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Sound Arts Guest Speaker
9am - East End
D’Wayne Wiggins
Acoustic Soul Jam
D’Wayne Wiggins, legendary artist and producer, is the founder of hit R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné! Their first album, released in 1988, entitled Who? went gold. The group’s second album, The Revival was released in 1990 and reached platinum status. Furthering the group’s success, they released their best selling double platinum album to date Sons Of Soul in 1993. In 1996, the group released yet another platinum album entitled House of Music, featuring the top 10 R&B hit Thinking Of You. D’Wayne is currently in the studio working with his bandmates on the much anticipated sixth Tony! Toni! Toné album due to be released in early 2007. The album features collaborations with Rhymefest, Beyonce Knowles and Slick Rick.
D’Wayne Wiggins also launched the career of the Grammy Award-winning and best selling girl R&B group of all time, Destiny’s Child, that went on to sell a combined 60 million albums and singles worldwide. The group made it’s recording debut with Killing Time, produced by D’Wayne Wiggins, which appeared on the multi-platinum soundtrack for the 1997 blockbuster, Men in Black. D’wayne also produced the goup’s first 3 albums.
D’Wayne has also worked closely with Alicia Keys, who was nominated for Album of the Year for The Diary of Alicia Keys, and among other nominations, “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” for Diary featuring Tony! Toni! Toné!.
Keyshia Cole also recorded successfully under D’Wayne Wiggins productions. Cole is currently working on her second album, titled Tears From a Soldier’s Heart, with producers Kanye West and Cool and Dre. The album will feature appearances from R.Kelly, John Legend, Jagged Edge & Tony! Toni! Toné! will also be featured prominently on the album.
Sound Arts Guest Speaker
2pm - East End
Stephen Hart
Chief Engineer Fantasy Studios
Stephen Hart is currently chief engineer at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA.
With his 25 years of experience as a recording engineer, mixer and producer, he has also worked for The Plant, Fairlight, EMI Italia and Forward Music Taipei. He has also spent 12 years as an international freelance mixer and has been Audio Production Manager for a multi-media content and localization company and owned a commercial studio.
Stephen has recorded and or mixed many hundred’s of albums with a total unit sales of 40 million with artists including David Bowie, Santana, John Lee Hooker, En Vogue, MC Hammer, Tony Bennett, Isaac Hayes, Flora and Airto, The White Stripes, Oscar Peterson, The Neville Brothers, The Hong Kong Philharmonic with Amei, Booker T and Steve Crooper, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King and a host of European and Asian pop artists.
His film Post credits (foley stage) include Amadeus, Boogie Nights, Airbud, Blue Velvet and Dead Poets Society. TV ADR dates include Lost and Alias and his film scoring credits include Titanic and Grizzy Man. Stephen has also recorded for legendary producers Geroge Martin and Tom Dowd.
Animation & Visual Effects Guest Speakers
9am - Meyer Hall
Expression Alumni Panel Discussion
Brandon Foster, Scott Slater, David Gladstein and Brendan Coots
Animation & Visual Effects Alumni Panel Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to join our distinguished Ex’pression alumni panel as they share their real world experiences, invaluable tips and answer questions. Our alumni guests have worked with some of the industry’s most recognized professionals in a wide variety of fields. DON’T MISS this incredible networking opportunity!!!
Brandon Foster
Brandon started working at America’s Army 2 months before graduation as their Character TD. He continued working there for 1 month past his graduation date and then became a Production Assistant at ILM. Brandon is currently still at ILM, working on the movie Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty.
Scott Slater
After graduation, Scott caught up on some sleep, and continued to study animation at Animation Mentor where he had enrolled 6 months prior to completing classes at Expression. He recently completed a contract position at Factor 5 working as an animator on the PS3 title “Lair” for Sony.
David Gladstein
David Gladstein’s career in computing started in the days of punch cards and computers that got their own buildings. He came to Expression to see if computers might finally be used for a positive purpose. Since graduating with class 32, he has done rigging and programming for Black Point Studios, Stylus LLC, and Flying Moose pictures. He has been making people happy at The Orphanage for the last two years.
Brendan Coots
Since graduating from Expression College in 2002, Brendan Coots has worked on more than 50 feature film and commercial projects for clients such as Universal Pictures, Microsoft, Intel, Ubisoft and many more. In 2004 Brendan helped launch Splitvision Digital - a video, graphics and 3D production studio based in Emeryville. Since that time Splitvision Digital has become a major player in the Bay Area and has worked on dozens of high-level projects, including a set of videos used as the centerpiece for the global launch of Microsoft’s Windows Vista.”
Motion Graphic Design Guest Speaker
9am - Chuck Jones
Kevin Convertito
Art Director Thrasher Magazine
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine founded in 1981. It regularly publishes articles (not limited to the skateboarding subject), skateboard photography, interviews with professional skateboarders, interviews with and reviews of musical groups, skatepark reviews, and miscellaneous oddities.
Motion Graphic Design Guest Speaker
2pm - Chuck Jones
John Schroeder
Principal Director Image for Industry
John Schroeder is the Principal Director at Image For Industry. Based in San Francisco, this full spectrum computer graphics service specializes in design, illustration, animation, 3D and visual effects for broadcast, film, web & print mediums. Previous endeavors over the past 20 years include work for CBS, ABC, FOX, UPN, Sony, Toyota, Nissan, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Round Table Pizza, Gannett/USA Today & Multimedia Graphics Network.
Animation & Visual Effects Guest Speaker
2pm Meyer Hall
Craig Barron
Visual Effects Supervisor and founder Matte World Digital
Craig Barron, Visual Effects Supervisor and founder of Matte World Digital, is a winner of an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects by both the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for his work on Batman Returns .
Matte World Digital designs and produces digital visual effects for films, television, commercials and interactive projects by using the latest techniques in digital compositing and computer graphics. The company has gone from critically acclaimed classic effects work to digitally rendered effects for such highly-regarded films as “Clear and Present Danger”, and Martin Scorsese’s “Casino.”
Matte World Digital was created in 1989 by Industrial Light and Magic alumni who set out to create and develop the most realistic visual effects shots possible while still remaining affordable. The company is available to all types of projects including the non-effects driven pictures that need visual effects shots.
