2021 SPEAKERS


Aaron Blaise
Animation Feature Film Director, character designer, concept & Wildlife Artist

Alex Beddows
Counterplay Games
Senior Environment Artist

Alvaro Martínez
Independent Filmmaker & VFX artist

Angela Sung
Art Director and Visual Development Artist

Dawn Carlos
Lucasfilm Animation
Concept Artist

Djamila Knopf
Independent Artist and Schoolism Instructor

Dylan Sisson
Pixar
Digital Artist

Finnian MacManus
Terraform Studios
Creative Director and Concept Artist

Fredrik Löfberg
Goodbye Kansas
Director

Giovanni Nakpil
Adobe
Senior Design Evangelist and Creative Director

Glen Southern
SouthernGFX

Ian Spriggs
Unity Labs
Lead Character Artist

Ian Failes
befores & afters magazine
Editor

Jason Horley
ILM
Supervising Art Director

JM Blay
Blay Studio
Founder / Director

Jonathan Cheetham
VFX Supervisor and Senior VFX Artist

Jörgen Lilja
Goodbye Kansas
Executive Producer

Karla Ortiz
Concept Artist, Professional Illustrator and Fine Artist

Lauren Panepinto
Orbit Books
Creative Director

Lois Van Baarle
Concept Artist and Character Designer

Mario Domingos
3D Motion Designer

Matthias Zabiegly
Aixsponza GmbH
Head of 3D and Set Supervisor

Max Ulichney
Animation Art Director and Character Designer

Mike Jelinek
Wacom
Concept Designer, Artist, and Researcher

Paul Franklin
DNEG
Visual effects supervisor and creative director

Phil Leonhardt
Visual Effects Sequence Supervisor, Weta Digital

Phillip Boutte
Costume Concept Artist

Sean Kennedy
CoSA VFX
Senior Compositor (3D Generalist)

Stephen Tappin
Art Director

Theo Jones
Framestore
VFX Supervisor and FUSE project lead

Vanessa Abreu
Life Model

Wes McDermott
Adobe
Executive Producer