CGSociety Preliminary Advisory Board Members

#1

Hi all,

We’re currently in the process of setting up the CGSociety Advisory Board. For everyone’s benefit, here is the preliminary list of Advisory Board members who have accepted positions on the committee. I’m updating this list as we get responses. These AB members will be participating on CGS forums.

CGSociety Preliminary Advisory Board Members
Updated: 30 April 2005, awaiting more responses

Linda Bergkvist, Independent Artist, Sweden
Pascal Blanche, Art Director, Ubisoft, Canada
Rob Coleman, Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic, USA
Shawn Dunn, Animation Technical Lead, Weta Digital, New Zealand
Neil Eskuri, Senior Art Director, Electronic Arts, Canada
Eric Hanson, Producer, The Gnomon Workshop, USA
Pam Hogarth, Industry Relations, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, USA
Jeff Kleiser, Founder and Director, Kleiser Walczak, USA
Lorne Lanning, Creative Director, Oddworld Inhabitants, USA
Kim Baumann Larsen, CEO, PLACEBO EFFECTS
Meats Meier, Resident Artist, The Gnomon Workshop, USA
Alex Morris, Director of 3D, Hayes Davidson
Jeff Mottle, President, CGarchitect.com
Chris Sloan, Art Director, National Geographic, USA
Philip Straub, Concept Art Director, Electronic Arts, USA

#2

The CGSociety has been in the planning for some time now. We had intended to wait a little longer before launching. But lase week we had a massive response from members of CGTalk wanting to donate or contribute towards paid services… and so we brought forward the release.

There is a lot going on behind the scenes and new services will roll out when they are ready. Last week we launched the CGWorkshops – which are a key part of fulfilling the CGSocieties education commitment.

Appointment of the Advisory Board is also a key factor as these people will make guide the direction of the CGSociety. They will help to identify and focus our training, conference, awards and member promotions. With their combined guidance we will form various sub-committees that will direct and drive the vision of the CGSociety worldwide, including: education, conferences, publications, awards, technical, artistic, regional, games, visual effects, animation, film, architectural visualization, community and industry relations.

The advisory board will also assist with the relations, liaisons and promotions of affiliate organizations. We want to work with and promote all the current organizations that our members already participate in. There are a great number of young digital artists entering the industry who have little awareness of the benefits offered by cinematography, visual effects, illustration, motion picture and the many other worthy organizations servicing parts of the global digital arts community.

Please feel free to email me at mark@ballisticmedia.net if you wish to nominate someone to the CGSociety Advisory Board.

#3

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