CD Projekt Red has announced that the Promised Land Art Festival is coming back this year and will take place from August 31 to September 3, 2022. Tickets for the 2022 edition of Promised Land Art Festival are now available for purchase via the event’s official website and if you are interested in it, you can secure your spots in the event. Apart from the event dates, CD Projekt Red has also announced the first speakers that will be featured in this year’s event.
Promised Land Art Festival is aimed at professionals who are working in film, gaming, and other creative industries as it provides a platform for everyone to exchange knowledge and experience, for networking, and for crossing the divide between digital and traditional arts. The festival will last for four days and during the event, participants will have the opportunity to take part in more than 100 hours of activities, talks, discussion panels, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, demos, Q&As, and networking sessions.
The event will take place in EC1 Łódź which used to be a power station but has been modernized and now serves as a center for culture and science. You can check out the Promised Land Art Festival teaser trailer for a glimpse of what happened at the last one:
The 2021 event saw more than 600 attendees of various experience levels and from different walks of the creative industry. Speakers represented some of the most recognizable names from games, film, and lifestyle such as Capcom, Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Paramount Pictures, BioWare, MachineGames, Framestore, Digic Pictures, MPC London, Double Negative, and CD PROJEKT RED.
CD Projekt Red today announced the first speakers for this year’s event which are detailed below:
Harvey Newman is an Animation Director with nearly two decades of experience working in the game industry in studios such as Crytek, Lionhead, Creative Assembly, Axis, DICE, and Build a Rocket Boy. He’s helped to ship many award-winning titles from different leadership positions, including Battlefield V, Horizon Zero Dawn, Star Wars Battlefront, Crysis 3.
Daniel Lupien has been working in both the video game and VFX industries for the past 21 years, focusing mostly on assets. He is also a practical prop maker. He specializes in texturing and for the past eight years has been working as an Asset Supervisor at Rodeo FX — where he has worked on many franchises such as: Game of Thrones, Fantastic Beasts, Aquaman, WandaVision, and Jumanji.
Jordu Schell has been in the film & television industry since 1987. His talent as a designer and sculptor is world renowned, and his credits include: Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 300, Hellboy, Men in Black, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Babylon 5 and many more.
For additional details about these speakers, you can check out the speakers section of the official website of Promised Land. Tickets are currently offering an Early Bird discount which will be available until June 30th while supplies last. Each ticket grants you access to the entire roster of Promised Land activities along with an Open Day which is a one-day-only, creative industry enthusiast event with its own, separate program. The ticket also includes food and drink vouchers along with a welcome pack of physical Promised Land goodies.
Promised Land Art Festival is organized by CD Projekt Red along with “EC1 Łódź – City of culture” and the City of Łódź, Poland.
