Grab a rare opportunity to listen to and interact with the best industry professionals! BLON Talks are aimed towards common traits of video games and animation. Our guests will speak about storytelling, world building and art development for video games, and what inspired them to choose this unique medium. They will help you explore animation and games distribution world and success stories behind internationally renowned VR experiences. We hope that speakers' experience and insights will inspire others to step into this world where everyone can become a creator. RSVP on Facebook (2019)
Meet the new game development studio from Palanga and hear about their first project Touch, inspired by famous XV century painter Hieronymus Bosch.
How hard is it to make and launch a short slapstick comedy game? We will dive deep into the development process of CHUCHEL, the audience's reaction and controversies we faced in the first 12 months since the game was released.
Cozy and informal talk with animation directors about their work and all the dirty secrets of animation industry.
Diego will share tips and comments about the day to day balance between freelance artist's business and life to help you remain sane.
This workshop will start covering the basic rules and concepts of pixel art, analyzing techniques from the classics and some tricks often used in game development. From there, the second half of the workshop will look at the horizon for pixel art, expanding its capabilities with modern tools and mixed techniques, and how to embrace a 2.5D approach to elevate it and aim for more sophisticated and unique visuals.
A tale of a Lithuanian boutique studio Pepi Play. Our journey from potty training in the bathroom to the royal halls of King's Castle. What important changes studio had to experience growing up? A story of challenges we had to overcome and how we're dealing with it all.
Hopster is an award-winning preschool learning and entertainment service that brings together all the best kids TV shows, music games and books in a safe and ad-free environment. Hopster was named Best Streaming Video Platform for preschoolers by Kidscreen in 2019 and has received a channel nomination at the Children’s BAFTA in 2018. It can be downloaded free from the App Store and Google Play and can be found on selected smart TVs such as Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Comcast Xfinity, and on many other platforms around the world.
Dominykas will tell us how their team at Unity created the famous Book of the Dead demo and what techniques were used to bring the viewer closer to realism in real-time graphics.
A talk about VR techniques we used to establish audience perspectives and how we eventually broke them in order to create a narration.
Quite often we expect from AI more than it is truly capabale of. Renaldas will talk about new technologies and approaches that will power game and film artists' tools in the years to come.
There are tons of adventure games coming out every month. But what’s really interesting is that many of them are heavily and very directly inspired by the country or city the developers are from. For example, did you know that one of Firewatch creators, Sean Vanaman, actually grew up in Wyoming, where the game takes place? During the presentation, we will look deeper into the topic and discuss why this trend is actually pretty awesome.
Come and hear how ThroughLine Games brought to life Forgotton Anne, a 2D animated epic adventure game for PC and consoles.