Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
Don Levy: Een cinematografische reis door de visuele effecten
Don Levy has served on the frontlines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communications efforts for top visual effects and digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. He is fascinated by the magic of movies. Full bio
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was eerst een goochelaar.
wat het publiek te zien kreeg,
een arsenaal aan technieken
van stilstaande frames.
hun eerste publiek.
van vandaag
een Napolitaanse geleerde
en bestudeerde de natuur
op de beginselen van alle illusies:
zoals we verwachten;
met een handzwengel werd bediend
tonen we enkele stappen
in de evolutie van visuele effecten.
met de hand aangebrachte kleuren"]
Eerste dokter: “Hoe voel je je, Jake?”
Eerste dokter: “Goed.”
Eerste dokter: “Wil je gaan zitten? Dat is prima.”
Eerste dokter: “Voel je je wat ijlhoofdig of duizelig?”
voor visuele effecten"]
voor visuele effecten"]
voor visuele effecten"]
Rama Safti: “Het is allemaal voorbij.”
(eerste jaar van categorie) "]
Gouverneur: “Het lijkt mij dat het ergste voorbij is.”
brengen de menigte tot leven"]
voor visuele effecten"]
en onwaarschijnlijke dingen te realiseren."
Georges Méliès"]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Don Levy - Film executiveDon Levy has served on the frontlines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communications efforts for top visual effects and digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. He is fascinated by the magic of movies.
Why you should listen
Don Levy joined Sony Pictures Imageworks when it was “just 40 people and a dream” in 1995. Starting as an awards campaign consultant, he helped the studio grow in both size and reputation, beginning with its first Academy Award for the animated short “The ChubbChubbs” in 2003 and continuing with the 2005 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for “Spider-Man 2.” As the senior vice president of marketing and communications for Sony Pictures, he directed corporate communications, marketing and public relations for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, as well as for Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment.
Levy left Sony Pictures in June of 2012 to develop a new family entertainment venture and found Smith Brook Farm, a media, entertainement and tech consultancy. At the same time, he is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts' Entertainment Technology Center and is teaching entertainment marketing at Boston University's Los Angeles Internship Program.
Levy is also member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on its feature animation nominating committee. The Academy helped tremendously in crafting the video montage in his talk, an exclusive for TED.
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