Pre-recorded Sessions: From 4 December 2020 | Live Sessions: 10 – 13 December 2020
4 – 13 December 2020
Keynote
A Conversation with OVER THE MOON Director Glen Keane
Director and Legendary Academy Award-winning Animator | Creator of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Beast, Tarzan, and Rapunzel
VFX Supervisor & Creative Director, Double Negative
Ian Failes (Moderator for both Keynotes)
VFX & Animation Journalist | Editor of befores & afters
Featured Sessions
In collaboration with the Games program: Retraining Creative Industries - Unreal Fellowship For Virtual Production
Clinical Virtual Reality: Seven Ways that Virtual Reality Will Change the World of Mental Healthcare!
Director of Medical VR
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Director of Operations and Technology
Reel FX
Creating In-Camera VFX with Real-Time Workflows
Industry Manager for Film & TV
Epic Games
Director of Operations and Technology
Reel FX
Digital humans are back! Creating and using believable avatars in the age of covid
Panel of speakers include:
Research Scientist
Facebook Reality Labs
Director and Founder
Facebook Reality Labs
Expression Scientist
Face the FACS
CEO
Soul Machines
Director of Production Technology
Soul Machines
Co-founder
fxguide and the Motus Lab USYD
Senior Director of Software R&D
Digital Domain
Director, Digital Human Group
Digital Domain
CEO & Co-founder
Pinscreen
Games
Advances in Real-Time cinematics -- The Last of Us II
Graphics Programmer
Naughty Dog
Cinematic Lighter
Naughty Dog
ZooBuilder: 3D Animation Generation from Videos for Quadrupeds
Data Scientist
Ubisoft
Manager
Ubisoft
XR
Technology Woven In
Director of Engineering
Google
Computer Animation Festival – Panel and Production Talks
Jesus Martinez
Animation Manager
Pixar Animation Studios
Edwin Chang
Shot Supervisor / SparkShorts Director, Wind
Pixar Animation Studios
Beth Albright
Character Shading and Groom Lead
Pixar Animation Studios
Gennie Rim
Executive Producer
Glen Keane Productions
Peilin Chou
Animation Film Producer
Netflix
Chris Prynoski
Founder and President
Titmouse
Jorge Gutierrez
Director, Animator, Writer and Artist
Reel FX
Ross Stewart
Painter, Illustrator, Designer, Animation Director, Art Director
Tomm Moore
Co-founder and Creative Director
Cartoon Saloon
Erick Oh
Director
Tonko House
Celine You
Character Designer
Pixar Animation Studios
Andrew Vernon
Remote Sound Mixer
Netflix
Walt Dohrn
Head of Story
DreamWorks Animation
Kendal Cronkhite
Production Designer
DreamWorks Animation
Taylor Meacham
Story Artist
DreamWorks Animation
Jeffrey Hermann
Producer
DreamWorks Animation
Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull
Filmmaker
HaZ Film Ltd
P.Jayakumar
CEO
Toonz Media Group
Click here to view a couple of the Panel & Production Talks. More to revealed soon!