{"id":11487,"date":"2018-02-09T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2018\/02\/09\/vr-visionaries-to-lead-lecture\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:52:36","slug":"vr-visionaries-to-lead-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2018\/02\/09\/vr-visionaries-to-lead-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Visionaries to Lead Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join industry leaders Larry Cutler and Kane Lee, Baobab Studios<\/a>, in an evening dedicated to virtual reality. Thursday, February 15 at 7 p.m. in the Cloobeck Screening Room, Digital Media Arts Center.<\/strong>\u00a0 Seating for this event is first come,\u00a0first serve, please plan accordingly.<\/p>\n

Cutler and Lee are dedicated craftsmen who see the power of marrying art and technology. Their short film\u00a0Invasion!\u00a0<\/em><\/a>set the stage for the studio’s deep venture into virtual reality. It was this project which lead to the next film,\u00a0Asteroids!<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>saw much acclaim at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Both films push the boundaries of filmmaking using virtual reality as a storytelling tool.<\/p>\n

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About Larry Cutler,\u00a0Chief Technical Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Larry Cutler brings deep technical leadership over the past 20 years in the area of animation creation and development. Larry currently serves on the Digital Imaging Technology Subcommittee for the Oscar Technical Achievement Awards. He was most recently the Vice President of Solutions at Metanautix, a big data analytics startup company (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to that, Larry spent 10 years at DreamWorks Animation where he served as Global Head of Character Tech and held several leadership positions in the areas of character development, animation workflow, rigging, and character simulation. Larry began his career at Pixar Animation Studios as a Technical Director on the films Monster\u2019s Inc., Toy Story 2, and A Bug\u2019s Life. Larry holds undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.<\/p>\n

About Kane Lee,\u00a0Chief Content Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nEmmy Award-winning producer Kane Lee heads content development and strategy for Baobab. At the virtual-reality studio, his groundbreaking works include the 2017 Emmy Award winner Invasion!<\/em>, featuring Ethan Hawke, the 2017 Unity Vision Award-winner Asteroids!<\/em>, with Elizabeth Banks, and the highly anticipated VR experience Rainbow Crow<\/em>, starring John Legend. Lee spearheaded the first-ever adaptation of VR IP (Invasion!<\/em>) into a traditional Hollywood feature film. He has long worked at the frontier of technology and media. He is lead producer of the 20th Century Fox animated feature, The Dam Keeper<\/em>, based upon the Academy Award-nominated short, and is on the producing teams for
\nprojects ranging from The School for Good and Evil<\/em> at Universal Pictures, Frozen<\/em>, and Jennifer Lee\u2019s The Way Between<\/em>, to the award-winning children\u2019s series Spooksville<\/em>. Previously Vice President, Development and Production for Jane Startz Productions, Lee worked on Horton Hears A Who!<\/em>, Ice Age: The Meltdown<\/em>, and Robots<\/em>, among other films. He is an interactive media advisor for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.<\/p>\n

About\u00a0Baobab\u00a0Studios<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baobab Studios is the leading VR animation studio.\u00a0 Our mission: Inspire you to dream by bringing out your sense of wonder. \u00a0We will immerse you in fantastical worlds, introduce you to characters to fall in love with, and let you interact with these characters.
\nFounded by Eric Darnell (Director of all 4\u00a0Madagascar<\/em>\u00a0films),\u00a0Baobab’s Emmy-award winning VR animation,\u00a0INVASION!<\/em>, starring Ethan Hawke, launched to substantial critical acclaim and has become the top downloaded VR app. In a first, Hollywood is taking IP from VR to become a feature film: Roth Kirschenbaum Films (Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White<\/em>\u00a0and the Huntsman<\/em>) has signed to adapt\u00a0INVASION!<\/em>\u00a0into a feature film.
\nBaobab\u2019s 2nd VR animation,\u00a0ASTEROIDS!<\/em>\u00a0starring Elizabeth Banks was an official 2017 Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival selection and won Best VR Experience at the Unity Vision Conference.\u00a0 Baobab’s latest\u00a0Rainbow Crow<\/em>, starring John Legend, Diego Luna, and Constance Wu premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and Cannes this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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