Confirmed Speakers VIEW 2025

Dean DeBlois

Writer/Director, How to Train Your Dragon

Christian Manz

VFX Supervisor & Creative Director, How to Train Your Dragon, Framestore

Glen McIntosh

Overall Animation Supervisor, How to Train Your Dragon

Domee Shi

Director & VP of Creative, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios

Madeline Sharafian

Director, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios

Alessandro Carloni

Writer & Director, Cat in the Hat (2026), Warner Bros. Animation

Pierre Perifel

Director, The Bad Guys 2, Dreamworks Animation

Matt Baer

VFX Supervisor, The Bad Guys 2, Dreamworks Animation

Maggie Kang

Director, KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix

Chris Appelhans

Director, KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix Animation

Alex Woo

Director, In Your Dreams, Kuku Studios

Nicola Lavender

Director, CG Supervision and Visual Effects Supervisor, In Your Dreams, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Sacha Kapijimpanga

Head of Character Animation, In Your Dreams, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Pablo Helman

VFX Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, ILM

Dale Newton

Animation Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, Framestore

Doug Chiang

Senior Vice President and Executive Design Director, Lucasfilm

Ian Hunter

Creative Director, VFX Supervisor, Co-Founder, New Deal Studios, VES winner

Camille Balsamo-Gillis

Actress, Producer, Director, and Co-Founder, Pro Machina

Reid Collums

Actor, Writer, Special Effects Artist, and Partner, Pro Machina

Janet Lewin

Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Head, ILM

Phil Tippett

Founder and Filmmaker, Tippett Studio

Ramsey Naito

President, Paramount, Nickelodeon

Fiona Walkinshaw

CEO Film & Episodic, Framestore

Jeff Kember

Senior Director of Product Management, AI for Media2, NVIDIA

Rick Champagne

Director of Global Media2 Strategy and Marketing, NVIDIA

David Seager

Production Overall VFX Supervisor, TRON: Ares, Industrial Light & Magic

David Vickery

Overall VFX Supervisor, Jurassic World: Rebirth, ILM, Bafta, VES winner

Craig Hammack

Overall VFX Supervisor, Lilo & Stitch, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)

Ryan Tudhope

VFX Supervisor, F1 Movie, Framestore

Stéphane Nazé

VFX Supervisor, Framestore

Daniele Bigi

VFX Supervisor, Fantastic Four: First Steps, ILM

Michael Ralla

Overall VFX Supervisor, Sinners

Kevin Baillie

VP, Head of Studios, Eyeline Studios

Chris Lavis

Co-Founder, Clyde Henry Productions & Director, The Girl Who Cried Pearls, The National Film Board

Eric Pouliot

Tech Director, The Girl Who Cried Pearls, The National Film Board of Canada

Nathan Fox

Creative Director, Sucker Punch Productions

Johnny Han

VFX Supervisor & 2nd Unit Director, The Penguin (HBO)

Goran Pavles

Founder & Visual Effects Supervisor, The Penguin (HBO), Stormborn Studios

Eugene Bondar

VFX Supervisor, The Penguin (HBO), Frost FX

Jake Maymudes

Founder & CEO, Wylie Co. VFX

Sandro Blattner

Overall Visual Effects Supervisor, The Studio

Jethro Au

CG Supervisor, Wednesday: Season 2, Rocket Science VFX

Kevin Buessecker

FX Supervisor, Wednesday: Season 2, Rocket Science VFX

Martin Pelletier

VFX Supervisor, The Sandman, Rodeo FX

Apollonia Hartmann

VFX Producer, Accenture Song VFX

David Anastacio

CG Supervisor, Accenture Song VFX

Claudia Marvisi

Head of Texturing, Pixomondo

Ara Khanikian

VFX Supervisor, The Rings of Power, Rodeo FX

Melaina Mace

DFX Supervisor, DNEG

Roberto Rodricks

FX Supervisor, DNEG

Kris Pearn

Director, Sony Pictures Animation

Simon Weisse

VFX Miniature Unit Supervisor and Props Designer

Kyle T. Webster

Illustrator & Brush Designer, Procreate

Shane Valdez

Founder & CEO, SuperFile

Martin Nebelong

Freelance Artist and VR Pioneer, main client Google Envisioning Studio

Jamie Umpherson

Head of Creative, Runway

Alexis Wanneroy

Animation Supervisor, Fortiche Production

Maciej Kuciara

Artist & Director

Ted Ty

Global Head of Character Animation, DNEG Animation

Guido Wolter

VFX Supervisor, Rising Sun Pictures

Espen Nordahl

Head of VFX, Storm Studios

Antoine Moulineau

CEO & Creative Director, Light Visual Effects

Hal Hickel

Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Oscar, BAFTA winner

Laurens Ehrmann

Founder & Creative Director, The Yard

Dylan Sisson

Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios

Heiko Burkardsmaier

VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX

Tracy McCreary

Managing Director and Partner, BlueBolt

Pawl Fulker

Creative Director & Sr. Visualization Supervisor, Proof London Ltd.

John Canning

Director Developer Relations - M&E, AEC, D&M, AMD

Andreas Maaninka

VFX Supervisor

Fulvio Sestito

Founder, Executive Creative Director, Realdream

Jingyi Zhang

Founder, Corbel3D

Jan-Bart van Beek

Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games

Asa Mathat

Award-Winning Photographer

Rochele Gloor

Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts

Terrence Masson

MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC

Francesco Casetti

Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media, Yale University

Giulia Carluccio

Deputy Rector, University of Turin

Giaime Alonge

Full Professor in Film, Photography, and Television, University of Turin

Simone Natale

Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Department of Humanities, University of Turin

Gabriella Taddeo

Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Department of Humanities, University of Turin

Setareh Samandari

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Interdimensional VFX

Habib Zargarpour

Virtual Production Supervisor, Interdimensional VFX, Co-head of Virtual Production, USC School of C

Tara DeMarco

Visual Effects Supervisor, Upside Down Productions

Christina Caspers-Roemer

General Manager, Trixter, and Executive Producer, Cinesite Group

Heike Kluger

VFX Supervisor

Kieran Belshaw

Concept Artist

Jeff Dillinger

VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis

Jochen Willemsen

Cinematic Director, Guerilla Games

Munjal B. Shroff

Co-Founder, Graphiti Studios

Alexandre Poncet

Director, Composer, Film Historian

Eloi Champagne

Head, Technical Direction and Production Technology, National Film Board of Canada

Victor Agulhon

CEO & Producer, TARGO

Ernst Janssen Groesbeek

Stylized Rendering Look Development Artist, 9to3animation

Christos Obretenov

Owner & Lead Developer RenderMan Stylized Looks, Lollipop Shaders

Denver Jackson

Animator & Visual Effects Artist

Matthias Buehler

Founder & CTO | MSc Arch ETH Zurich

Nicholas Cabana

Creative Director and Co-Founder, Claynosaurz

Talia Finlayson

Creative Technologist and Senior Unreal Artist, Disguise

Michael Coldewey

Professor of Concept Art, Drawing & Design, Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich

Luca Prasso

Sr. Technical Artist, Android Perception Team, Google

Jonas Kluger

Founder, Das Element

Zane Swift

Filmmaker

Mark Dubeau

Art Director, Tippett Studio

Gary Mundell

CEO, Tippett Studio

Colin Geddes

Production Executive, Tippett Studio

Tom Gibbons

Animation / Stop-Motion Supervisor, Tippett Studio

Marc Morissette

VFX Supervisor, Tippett Studio

Ken Rogerson

Editorial Supervisor, Tippett Studio

Saint John Walker

Programme Leader, Postgraduate Media, University of Hertfordshire

Oleg Fryazinov

Associate Professor in The National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University

Morten Thorning

Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creative Consultant

Javier Romero

Animation VFX Supervisor

Ian Failes

Editor, befores & afters

Dimitri Vallein

Artist, Director, & Technologist

Srikanth Srinivasan

Senior Technical Supervisor, BOT VFX

Boyan Georgiev

Freelance Creative Professional, Chair, London ACM SIGGRAPH

Riccardo Russiano

UX Designer, Lifebonder

Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero

3D Animator, DNEG

Kate Gabriel

Creative Director CG, No. 8

Monica Galantucci

Founder & CEO, M74

Giulio Campiglia

VFX Global Business Executive, M74

Ethan Francis

CG Generalist, Black Kite Studios

Tomek Suwalkski

Director, Platige Image

Magdalena Rudnicka

Producer, Platige Image

Joseph Bell

Executive, Consultant, Speaker

Christian Tagliapietra

3D Artist and Educator, Skyup Academy

Gennaro Esposito

Head of CG, Digital Shark Studio

Filippo Robino

Co-Founder, Alps Studios

Federica Zancato

Illustrator, Collage Artist

Hayley Miller

Founder, World of VFX Day

Beata Parczewska

Lead Simulation Artist, Medtronic, Secretary , London ACM SIGGRAPH

Agata Soccini

Researcher, Head of the VR Lab, University of Torino

Stuart Ward

Creator

Arissa Ackerman

Film Major, SCAD

Siva Kumar Kasetty

Executive Producer & Partner, ZA Studios

Andrea Salvatori

3D Artist