Link: http://www.fantasyevents.org/cice/

CICE 2011: The Programme Download .pdf here.

All panels are held in the Caernarfon Suite 1st Floor (Opposite the bar area) of the Holland House Mercure Hotel, 26th February 2011:

Oh look, starting the show it's Cardiff's favourite Sidekicks...us!
10.45am Secrets and Lies Live with The Sidekickcast!

Join your hosts Gavin Jones and Dan Marshall from The Sidekickcast as they take Secrets and Lies; the comic book news quiz with a twist, on the road again. This time it's WAR with Artist vs Writers vs Cardiff International Comic Expo. Heading up the writer's team is Chris Lynch with Paul Cornell and Rob Williams. Captain on the artist's team is Stuart Tipples with Mike Collins with a special surprise final member. Of course Dan will be getting amongst the people to represent those really in the know, you the fans. Whose Side Are You On?

Follow up:

Daleks in Wales...who'd have thunk it?

11.30am Matt Savage : Concepts to Screen

Matthew Savage is a concept/storyboard artist and director working in the film and television industry. Matthew concept artist credits included The Dark Knight, Prince of Persia, The Wolf Man, Kick-Ass and the forthcoming X-Men: First Class.
Matthew has worked on many projects in Wales including the 2005 re-design of the Daleks for Doctor Who and has directed all his short films in and around Cardiff including Reign of Death starring Noel Clarke.

Actually sounds like you may learn something from this one, I won't be going though, my head might explode like that guy in Scanners.

12.15pm Views from the Forefront: Innovation in Animation and Games with Skillset Media Academy Wales

Tutors from the Skillset Media Academy Wales partner institutions reveal new ways of seeing animation and games design in a thought-provoking 45 minute seminar Caroline Parsons, the Animation Programme Coordinator at the
University of Wales, Newport, will discuss the course ethos, and outline the packed curriculum which covers all aspects of animation production and direction, from script to screen.
Al Kang, a Lecturer in both 3D Computer Animation and the Creative Computer Games Design programmes at Swansea Metropolitan University will discuss the unpredictable art of character design and the role of the character artist whether designing for film or games.
Peter Hodges and Brian Fagence, Animation Lecturers at the University of Glamorgan, will present `The Fallow Narratives' a storytelling project which explores methods and principles of multiplatform development, and a comic book platform they have planned.
Find out more about our cutting-edge animation courses at
www.mediaacademywales.org

I'd very much like to be at this panel, so organizers no signing me up for door duty during this one please!

1.00pm Cornell on Comics

Paul Cornell talk comics with Knight & Squire artist Jimmy Broxton. Paul's rise within the comics world has made him one of the hottest writers around having taken on the Fantastic Four, & Captain Britain at Marvel before taking over Action Comics @ DC and finding the time to tackle Batman!

And here we are again, somehow we managed to convince Barry Nugent he would be safe in our hands...the weak-minded fool ;-)1.45pm Fallen Heroes Rising to the Challenge

Like a phoenix from the flames comes Fallen Heroes, a comic book adaptation of Barry Nugent's critically acclaimed, Amazon number one bestselling first novel. Hear the fantastic story of how this book went from the printed page to comic book panel overcoming almost insurmountable odds to launch with issue #1 at Cardiff International Comic Expo 2011. Barry Nugent and artist on the book, Steve Penfold will be joined by hosts Dan Marshall and Gavin Jones from The Sidekickcast for a discussion about the trials and tribulations of self publishing, the process of adaptation and of course the book itself.

I'm a big fan of wjhat we in the biz like to call 'the little fellas'.

2.30pm Mike Tucker : Special Effects & Model Behaviour! with Mat Irvine

The two leading special effects creators who have worked on programmes from Doctor Who to Blakes 7 and beyond!
Mike runs his own company, the Model Unit and has once again been back on the Who set Mat also returned to the series when he re-built his original K-9 for Sarah Jane Adventures. Both are most well known for their work at the BBC and they have just co-authored the Story of the Special Effects unit, the book is titled VFX.
….Copies of which are on sale on the Forbidden Planet Stand and both Mike and Mat will be signing after
the panel.

This intro is so pun-tastic I thought it had been written by Simon Wyatt!
3.15pm Creating Who? Tales And Relative Drawing In Space!

The good Doctor while enjoying being the king of Saturday night ( and Christmas day ) TV has continued the good fight in books and Comics since the early 1960's.We assemble the finest lines up of the creators this side of Gallifrey who will reveal the secrets of creating stories outside of the BBC television Centre. Mike Collins, David Roach, John Ross, Paul Lang, Emma Beeby & Gordon Rennie

This may just be the film @Neon_Lynx has been waiting his whole life for, can he wait just a little bit longer?

4.00pm ULTRAMARINES : From Tabletop to the big screen!

Join members of the team that brought 40,000 to a whole new level
We go behind the scenes of the Warhammer Movie with a very special panel featuring a few surprises!