CAFÉ Returns Might 16 for 2nd Version
Hosted by the QFTC (Quebec Movie and Tv Council), the second version of Montreal-based CAFÉ (Convention, Animation, FX, and Experience), operating Might 16-17, will carry collectively over 800 FX and animation specialists and professionals. The occasion gives networking alternatives and the prospect to be taught in regards to the newest improvements, advances, and applied sciences.
This yr’s occasion options some 50 specialists who will share their technical and inventive experience by way of conferences and panels. The occasion can even host a particular lecture on Sony Photos Animation’s upcoming characteristic, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse.
The occasion will concentrate on three essential themes: expertise, creativity, and business – wellness at work and inclusion.
- Know-how: Discussions in rising and progressive applied sciences within the subject of pc graphics
- Creativity: Every thing associated to the artistic parts of visible results and animation can be lined, from the script to the display, together with the design of implausible creatures and the discreet integration of climate results.
- Business, wellness at work, and inclusion: Exploration of the tradition and the business’s panorama, together with management experience, social motion, and progressive approaches to nurturing expertise.
CAFÉ can even characteristic visitor talks, similar to Academy Award-nominated Geoffrey Baumann, Manufacturing VFX Supervisor for Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually. Baumann has been with Marvel since 2011 and boasts 23 years of expertise, together with 15 years with Digital Area, the place he labored on 18 movies.
An unique keynote convention will concentrate on the extremely anticipated Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, with a sneak peek two weeks earlier than the movie’s theatrical launch in June 2023.
The Montréal-based studio Raynault FX will host a discuss its contribution to the VES-nominated tv sequence The Outdated Man. Pixar Animation can be on the occasion program.
Listed below are another highlights of the 2023 version of CAFÉ:
- Residing areas – completely different thematic zones in an off-the-cuff lounge for friends to work together and unwind
- Networking actions by way of a enterprise honest
- A spherical desk and varied panels hosted by SYNTHÈSE and CDRIN that includes researchers from academia and visible results corporations discussing utilized analysis
- A launch cocktail and a closing get together
“Quebec’s creativity and cutting-edge experience have typically been showcased and are greater than ever acknowledged internationally,” commented Christine Maestracci, QFTC CEO. “Due to the expertise, creativity, and experience of Quebec studios and artists, the visible results and animation sectors have skilled spectacular and distinctive development over the previous 10 years. They contribute to Quebec’s standing as one of many world’s three nice hubs for most of these exercise, alongside Los Angeles and London. From 2017 to 2022, these sectors have seen a rise in direct spending, taking it from $317 million to $1.07 billion.”
A QFTC initiative introduced by Kaliko Productions, CAFÉ 2023 can be held at Montréal’s Palais des congrès on Tuesday, Might 16 and Wednesday, Might 17.
All tickets embody entry to talks, actions, and dwelling areas. The enterprise tickets additionally grant entry to the enterprise lounge, the cocktail events, and the MeetToMatch enterprise assembly platform.
Tickets can be found here.
Supply: Quebec Movie and Tv Council

Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.