Make your plans now to come to West Liberty University on April 23, as we host our biggest and best Flash Festival to date. We are offering free seminars and workshops all day by Hollywood professionals in the fields of animation, video, and electronic music. In the evening we will be enjoying an electronic music jam and an alumni reception followed by the ever popular Flash awards ceremony. Full information can be found here.
SCHEDULE
Thursday April 22, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 PM – Boyle Conference Room – Meet and greet our guest presenters
Friday April 23, 2010
AM
9:00 – 10:00 – Tours of West Liberty University’s Media Arts Center and the Nutting Art Gallery
10:00 – 11:00 – Welcome and Keynote address
11:15 – 12:15 – Forum One – Electronic music, Animation and Video Concurrent Sessions
PM
1:15 – 2:15 – Forum Two – Electronic music, Animation and Video Concurrent Sessions
2:30 – 4:30 – Professional hands on workshops in Electronic music, Animation and Video (Pre-registration needed)
5:30 – 7:00 – Electronic Music Jam Session in College Hall
– Alumni reunion in the Nutting Gallery
7:30 – 9:30 – Tenth annual West Virginia Flash! Festival – Collegiate Juried Competition
GUEST PRESENTERS
Animation presenter:
Robert St. Pierre, from Los Angeles, CA. Robert is currently employed as a Background Layout Artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios where he is working on a new “Winnie the Pooh” feature film. Other projects include workbook/layout artist for the feature film “The Princess and the Frog” and Production Designer for the feature films “9″, “Mulan 2″ and “Lady and the Tramp 2.”
Electronic music presenter:
Jeff Essex, from San Francisco, CA. Jeff is Creative Director of Audiosync.com where he creates music, sound effects and voiceover for multimedia. His clients include Disney Online, Nick Online, shockwave.com, Beatnik, Sun Microsystems, digeo, Apple Computer, Red Sky Interactive, and @Home. He authored the book, “Multimedia Sound and Music Studio”, for Random House/Apple New Media, which won the prestigious Computer Press Award for Best Advanced How-To Book.
Video presenter:
Christian D’Andrea, from Washington DC. Christian is a video and film producer who has worked as VP of Production for Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender’s Oscar-winning production company called A Band Apart, at Miramax. He has also produced a Discovery Channel documentary, worked as a Motion Picture Literary agent for International Creative Management, and recently sold a screenplay to Universal Studios.