The State government will hold a three-day animation, games and visual effects conference in Bengaluru in a move to offer global platform for students, artists and professionals. The Department of IT, BT and Science and Technology (ST) announced the launch of Bengaluru GAFX Conference-2017 from May 12 to 14 at Hotel Lalit Ashok.
Unveiling the logo and website of the conference, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said: “I welcome studio leaders, professionals, students, academia and technology partners to experience the vibrancy at Bengaluru GAFX (Games, Animation, Visual Effects).” The conference will have workshops, master classes, talks, presentations, screening of some of the popular and best content from across the world, live marathon, artistic competitions and technical hackathons.
Bengaluru GAFX will also hold virtual reality demo and experience zones, job and career fair and education symposium.
As part of the event, internationally acclaimed animation films, including Academy award nominated ones, will be screened. Global experts in the areas of story, production design, cinematography, character animation and physics and mathematics will speak.
IT, BT and ST Minister Priyank Kharge said: “Bengaluru has every potential to offer an international platform for animation, visual effect and gaming industry.” The government has taken an array of steps to support this industry and the eco-system as a whole and a new policy for the sector would be announced shortly, he said.
