production. 

Currently, I am exploring the use of AI in film production. My venture, 'Kreativ KI', is dedicated to developing tailored AI solutions that streamline production processes and enhance creative outcomes. I envision these tools as future essentials for the industry, transforming conventional workflows into more efficient, innovative practices.

-Jan Christian Frugård

Morten Goodwin is a professor of Artificial Intelligence, an important figure and a captivating voice in the intersection of AI and everything else! We are ever so happy and excited to share that Goodwin will be coming to our VFX seminar! (TicketCo)

He co-founded and is the lead researcher at AI Experts and serves as the deputy head at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research. He is recognized as one of Norway's foremost experts in artificial intelligence. Goodwin seamlessly juggles roles as a professor, educator, public debater, communicator, author, and CTO. With over 15 years of academic experience, a Ph.D., and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, he is a dedicated researcher focusing on deep neural networks. 

 -mortengoodwin.no

We are thrilled to announce his participation in our endeavour to enlighten us all about AI and our very own future! Exploring how AI will change and redefine our creative processes, Goodwin’s presence at the seminar promises to offer invaluable insights into artificial intelligence and culture. His unique perspective and knowledge makes him a compelling figure in the ever-evolving dialogue surrounding AI’s role in our professional landscape.

At our first meetup of 2024, we had the pleasure of reminding you of our 2023-events, and the success we have had at bringing people together. We also talked about the future and how we are planning five VFX meetups for 2024 and a large AI seminar in May, followed by our very own award show. It was a great year for VFX in norway, and 2024 has already started with a bang!

And undoubtably the best part of the evening:

Thanks to Håvard Munkejord, Torbjørn Nymark and the Storm Studios crew for making yesterdays meetup so magical. The stories of ropes with hairs, badly lit bluescreens and the boyancy of corpses will live on in infamy! You had everyone well engaged in the material. There were questions from the audience and roaring laughter scattered amongst the moments of deep consentration and awe from the audience.

Håvard Munkejord and Torbjørn Nymark will be taking us through parts of their work on a production needing lots of ships, oceans, multiple CG cities, floating corpses, and lots more.

The first Emmy for norwegian VFX has come home, and Espen Nordahl at Storm Studios is the winner! Two of Storm Studios own, Espen Nordahl and Håvard Munkejord were both nominated for each their own project in the same category, “Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie”, which is a remarkable impressive feat! Congratulations to the both of them and to Storm Studios for this tremendous achevement!

We are shamelessly enclosing links from other news articles depicting the win!

Nordmann vant Emmy i natt tv2.no
Nordmann tok imot Emmy: Utrolig gøy! VG
Historisk Emmypris | Rushprint
Utrolig kult å bli anerkjent! NRK

With In-camera visual effects (ICVFX) in an LED Volume, the industry gets the opportunity to get close to the technology and explore the possibilities. There will be demos, two-day courses, and seminars on VP. Check out more about the program and registration here: https://www.ledhub.no/no/courses

VP Demo

Short demos focusing on how the tool works and the possibilities inherent in the technology. Demos will take place in groups.

Two-Day Course (January 18th – 19th)

Introduction to Virtual Production for all professional groups. The course covers basics of terminology, workflow, tracking, and lighting. Participants will work hands-on in an LED Volume (maximum 12 participants).

VP Seminar (January 20th)

Presentations and demonstration of Virtual Production in an LED Volume. Panel debate with leading actors, emphasizing the competency gap in VP in Norway.

A big thanks goes out to the Gimpville team, who opend their doors to us and gave us a great show! Most of the content was an in-depth, live workshop on how the surface of the moon, the impact craters and the jets of rock, and dust were created in Houdini. This sparked questions from the audience and engagement through the evening. The film, “The Moon” looks out of this world! After the show, we mingled for hours and enjoyed talking to old colleauges and new faces. Thanks again Gimpville!

If you have a buisness and would like to share your work, or a project, and possibly host an evening like Gimpville has done, please dont hesitate to contact us at info@vfxnorge.no

This VFX meetup will be out of this world! Rather than our normal venue at Tilt, we have been invited to meet at Gimpville HQ at Skippergata 15 (Note that google maps will only take you to the right place, if you enter the wrong adress, Rådhusgata 5. We will be in the ground floor.) We can look forward to, amongst other things, a high impact show and tell session from Christian Korhonen and Adrian Lervåg Skår!

Christian Korhonen is a Gimpville partner and holds the Lead FX title. With 26 years of experience, he is well versed and has an impressive catalogue of projects behind him. He is excited to share his thoughts and to give us something of a tutorial on how to do big effectscenes. 

Adrian has two years of experience as projectmanager at Gimpville and has helped realize some major projects. He also has extencive experience within realtime graphics and development, VR/AR, Unreal, Interactive Applications and Virtual Production.

This is worth getting excited for!

We wish to create a registry of buisnesses who work within and around VFX in Norway. An easy to access website displaying digital buisnesscards. The idea behind the registry is mostly for ease of access with the added bonus of showing us that you exist. If you wish to be a part of our registry, please do not hesitate to send us a message containing your companies details. We will format and add your information to our registry in due time.

If this sounds interesting, please send following details to kjetil@vfxnorge.no

Please add your logo. 16:9 format.
No bigger than 800 x 450 pixels.

VFX meetup at Tilt 7th of Sept. 2023

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Tilt in September to listen to Espen Nordahl! He talked us through Storm Studios’ production of The Last of us. From the early beginnings of design and consepting to the final product ready for screening.

Espen is a great speaker and he did not let us down, detailing the ups and down of such a production. We know that Storm Studios are doing amazing things and we hope to have them back to showcase their next big project aswell!