Talks

Alchemy of the Award-Winning Shot: Mastering Human Intuition in an Automated Era

Throughline: Three Months, or Forty Years?

Kevin Baillie began his VFX career at 18 as a previsualization artist on Star Wars: Episode I, and has spent the nearly three decades since spanning visual effects supervision, directing, and technology entrepreneurship.

He co-founded Atomic Fiction, whose work included Flight, The Walk, and Top Gun: Maverick, and has collaborated with Robert Zemeckis for more than two decades, most recently as VFX Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director on Here, a landmark project in AI-assisted filmmaking. He later led Capture and GenAI teams at Netflix's Eyeline Studios, helping advance new production technologies for filmmaking.

In 2026, he founded Leeme, his second platform company built for the film industry, following Conductor Technologies, the cloud rendering service acquired by CoreWeave in 2023. Leeme builds the tools that widen what filmmakers can imagine putting on screen, strengthening the hands of the crews and craftspeople the industry is already built on.

Kevin is a member of the DGA, VES, and AMPAS.