Confirmed Speakers VIEW 2024

Jonathan Nolan

Writer, Producer, Director, Westworld, Fallout, Person of Interest

Fede Alvarez

Director, Writer, Producer, Alien: Romulus

Ramsey Naito

President, Paramount, Nickelodeon

Kelsey Mann

Director, Inside Out 2, Pixar Animation Studios

Chris Sanders

Director, The Wild Robot, DreamWorks Animation

Shannon Tindle

Director, Ultraman Rising, Netflix Animation

Josh Cooley

Director, Transformers One

Raymond Zibach

Production Designer, The Wild Robot, Deamworks Animation

Simon Otto

Director, That Christmas

Amy Smeed

Head of Animation, Moana 2, Disney Animation Studios

Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn

Production Designer, That Christmas

Will Becher

Supervising Animator and Stop-Motion Lead, Aardman Animations

Alec Gillis

Creature FX Designer, Alien: Romulus, Studio Gillis

Paul Lambert

Overall VFX Supervisor, Dune: Part Two

Patrick Heinen

Second Unit VFX Supervisor, Dune: Part Two

Rhys Salcombe

VFX Supervisor, DNEG

Stephen James

VFX Supervisor, DNEG

Rob Bredow

Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)

Jeff Budsberg

VFX Supervisor, The Wild Robot, DreamWorks Animation

Jay Worth

Overall VFX Supervisor, FALLOUT

Swen Gillberg

VFX Supervisor, Deadpool & Wolverine

Jake Maymudes

Founder & CEO, Wylie Co. VFX

Hal Hickel

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

Martin Nebelong

Freelance Artist and VR Pioneer

Richard Kerris

VP / GM Media & Entertainment , NVIDIA

Dylan Sisson

Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios

Pascal Campion

Artist, Storyteller, Production Designer

Rochele Gloor

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

Amanda Strong

Director & Stop-Motion Storyteller

Laura Goncalves

Co-Director, PERCEBES

Heidi Wang

Senior VP, Wacom Ink Division, B2B EMEA

Rob Coleman

Creative Director & Animation Supervisor, Transformers One, ILM, Sydney

Hayden Jones

Overall VFX Supervisor, ILM

Jason Greenblum

VFX Supervisor, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Habib Zargarpour

Virtual Production Supervisor, Unity Technologies

Setareh Samandari

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Interdimensional VFX

Oliver Schulz

VFX Supervisor, RISE

Stefen Fangmeier

Production VFX Supervisor, 3 Body Problem, Netflix

Kevin Tod Haug

VFX Supervisor

Hristo Velev

Founder, Bottleship VFX

David Stump

Director of Photography

Giuseppe Lombardi

Director, Senior VFX Artist, and VFX Compositing Trainer

Nicolas Doucet

Founder & President, Team Asobi

Jan-Bart van Beek

Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games

Balazs Kalazdi

Principal Cutscene Animator, Ninja Theory

Nikola Damjanov

Lead Game Artist, Nordeus

Terrence Masson

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

Tim McLaughlin

Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University

Amelie Dillig

VFX Producer, Accenture Song VFX

Gus Martinez

VFX Supervisor, Accenture Song VFX

James Coore

VFX Supervisor, REALTIME

Jono Rawlinson

Head of Episodic & Film, REALTIME

Christos Obretenov

Owner & Lead Developer RenderMan Stylized Looks, Lollipop Shaders

Ernst Janssen Groesbeek

Stylized Rendering Look Development Artist, 9to3animation

Megan Brain

Paper Sculpture Designer, World of Color, Walt Disney Imagineering

Liberty Worth

Artist, Quilter, Designer, Teacher and Poet

Joseph Wallace

Animation Director, Writer, Producer

Diego Alonso Sanchez de la Barquera

Director, Animator, Storyboard, Nube

Christian Arredondo Narvaez

Director, Animator, Background & Ilustrator, Nube

Loic Espuche

Animator/Writer/Director, Yuck!

Anthony Giacchino

Filmmaker, Colette, Oscar winner

Michael Coldewey

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

Florian Witzel

VFX Supervisor, Twisters (2024)

Jeff Dillinger

VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis

Scott Eaton

Artist, Designer, Creative Technologist

Eloi Champagne

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

Oleg Fryazinov

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

Mike Jelinek

ArtD. Researcher, MX Lab, Inst of Design Faculty of Arch/Design, Slovak U. of Tech, Bratislava

Andreas Maaninka

VFX Supervisor

Matthias Buehler

Founder & CTO | MSc Arch ETH Zurich

Amie Loyd

Director of F & A, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

Michel Bellini

Professor, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

Alexandre Poncet

Director, Composer, Film Historian

Jesper Ejsing

Fantasy Artist

Aylin Vogelgesang

Global Marketer, Portfolio Management, Wacom

Mark Flanagan

Global Manager of Learning & Development, Feature Animation, Netflix Animation/Animal Logic

Sarah Maizes

Executive Producer, Cheeky Squirrel Productions

Deirdre Barry

Programme Director, The National Talent Academy for Animation

Delphine Coudray

Head of Operations, Animation Ireland