The ABAI Fest and KAVGC Summit as always caters to both the industry veterans and young upcoming professionals in the animation, visual effects and gaming industry predominantly. Organised by ABAI from 16 April to 17 April this year too, the ABAI Fest and KAVGC Summit 2016 will witness around 20 speakers who will draw light on various aspects thus, imparting a pool of information.
For the animation genre the speakers include creative personalities like:-
Mark Osborne who has served as one of the directors of Kung Fu Panda and has created an animated feature film adaptation based on the classic French novella The Little Prince.
Michael Kurinsky who has tried his hands as visual development artist, art director and production designer in various animated blockbusters and has been associated with studios like Sony Pictures Animation and Walt Disney Feature Animation.
Avneet Kaur who has worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the character creation in Zootopia, Frozen, Big Hero 6 and many more features.
Shelley Page who is associated with DreamWorks Animation India Unit and manages the outreach initiatives for various features.
Suresh Eriyat who is known for his latest Rajasthan Tourism sand art animated commercial and his mastery in animated ad films through his own studio called Studio Eeksaurus.
Dr. Golam Ashraf who has in depth experience in CG creation and art development both in the animation and gaming genre.
Well, on the VFX front the speakers include:-
Sanath PC who has supervised and analysed the design and VFX work for the blockbuster Baahubali and is also the founder of VFX studio called FireFly Creative Studio.
Prasad Sutar who has grabbed several awards for his high class supervision on the visual effects work of the Bollywood hit Bajirao Mastani and has been associated with various studios like Maya Entertainment, PIXION and NY VFXWAALA.
Pete Draper who has worked intensely on the pre and post production of Baahubali and also serves as the chief technical director at Makuta VFX.
Zeljko Barcan who has worked in the visual effects industry in all formats of TV, Film, Commercials and Games production and is associated with DreamWorks Dedicated Unit, Technicolor India.
Gaming which is one of the most paramount aspects of the ABAI fest will witness technological veterans like:-
Mark Skaggs who has created the trending FarmVille and CityVille and has been associated with gaming giants like Zynga and Moonfrog.
Alaster Armitage who has deep insights into the upcoming tools from Epic, Valve, Oculus, Unity, Autodesk and The Foundry for the VFX and games industry in terms of Virtual Reality (VR) and has been associated with tech giants like Samsung and Google.
Paul Atme who has studied UX in an alive mobile game and has been associated with various studios like Wixel Studios, Abjatron and Electronic Arts.
Gopinath Chennakeswaran who has specialised in Android Graphics and is also an integral member at Samsung.
Divyanshu Chuchra who has immense experience in the Mobile and desktop Graphics technologies including VR and AR.
Advait Goregaonka who has been in the mobile game art development and design for over a decade.
Pavan Shinde who has mastered in computer graphics and has co-founded LabInApp which is a 3D interactive virtual laboratory tool.
Akshay Harti who has also worked on computer graphics and he has a computer science engineer background.
Rohit Gupta who has ventured into the paramount advancement of Google Cloud and its benefits.
Andrew Tucker who has been creating compelling visual content for high profile projects in terms of Computer Graphics and Digital Effects and holds credits in films like Blade Runner, Fast & Furious and I Am Legend.
The ABAI Fest and KAVGC 2016 will therefore witness a wide range of industry veterans from all genres who will provide insights on various topics of their expertise. Check the official website of ABAI fest for further updates and details.