How to Break into a Career in Animation, VFX and Games

A standing-room only audience of young professionals and students filled the auditorium at ICS ICT to hear panelists Dylan Sisson from Pixar Animation Studios; Trent Claus, visual effects supervisor at Lola Visual Effects; Jan-Bart Van Beek, studio director at Guerrila Games; Eloi Champagne, production technology strategist at the National Film Board of Canada; and Hal Hickel, animation director at Industrial Light & Magic. Moderator Wieke Schrakamp, a researcher at Valsplat, engaged the panelists and the audience with provocative questions that the panelists fielded with humor and great insights.