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Markus Kurtz
Markus Kurtz is Vice President of Production Technology at Rhythm and Hues Studios. He is an industry veteran with over 16 years of production experience in visual effects and technology.
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Steven Swanson
Swanson spearheaded the development of file architecture and workflow protocols that are the foundation of the studio's pipeline.
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Darin Grant
Darin Grant is the Chief Technology Officer of Digital Domain Media Group. Previously, he served as DreamWorks Animation’s Head of Production Technology from January 2005 to 2011.
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Kyle Cassidy
Kyle Cassidy has spent most of his career focusing on modeling texturing and lighting...
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Linda Siegel
Linda Siegel is the Senior Training Manager of Digital Domain, the Academy Award©-winning digital production and special effects studio based in Venice, California.
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Claudia Meglin
Claudia Meglin, Head of Creative Specialists & Client Relations WW for The Foundry, is a creative and technical pioneer of visual effects, contributing to nearly two decades of cinema's evolution from celluloid to digital.
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Eric Alba
Eric Alba is a Visual Effects Supervisor with 16 Years of On-Set Visual Effects Supervision experience that started in network series TV. Alba began his career in 1992 as a Video Tape Operator in the machine room of a post-production facility...
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Jason Cohon
Jason Cohon’s burgeoning interest in film was fostered in rainy Portland weather accompanied by quiet, introspective weekends.
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Janelle Croshaw
Growing up in a small town in Northern California as a traditional artist, Janelle Croshaw soon discovered how to create art on a computer...
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Chris Edwards
As CEO and Creative Director at THE THIRD FLOOR, Edwards has helped oversee the design of many feature films, commercials, and video game cinematics.
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Tim McBride
Tim McBride is a specialist in operations, finance and accounting with over 25 years experience in all facets of business, both in the public accounting Big 4 arena and in the private finance and operations areas.
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Andy Hall
As a founding member and director at Elastic as well as head of 3D and VFX Supervisor at a52, Andy has the unique ability to lead teams of artists...
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John Leonti
John Leonti is the head of 3D at The Mill in Los Angeles, Calif, the West Coast arm of the world's leading visual effects company...
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Chris Holmes
In addition to founding ICO VFX and serving as its president and CEO, Chris Holmes has been a visual effects supervisor and artist for over 20 years...
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Andrew Sinagra
Andrew Sinagra, Creative Director & CG Supervisor of award-winning VFX company Ntropic, has 17 years of visual effects and filmmaking experience in commercials, episodic television, music videos, feature films, and software development.
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Ken Maruyama
Vice President, Recruiting & Academic Relations / Animation Artist Management.
Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Ken Maruyama is the Vice President of Recruiting and Academic Relations and Animation artist management.
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Patrick Davenport
VP
Originally from England, Patrick Davenport has two decades of experience in VFX and production. A qualified Barrister, Patrick had always wanted to work in film and television so he started as a runner at The Moving Picture Company in London in 1990...
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Andrew Bell
Andrew is Managing Director at MPC’s LA studio. Andrew joined MPC in 1999, and has worked as a Senior Producer since 2002...
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Mike O'Neal
Mike O'Neal is currently with Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles, California where he serves as both Digital and Visual Effects Supervisor and is involved in several R&D activities.
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Aladino Debert
Aladino is a director with Mothership and also wears the hat of Creative Director and Visual Effects Supervisor with Digital Domain.
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Salar Saleh
Salar Saleh is a Senior Lighting Technical Director at Charlex in New York City working on film and commercial projects.
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Chris Ford
Now entrenched in the position of Business Director for RenderMan, Chris brings 20 years experience to add to Pixar's stable of films such as 'Toy Story,' 'Finding Nemo,' and 'The Incredibles.'
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Shelley Page
DreamWorks Animation has been responsible for some of the biggest and most ground-breaking titles in the business such as ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ,’ ‘The Prince Of Egypt,’ ‘Antz,’ and ‘Shrek.’
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Anthony Hunt
Anthony now has over 125 films to his name, adding up to 25 years experience in the management and strategy of effects.
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Dayne Cowan
Dayne is the current Chair of the UK Section of the Visual Effects Society. Having held this role for many years, he is well informed of the challenges and opportunities that the UK film and visual effects industry present.
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Afonso Salcedo
Lighting Artist
Afonso Salcedo joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 2005 as an intern in the Rendering department for the Golden Globe®-winning feature, Cars, he then went on to become a full-time lighting artist on the Academy Award®-winning films Ratatouille, WALL•E and Up.
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Jim Radford
Jim has been MPC Creative Head of CGI for Commercials & TV since 2000, and has supervised VFX for many high-profile projects. In 2005, Jim won an Emmy and a VES award for the ground-breaking...
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Robin Shenfield
Robin is the CEO of The Mill, the world-leading Visual Effects Company with offices in the global centers of CG - London, New York and Los Angeles.
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Christian Roberton
Christian started his career in the traditional drawn animation business in the mid 90s. Working for a number of London based traditional animation companies on commercial and television series production.
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Paul Franklin
VFX supervisor
Paul Franklin is a VFX supervisor with over 20 years' experience in digital effects and animation. While studying sculpture at University, Paul began working with a student film group, serving variously as editor, props-maker and graphic designer.
