Official Summit Opening, Day 1: Welcome to the devcom Art & Animation Summit 2021!

No Tuesday without "Early Access" – with a tiny tweak! This episdode of our morning show will be hosted by Juliana, Robin and Bas and will be dedicated to topics related to art and animation stuff, of course!

Bastian Wilk a.k.a. Bas is a Visual Development Artist and Illustrator, who is also working as a freelancer for the devcom team.

feat. Anna Mimik, Game Developer at 2FOR2 and also a speaker at the devcom Art & Animation Summit. We talk about Anna’s work, indie team 2FOR2 and their upcoming adventure "Kapi".

feat. Doron Hirsch, Co-founder of Kwa Qua Games It’s our turn to be artsy – or something like that...

"Subnautica Below Zero" is visually gorgeous – reason enough to dive right in!

Session: Producing Realistic Portfolio Shots with Substance 3D Stager

feat. Vladimir Petkovic, Creative Director at Adobe 3D&I
In this creative jam session, powered by 80 Level, we’ll go over some tips and tricks in Substance 3D Stager to make your portfolio stand out.
First, we’ll borrow from traditional photography practice to learn how to frame the camera and operate different lights in a scene. Then, we’ll explore how to create a simple studio environment where you can stage your 3D model. Finally, you’ll learn how 3D models can be seamlessly composed with a backplate photo, to produce a highly realistic result.

In this interview, powered by 80 Level, Ryan Kingslien from Vertex will give valuable tips on tools and careers.

Official Opening, Day 2: Let’s start another day with many more amazing guests, Let’s Plays and specials!

feat. Nikola Damjanov, Lead Game Artist at Nordeus

In this session, Nikola will guide us through several personal and commercial projects that showcase how Houdini can empower a generalist one-man army to tackle self-improvement, large scale projects and giving back.

Stunning visuals and amazing sound – Annapurna at its best!

Because it doesn’t get old – that’s why!

Sebastián González Majó is Animator at Pomelo Games.

After studying in the University of Fine Arts in Montevideo, Uruguay, he taught himself animation and worked for several years as a 3d generalist, animating and doing post-production for advertising, documentaries and music videos. Later in 2013 he joined a group of friends to form Pomelo Games, a studio that today, has successfully developed and released 7 titles for Android and iOS. Until this date he continues to try and beautify games at Pomelo, working on animation, VFX, interaction design and user experience.

Bastian Wilk a.k.a. Bas is a Visual Development Artist and Illustrator, who is also working as a freelancer for the devcom team. This 2nd live drawing session will contain more art, more fun – maybe some lame dad jokes... ^^

This is a mega highlight - a clear "MUST NOT MISS"!

Klaus Scherwinski is a Visual Development Artist with 15+ years of experience in the art industry. Recent projects: "Horizon Forbidden West", "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora".

Started out as illustrator for pen and paper roleplaying games and as a comic artist. Worked at CRYTEK (Germany) as storyboard and marketing artist, creating concept art, storyboards and marketing material for IPs like "RYSE", "Homefront2", "Warface" and "HUNT: Horros of the Gilded Age". Educator for graphic storytelling, design and art at institutions like University of Bielefeld, H_da Hochschule Darmstadt, SAE Institute (Athens, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Munic, Milano, Stuttgart, Zurich) and others.

Clients include, Ubisoft, Guerrilla Games, CRYTEK, IO-Interactive,Guerrilla Games Plastic Wax, Axis Animation, ITV, Wizards of the Coast, IDW Publishing, Paizo Publishing, Black Library, Catalyst Game Labs, Fantasy Flight Games, Black Book Edition, Nintendo of Europe, and many more.

feat. Luis Cataldi, Lead Evangelist at Quixel / Epic Games Session special, powered by 80 Level!