Events

3DV Welcomes Autodesk back to Portland 2022

2022-11-01T00:00:00-05:00

Dec. 1, 2022 (Thursday) @ OMSI

5:30 - Doors open

Food and beverages provided for this Free event

6:30 - Presentations begin

Join Creative, Technical, and Support professionals for the return of Autodesk Hits Portland!

Kick off the evening by mingling with industry friends and peers over appetizers and drinks and trying out Xencelabs, 3DV, AMD, and ASUS ProArt's latest products and offerings.

Discover Entertainment and Design tools and workflows in Maya, 3ds Max, ShotGrid, Bifrost, and Arnold. Presenters will cover animation, proceduralism, GPU rendering, USD support, worldbuilding, project management, and more. Plus, guest speaker and Portland local, Jordan Giboney, will give exclusive insight into Autodesk’s Portland-based product support team.

Autodesk Hits Portland 2019

2018-11-14T18:14:00-06:00

Join Autodesk and 3DV in PDX for a night of networking and seeing what's new with the most cutting edge tech in media and entertainment. Sign Up Here

About this Event

Autodesk is coming to Portland! Join friends and peers at this special event where Autodesk and 3DV will present the latest tools, products, and processes for the Entertainment and Design industries.

This is a free event for creative, technical, and marketing professionals. Mix and mingle with industry peers over appetizers and drinks during the pre-show, where event sponsors MSI, Wacom, Nvidia, and 3DV will be on hand with some of their latest products and offerings to try out in person.

Then take a seat in the beautiful OMSI theater and enjoy demos & presentations of Autodesk's latest technology for media, entertainment, and design professionals. Maya, Max, Shotgun, Flame, and rendering will be covered, as well as new features in proceduralism, AI, GPU rendering and more that can be incorporated in workflows and pipelines immediately to enhance your visual content faster.

Schedule:

5:00 - 6:30: Pre-Show: drinks, food, networking, and socializing

6:30 - 9:00: Demonstrations/Presentations

9:00: Raffle - Nvidia GPU and Wacom Tablets

Speakers will include Marcel de Jong, Technical Team Lead, Autodesk; Jose Elizardo, Technical Specialist, Autodesk; and Alex Arce, Subject Matter Expert, Autodesk

Reserve your spot now! Hope to see you there.

Wednesday, April 18 2018 Design Week Portland Open House (Past Event)

2018-03-28T18:37:00-05:00

Space is limited register here

Wednesday, April 18

740 SW 21st Ave, #310

Portland, Oregon 97205

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

3DV offers digital design tools for creative professionals. Specializing in 3D printing workflows using Ultimaker 3D printers. Hands on demos of the latest technology in digital drawing devices in our Wacom demo room. Our co-host Hinge will have fully immersive VR & AR experiences.

Autodesk Hits Portland 2017 (Past Event)

2017-11-11T00:42:00-06:00

3DV & Autodesk Presents

"Autodesk Hits Portland 2017" Now including a Pre-Show

@ the Incredible Empirical Theater at OMSI

Free parking - Free event

November 30, 2017

Schedule:

5:00 - 6:30 Pre-show: plus Beer/Wine, Food & Networking

6:30 - 9:00 Demonstration

9:00 Raffle - Wacom & Nvidia

This is a free event for creative, technical, and marketing professionals. Come early to mix, mingle and network with industry peers over delicious appetizers and drinks.

Join friends and colleagues at this special event where Autodesk and 3DV will present new tools, products, and processes for the Entertainment and Design industries.

During the Pre-Show, event Sponsors HP, Wacom, and 3DV will be on hand with some of their latest products and offerings to try out in person. This is the first time we feature a Pre-Show to discuss and demo how hardware and software solutions facilitate the creative process in Media and Entertainment, Design and Manufacturing.

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in the entertainment, product, architectural, industrial, transportation, 3D printing, or design industries.

Content creators for any media: 3D printing, advertising, motion graphics, VR, high end web, broadcast, VFX, animation, video games or mobile content.

Marketing professionals looking to take that next step in competitive differentiation of design and visual messaging.

Why You Should Attend

New tools and workflows in 3D, pre-production, reality capture, and VR are opening doors to new and improved design processes facilitating better, faster iterations, leading to more creative solutions in Entertainment and Design.

Higher levels of audience sophistication and competition for impressions and eyeballs as well as the need for access to massive compute power are driving creative output.

Access to faster and better rendering solutions like Arnold, Cloud, and Cloud rights as well as standardized project management tools like Shotgun facilitating and optimizing small and large productions and offer unlimited, on-demand computing power.

Technology is driving disruptive changes in most industries: this event is focused on helping you keep up with those changes.

What You Will Learn

Increase your knowledge of how new Autodesk products, workflows, and services are enabling artists to create things faster.

Watch a live show on tools and techniques focused on Maya, Max, Shotgun, Sketchbook, Recap, and Rendering. Topics covered include new features in Proceduralism, 3D printing, VR, and Cloud Rights that can be incorporated in workflows and pipelines immediately to enhance your visual content faster.

Speakers:

Jose M. Elizardo - Technical Specialist, Autodesk

Jose Elizardo is an expert extraordinaire when it comes to anything and everything related to Autodesk® 3ds Max. He’s been with Autodesk for over 10 years, and his experience in the media and entertainment industry have made him a specialist of visualization and Live Design.

Marcel de Jong – Tech Team Lead, North America, Autodesk

At Autodesk, Marcel is focused on Film and TV. He works with studios such as Disney, Pixar, and ILM, as well as a range of medium sized VFX studios. In VFX he started as a consultant for studios like Dream Quest Images and Warner Digital. Production experience or credits on films like Inspector Gadget and Pirates of the Caribbean. His background and training are in industrial design and worked with design studios such as Hauser Design and Honda R&D. His designs have been published in “ID magazine”, “CGW”, “Innovation”, and “Popular Mechanics”. Marcel studied at UT Arlington and Art Center, College of Design. He is also co-founder of Gnomon, School of Visual FX.

Thanks to our sponsors and partners for making this event possible:

Wednesday, April 26 Design Week Portland Open House (Past Event)

2016-04-26T17:22:00-05:00

Space is limited register here

Wednesday, April 26

740 SW 21st Ave, #310

Portland, Oregon 97205

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Want to learn more about 3D printing, Virtual Reality or digital drawing tools? Our 3DV open house will have live demonstrations of the latest technologies including formlabs Form 2 3D printer, Vive VR powered by Autodesk's content creation tools and Wacom's latest digital art tools: MobileStudio Pro & Cintiq 27HD & 22HD.

Wacom will be offering a Bamboo Spark Smartpad as a door prize for a lucky attendee

3DV will co-host drinks and snacks with our neighbor Hinge Digital.

Feb. 20, 2017 Game Night | Where CG and Games Meet (Past Event)

2016-02-20T14:06:00-06:00

Film Screening and Game Play Mixer,

Come to a gathering of game enthusiasts and multimedia specialists, screening one of our favorite films, Us And The Games Industry, explorations in game design interactivity and inspiration.

“This new generation of game designers seeks to make gaming a cerebral, artistic, or emotional experience.”
– Stephanie Beth, Director

Us and the Games Industry is a feature documentary that investigates design principles with contemporary computer game developers. Featured are: Jenova Chen with lead programmer John Edwards and Producer Robin Hunicke and team members at work at thatgamecompany that was responsible for the game, JOURNEY for networked play on the PS3.

Logistics

Sign-up for Free Registration at EventBrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/game-night-where-cg-and-games-meet-tickets-31366931336)

Come on February 20, 2017 at PCC Cascade (see map)

Schedule:

5:45p Registration, food and drink, meet and greet
6:00p Mixer / Game Play: (Gang Beast TBA)
7:00p Screening of Us and the Game Industry
8:45–9:00p put things back.

The movie is approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes long.

Snacks and drinks supplied by PIGSquad.

Jan 22 and 29 2017 HOMEBREW 2017 | a PDX Animation Showcase (Past Event)

2016-01-22T13:58:00-06:00

HOMEBREW 2017 | a PDX Animation Showcase

A FERTILE GROUND MEDIA ARTS EVENT

HOMEBREW: A PDX Animation Showcase is an event long in the making. Celebrating recent works from the gamut of local animators, you’ll find the screening collection fun, refreshing and very Portland. Organized and moderated by Sophya Vidal, a long-standing member of the animation and theatre community, creative and thoughtful storytelling are at the core of the program. The screening will be followed by a panel with several of the creators, so bring your best questions and get to know your Portland Animation Ambassadors. This event is brought to you by The Animation resource Community Service (ARCS), Portland ASIFA, and Cascade SIGGRAPH. (3 hours).

Line-up includes works by Kurtis Hough, Beryl Allee, Curtis Randolph, and many more. Animation styles consist of Hand drawn 2D, 3D, Cut-out animation. Program is rated PG-13.

Event Details

Festival Date Sunday, Jan 22 AND January 29th @ 3pm
Venue 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall St. Portland, OR 97201
Tickets General is $10; ASIFA/SIGGRAPH Members get in for $5.
Purchase https://www.boxofficetickets.com/bot/wa/event?id=316523 or at the Door. We sold out last year, so get them early!

Thursday, Dec 1, 2016 The SIGGRAPH 2016 COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL (Past Event)

2015-12-01T13:50:00-06:00

This Thursday Portland gets a special treat: to see the world's leading annual computer animation festival and to hear Emily Hsu from Laika speak about the traveling show. The Festival includes the most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creations — the best work of the year — outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and much more.

Emily Hsu, Production Sessions Chair for SIGGRAPH 2017 will speak about the current show and submitting work to the next festival. She'll answer questions about the CAF 2016 and give special notes on those shorts, such as Cosmos Laundromat — the pilot for a feature-film that is definitely the first free/open source animated feature-film production.

Logistics:

Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016
Time: registration starts at 6:00, speaker at 6:30, then the screening
Place: PCC Cascade Moriarty Arts Auditorium (MAHB room 104 off of Albina and Killingsworth), 705 N Killingsworth St., Portland Oregon, 97217.
Tickets: available at EventBrite or at the door; Free for current SIGGRAPH chapter members (join now) and PCC multimedia club members; $4.00 (Discounted for) Laika staff, ASIFA members, students and affiliates; $9.00 General Public
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Uz6dh6Ky8p8 with some extra content
Transportation: parking available on the street and in lots: parking and mass transit recommended. See map.

Playlist: the Traveling Computer Animation Festival includes:

Accidents, Blunders, and Calamities — James Cunningham
Alike — Daniel Martinez Lara
Glass Half — Blender Foundation
Tea Time — Thomas Bourret, et al.
Tokyo Cosmo — Takahiro Miyauchi
Citipati — Andreas Feix
Solar Superstorms — NCSA
League of Legends Project Overdrive — Axis Animation
Mafia III — Blur Studio
Shell V-Power "Shapeshifter" — Framestore CFC
Behind the Magic: Warcraft — Industrial Light & Magic
Behind the Magic: Marvel's Captain America Civil War — Industrial Light & Magic
Les Marmottes Mariachi — Le Groupe Mikros Image
None of That — Ringling College of Art and Design
Escargore — Media Design School
Crabe-Phare, Gaetan Borde, et al.
Borrowed Time — Quorum Films, LLC
Cosmos Laundromat — Blender Foundation

Running time: approximately 90 minutes

About the Speaker
Emily Hsu is the Production Sessions Chair for SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles (July 30 - August 3, 2017). She also happens to have a day job here in the Pacific Northwest as a Production Coordinator at LAIKA in Hillsboro, Oregon. Emily started out in the industry as a Recruiting Intern at PDI/DreamWorks, where she first learned about SIGGRAPH when half the company seemed to be out of the office during the week of the conference! The following year, she decided to join the fun and see what it was all about as a Student Volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2010 and quickly fell in love with the conference and all it had to offer, eventually volunteering more time as a Team Leader, a Subcommittee member, and now a Committee Chair. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she holds dual degrees in Business Admin and Film & Media Studies. Before becoming a proud member of the LAIKA team, she also had work experiences at companies including Pixar, Allied-THA, Sony DADC, and CBS Radio's 99.7 NOW.

About the Local Chapter
Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH serves the needs of local computer graphics industry professionals and students; to promote an increased knowledge of the educational, artistic, and scientific applications of modern technology for graphics; to enhance communication between persons in the field, that have an interest in aspects of computer graphics. For more information on Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH and membership, visit the website at www.cascade.siggraph.org.

Nov. 17th 3DV & Autodesk Present "Autodesk Hits Portland" (Past Event)

2015-11-17T16:02:00-06:00

Thursday November 17th, 2016 3DV and Autodesk Present "Autodesk Hits Portland" at the Empirical Theater at OMSI

Schedule:
5:00 - 6:30 Beer/Wine, Food & Networking
6:30 - 9:00 Demonstration
9:00 - Raffle - Wacom Intuos Pro, Bamboo Folio & Slate

This is a free event for creative, technical, and marketing professionals. Come early to mix, mingle and network with industry peers over delicious appetizers and drinks.

Join friends and colleagues at this special event where Autodesk and 3DV will present new tools, products, and processes for the Entertainment and Design industries.

Watch live demos and presentations to learn how these tools and techniques enable you to create more compelling content faster, and enter to win one of three (3) Wacom giveaways: Intuos Pro Medium, Bamboo Folio Large and Bamboo Slate small

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in the entertainment, product, architectural/environmental, industrial, transportation, or motion design industries.

Content creators for any media: marketing, advertising, motion graphics, VR, high end web, broadcast, VFX, animation, videogames or mobile content.

Marketing professionals looking to take that next step in competitive differentiation of design and visual messaging.

Why You Should Attend

New tools and workflows in software such as VR are opening doors to new and improved design processes facilitating better, faster iterations, leading to more creative solutions in Entertainment and Design.

Higher levels of audience sophistication and competition for impressions and eyeballs is fierce and only the most compelling images get noticed.

The Cloud standardizes project management tools facilitating and optimizing small and large productions and also offer unlimited, on-demand computing power.

Technology is driving disruptive changes in most industries: this event is focused on helping you keep up with those changes.

What You Will Learn

Increase your knowledge of how new Autodesk tools, products, workflows, and services are enabling “The Future of making Things”.

Watch a live show on tools and techniques in Maya, Max, Shotgun, Remake and more on topics such as VR, Content Creation Tools, Cloud etc. that you can incorporate in workflows immediately to enhance your visual content faster.

Event Sponsors Wacom will be on hand in person to discuss how their solutions support the “Future of Making Things”. Some of their latest products will be on display to try out.

Speakers:

Jose M. Elizardo

Technical Specialist, Autodesk

Marcel de Jong

Technical Team Lead – Americas, Autodesk

Marcel specializes in 3D production for Film/TV and Design. He worked as a digital FX consultant for studios such as Dream Quest Images and Warner Digital. His background is in Industrial/Concept Design and his work has been published in ‘Popular Mechanics’, ‘ID magazine’, ‘CGW’, and ‘Innovation’.

Today Marcel provides various technical services for many Autodesk Film and TV customers ranging from smaller to larger accounts such as ILM, Pixar, and DreamWorks. Marcel is also a co-founder of Gnomon Inc.

Thursday, June 23, 2016 Inside Arnold Production rendering with House Special (Past Event)

2015-06-23T14:04:00-05:00

Come have some drinks with Solid Angle, makers of the Arnold renderer, and Portland's own House Special

Ben Fischler, Director of Education & Outreach at Solid Angle (now a part of Autodesk,) will discuss Arnold's development and exciting future.

Next we'll hear from Nikie Monteleone, Alvaro Cubillas and Matt Reslier as they walk us through their 5 favorite things about Arnold.

Nikie Monteleone, Senior Surfacing Artist at HouseSpecial
Nikie Monteleone is obsessed with all types of textures and surfaces. She studied prints, patterns & fabrics at the Maryland Institute College of Art before diving into animation at NYC’s School of Visual Arts. Nikie and her fiancé have called Portland home for almost four years. Together they are raising Bentley, one madcap Boston Terrier who shares Nikie’s love for every kind of cheese. Instagram @iLoveTexture
Twitter @NikieDotMa

Alvaro Cubillas, COO at HouseSpecial
Al loves technology and problem solving. His quest to innovate and his expertise in the animation process guided him to Portland (twice! with family in tow) and into the epicenter of an animation paradise. Prior to partnering with Lourri and Kirk to form HouseSpecial, Al was Managing Director of Strategic Operations for LAIKA/house and served as Vice President and Head of Technology for LAIKA’s Feature Film division following its evolution out of Vinton Studios.
In Texas, Al was the Vice President and Head of Technology at ReelFX Animation Studios developing their pipeline for the features Book of Life, Freebirds, Sony’s Open Season 3, as well as Blue Sky’s Ice Age Christmas, and WB’s Looney Toon shorts.

Matt Reslier, Lighting/Comp Lead at HouseSpecial
Originally from Florida, Matt started his career on a painting scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but switched majors to Computer Graphics after listening to some wise advise from a girlfriend. Since then, his animation career has spanned the globe with ride animations for The Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios Singapore to a gig in The Virgin Islands teaching Maya to PBS employees. Before landing at HouseSpecial, Matt honed his skills at LAIKA, Curious Pictures, The Mill, Psyop, ESPN, Universal and a return to Pratt as an instructor.

Doors at 6:30

WHEN: Thursday, June 23, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT) - Add to Calendar
WHERE: Tillamook Station - 665 North Tillamook Street, Portland, OR 97227 - View Map

Monday, April 18th, 2016 Design Week: Alphabest + Reel Review 2016 (Past Event)

2015-04-18T18:30:00-05:00

Collaborative Animation & yearly Demo Reel Review on tap for DWP

Happy to announce our big event for Design Week this year will combine efforts from AEPDX, 3DPDX and VFX/PDX to bring you Alphabest and the annual Demo Reel Review.

Alphabest is a collaborative animation that will feature a potent blend of the best animation talent in Portland. Details on this unique undertaking can be found over at the AEPDX page.

Then, sit tight for the Demo Reel Review! This shows off some of the best talent and work being done around the city, at all levels from recent grads to senior level artists, and all flavors - Motion Design, 3D and VFX all represented. Submit your reel by April 11th and be in the running for not only great exposure, but some great prizes as well! More details at the VFX/PDX page.

This event will sell out quickly, so please take a moment to lock in your tickets now. User group members are being offered a block of special half price tickets, valid up to March 15th - use the promo code AE3DVFX when purchasing. Link to tickets.

Alphabest + Reel Review
Monday, April 18th, 6:30-10:00pm
Artists Repertory Theatre
1515 SW Morrison

Thanks to sponsors:

Scopic / 3DV / 52 Ltd / Red Giant Software / Blackmagic Design / SideFX / Artist Repertory Theatre / OMSI / Neat Video

Jamal Qutub of AEPDX on the poster design.

Saturday April 9th, 2016 VFX/PDX + OMSI Present: Fon Davis - The Secret Models of Star Wars

2015-04-09T15:51:00-05:00

Presentation follows a screening of The Force Awakens - April 9th

What better way to kick off our new Reverse Angle series, highlighting heroes working behind the lens, than a screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens followed by long time model shop guru Fon Davis joining us from LA to present "The Secret Models of Star Wars." This is a can't miss event giving us one last chance to catch Star Wars on OMSI's four story Empirical Theater screen, and simultaneously getting us primed for Design Week with some serious shop talk.

And no one, NO ONE, can talk shop like Fon Davis. When it comes time to roll up one's sleeves to create some movie magic back in the model shop, there are few who can top Fon's travels. A long time ILM staffer who since struck out on his own with his company, Fonco Creative, Fon is entrenched in a world of models and miniatures that continue to deliver incredible visuals and appreciation for their tactile, real-world detail, while seamlessly allowing for "new school" digital enhancement. This is an evening you won't want to miss.

Get your advance tickets here. Act now, seating is limited and likely to sell out.

VFX/PDX Presents - Reverse Angle w/Fon Davis: The Secret Models of Star Wars
Saturday April 9th
Doors 7pm, Film 7:30pm, Presentation 10pm
OMSI Empirical Theater
1945 SE Water Ave
$10

Autodesk Hits Portland 2015 (Past Event)

2014-11-12T14:58:00-06:00

3DV & Autodesk Presents

Autodesk Hits Portland 2015 (FREE)

@ OMSI in the Empirical Theater

Lots of Free parking

Schedule:

5:00 - 6:30 Free Beer/Wine, Food & Networking

6:00 - 6:30 Theater opens with customer demo reels

6:30 - 9:00 Show

9:00 Raffle - Wacom Intuos Pro

Guest Speakers from Laika:

Brian Mclean Director of Rapid Prototype and

"3D Printing for Film Making"

Autodesk Application Engineers:

Steven Roselle and Jose Manuel Elizardo will be showing Maya, 3ds Max, Stingray, Shotgun and more.

Wacom Cintiq 27HD hands on display at event

This event sells out every year, so don't wait to register.

Special thank you to our sponsors / partners for making this event possible

Events

3DV Welcomes Autodesk back to Portland 2022

Autodesk Hits Portland 2019

About this Event

Wednesday, April 18 2018 Design Week Portland Open House (Past Event)

Autodesk Hits Portland 2017 (Past Event)

Schedule:

5:00 - 6:30 Pre-show: plus Beer/Wine, Food & Networking

6:30 - 9:00 Demonstration

9:00 Raffle - Wacom & Nvidia

Wednesday, April 26 Design Week Portland Open House (Past Event)

Feb. 20, 2017 Game Night | Where CG and Games Meet (Past Event)

Logistics

Jan 22 and 29 2017 HOMEBREW 2017 | a PDX Animation Showcase (Past Event)

HOMEBREW 2017 | a PDX Animation Showcase

A FERTILE GROUND MEDIA ARTS EVENT

Event Details

Thursday, Dec 1, 2016 The SIGGRAPH 2016 COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL (Past Event)

Nov. 17th 3DV & Autodesk Present "Autodesk Hits Portland" (Past Event)

Thursday November 17th, 2016 3DV and Autodesk Present "Autodesk Hits Portland" at the Empirical Theater at OMSI

Schedule:5:00 - 6:30 Beer/Wine, Food & Networking6:30 - 9:00 Demonstration9:00 - Raffle - Wacom Intuos Pro, Bamboo Folio & Slate

Who Should Attend

Why You Should Attend

What You Will Learn

Speakers:

Jose M. Elizardo

Technical Specialist, Autodesk

Marcel de Jong

Technical Team Lead – Americas, Autodesk

Thursday, June 23, 2016 Inside Arnold Production rendering with House Special (Past Event)

Monday, April 18th, 2016 Design Week: Alphabest + Reel Review 2016 (Past Event)

Collaborative Animation & yearly Demo Reel Review on tap for DWP

Saturday April 9th, 2016 VFX/PDX + OMSI Present: Fon Davis - The Secret Models of Star Wars

Presentation follows a screening of The Force Awakens - April 9th

Autodesk Hits Portland 2015 (Past Event)

Schedule:
5:00 - 6:30 Beer/Wine, Food & Networking
6:30 - 9:00 Demonstration
9:00 - Raffle - Wacom Intuos Pro, Bamboo Folio & Slate