I will be giving a seminar on my work for the hit Turkish Movie “AROG” as Visual Effects Supervisor on Tuesday May 20th, 2010 at İzmir University of Economics. The seminar will be part of “Career Development Seminars” that is being organized by İEU IEEE Student Branch. I will be talking about Visual Effects and Computer Graphics from a film makers perspective. Details of the seminar are as follows:

• Location : İzmir University of Economics
  • Conference Center- Balçova – İzmir
• Date : May 20th, 2010 at 15:00 – 16:30
• Programme :
  • Visual Effects for films: AROG
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

I will be giving a seminar on my work for the hit Turkish Movie “AROG” as Visual Effects Supervisor on Tuesday April 13th, 2010 at İstanbul Technical University. The seminar will be part of “ITU Programming and Gaming Festival” that will be held at the İstanbul Technical University.  Festival will be focused on video gaming industry and i will be talking about Visual Effects and Computer Graphics from a film makers perspective. Details of the seminar are as follows:

• Location  : İstanbul Technical University
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering – Ayazaga – İstanbul
• Date : April 13th, 2010 at 11:30 – 13:30
• Programme :
  • Visual Effects for films: AROG
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

I will be doing a workshop on “Visual Effects for Motion Pictures” as part of the “Canlandıranlar Talent Camp” which is a project being done within “İstanbul European Capital of Culture 2010 Festivities”. The Workshop which will be held at İstanbul Bilgi University Santralİstanbul Campus, will concentrate on various stages of visual effects production from a 3D and 2D computer graphics perspective.
As an example project we will be concentrating on visual effects of last year’s hit Turkish Film “AROG” which featured numerous Cg creatures and virtual sets.  For more information about the workshop and to sign up for it, please visit:

http://www.canlandiranlar.com/atolyeler.aspx

See you on Saturday at an enjoyable event…

I will be giving a seminar on my work for hit Turkish Movie “AROG” as Visual Effects Supervisor on Wednesday March 10th, 2010 at İstanbul Üniversity. The seminar will be a part of “Game Development Industry Seminars” that will be held at the İstanbul University.  Symposium will be focused on video gaming industry and i will be talking about Visual Effects and Computer Graphics from a film makers perspective. Details of the seminar are as follows:

• Location  : İstanbul University
  • Ali Rıza Berkem Conference Center – Avcılar – İstanbul
• Date : March 10th, 2010 at 14:30 – 16:00
• Programme :
  • Visual Effects for films: AROG
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

I will be giving a seminar on my work for hit Turkish Movie “AROG” as Visual Effects Supervisor on Monday January 4th, 2010 at İstanbul Yıldız Technical Üniversity. The seminar will be a part of “Industry Development Symposium” with the title “Serious Gaming” that will be held at the Yildiz Technical.  Symposium will be focused on video gaming industry and i will be talking about Visual Effects and Computer Graphics from a film makers perspective. Details of the seminar are as follows:

• Location  : Yıldız Technical University
  • YTÜ Auditorium – Beşiktaş – İstanbul
• Date : January 4th, 2010 at 13:30 – 15:00
• Programme :
  • Visual Effects for AROG
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

Website for my visual effects and animation company CaveVFX is finally up. It has been in the works for quite some time but we finally found time to finalise and publish the website today.

Cave is a collaborative and innovative visual effects company with the aim of creating simply the best in whatever we are doing, be it animation, character design, visual effects and CGI.

You can visit the website at www.cavevfx.com and see some of the work we did under the umbrella of other companies and as CaveVFX. Enjoy…

I will be giving a seminar at Ankara Bilkent University on my work at Pixar and Dreamworks. I will also be talking about my work on blockbuster Turkish Film AROG as Visual Effects Supervisor. The Seminar will be on 7th of December, 2009 and will start at 12:30pm. Here is the programme:

• Location : Ankara Bilkent Üniversitesi
  • Fine Arts Building, FFB-05 Conference Center – Bilkent Campus – Ankara
• Date : Monday, 7th of December, 2009 at 12:30
• Programme :
  • Visual Effects on Pixar and Dreamworks films
  • Visual Effects of AROG
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

Wow, what a year. Since May, things are moving as fast as the car chase scene in  Ronin. First Camp had been started up during June and then a new place was rented for office space for Camp and my production company CaveVFX. In between setting up the office, teaching and developing new projects, me and my wife somehow managed to take care of our first baby. Almost two months ago, our daughter decided to show her face to us and since then things are notched up a gear as we get ourselves comfortable with the kiddo and figuring out how can we take care of her the best. She is growing up at a steady pace and we are very, very happy to have her. I hope her life will be beautiful and troublefree. I’ll try my best to make her a happy kid like myself

And now I am onto new projects, so stay tuned…

My school for Visual Effects and Animation, “Camp”, opened its doors in Istanbul, Turkey and is now accepting applications for the 3D1 class. We are hoping to give world class education to our students with all the experience we have on creating 3D computer graphics imagery for large scale animated and live action feature films.

Our curriculum currently comprised of three classes that addresses different areas of generating 3D computer graphics imagery and we hope to extend the curriculum with short term workshops with world class talent for more specific areas in our field. The main aim of the school is to give our students an overview how it is to work on live action and animated feature films at a scale that is more or less only attainable in US. So from the ground up we will have our target set at graduating students with knowledge that they can put to good use anywhere in the world.

Please visit “Camp” website at www.camptr.com or simply click on the logo.

Next stop for our talk on Visual Effects of AROG and Pixar Films will be Kadir Has University Cibali Campus in Istanbul. The details of the talk will be as follows:

• Location  : Kadir Has University
  • Halic Conference Center – Cibali Campus – Istanbul
• Date : Tuesday, 28th of April 2009, 11:30
• Programme :
  • Opening speeches
  • Making of AROG
  • Q&A
  • Visual Effects in Pixar Films
  • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…