Tuesday – Up bright and early for a press conference before the opening of the Exhibition. This is where serious stuff begin.
On the way, quick stop to hail the imposing guard of FJORG!… this year’s Iron Animators event pitting teams of animators working non stop to produce an original movie during the time of the conference. Their followers are everywhere, easily recognizable by their viking helmet.
The Exhibition is as much of a visual overload as usual. Colorful booths, goodies, loud demos and people running everywhere. And sometimes, around the corner of a booth, an unexpected cool piece of hardware like this car simulator.
One of the highlights of the day was the brilliant talk from featured speaker Scott McLoud. With an acute sense of humor, he took the audience through a tour of his world, starting with his roadtrip with his family, why we are privileged to be able to create our own imaginary world, how he got involved with comics at a young age to a deconstruction of what makes comics a unique medium and how they may evolve in the future.
This was one of the most engaging talk of my experience of the conference… interestingly enough, it wasn’t about computer graphics 🙂