Advisory Board

Our advisory board is made up of professional 3D artists, CG industry movers and shakers, and influential names in TV, film, advertising and design. These are the people we go to for news, opinions, predictions, wisdom recommendations and general industry hubbub.

Advisory Board
  • Afonso Salcedo Afonso Salcedo

    Afonso Salcedo

    Pixar Animation Studios

    Afonso Salcedo

    Afonso Salcedo

    Lighting Artist View Profile

    Pixar Animation Studios

    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.

  • Aladino Debert Aladino Debert

    Aladino Debert

    Mothership & Digital Domain

    Aladino Debert

    Aladino Debert

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    Mothership & Digital Domain

    Aladino is a director with Mothership and also wears the hat of Creative Director and Visual Effects Supervisor with Digital Domain.

  • Anthony Hunt Anthony Hunt

    Anthony Hunt

    Cinesite

    Anthony Hunt

    Anthony Hunt

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    Cinesite

    Anthony has taken the helm at Cinesite bringing with him all the contacts he’s made with major film studios, producers, directors and visual effects supervisors.

  • Andrew Bell Andrew Bell

    Andrew Bell

    Method LA & NY

    Andrew Bell

    Andrew Bell

    VP View Profile

    Method LA & NY

    Andrew is Managing Director at MPC’s LA studio. Andrew joined MPC in 1999, and has worked as a Senior Producer since 2002...

  • Andrew Sinagra Andrew Sinagra

    Andrew Sinagra

    ICO VFX

    Andrew Sinagra

    Andrew Sinagra

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    ICO VFX

    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.

  • Andy Hall Andy Hall

    Andy Hall

    Elastic & a52

    Andy Hall

    Andy Hall

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    Elastic & a52

    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...

  • Chris Edwards Chris Edwards

    Chris Edwards

    THE THIRD FLOOR

    Chris Edwards

    Chris Edwards

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    THE THIRD FLOOR

    As CEO and Creative Director at THE THIRD FLOOR, Edwards has helped oversee the design of many feature films, commercials, and video game cinematics.

  • Chris Ford Chris Ford

    Chris Ford

    Pixar Animation

    Chris Ford

    Chris Ford

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    Pixar Animation

    Now entrenched in the position of Business Director for RenderMan, Chris can bring 20 years experience to add to Pixar's stable of films like 'Toy Story', 'Finding Nemo', and 'The Incredibles'.

  • Chris Holmes Chris Holmes

    Chris Holmes

    ICO VFX

    Chris Holmes

    Chris Holmes

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    ICO VFX

    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...

  • Christian Roberton Christian Roberton

    Christian Roberton

    MPC

    Christian Roberton

    Christian Roberton

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    MPC

    Christian started his career in the traditional drawn animation business in the mid 90’s. Working for a number of London based traditional animation companies on commercial and television series production.

  • Claudia Meglin Claudia Meglin

    Claudia Meglin

    The Foundry

    Claudia Meglin

    Claudia Meglin

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    The Foundry

    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.

  • Dan O'Rourke Dan O'Rourke

    Dan O'Rourke

    Not To Scale

    Dan O'Rourke

    Dan O'Rourke

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    Not To Scale

    Dan is the executive producer and founder of Not To Scale, an award winning animation studio.

  • Dayne Cowan Dayne Cowan

    Dayne Cowan

    VES

    Dayne Cowan

    Dayne Cowan

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    VES

    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.

  • Darin Grant Darin Grant

    Darin Grant

    Digital Domain Media Group

    Darin Grant

    Darin Grant

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    Digital Domain Media Group

    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.

  • Eric Alba Eric Alba

    Eric Alba

    Eric Alba

    Eric Alba

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    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...

  • Janelle Croshaw Janelle Croshaw

    Janelle Croshaw

    Janelle Croshaw

    Janelle Croshaw

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    Growing up in a small town in Northern California as a traditional artist, Janelle Croshaw soon discovered how to create art on a computer...

  • Jason Cohon Jason Cohon

    Jason Cohon

    Brand New School

    Jason Cohon

    Jason Cohon

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    Brand New School

    Jason Cohon’s burgeoning interest in film was fostered in rainy Portland weather accompanied by quiet, introspective weekends.

  • Jim Radford Jim Radford

    Jim Radford

    MPC

    Jim Radford

    Jim Radford

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    MPC

    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...

  • John Leonti John Leonti

    John Leonti

    The Mill

    John Leonti

    John Leonti

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    The Mill

    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...

  • Jonathan Privett Jonathan Privett

    Jonathan Privett

    Rushes

    Jonathan Privett

    Jonathan Privett

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    Rushes

    Jonathan is Head of CG which covers the whole client range so he's in the ideal position to let us know what they all require.

  • Ken Maruyama Ken Maruyama

    Ken Maruyama

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    Ken Maruyama

    Ken Maruyama

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    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    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.

  • Kyle Cassidy Kyle Cassidy

    Kyle Cassidy

    Psyop

    Kyle Cassidy

    Kyle Cassidy

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    Psyop

    Kyle Cassidy has spent most of his career focusing on modeling texturing and lighting...

  • Linda Siegel Linda Siegel

    Linda Siegel

    Digital Domain

    Linda Siegel

    Linda Siegel

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    Digital Domain

    Linda Siegel is the Senior Training Manager of Digital Domain, the Academy Award©-winning digital production and special effects studio based in Venice, California.

  • Markus Kurtz Markus Kurtz

    Markus Kurtz

    Rhythm and Hues Studios

    Markus Kurtz

    Markus Kurtz

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    Rhythm and Hues Studios

    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.

  • Mike O'Neal Mike O'Neal

    Mike O'Neal

    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    Mike O'Neal

    Mike O'Neal

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    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    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.

  • Paul Franklin Paul Franklin

    Paul Franklin

    Double Negative VFX

    Paul Franklin

    Paul Franklin

    VFX supervisor View Profile

    Double Negative VFX

    Paul Franklin is a VFX supervisor with over 20 years' experience in digital effects and animation. Whilst studying sculpture at university Paul began working with a student film group, serving variously as editor, props-maker and graphic designer...

  • Patrick Davenport Patrick Davenport

    Patrick Davenport

    Method LA & NY

    Patrick Davenport

    Patrick Davenport

    VP View Profile

    Method LA & NY

    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...

  • Robin Shenfield Robin Shenfield

    Robin Shenfield

    The Mill

    Robin Shenfield

    Robin Shenfield

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    The Mill

    Robin is the CEO of The Mill, the world-leading Visual Effects company with offices in the global centres of CG - London, New York and Los Angeles...

  • Stephen Venning Stephen Venning

    Stephen Venning

    The Mill

    Stephen Venning

    Stephen Venning

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    The Mill

    Stephen is Executive Producer, 3D at The Mill’s London studio. He joined The Mill in 2001 and oversees The Mill’s award winning team of 3D artists and producers who create high-end CGI for commercials, music videos and multi-platform films and virals...

  • Salar Saleh Salar Saleh

    Salar Saleh

    Charlex

    Salar Saleh

    Salar Saleh

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    Charlex

    Salar Saleh is a Senior Lighting Technical Director at Charlex in New York City working on film and commercial projects.

  • Shelley Page Shelley Page

    Shelley Page

    Dreamworks

    Shelley Page

    Shelley Page

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    Dreamworks

    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’...

  • Steven Swanson Steven Swanson

    Steven Swanson

    Luma Pictures

    Steven Swanson

    Steven Swanson

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    Luma Pictures

    Swanson spearheaded the development of file architecture and workflow protocols that are the foundation of the studio's pipeline.

  • Tim McBride Tim McBride

    Tim McBride

    Zoic

    Tim McBride

    Tim McBride

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    Zoic

    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.

  • Will Cohen Will Cohen

    Will Cohen

    The Mill

    Will Cohen

    Will Cohen

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    The Mill

    Will joined The Mill in July 2003 and now leads the film and TV divisions as Group Director of Mill Film and TV...