Animation Options’ Kevin Geiger recently pitched new animation projects and delivered presentations at Animation Production Day & FMX in Stuttgart in his capacity as President of Magic Dumpling Entertainment, a Beijing-based development company creating original animation content for family audiences.
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Animation Options President & CEO Kevin Geiger had the honor of chairing the animation jury at the 1st Chinese International (King Bonn) New Media Shorts Awards in Shenzhen, China. During the proceedings, Mr. Geiger gave a verbal preview of his upcoming FMX 2010 presentation: “The Next 90 Minutes: New Stories for China and the World”.
It was my pleasure to participate in the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia conference here in Singapore. On Thursday, I delivered the best (and last) version of my popular presentation, “CG Production Principles and Practices: Keeping Your Money On The Screen And Off The Floor”. Having evangelized on this subject over the past year for international audiences ranging from boardrooms of executives to conference halls of animation artists, I feel that those who are open to the message have gotten it. This SIGGRAPH Asia attendee certains seems to:
Hi Kevin,
I am totally blown away by your awesome talk about CG production, the good and the bad. Frankly, I have been involved as supervisor on many animation projects, and I am facing those same problems that you have mentioned. This time, I got lots of inspiration and solutions from your awesome sharing. Too bad there were time constraints and you had to make it so fast. - LWL
Glad it spoke to you, LWL… and glad you were able to make it, because with SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in the can, this presentation is officially “retired”! Stay tuned for the book. 
In the meantime, you can check out my YouTube excerpts from the fmx edition of the presentation in Stuttgart this past May. Animation Xpress did a nice write-up on the Singapore version, so thanks to the folk in India for that!
On a separate note, thanks to Laura Dohrmann of NVIDIA for inviting me to participate in this afternoon’s “Emerging Markets” panel discussion, relaying my experiences in China. It was a lot of fun, and a great opportunity to meet new colleagues. It’s always refreshing when you meet like minds from clear across the world. 
