India's Animation Guru's Explore China
CEO's from Crest Animation, Virgin Animation and Animation Xpress are gathering in Suzhou, China to help animation companies with their creative ideas, business models, and international partnerships.
Tweet-- Madhavan, Founder of Crest Animation; Suresh Seetharaman, CEO and Co-founder of Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, and Anand Gurnani, Founder of Animation Xpress join a stellar line-up of Internationall Animation Guru’s in Suzhou for X|Media|Lab Suzhou “Wealth of Animation”, May 8th – 10th.
X|Media|Lab is the internationally acclaimed think-tank and creative workshop for digital media professionals. X|Media|Lab brings together the world’s leading digital media practitioners, power-brokers, and innovators in a unique creative environment that helps local companies and project teams improve their own digital media ideas, get their products to market, and achieve commercial success.
International Mentors joining the trio of India’s Animation Powerbrokers include: Raman Hui, the Hong Kong director of Shrek the Third; Michael B. Johnson, the head of Moving Pictures at Pixar Studios; Duncan Brinsmead, the Principal Scientist for Maya software; Sue Erokan, Supervisor of Character Animation at Dreamworks; Masakazu Kubo, the Executive Producer of the Pokemon Film and TV Series; Nickson Fong, the Founder of Egg Story, Singapore’s animation success story; Dan Scott, the Head of Global Production, Nokia Games; Heather Kenyon, Formerly Director of Development, Original Animation, Cartoon Network,andTim Brooke-Hunt, the Head of Childrens Televison at Australia’s ABC.
China participants include a ‘who’s who’ of the China animation industry.
The “Wealth of Animation” Lab consists of one Keynote Conference day open to all animation industry professionals, followed by the closed-door two-day Lab where the international mentors will work one-on-one with the selected companies on their own animation creative ideas, business plans, and international contacts and partnerships.
Suzhou is one of China’s animation centers of excellence, and animation companies from across India are being invited to attend X|Media|Lab Suzhou to make contact with some of the best people from all over the world and forge exciting new partnerships with the booming animation industries of China.
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About X|Media|Lab (pronounced “cross media lab”)
X|Media|Lab is the internationally acclaimed think-tank and creative workshop for digital media professionals across the emerging digital media disciplines in computer games, animation, digital cinema, interactive content and entertainment, and mobile applications. X|Media|Lab brings together the world’s leading digital media practitioners, power-brokers, and innovators in a unique creative environment that helps companies and project teams improve their own digital media ideas, get their products to market, and achieve commercial success.
In 2008 X|Media|Lab will be held in Suzhou, Wellington, Seoul, Melbourne, Singapore,Shanghai, Mumbai and the Middle East.
X|Media|Lab was created in 2003 and has been held at the Sydney Opera House, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Singapore's iconic National Library Board;as part of the Sydney Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Asia Media Festival,Broadcast Asia, and FICCI-Frames.
X|Media|Lab is proud to acknowledge our International Partnership with Nokia. Both X|Media|Lab and Nokia are “Connecting People”.