Animation Director Bill Buckley To Speak At M.A.G.I.C.’s Art Of Tech

Animation director Bill Buckley will speak at Art of Tech on Sept. 6 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E .2nd Ave., in Room 8106.

Buckley is an animation director at First Contact Entertainment, a California-based studio that develops virtual reality games. Buckley has worked on video games such as Call of Duty: Ghost, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Guitar Hero, NBA 2006 and NBA 2007.

Art of Tech is a speaker series under the Miami Dade College Foundation and Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex.

“Art of Tech is a speaker series that empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry,” said Mauricio Ferrazza, department chairperson for M.A.G.I.C. “This cross industry gathering features a series of keynotes and a week-long exhibitor area that explores digital technologies and creative industries. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of computer animation, gaming, visual effects and motion graphics, virtual and augmented reality.”

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Mauricio Ferrazza at mferrazz@mdc.edu or at (305) 237-7852.