{"id":53,"date":"2020-01-21T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/?p=53"},"modified":"2020-01-24T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:41:57","slug":"from-the-crown-to-the-lion-king-the-importance-of-visual-effects-in-modern-film-and-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/2020\/01\/21\/from-the-crown-to-the-lion-king-the-importance-of-visual-effects-in-modern-film-and-television\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018The Crown\u2019 to \u2018The Lion King\u2019 \u2013 the importance of visual effects in modern film and television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th lecture in the STEM@Kent series, &#8220;<em>From \u2018The Crown\u2019 to \u2018The Lion King\u2019 \u2013 the importance of Visual Effects in Modern Film and TV&#8221; <\/em>will be delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7004402\/\">Dominik Platen<\/a>, Lead 2D Artist at One of Us and Kent alumnus (Digital Visual Effects, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>It will take place on Monday 2 March from 6 \u2013 7 pm in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/jennison-building\/jlt\">Jennison Lecture Theatre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a>, University of Kent, Canterbury campus and will cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: Dominik\u2019s study and career path<\/li>\n<li>What is VFX? Obvious use of CGI vs. invisible effects\/set-extensions<\/li>\n<li>Examples\/breakdowns: Talking about both types of VFX using the examples of The Crown (Invisible, set-extension type work), and \u201cThe Lion King\u201d (Photorealistic, fully-CG)<\/li>\n<li>The current state and future of the VFX industry in the UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a flavour of the talk, check out these video links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/370740219\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/370740219<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191838262\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191838262<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/248127865\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/248127865<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the lecture, there will be an opportunity to network and refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Please book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/public-engagement-lecturefrom-the-crown-to-the-lion-king-the-importance-of-visual-effects-in-modern-tickets-90117908089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>via Eventbrite<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th lecture in the STEM@Kent series, &#8220;From \u2018The Crown\u2019 to \u2018The Lion King\u2019 \u2013 the importance of Visual Effects in Modern Film and TV&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/2020\/01\/21\/from-the-crown-to-the-lion-king-the-importance-of-visual-effects-in-modern-film-and-television\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51922,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218705],"tags":[146524,218713,57948,218705,218706,178080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/discover-stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}