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Building Disney•Pixar's Brave: Pencils to Pixels MONDAY, 6 AUGUST Hall B 3:45 – 5:15 PM From bouncing red curls to gusty dark forests, this panel summarizes how Disney•Pixar created their summer 2012 film: Brave. The artists lead a guided tour through Brave's production pipeline, illustrating the kind of exploration and problem-solving required to move an asset from initial design through characters and sets, animation, and lighting, and into a final rendered frame. Sony Pictures Animation: Checking in at Hotel Transylvania TUESDAY, 7 AUGUST Hall K 9 – 10:30 AM Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without human interference. For one special weekend, Dracula invites some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. In this session, first-time feature director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars) and the creative team behind Hotel Transylvania explore the art, unique animation style, and technical achievements of Sony Pictures Animation's new animated feature. Digital Domain Presents "Making the Steel Real: Moving VFX Into Production" TUESDAY, 7 AUGUST Hall B 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Nominated for a visual effects Academy Award, DreamWorks' Real Steel was recognized not only for its rollicking boxing matches between CG robots, but also for the seamless way the film moves between practical robots and their CG counterparts. In this panel, some of the Real Steel filmmakers walk through robot design, explain key techniques and shots, and share the groundbreaking virtualproduction process that they packed up and moved to Detroit, which compressed the shooting schedule to 71 days with no second unit. 11 Siggraph Guide 2012v9.indd 11 7/11/12 2:37 PM