Meet the Judges

Meet the Judges

Our judging panel comprises 5 expert judges with diverse backgrounds in the CG industry and from different regions of the world. Under the direction of “Judges Chairman” Dom Davenport, they will review all the CG Whiz 2011 entries and hand pick the winners and runners up for both the Amateurs Category and the Young Professionals Category.

 

Winners of the Users Choice Awards will be voted for by users on our Facebook page – voting will take place between November 14 and December 3, 2011. 

Meet the Judges
  • Lee Danskin Lee Danskin

    Lee Danskin

    Training Development Director, Escape Studios

    Lee Danskin

    Lee Danskin

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    Training Development Director, Escape Studios

    Lee Danskin is Escape Studios’ Maya guru and Training Development Director. Lee has enjoyed an incredible 18-year career working on high profile projects for some of the world’s biggest FX studios. He had a hand in creating Maya 1.0 – the 3D package that started it all.

  • Tom Bussell Tom Bussell

    Tom Bussell

    Head of 3D, The Mill

    Tom Bussell

    Tom Bussell

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    Head of 3D, The Mill

    Tom joined The Mill in 2003 and is our Head of 3D. He has worked on an array of high profile commercials including the Nike epic, ‘Write the Future’, the fully animated Sky Sports Premier League ad, Volkswagen ‘Black Beetle’, Audi ‘Economy Drive’ and Cadbury’s ‘Cocoa Beams’.

  • Dom Davenport Dom Davenport

    Dom Davenport

    CEO, Escape Studios

    Dom Davenport

    Dom Davenport

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    CEO, Escape Studios

    Dom Davenport is CEO and founder of Escape Studios. After graduating with a first-class degree and Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea Art School where he won the prestigious Henry Moore Prize, Dom worked for leading visual effects studios...

  • April Madden April Madden

    April Madden

    Editor, Digital Artist

    April Madden

    April Madden

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    Editor, Digital Artist

    Trained in History of Art with Fine Art, April then went into technology journalism. After several years working across a number of computing, videogames and photography titles, she started creating digital art in 2008.

  • Paul Hellard Paul Hellard

    Paul Hellard

    Editor, CGSociety

    Paul Hellard

    Paul Hellard

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    Editor, CGSociety

    Paul Hellard is features writer, editor of CGSociety, manager of CGJobs and also helps keep digital book artists happy from his home in Melbourne.