‘The Last Train’, a short animation made by the Animation Hub 2011,  has now been launched:

View it here: The Last Train

The Animation Hub 2011 was a 3 month collaborative project involving students and staff from GV2 here in TCD, animation students from Ballyfermot College and the recently established animation studio Giant Creative (http://www.giant.ie/).

Hope you enjoy it and please spread the word.

The Graphics, Vision and Visualisation (GV2) Lab in Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the newly established IBM Dublin Research Lab is seeking PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows to work in the area of  "extreme scale crowd simulations". The successful applicants will be funded by the IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme.  Interested candidates should send their CV by 15 September 2011 to Professor Carol O'Sullivan at GV2  and  Dr Georgios Theodoropoulos at IBM Dublin Research Lab  ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). For further information and enquiries please contact ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

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The partnership will see students and graduates in animation and film join forces with TCD's graphics and virtual world experts in an Animation Hub that will foster creativity and build links in creative teaching and practice.

For further information, see http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1934&pressReleaseArchive=2011

The Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP2011) will be hosted by Dublin City University in September  7th-9th, 2011. More information can be found at:

Webpage: http://elm.eeng.dcu.ie/imvip/