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------------------ Welcome To Sportland ------------------ STILL RUNNING AS PLANNED - SNOW OR NOT! ----------------------------------------- Portland, Ore. Creative Professionals Converge to Share Amazing Work & Discuss Trends in Sportswear Design & Technology at The Hollywood Theatre. ----------------------------------------- With behemoths in our backyard like Nike, Adidas, Keen, and Columbia Sportswear, Portland undoubtedly has become a hub for the sportswear design and technology industries. In order to celebrate some of the exceptional work that sustain this ever-growing Portland export, The Portland After Effects User Group (AEPDX), 3DPDX, and FlashPDX are all joining forces for this one of a kind event. The “Welcome To Sportland” event will spotlight what’s the newest and hottest 3D ,motion graphics, and interactive work being created in Portland. The venue will allow professionals to network, as well as feature a paneled discussion followed by a Q&A session. Big kid drinks and snacks will be provided. Space is always limited so we will be accepting RSVPs for entrance. --------- PANELISTS: --------- Brad Clarkson: Senior Technology Manager and Digital Lead, Technology Initiatives Group. Nike Inc. Justin Lewis: Co-Founder and Director of Digital at Instrument, where he provides vision, strategy, and leadership over all digital projects. Roland Gauthier: Executive Producer/Founder Hinge Digital LLC. Hinge Digital provides superior pre-and post-production visual effects for the commercial, broadcast and interactive markets. Russell Hirtzel: Co-Creator and 3D Director at Mode Adjust. Oversees all aspects of the production pipeline as they relate to 3D. Jim Clark: President of HIVE-FX. Commercial Director and feature/television Visual FX supervisor. Creative oversight of animation, VFX and retail rendering. Shauna Stinson: Owner of Vizwerks. Specializes in retail design - bringing brands to life for consumers. Stephen Fitzgerald: A specialist in concept development and direction in television and advertising. --------- SPONSORS: --------- 52 Limited http://www.52ltd.com/ Autodesk PDX http://3dpdx.com HERENOW Creative http://www.herenowcreative.com/ Liaison PR http://www.liaisonpr.com/ Rogue Ales http://www.rogue.com/ Portland Modern Furniture http://pomomodern.com/ 3DV Corp. http://www.3dv.com Atomic Sky http://www/atomicsky.biz ------------------- FEATURING WORK FROM: ------------------- Nike Brand Design Media, Mode Adjust, Clink Creative Motion, Big-Giant, Collektiv, Vizwerks, Summit Projects, Studio Cassis, Second Story Interactive, PixelPool, Nimpsy Studio, Sketchbook Inc, Deep Sky Studios, Instrument, HERENOW Creative Network, Gridplane, Decoy, Monovich, Columbia Sportswear, Atomic Sky, The Curious, ADi, Duro Compagnie, Transport, Feel Good Anyway, Ziba Design, Li Ning ------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ------------------- Submissions were due by Feb 11th. Sorry if you missed. We've had over 200 submissions! ---------------- ABOUT THE GROUPS: ---------------- The Portland After Effects User Group's mission is to give motion graphics artists in Portland a platform for communication, education and collaboration. The motion graphics group is free for anyone to join interested in the subject. We have had a great track record of amazing speakers with capacity attendance at each event. Learn more at http://www.aepdx.org. 3DPDX seeks to bring 3D Artists, Animators & Designers of all levels together for the purpose of networking, knowledge sharing, referrals, and resource sharing inside and around Portland. Learn more at http://3dpdx.com. FlashPDX is a forum for designers, developers, and producers to explore content creation and deployment for the Adobe Flash platform on desktop and devices. Learn more at http://flashpdx.groups.adobe.com/ AEPDX ,3DPDX, and the FlashPDX are answering a call by providing content rich events that focus on learning, sharing great ideas which ultimately ends up nourishing and growing our design and development community here in Portland.