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We're so excited to share that our VR experience "Meditate Like A Dolphin" will be featured in @ SLAMDANCE Film Festival! The Slamdance Film Festival is special because it actively promotes and showcases the work of emerging, independent filmmakers, providing a platform for unique voices and fresh talent, valuing raw creativity. Meditate Like A Dolphin was one of 100 selections picked out of 10,000 applicants! Join us from Feb 21-24 at Quixote West Hollywood – Building S1, Room S1-1, Space DP#5, 10 AM - 8 PM Get your tickets here: https://hubs.li/Q036jSSb0

I want to give a big shout out to Erik Weaver Christina Lee Storm ETC - Entertainment Technology Center @ USC Tom Thudiyanplackal for having me on the Europa panel yesterday at the Verizon Innovation Lab organized by Lori H. Schwartz. The panel I was on was insightful and showed off all the groups that helped make a six month VAD project into a two month creative race to get the vision of Director Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal to the screen. Shout out to Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Electronics for sponsoring such a great project. Additional thank you's go to everyone on the CG Pro VAD Team including Daniel Langhjelm Ian Hill Tamara Abas Hoyt Dwyer Faith Trinker Dani Morrow (please tag more) for making the this creative challenge into a reality. MC D. you were a gracious moderator, and there are just so many things to say about this event. Thanks all for having Edward Dawson-Taylor and CG Pro ! Erik "Wolfie" Wolford David Ethan Sanders Evin Grant Libor Cevelik Devon Mathis, Eric B. Roth and many more I"ll try to add this weekend.

CG Pro conducts trainings all over the world for companies and schools. Scott Rosekrans trained a team in South Korea. He lead workshops on all things Unreal Engine including virtual production, DMX, modeling, lighting, shadowing, and cinematic cameras.

Are you ready to take the next step with Unreal Engine? Our Unreal Engine: Filmmaking course begins this Sunday! In this 5-week course you'll learn: 🚀 Advanced environment creation techniques 🎬 Advanced animation ⚙️ Intermediate rendering and optimization 🌐 Virtual production fundamentals 🎛️ Advanced Sequencer techniques Space is filling up. Learn more and sign up here: https://hubs.li/Q036jnmX0

Today is the day I finally put an end to and publish a personal Unreal Engine project that was initiated 2 years ago in the FAB “Unreal engine for Filmmakers program” I followed at CG Pro in 2023. So, I am happy and honored to share with you this little teaser trailer : “BEYOND THE CREED”. The full HD 4K version is available here : https://lnkd.in/gN-puufD “BEYOND THE CREED” is a creative case study that was initiated before I started learning UE. I wanted to dive into learning the emerging creative tools that let creators tell stories and could become an active part of neo-cinema creative & production pipelines. I wanted it to be briefing based to avoid “creative drifting” and to make sure the outcome would have some existing references. So, as a fan of Jon Favreau’s amazing production work (including his incredible team), what better topic than The Mandalorian TV series as a briefing base? How about creating “side stories of the side stories” using these tools? The first tests were made with AI creative tools 2 years ago as “Previs” illustrations of side stories that could have happened in the non-diegetic realm of the TV series, like before and / or after. Beyond The Creed on Instagram : https://lnkd.in/grv95gQu Then while diving into Unreal Engine, the idea became to start from the last 2 shots of the TV series, try to re-build the environment as close as possible to the existing ones, and push the story slightly beyond the ending towards the perspective of new coming adventures. - Including a few hints coming from D23 in the end credits for the true Mando & Grogu geeks. 💫 A long learning journey in the making indeed. See, I am before all a film producer willing to learn new tools to integrate them in a relevant way into future Virtual Production or creative content production projects, rather than an artist really. So, it was indeed a long project with tons of frustrations trying to achieve what I knew was possible but couldn’t manage myself. But hopefully it was way more gratifying with tons of learnings and most of all the encounter of incredibly (more) talented people (than myself) who inspired, guided me, helped and made it possible. - To ALL of you thank you… I am BEYOND grateful! Jacqueline Cooper – Edward Dawson-Taylor – Daniel Langhjelm – Taoan Qin – Antonio Dato Menchero – Zulfahri Effendy PS : This is only the beginning: a mindblob new website is coming out soon and will be documenting both the journey and the perspective ! #Hint – This is the way ! 🖖🏼💫 #MandalorianAndGrogu #BeyondTheCreed #TheMandalorian #JonFavreau #DaveFiloni #StarWars #UnrealEngine #AICreativeTools #NeoCinema #CreativeDevelopment #VirtualProduction

Pwnisher has a new challenge- Chasm’s Call! CG Pro is so excited to be a sponsor - everyone in the top 100 gets to join the Inner Circle! Plus- our instructors will be helping out participants in the Create with Clint Discord. Stay tuned for info on their office hours.  Are you going to enter??? https://lnkd.in/emKbAKvf

Finally after so much prep, we are finally ready to roll with the soft launch of our CG Pro Inner Circle Community App, available on the IOS store and Google Play Store, in conjunction with being proud sponsors of Pwnisher's challenge (if you don't know him, he has 1.34 Million Subscribers on YT and is an awesome and talented person of course). Join the livestream NOW! And share the challenge!!! Livestream: https://lnkd.in/gFf5wW9y Challenge Details: https://lnkd.in/gsFz9QAz Join the DISCORD: https://lnkd.in/gDuMkNyf Stuck on your Chasm’s Call challenge entry? Want some expert feedback?  Don't miss our free Discord Office Hours for help and feedback on your projects during the challenge at.. February 17th at 11am Pacific with CG Pro Instructors Daniel Langhjelm & Franco Vilanova February 27th at 6pm Pacific with CG Pro Instructors John Waynick and Scott Rosekrans Join the "Create with Clint"  Discord Lori H. Schwartz Gregg Katano Martin Porter Robin Raskin John Troiano Aleksii Gutiantov Joshua Lang WePlay Studios Aaron Sternberg Anne-Marie Enns Felix Jorge John Canning Barbara Marshall #chasmscall #sponsor #cg #vfx #gamedev #community #blender #unrealengine #marvelousdesigner

Open day is tonight! I am taking the steering wheel and going through pt2 of the Moana Island scene I created. this time some character fx and rigging including cloth, and a night time lighting setup. Also a glimpse of some new things we have been working on that are soft launching this weekend.

Open Day is here, on February 6th! Don't miss out on a FREE demo lesson in Unreal Engine using real assets from Moana 2. Join us virtually at 5:00pm PT, register here: https://hubs.li/Q035wKTg0

Gregg Katano caught up with Jacqueline Cooper, Co-Founder of CG Pro and Founder of CG Empowers. [VIDEO] "Jackie" was a SVVS speaker on the 'Retraining the Training Video' panel and CG Pro was Partner Sponsor. Jackie contributed to many top grossing films such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II, Tron II, and Jurassic World. Within CG Pro, Cooper is deeply involved in curriculum development, community building, and assisting students in finding rewarding positions that take advantage of their newly acquired skills in software such as Unreal Engine and Blender. Through CG Empowers, Cooper facilitates opportunities to educate diverse communities and provide opportunities to create and share visual experiences. #education #training #gamedevelopment #virtualproduction #gameengines