frame:work meetups
we host community gatherings around the world
past events:
Chicago | community gathering
Hosted by:
MEETUP:
Tuesday, September 9th from 19:00 – 21:00
Copper Club
70 West Madison Street Chicago, IL 60602
Evening Meetup:
Join us in Chicago for a evening gathering of the LIVE PIXEL PEOPLE community. Molly Gray and Troy Fujimura, leaders in the North American Chapter of frame:work, are organizing this community meetup with the support of VYV. Grab a ticket if you can join us!
Vancouver | frame:work @ SIGGRAPH
Going to SIGGRAPH 2025? We’ll be there!
frame:work has a Birds of a Feather and evening meetup planned. Sign up for free tickets to our evening social event. Full details below.
Birds of a Feather:
Monday, August 11th from 14:00 – 15:30
Convention Center location: East Building, Room 15
SIGGRAPH Schedule Details
Hosted by:
MEETUP:
Monday, August 11th from 20:00 – 23:00
Mahony’s Tavern
1055 Canada Pl #36 Vancouver, BC
Birds of a Feather:
Join us at SIGGRAPH for a BoF. Community members will be sharing their work on pixel making for live entertainment events.
14:00 – 15:30
Vancouver Convention Center
East Building, Room 15
SIGGRAPH Schedule
Featured BoF Guest Speakers:
Valeria Petit
Director of Creative Content
Normal Studio
Juan M. Codó
Interactive Creative Director & Producer
Studio Soup
Laura Frank
Executive Director
frame:work
Evening Meetup:
Join us during SIGGRAPH for beverages and snacks Monday night, August 11th starting at 20:00 at Mahony’s Tavern right by the Convention Center.
frame:work is a community organization that brings together the creatives, producers and technologists who make pixels for live audiences, camera and public spaces. Our canvases are rarely 16:9 and typically a custom build pipeline.
This meetup is hosted by Epson and supported by Eos Lightmedia. You do not have to be attending SIGGRAPH to join this pixel community event.
Reserve your spot at this free gathering. Please claim a ticket so we know you’ll be joining us. We’ll select a door prize winner from the signups to receive gear from Epson!
Hosted by:
MEETUP:
Monday, August 11th from 20:00 – 23:00
Mahony’s Tavern
1055 Canada Pl #36 Vancouver, BC
London | frame:work:europe
London Pixel Professionals!
frame:work and Epic Games hosted a community gathering on May 22nd.
WHEN:
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 from 18:00 – 21:00
Presentations from 19:00
WHERE:
Epic Games London Innovation Lab
34, Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AU
WHAT:
Drinks, Chat and Fine People
Tickets are requested. Get yours free or by donation at the link below.
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frame:work welcomes all ranges of experience levels in all types of pixel professions to our events. If you design, produce, program or engineer the creation of pixels for entertainment spaces, you’ll feel welcomed in our community.
Presentations:
Real-Time Graphics for Live Shows with Unreal Engine
Presenter:
Joris Corthout
CEO at Prismax
Join Joris Corthout, CEO of Prismax for a look inside the xLive Workflow. xLive began as a pipeline for fully-virtual festivals in 2020 and has since matured into the tour-ready backbone that drove Unreal Engine visuals at Tomorrowland, Coachella, and other large-scale shows. This session traces that evolution, explains how the system merges Unreal’s rendering power with screen-mapping, timecode, OSC, and DMX control to achieve frame-accurate, low-latency graphics. In this session, Joris distills the production lessons learned while scaling from single-stage experiments to multi-stage festival deployments.
The Real-Time Content Toolbox: Platforms, Practices, and Perspectives
This panel brings together leading creators and technologists to discuss their real-time content platform choices, exploring how tools such as Unreal Engine, Notch, Unity, and TouchDesigner coexist and interact within their workflows. Panelists will share insights into how team expertise, project challenges, and client expectations influence decisions around platform usage. We’ll examine how tool selection impacts creative processes, discuss whether external pressures or industry trends drive platform adoption, and reveal how these platforms are applied in real-world live entertainment scenarios. Join us for an open, practical conversation about the strengths, limitations, and the ever-evolving wish lists professionals bring to their favorite real-time tools.
Moderator:
Michael Al-Far
Creative Director at MalfMedia
Panelists:
Elettra McConnell
Content Designer at Pixels & Noise
Oli Metcalfe
Visual Designer at Dark Art Creative
Linda Wachaga
Academy of Live Technology Masters Degree Student
Lewis Kyle White
Founder and Creative Director at Pixels & Noise
Santa Monica | Evening at Pixera
WHEN:
November 14th, 2024, 5-9pm
WHERE:
Pixera US HQ in Santa Monica, CA
Control & Color –
How We Accidentally Became Software Developers
Presenters:
Jay Spriggs & Sam Slade
Members of Astra Production Group talk about the genesis and function of the Astra Color Toolkit and how iterating on it led them to develop it as an open-source software. The initial idea was not to create a product but to learn and experiment with developing custom tools using the Pixera API and Control. Using it as an outreach and visibility tool, they were able to unlock other opportunities that allowed them to enter into another level of services and creativity with their clients.
Panel Discussion: From Renders to Code
From Renders to Code: The Business Side of Asset Delivery for Generative Content
Session Description:
Generative content has become common to many art and entertainment production environments. Have we changed our business practices to properly support this shift? Our panel will discuss the many impacts of changing content production from rendered file delivery to supporting software development. We’ll look at how to review business agreements, protecting your asset library for reuse, supporting delivered software assets, and the infusion of software development culture on content creation teams.
Moderator: Laura Frank
Panelists: Emery Martin, Mathew Ragan, Danny Firpo, Rebecca Horton
