Seminar at İstanbul University…

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…

Seminar at Yildiz Technical University…

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…

CaveVFX Website is up…

logosmallWebsite 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…

Seminar at Bilkent University…

seminer-bilkentI 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…

A lot of changes…

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…

“Camp” opened its doors..

campMy center 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.

“Making of AROG…” at Kadir Has Uni.

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:seminer-khas

  • 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…

“Making of AROG…” at İYTE

Next stop for our talk on Visual Effects of AROG and Pixar Films will be İzmir Institute of Technology – Urla – Gülbahçe Campus. The details of the talk which will take place at Prof. Dr. Erdal Saygın Amphitheater will be as follows:seminer-iyte1

  • Location  : İzmir Institute of Technology
    • Prof. Dr. Erdal Saygın Amphitheater – İzmir – Urla – Gülbahçe
  • Date : Thursday, 16th of April 2009, 13:00
  • Programme :
    • Opening speeches
    • Making of AROG
    • Q&A
    • Visual Effects in Pixar Films
    • Q&A

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

“Making of AROG…” at ODTÜ

We will be repeating the talk we did on Visual Effects of AROG and Pixar Films in Ankara at Middle East Technical University – KOSGEB TEKMER Conference Center. Here are the details:seminer-odtu

  • Location  : Middle East Technical University
    • KOSGEB TEKMER Conference Center – Ankara
  • Tarih : Wednesday, 25th of March, 2009, 13:30
  • Programme :
    • Opening Speeches
    • Making of AROG…
    • Q&A 1
    • Visual Effects in Pixar Films
    • Q&A 2

Anybody interested is more than welcome…

After the talk…

The talk we did with Alper and Haluk at Bahçeşehir University on Visual Effects of AROG and Pixar Films was welcomed really nicely. More than 300 people gathered for the event and it was full house. We tried to do our best to present the material to a group of people ranging from enthusiasts to professionals, from students to professors. We should thank the Bahçeşehir University for hosting us incredibly well and for organizing the event. As the talk went on for about three hours, the part about Visual Effects in Pixar Films needed to be cut short but hopefully we can address that in another talk as we already received many invitations to repeat the talk at various educational institutions. Thanks again for your interest and thanks again for sparing time to send us some nice words about the talk…