Events: Web / Internet

IGN Live is the gaming convention for gaming fans. The event will feature games, tournaments, previews, seminars, panel discussions, industry guests and parties. For more information, visit live.ign.com.

The PGA New Media Council and The Emmy Awards Advanced Media Committee in cooperation with the New School Department of Media Studies and Film and the Parsons Department of Design and Technology, will host an evening of presentation, discussion and networking with PGA members and members of the New Media industry. This first monthly event of the 2005-2006 season will be a discussion about the future and impact of podcasting.

Studio Arts of Los Angeles, CA will be host to a special group of ALIAS MAYA seminars, classes and workshops that will begin Monday, October 17th, 2005 and end Friday, December 16, 2005.

Maya instruction will be from introductory level to intermediate and advanced workshops in everything from modeling and textures to rigging, animation and more. Classes will meet from 8am-3pm Mon. through Fri.

CON-CAN Movie Festival is an audience-interactive online film festival targeting shorts. Thirty Grand-Prix nominees will be streamed for global viewing on the audience-interactive website.

Presented by LICENSE! magazine, Link is an executive-level conference and networking opportunity tailored to licensing executives ready to take their business to the next level. Top licensors, licensees, retailers, agents, marketers and the media will come together. Conference sessions will cover a full spectrum of licensing topics including promotions and co-branding, marketing to demographics, the state of retail, financial & legal licensing issues, and a special concentration on international markets. For more information, visit linkconference.com.

Producers Guild of America (PGA) will be holding the first of its kind PGA Visual Effects & Animation Recruiting Mixer event from 7:00-10:00 pm, at the William Turner Gallery, Bergamont Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., Gallery C-2 in Santa Monica, California.

It will be a networking and recruiting mixer, complete with light refreshments and

MJ Prods. is offering a new Beginning Animation Voice Over Class. Attendees will learn to create, define and develop character voices for animation of all kinds, commercials, CD-ROM, the Web and direct-to-video. Students will begin with the foundations: breath and voice placement then move into imaginative exercises that will help you breathe life into copy, artwork and animation scripts. The workshop will take place five consecutive Mondays from 7:00

The 2005 China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival (http://www.cicdaf.com/english/index.asp) will be held in Changzhou, China, on September 28 to October 5, 2005.

Last year's edition drew crowds in excess of 130,000. Since then, the city has been designated by the Central Government as one of 9 new animation production centers, and it is estimated that 150,000 visitors will attend this year's event.

Also present at the show will be numerous production studios, schools, media organizations, and technology vendors and providers.

The Games for Health Project will host its Second Annual Games for Health Conference at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in downtown Baltimore. The Games for Health Conference brings together health and healthcare professionals, game developers, academic researchers and consultants to explore how videogames, related technologies and game developers are driving new breakthroughs in health and healthcare. Attendees will experience two days of panel discussions, roundtables and a demo exposition showcasing more then 20 different projects in the emerging games for health field.

Connichi is a fan organized anime event, organized by the biggest anime and manga fan club in Germany

Tokyo Game Show 2005 is dedicated to everything gaming. The event will feature 130 companies participating with 1,429 booth units reserved. This year

Running in conjunction with Photo Marketing Association (PMA) Fall Imaging Summit Sept. 9-12, 2005, iHollywood Forum will co-locate this event to address the rapidly growing markets and new business opportunities in digital and mobile cameras, photography and imaging. PMA is the trade association of photo imaging retailers, software and hardware makers, and commercial and processors worldwide whose goal is to help its members expand their consumer, commercial and industrial markets and increase their profitability.