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Sound Arts, 10:00 am – 12 noon
East End
Sound Arts – Guest Speakers
Don VecaAudio Director, Electronic Arts
Dave FeiseSound Arts Ex’pression Alumni
Sound Designer of Doom, Electronic Arts
Special guests from Electronic Arts award winning release “Dead Space”: Don Veca, Audio Director and Musician Dave Feise, Sound Designer of “Doom” and Ex’pression Alumni.
Don Veca is an audio director at Electronic Arts in Redwood City, CA. He has been working at EA since 1992, and at Apple for a few years before that. Don started doing game audio because he had a background in both audio (sound and music) and Computer Science. He started at EA as an audio tools programmer, but soon cross-faded into music and sound design. His first (and favorite) game as an audio director was Road Rash III (Sega Genesis), and his most recent game was Dead Space (XBox 360/PS3/PC). But all this is really just a hobby...he’s actually a Jazz bass player and drummer.
MGD, 9 am – 11:00 am
Meyer Hall
Motion Graphic Design – Guest Speaker
Steve HolmesFounder & Creative Director,
Energi Design
After studying design and typography for print, and working at two full-time design and print production companies, he established Energi Design in England in 1994, which began creating layout, web design, and video motion graphics for clients such as Nike, Warner Bros, Disney, Coca-Cola, Virgin Atlantic, Toyota, and Cadbury’s Chocolate, to name but a few.
With his design and animation work garnering international recognition and awards, he quickly came to the attention of Adobe Systems. For the last decade, he has spoken on their behalf at design seminars and conferences all over Europe and America (NAB, Siggraph, HOW Design Conference) on the subjects of design, typography, web design and motion graphics in relation to Adobe’s design software products, primarily After Effects and Flash.
His current iTunes-based Podcast “Real World Footage Effects” is being watched in all corners of the world.
With Energi Design now firmly settled in Sausalito, California, Steve runs the studio as Creative Director, and their design work has garnered no less than three Webby Awards, one W3 Award and one Davey Award, in the last three years for their Flash design, motion graphics and commercials for clients such as Adobe, Hiball, Artbeats, Virgin America and Le Tourment Vert.
AVE, 1 – 3 pm
Meyer Hall
Animation & Visual Effects – Guest Speaker
Jesse ImManager Animation and Illustration
WET
Jesse works with the design team at WET to create animations and illustrations that bring to life the company’s unique work with water. From concept sketches to musically charged animations, Jesse has worked on projects ranging from the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, The Olympic Cauldron at the 2002 Olympic games, Burj Al Arab in Dubai and the World Trade Center in Barcelona.
A graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he has been with WET for 13 years and has helped manage and develop a group of emerging of Illustrators and Animators to further the company’s creative capacity in client presentations.
GAD, 4 – 6 pm
Meyer Hall
Game Art & Design – Guest Speaker
Heather LogasPresident of Playvana
Heather Logas graduated in 2004 from the Digital Media Masters Program at Georgia Tech and has been in the gaming industry ever since. Her credits include the Sam & Max episodic games and the still in development Earth Eternal MMORPG. She is the President of Playvana, a design consulting and contracting group focused on helping game studios produce emotionally rich gameplay experiences.
