{"id":1705,"date":"2020-01-15T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:35:13","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\/engineering-news\/2020\/01\/15\/from-the-crown-to-the-lion-king-the-importance-of-visual-effects-in-modern-film-and-television\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8216;The Crown&#8217; to &#8216;The Lion King&#8217; &#8211; the importance of visual effects in modern film and television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts is delighted to announce its latest public engagement lecture entitled: <em>From &#8216;The Crown&#8217; to &#8216;The Lion King&#8217; &#8211; the importance of Visual Effects in Modern Film and TV<\/em> 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>The lecture will take place on Monday 2 March from 6 &#8211; 7 pm in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=SIBLT1\">Sibson Lecture Theatre 1<\/a>, Sibson Building, University of Kent, Canterbury campus and will cover:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Introduction: Dominik&#8217;s study and career path<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What is VFX? Use of CGI vs. invisible effects\/set-extensions<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Examples\/breakdowns: Talking about both types of VFX using the examples of The Crown (Invisible, set-extension type work), and &#8220;The Lion King&#8221; (Photorealistic, fully-CG)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The current state and future of the VFX industry in the UK<\/p>\n<p>For a flavour of the talk, check out these video links!:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/370740219?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"The Lion King - Compositing Reel\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/191838262?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"The Crown Season 1 - VFX Breakdown\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/248127865?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"The Crown Season 2 - VFX Breakdown\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Please note that this lecture will appeal to a wide range of ages and backgrounds. It is free, and open to everyone. School visits also encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>You can book tickets for the lecture <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\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts is delighted to announce its latest public engagement lecture entitled: From &#8216;The Crown&#8217; to &#8216;The Lion King&#8217; &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/01\/15\/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":39150,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[197040,124,70,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}