The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the winners of its Video Games Awards for 2007. Click on “Continue reading” to view the list, or click on the image to go to their site.

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The eighteenth edition of ArtFutura will be taking place in eleven cities between October 25 and 28 with an extensive program that will explore the most important projects and ideas that have arisen on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation over the last 12 months.
In the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, the headquarters for the festival, four intensive days of special presentations, conferences, workshops, interactive installations, exhibitions and live performances will take place. Simultaneously, Circuito Futura will be present in museums and cultural centers in another 10 cities with the extensive audiovisual program of the festival along with a live relay of the conferences held in Barcelona in some of the venues.

Satish Goda and Shrinidhi Rao will be hosting a 1-hour Blender presentation during the International Animation Day in Mumbai, India on Sunday, October 21st.

Via: BlenderNation

The fourth annual International animation festival is being held in Turkey’s culture capital Istanbul on the third to the eighth of December. The Call for Entries of the Animation and Visual Effects Short Film Competition is open, with the field open to all international animators. There will be no entry fee.

The Gnomon Workshop is presenting their sixth workshop weekend, December 1st-2nd. Featuring artists who will present professional production techniques on subjects including, illustration, character/creature and concept design, modeling, anatomy for artists, 3D rendering, penciling for comics and more.

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Yesterday started the 8th edition of ANIMADRID, which is taking place in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid (Spain) until october the 5th, 2007. Also, the 15 first people to enter Espacio Cultural MIRA, this saturday 29 at 21:30h. dressed like a Star Wars chraracter will be awarded with a special pack from the festival including t-shirts, books, dvd’s and free passes for all sessions.

VisMasters just made live a FREE online v-ray class with Brian Smith. Space is very limited, so you will need to register soon. The First 20 people to register will have the opportunity to ask questions about the session to Brian Smith live immediately following the class.

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH has announced MetroCAF 2007 - the NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival!

This summer, a distinguished jury of leading industry professionals reviewed more than 100 submissions of computer animation, motion graphics and computer visualization from college students throughout the NYC metropolitan area. The jury selections for the 2007 MetroCAF program represent the bright future of digital animation and design.

Don’t miss the fifth annual screening of this engaging showcase of animation and computer-graphics imagery, which will take place on Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM