Video+Animation+Games Symposium

April 27, 2007

The Video+Animation+Games Symposium at UMD will be held on Friday, April 27 from 10 am until 7 pm in the UMD Kirby Student Center Ballroom. This community-wide event is free and open to the public.

The Video+Animation+Games Symposium showcases video, animation and gaming technologies and scholarship in an effort to promote understanding of the advances in the mediums of video, animation and games. Keynote speaker, Lane Raichert, is a Minnesota native and creative and production veteran in the TV animation and computer game business. Artist, writer, director, producer, and Co-Founder of Raichert Media, Inc., Lane has worked on hundreds of TV episodes and games for 26 years. Speakers and hands-on demos showcasing games and technology will go on through-out the day, including a sound design experiment station, demos by Maya and 3D Studio Max trainers, hands-on art game making activities, a game lounge, Kirby Game Room demos of Dance Dance Revolution, Halo, Fight Night and demos of student-made games. The Symposium will also have a screening room, showing locally-produced videos all day.

Interactive exhibits and "hands on" demonstrations will be featured at the Video+Animation+Games Symposium. Hands-on video production activities are how to create family history films, motivational videos and the process of creating an effective video, Ojibwe language learning, and digital storytelling techniques. Attendees will have a chance to meet industry professionals, such as MakeVisual.com, and professors, like Joelly Rock, who specialize in video, games or animation. This is a community-wide event for involving secondary and post-secondary groups, for example, Harbor City Schools, WDSE, with interests in games, video and digitally fun stuff.

The Video+Animation+Games Symposium is cosponsored by UMD Viz Lab, Multimedia Hub, ITSS and Youth Video Quest.

2006 schedule

2007 Schedule