Oliver Winwood & Nick White – Outpost VFX VFX Supervisor Award-winning VFX Supervisor Oliver Winwood has almost 20 years of industry experience, with a career that spans multiple disciplines across VFX supervision, FX and the wider CG department. Oliver has...
Nicholas Birmingham – BlueBolt Head of 3D & Creative Director Nicholas Birmingham is an experienced CG Supervisor with credits spanning major feature films and episodic productions including Ridley Scott’s Napoleon; The Last Kingdom (Carnival Films/Netflix)...
Amanda Johnstone Batt – Industrial Light and Magic CG Supervisor Amanda Johnstone-Batt is a CG Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic. With over 17 years of experience in the Visual Effects industry, Amanda has taken on both creative and technical roles...
George Caton-Coult – LoveLove Films Studio Manager / Development Manager George currently works as a Studio Manager on the Milkshake! preschool series Pop Paper City, a series which he has also written for and helped to develop. George also manages LoveLove...
Tom Box – Blue Zoo Animation Studio Co-founder Tom Box is co-founder and joint managing director of Blue Zoo Animation. Over the last 23 years, the studio has grown to become one of the leading animation studios in the UK, picking up multiple Emmys and BAFTAs...
Pete Warbis – Framestore Lead Animator Pete is one of Framestore’s lead animators, having previously worked at the Moving Picture Company and Industrial Light and Magic. His career so far has included films such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (lead), Tom...
Anand Balasubramanian – Untold Studios VFX Lead Artist A VFX Lead at Untold focussed on CFX. Anand has been working in VFX since 2007 where he began as a Camera Tracker and Matchmover before moving on to CFX. Over the years, he has worked as an artist and team...
Steve Murgatroyd – Freefolk VFX Supervisor Steve Murgatroyd is Freefolk’s Supervisor of Long Form VFX and an Emmy award-winning Flame artist and Supervisor. Steve has been working in VFX for 25 years, spending 16 of those at Freefolk, creating...
Amaan Akram – Untold Studios Head of VFX Amaan is Head of VFX at Untold Studios. He has worked across gaming cinematics, advertising and film at some of the most revered VFX companies in the world, including Men From Mars, Molinare, MPC Film and The Mill, where...
Mandy Wong – Mori Mori Studio Creator / Showrunner / Art Director With 16 years of London industry experience across 20+ VFX and animation productions in film and TV. Mandy is a Show Creator, Art Director, Character Designer, Illustrator and VFX Look Dev Artist....
Madeleine Scott-Spencer – Cinesite Head of Assets and Visual Development, Cinesite As Head of Assets & Visual Development Madeleine’s role is pivotal to each production. An expert in visually interpreting film-makers’ ideas, she drives and inspires the work...
Leah Caldwell – Larian Studios Cinematic Animation Producer I’m Leah Caldwell (she/her), the Cinematic Animation Producer at Larian Studios, where I have been working on Baldur’s Gate III for the past 4 years overseeing all things animation and...
Paul Hamblin – Treehouse Digital LtdHead of Virtual ProductionI’m the Head of Virtual Production at Treehouse Digital. We make awesome original content and provide VP services for the TV & Film industry. After a career as a Navigating Officer in the...
Paul Hilton – Treehouse Digital Ltd Lead Environment Artist I am a Lead Environment Artist working on a feature film in Unreal from Poole in Dorset. I have worked on a variety of different projects over the years and also spent 20 years in Academia. I taught...
Johann Dekker – DNEG MGFX Supervisor Johan Dekker (he/him) is a London based Motion Graphics Supervisor with 14 years experience in motion design for Feature Animation, Feature Film and Advertising. He was the Motion Graphics Supervisor at DNEG Animation for...
Simon Legrand – Untold Studios Realtime Supervisor With close to 20 years in visual effects, Simon Legrand has established himself as an innovative leader adept at harnessing emerging technologies to transform creative workflows. As Real-time Supervisor at...
Richard Southern – Foundry Lead Research Engineer Richard is a Lead Developer for Katana at Foundry, and previously head of the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University. He has undertaken research in many areas of Computer Graphics,...
David Burnet – INVIDAR Founder & Director A multi award winning Realtime specialist building the next generation of platforms for the metaverse and Founder & Director of INVIDAR, with a background in games development and technology focusing on XR...
Ruairidh Macneill – Axis Studios Lead Environment Artist Starting as a summer intern at Axis Studios, Ruairidh Macneill has been working in VFX for 11 years, being part of Oscar and Bafta-winning film and television projects in this time.He was drawn into the...
Jahirul Amin – CAVE Academy Founder at CAVE Academy Jahirul will be delivering 3 masterclasses during BFX 2023, all details are listed below his bio and CAVE Academy’s bio. Before launching CAVE Academy, Jahirul Amin worked as a VFX Trainer for the...
Christopher Antoniouo – Output VFX VFX Supervisor at Output VFX Christopher Antoniou is an artist at heart, who aims to uplift and inspire others with his work. On his travels towards this goal, he has been working as an VFX supervisor for advertising, tv and...
Ace Ruele – CAVE Academy Founding Director – Creature Bionics Inspired by actors such as Jim Carrey, Wesley Snipes and Andy Serkis, Ace Ruele is known for his animated and physically demanding acting abilities. From a young age, Ace was interested in...
Mitch Wisniewsk – Other Skies Managing Director, Founder of Other Skies A student start-up 3D Studio. Studied CGI at Solent University and started the business with a talented classmate. Iterated 5 or 6 business ideas before finding the formula that works. We...
Melania Fodritto – Outpost VFX Digital Compositor Melania is a Digital Compositor at Outpost VFX where she has lent her skills to the critically acclaimed sci-fi series Silo, Bridgerton and a major upcoming Disney+ series, along with a number of other...
Tom Minor – Autodesk Senior Software Developer, Arnold for Houdini I graduated from SDAGE (Software Development for Animation, Games & Effects) in 2016, with a mixed background in CG art and software development for computer graphics. In my career I have...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Can ChenTitle: Application of Multimedia in Physical and Virtual Exhibition DesignAbstract: Today, museums have a wealth of options for curating exhibitions. Interactive exhibition designs hold the...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Tahmeena AdeelTitle: Use of Imaginary Visuals in Serious Games for Physical RehabilitationAbstract: Physical rehabilitation helps people to recover from any sort of medical issues or injuries and...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Armin SherbanifardTitle: Representing 3D medical images with Implicit Neural NetworksAbstract: Storing medical images is a challenge in the field of medical imaging. Some methods use Implicit Neural...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Yingjie XiTitle: Beyond Reality: The Impact of VR/AR in Surgical Practice & Medical VisualizationAbstract: Exploring VR/AR’s transformative role in medicine, this presentation delves into its...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Boyuan ChengTitle: A Personalized Skeleton Estimation System Abstract: In this work, two problems are addressed: (1) How to infer skeletons with anatomical constraints based on human movement and...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Xu Huan Title: Structure-aware Dialogue Paraphrasing for Task-oriented Conversational Data Augmentation Enriching dialogue datasets by paraphrasing real conversations Abstract: Paraphrasing is one of...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Xiaoxiao LiuTitle: Can synthetic medical datasets help AI models speak more like doctors?Abstract: The development of AI chatbots presents promising approaches to address the difficulty of constructing...
Academic Symposium: Short presentations & panel discussion Author: Sasha AlexdottirTitle: Phantom Touch in VR and the MetaverseAbstract: Phantom Touch in VR is an emerging phenomenon in the Metaverse (such as VRChat) where people can experience sensations of touch in...
Vincent Aupetit – FramestoreCreative DirectorVincent graduated from Ecole de L’image Gobelins as co-director of the short film Burning Safari. From this he began his professional career at Electronic Arts as Cutscene Animator. His career continued at Passion...
Associate Professor He Wang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Previously he was a Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, and a Senior Research Associate at Disney Research Los Angeles. He...
Lawrence Bennett – No GhostCreative Director Lawrence Bennett is the Creative Director and co-founder of No Ghost, an immersive story studio based in London. After six years in Visual Effects at DNEG and ILM, keen to return to his creative roots, Lawrence...
Darren Cosker – MicrosoftPrincipal Scientist / Professor With over 15 years of experience in computer graphics, vision and AI research, I am passionate about advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) for the creative industries and mixed reality...
Bram Ttwheam – AardmanCo-Director With over 20 years’ experience, Bram has worked for a number respected UK animation companies and has contributed to many features and shorts including four BAFTA® winners. From VFX supervision to animation he has turned his...
Finbar Hawkins – Aardman Co-Director Finbar is a creative director and writer with experience of working with agencies, broadcasters, publishers, media and entertainment companies as well as mobile and gaming firms. Finbar has founded digital ventures, actively...
CG Supervisor Dionysis Bouloutzas works as a CG Supervisor with a portfolio of over 50 film and episodic productions. His contributions include iconic titles such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Jungle Book, Fast and Furious, Venom, Prehistoric Planet, Pacific Rim,...
Nathan Lawrence – Frontier DevelopmentsPrincipal Technical Animator I’m Nathan Lawrence I work at Frontier Developments as a principal technical animator, I have almost 10 years of experience in the industry having worked in both film and games on a variety of...
Jean-Philippe Vine – Locksmith AnimationDirector A director at London’s Locksmith animation where he directed their first feature Ron’s Gone Wrong, J.P. Vine has over 20 years experience in story and design at studios such as Pixar and Aardman. He is...
Product Specialist I graduated from Bournemouth University in 2020 with a bachelor of arts in Computer Animation Art and Design. Right after I became a QA intern at Chaos in Sofia and in 2022 I became a Product Specialist for V-Ray for Maya. Since then I’ve...
VFX Supervisor Nicolas has been working at the intersection of technology and art for nearly a decade. He works with groundbreaking companies to innovate their products and brands. He pushes the boundaries of generative AI, focusing on immersive photography, cinematic...
VFX compositing Victor Perez is a renowned figure in the global visual effects industry with over 25 years of experience. His diverse career journey began as a Photographer and Cinematographer and evolved into roles as a Colorist, Image Post-Production specialist,...
Rigging Supervisor Vasil Shotarov is the Rigging Supervisor at Blue Zoo Animation Studio and a Bournemouth University alumni, graduating in 2016. He has worked on animated specials and series such as Superworm, LEGO City, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, and many...
Cinematic Animator Working at Moon Studios with 8 years of industry experience in Film, TV, and video games. Working for studios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks, Axis Studios, Jellyfish Pictures and BlueZoo Animation. Projects such as Spiderman Across the...
Joe Darko – Sony Pictures Imageworks Senior Animator/Lead/Supervisor Joe (he/him) was an Animation Lead and Senior Animator at Sony Imageworks, with over 8 years of Industry experience ranging from VFX to Feature Animation. He most recently served as Head...
Animation Supervisor, “The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story” Joe Darko is the animation supervisor for “The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story,” from Sony Pictures Animation & Sony Pictures Imageworks LENS program. Darko served as a...
Scott Eaton – scott-eaton.com Artist, Creative Director Scott Eaton is a multi-disciplinary artist and creative technologist with many years experience working and consulting in the games/VFX industries. He was an early adopter in the field of creative AI,...
Computational Artist Andy Lomas is a computational artist, mathematician and Emmy award winning supervisor of computer generated effects. Inspired by the work of Alan Turing, D’Arcy Thompson and Ernst Haeckel, his art work explores how complex dynamic forms can...
Real-Time Supervisor Simon is a Real-time Supervisor at Untold Studios. Simon has been instrumental in creating cutting-edge real-time projects using Unreal Engine and Unity. He has worked across advertising and TV for high-profile clients such as Playstation, AFK...
Adrien Saint Girons – ReDefineHead of the Advanced Development Group Adrien Saint Girons is a seasoned visual effects professional with over 17 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, he has held a variety of roles, starting as an Assistant...
VFX SupervisorMatt is a multi-award-winning VFX Supervisor at Untold Studios. Matt specialises in complex animation and rigging projects, and has played an instrumental role in the development of Untold’s rigging and animation systems. These have delivered outstanding...
Paul Franklin – DNEG Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Franklin is a filmmaker and visual effects designer with over 30 years in the business. Winner of two Oscars® for his work on Inception and Interstellar and with credits on films including the Harry...
Shelley Page – Locksmith Animation Talent Liaison Shelley Page is an animation talent consultant with Locksmith Animation (UK). She sits on many international festival and graduation juries every year and, in the course of these events, she collects her personal...
