Game Art Lecture Series Sponsored by Laguna College

Laguna College of Art & Design invites the artistic community to Game Art Lecture Series 2008 featuring a keynote presentation from Autodesk principal scientist Duncan Brinsmead on Thursday, February 7 at 11:30am at [seven-degrees], located at 891 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach. Admission is free.

The creator of Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Toon, Duncan Brinsmead has also worked extensively on development of Maya Fluids and Maya nCloth. Gain a privileged insight into the challenges of computer graphics and the future of 3D in this special presentation for the community. Duncan will be performing a live demo of bizarre and unnatural uses of nCloth using Autodesk Maya 2008. See real-time simulations of deforming metal, water filled balloons, confetti, paper airplanes, curtains on sliding hooks, vacuum formed bubble packs, flesh, falling leaves, zippers, tearing cloth, chopping cake, pouring water and swirling vortices.

Duncan will also demo a unique air vortex simulation method that was added to Nucleus in Maya 2008. It creates the look of a 3D fluid dynamics solve without requiring a full fluid simulation and can provide very natural looking air-cloth interaction. There will also be some unusual techniques presented using Maya fluids, from hurricanes to a foam topped cappuccino.

LCAD wishes to share this opportunity with students and community members of all ages and hopes to provide artists of all levels of creative accomplishment with an inspiring experience.