About NTDF

I had a wonderful time participating in NTDF 2011, and wouldn’t hesitate to come back in the future. I was very impressed with the high-level of participation from all of the attendees, and the enthusiasm everyone brought to the conference. The unique setting of the NDTF (being in an isolated location for a ‘retreat weekend’) was a unique experience that I consider to be a huge success towards building a tight-knit graphics community. I would suggest that other regions (even larger ones) could stand to benefit from emulating this approach!

Over the past decade I have attended numerous international
conferences and workshops in this field, and yet I was completely
surprised and blown away by the unique and exhilarating experience it
was attending NTDF for the first time. I have never experienced such a
collegial, enthusiastic and unpretentious gathering of experts in any
field! I’m ashamed to admit that I had no idea the VFX industry in the
Nordic countries was so well established and professional. It was a
true honor for me to speak at NTDF ’11, and I hope to get another
change to develop synergy between the Nordic studios and DreamWorks
Animation

I had to leave before the end and did not have a chance to say proper thank you…
Here are my thoughts about the NTDF 2009:
Extremely well done! I was pleased to see and feel the passion of our Nordic 3D & VFX industry. I was personally very pleased to hear in many instances calls for closer co-operation. There are great opportunities in Europe, in USA, and definitely in the East (where we have been looking). We should all strengthen our own local co-operation but also make serious effort to launch Nordic wide ideas for advanced collaboration.

The TD forum was really great. I am totally inspired as to how I can continue working with my own movie, and I am thrilled and encouraged to hear other people in the Nordic region are dealing with similar situations and problems, and are not afraid to share. It would be great at some point to have a discussion forum site added to the website for us to continue talking.

…in my opinion it is really important that we in the Nordic area get similar/compatible pipelines, because we need and we want to work together. So let’s courage people to use same tools.

Thanks to Irene’s tireless efforts, we have two solid successes upon which to build. I think that we may want to rethink the structure a bit… perhaps what we need is a “lab” where there can be maybe a half a dozen computers with the appropriate software where these techniques like the use of Cortex can be taught in hands on way. I think that will involve splitting the conference into two tracks, one more oriented towards production management.
It is an exciting time in the history of the NTDF. Let’s put some thought into trying to find the right balance for year three