VFX Supervisor / Compositing Supervisor

Award-winning VFX Supervisor with over 25 years of experience, has contributed to 85+ films, including Gladiator II, The Lion King, and The Marvels.

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Visual Effects Society Co-Chair.

Compositor Supervisor / Professor

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Ricardo Ferreira is a Compositor Supervisor who worked on three Oscar-winning movies for Best Visual Effects: Gravity, Interstellar, and Ex Machina.

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Board Member at VES

Marketing & PR Strategist

Former Head of Marketing at Axis Studios.

Animated Woman UK and Board of Directors Animation Scotland

Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist who has worked on a number of Hollywood films, including Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Pirates of the
Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, plus many more

CAVE Academy Founder

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Computer Animation and Visual Effects Teacher and Consultant. He specializes in designing and delivering courses to create solid and diverse production-ready skills in all 3D-related departments and across a number of facilities worldwide.

Surfacing Artist / 3D Generalist

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Kung Fu Panda 4, Dogman, Superworm Netflix: Wolf Kin,g and more. Passionate about mentoring, Callum has guided aspiring artists through Blue Zoo’s Bootcamp, BFX competitions, and networking events.

Award-winning Director, VFX Supervisor and former Head of Nuke Compositing at the Mill London.

Member of the Visual Effects Society. YouTube channel Hugo's Desk

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VFX Compositing Lecturer + VES London Board Manager

Groom TD

DNEG

Executive Producer at Revenant

From leading award-winning campaigns for global brands like L’Occitane, Kellogs, TAG Heuer and Vodafone, to directing the acclaimed feature documentary New Town Utopia, Chris has consistently explored how technology and narrative intersect. At Revenant, he oversees the studio's creation of high-fidelity animation, motion design, and immersive projects,, helping clients tell stories in high-fidelity ways with edge.

VFX Supervisor and ArtFx UK

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VFX Supervisor with 16 years of experience, has worked on iconic films such as The Hobbit, Prometheus, The Hunger Games 2, and Harry Potter 7

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Vice-Chair and Treasurer VES London

Creative Director & Artist

With over 15 years of experience in the CG and motion design industry, Vladislav has collaborated with different clients and agencies like Apple, Google, L'Oreal, Audi, Lotus, AKQA, Saatch & Saatchi, Ayzenberg, Downtown Paris and Dix Sept Paris.

VFX Director / Art Manager / Co-Founder

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Game industry veteran with 30+ years of experience across 20+ titles, including The Last of Us, Uncharted, God of War, and League of Legends.Bard member VES and a recipient of the VES award for Best Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project for Uncharted 4,

Director

Directed and Written over ten multi-award-winning original short films, including the Oscar®-shortlisted and BAFTA-nominated 'Only a Child'. Experience with clients such as Netflix, Google, Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, and more!

Surfacing Artist/ CGI generalist

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Surfacing Artist with experience in both film and commercial work. I had the opportunity to contribute to the feature film DogMan for DreamWorks, and I’m currently part of the 3D department at Ford, where I work on renders for their advertising campaigns. 

Programmer - Games Development

Specializing in engines, performance, platforms, and optimization. AAA projects like Minecraft Dungeons, Hogwarts Legacy, F1 Manager 24, and Quidditch Champions

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TANGLEWOOD GAMES

Character Supervisor/Vis Dev Sculptor

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With over 20 years of experience. Former Head of Characters at Axis Studios, worked on renowned productions, including the Tales of Runeterra series (Riot Games), Love Death and Robots (Netflix), and the Blizzard. Now working as a Freelance Character Visual Development Sculptor with Netflix Animation.

Senior Rigger

Over five years of experience in award-winning productions. Passionate about solving technical problems using advanced algorithms and mathematical principles.

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BLUE ZOO

Groom/Creature Supervisor

With 12 years of experience, Camille Fourniols, the former groom/creature supervisor at Axis Studio, is now the co-founder of CG Flickers, a studio where she uses all her experience and skills to bring the best fluff to any CG universe.

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CG Flickers

Feature Animator

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With over nine years of Feature, VFX, and TV experience. She has been worked on titles such as The Addams Family 2, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Dog Man, Nautilus, and Man Vs Bee. She recently Twits for Netflix.

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DNEG Animation

CFX TD

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CFX TD for feature VFX, with a particular focus on costuming. His recent work includes Wicked and Paddington in Peru

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FRAMESTORE

Head of Innovation & Development

Over 10 years of experience in game trailers, cinematics, and advertising projects. His experience has seen him take on a variety of Roles. Established REALTIME's junior training scheme to help new junior artists get their first job in the industry.

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REALTIME

Senior Character/Creature Modeler

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I have worked on a wide variety of creatures for large VFX Films, TV productions, Advertising, and games, from big cats, dinosaurs, sea creatures, insects, and monsters, both real, imagined, and extinct.

TRIXTER
 

Co-Founder of FlippedNormals

I'm the co-founder of FlippedNormals, a marketplace for 3D artists. I used to work as a character artist in the VFX industry (MPC, DNEG), and now I make YouTube videos and premium tutorials and mentor students.

FlippedNormals 

Character Animator

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James Boyle is a character animator with three years of experience in TV and feature animation. His most recent work can be seen in the animated feature 'Dog Man' for Dreamworks and on the series 'Wolf King' for Netflix.

Senior Production Coordinator - ILM

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Over a decade of experience. Known for her infectious energy, sharp eye for detail — from Aladdin (2019) and The Mandalorian (Season 2) and many more!. Whether she’s lighting up a room with a good Dad joke or planning her next trip to Nandos, Emma loves diving into a production schedule and thrives on bringing order to chaos with a flame-grilled  perfectly timed punchline.​

Organising Official - BECTU

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Stefan Vassalos is a full-time union officer who has supported the Visual Effects and Animation Branch of Bectu, a union with 40,000 workers in the creative industries. Stefan has aided workers through redundancies, their employers going into administration, bullying, discrimination, disciplinaries, performance management, starting to unionise, understanding their employment rights, and more.

Producer & Co-Founder HaZimation.

Over 30 years of experience, debuting as award winning documentary director in Belfast in 1994. She has worked across multiple genres as a producer and post-production supervisor on over 45 feature films, games, and VR. Co-founder of HaZimation, currently in production feature animation based on the game Mutant Year Zero and producer on games Max Beyond, Hidden River and MODS.

Creative Director / AccessVFX

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Nene is an Advertising Creative Director. With a love for all things visual, she has been a commercial side Art Director for over 2 decades. Having recently worked at Amazon Prime Video Studios, she has directed advertising campaigns, content, and brand activations for House of the Dragon, Black Panther, Disney, Dove, Dior, Shea Moisture, Lego, L'Oréal, and Lewis Hamilton's initiative Mission 44.

Strategic partnerships manager at Mo-Sys

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He is a previous speaker at TEDx, BSC, RTS, Cannes and Production Forum in Paris, and a recipient of a Royal Television Society award nomination. Florian forges collaborative partnerships to advance Virtual Production technology, enabling greater access to this transformative content creation process that is delivering new levels of creative freedom and flexibility to filmmakers worldwide.

CG Artist - Coffee & TV

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​Amy Heyes is a CG Artist at Coffee & TV, holding a BA (Hons) degree in Animation. Her early passion for Pixar and DreamWorks films, along with her love for games like Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy, inspired her to pursue a creative career in visual storytelling. With a versatile skill set across various 3D disciplines, Amy aims to bring the same joy and energy to her work that originally ignited her love for animation and design.

Creative Director - FutureDeluxe

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He has over 17 years of experience working on a range of projects across many media, including digital out of home media, live music events, projection mapping, and 3D stereoscopic cinema. Marcus has worked with brands such as Dolby, Renault, Rolex, Aston Martin, Apple, Google, Converse, Adidas, Sony, LG, Samsung, and Bentley.

Compositor / 2D Technical Director - One of Us

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Professor and MA in Audiovisual Arts, specialized in compositing and color science/color management for VFX. Over eight years of experience, working on both the vendor and client sides. Projects include Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2023), Secret Invasion (2023), Doctor Who (2024), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), Mission: Impossible (2025), Black Mirror (2025), among others.

Lead Animator - WILD CHILD

Over 10 years of industry experience in TV, Feature Film, and Games, at studios like Jellyfish Pictures, Blue Zoo Animation, and Wild Child. You can see my work in Dog Man, Pip and Posy, and Lloyd of the Flies, to name a few, plus others that are yet to be released. I specialise in cartoony animation and love to see folks push their poses and experiment with timing and spacing to enhance the impact of their shots.

3D Artist

London-based 3D artist and motion designer working across commercial and artistic contexts. Blending technicality with a conceptual, experimental approach, she creates content for brands, artists, musicians and cultural clients. Her personal work explores otherworldly environments influenced by ecology, biology, and philosophy. Past collaborators include Daata, Because Music, Instagram, and Sony Music.

VFX Supervisor - Coffee&TV

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VFX Supervisor and YouTuber. Has worked at the mill and Coffee&TV

Surfacing Supervisor at DNEG Animation

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Surfacing Supervisor with over nine years of experience in feature films, television, and commercials. She most recently supervised Dog Man and Kung Fu Panda 4 for Jellyfish Pictures and DreamWorks Animation. Hannah's portfolio also includes contributions to Nimona, Garfield, Wolf King, and the Paddington Bear TV series, demonstrating her versatility across various animation styles and technical approaches.

Lead Creature/ Facial Modeller at DNEG

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Over 14 years of experience in the video game, toy, and movie industries. Specializing in lifelike sculptures, Vimal has earned recognition for his exceptional ability to capture human emotions and expressions. Lead Facial Modeller at the renowned VFX studio DNEG. 

FX Lead TD at Framestore

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After a scientific baccalaureate and studies in 3D and digital visual effects at ArtFX Montpellier. Evan Peignet worked in Brussels, then London before returning to France. He has collaborated with 8 different studios and 1 school, in Belgium, England, France and Scotland. He currently works as a Lead Effects Technical Director at Framestore London.

Head of CG (IA) at Framestore

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Johannes joined Framestore in 2016, where he has been instrumental in a number of major projects including Framestore’s first dark ride, Pearl Quest for China’s Wanda Group and the technically challenging immersive experience for Comcast’s Philadelphia-based planetarium-style theatre, the Universal Sphere.
 

Head of FX at One of Us

Arpita Venugopal has 15 years’ experience in the VFX industry, beginning her career at MPC in 2010, followed by roles at Sony Pictures Imageworks, DNEG, and Wēta FX over the next 9 years. In 2019, Arpita joined One of Us as Lead FX TD.

Senior Producer at Goodbye Kansas Studios​

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​Calum is a senior producer and interim Head of Production at Goodbye Kansas Studios. His career has spanned over a decade, working on several full CG projects from AAA game cinematics, high-end cutscenes, immersive to long form tv content, collaborating alongside some of the biggest game companies in the world. 

Animation Design Director HundredStar Games

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Animation veteran in the games industry. I've worked on the Batman Arkham series, Suicide Squad and Bond.

Gameplay Engineer

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Full-stack Gameplay Systems Engineer with experience working in Unreal, Unity, and the C++ STL. Despite my passion for single-player games, I've worked primarily on multiplayer games with a focus on building player-facing gameplay systems. My current game obsession is Blue Prince.

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Lead Environment Artist Maverick Games

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I am a Lead Environment Artist with over 10 years of experience across AAA projects such as Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Homefront: The Revolution and Dead Island 2. Currently working at Maverick Games on a new AAA narrative lead driving game.

Character Artist Maverick Games

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Character artist for games, working at Maverick Games on an unreleased AAA Narrative Open-World Game