THE Quezon City government is bringing in several of the country’s top cosplayers to celebrate the best in 2D and 3D digital animation during the 2017 QC Animation and Information Technology Fair, slated Feb. 23 to Feb. 25 at the Quezon City Experience Museum.
Mayor Herbert Bautista is the keynote speaker in the event launched inside the Quezon Memorial Circle.
Reynald Paul Imjada, the city’s Information Technology and Development Office chief, said among the cosplayers playing well-loved anime characters and comic super heroes are Captain America, Catwoman, Princess Leia, Kamen Rider Black and Flash. The event is hosted by the city government in partnership with the Korea-Philippines Information Technology Training Center.
Now on its second year, the event is expected to stimulate career opportunities for city-based educators, out-of-school-youth, and career shifters to animation and information technology industry in a bid to generate a more creative digital economy environment for the city.
The three-day event, which has as theme “Careers in Digital Arts and Technology,” will feature information technology exhibits, animation forum for educators, lectures on free and paid topics, film showings, virtual reality demonstrations, on-the-spot drawing contest, digital painting, short-film animation challenge, and a museum tour experience.
The animation forum for educators will include discussion on new trends and technologies, laws and policy.
Key animation players, school administrators, instructors and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority representatives have been invited to the forum.
Lecture topics will include animation as career path, digital animation (Flash and Toonboom), “tradigital” animation, experimental animation and security and information technology.