Tuesday – June 21, 7:30 PM
The Art of Lighting and Rendering Rio

Members: $15 // Regular: $25 // Groups (5+): $20*
* Group pricing only available through on-line advance sales.

Jim Gettinger, Lighting Supervisor, will discuss lighting and lighting design as it pertains to the overall aesthetic of Blue Sky Studios’ latest animated hit, RIO. This talk will explore the developmental work pursued by Jim and his team taking the listener through many stages of the production process at Blue Sky. Lighting and lighting techniques will be presented from concept art, through pre-visualization, master lighting, and compositing. Jim will also highlight the artistic and technical challenges encountered developing a stylized vision of the world renowned city Rio de Janeiro and believable original characters using Blue Sky’s proprietary photo-realistic ray-tracing software, CGI Studio^TM.

More about Blue Sky Studios:

Blue Sky Studios is the Academy Award®-winning, feature CG animation studio behind the wildly successful ICE AGE franchise. Using their propriety rendering software, CGI Studio®, Blue Sky creates photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering to tell timeless stories to children of all ages. Blue Sky’s productions include “Ice Age” (2002), “Robots” (2005), “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006), Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who”; (2008), “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”(2009) and the current comedy-adventure, “RIO”, in theaters now. Blue Sky Studios is wholly owned by Twentieth Century Fox.