Nigel Sumner at The Digital Media Festival
The Digital Media Festival is a 3-day conference and exhibition for digital content creators. The seminar program covers filmmaking from image acquisition, effects and animation to editing and post production for cinema, TV, DVD and the internet.
Nigel Sumner: Digital Supervisor - Digital Artists Group
Lucasfilm Animation, Singapore
Working in a 24-hour international production environment 12pm 13 November.
Managing the process of delivering a vision into images - Nigel will discuss the benefits and challenges involved when two teams work in two locations and time zones on visual effects for live action features films. He will use examples from Indiana Jones / Ironman / Transformers
The Digital Artists Group at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore (LAS) works alongside Industrial Light & Magic to create visual effects shots for feature films. The studio is a state-of-the-art facility with connectivity to the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco.
Nigel joined Lucasfilm Animation as Digital Supervisor for the Digital Artists Group (DAG) in August of 2007. Nigel came to Lucasfilm Singapore from its sister company ILM in San Francisco, where he was a Sequence Supervisor specializing in physical simulation and dynamic effects, such as fluid, fire and physical destruction techniques. During his nine years at ILM, Nigel worked on The Perfect Storm, Terminator 3, Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3, War of the Worlds and, most recently, Transformers. He is responsible for the management and supervision of the Digital Artists Group, overseeing artist development as well as aesthetic and technical production processes.
Nigel studied computer animation at Bournemouth University (UK) where he received both his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in Computer Animation and Visualisation. He worked as a member of the Universities Consultancy Group producing work for both outside clients and internal projects. While completing his masters degree, the university employed Nigel to lecture undergraduate students in a number of computer animation systems and oversee associated projects. After graduation, he continued in this position, lecturing both undergraduate and postgraduate students before moving to London to work in the commercials industry.
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