Paul Franklin DNEG - Creative Director Paul Franklin is a filmmaker and one of the world’s leading visual effects designers with over 30 years of experience, two Academy Awards and two BAFTAs to his name. Paul serves as DNEG’s Creative Director, overseeing a wide...
Dave Cook Jellyfish Pictures Joining Jellyfish Pictures in 2010, Dave is the company’s Joint Head of 3D. Bringing his wealth of experience, vision and creative genius to the team, Dave’s most notable recent credits at Jellyfish include Captive State, Solo: A Star Wars...
Julian Foddy Industrial Light & Magic After ten years in the VFX industry, Julian Foddy joined ILM’s London studio in 2015 first working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and then supervising a team on Transformers: The Last Knight. Julian...
Chris Marsh and Oliver Powell Lead Animator and Principal Programmer - Frontier Developments Chris Marsh – Lead Animator Chris Marsh is a graduate in Digital Character Animation from Teeside University and a Lead Animator for Frontier specialising in bringing...
Duncan Malcolm Director of Compositing - Glassworks Duncan Malcolm has established himself as a leading VFX Supervisor and Compositor and is currently Director of Compositing at the multi award-winning VFX studio Glassworks London. Recently alongside his commercial...
Charlie Miller Funko Animation Studios Charlie works as a Director at Funko Animation Studios in Bath. Within his role he is responsible for the creation of original IP for the studio, directing, storytelling, managing a brilliant small team of artists, and working...
James Digby Jones Saddington Baynes - Executive Creative Director In his role as Executive Creative Director, James is the driving force behind production at Saddington Baynes, and has been part of the studio for over 20 years. James’ work revolves around creating...
Bart Yates Blinkink Born and bred in Brisbane, Bart started out in the music industry, working for Warner Music Australia. He also managed a death metal band called Sakkuth on the side. He moved to London in 1999 and secured his first role in advertising as a runner...
Kareem Ettouney Media Molecule Kareem Ettouney is the Art Director and a Co-Founder of Media Molecule, the band of creative minds behind the hugely successful and innovative LittleBigPlanet game franchise. The studio is currently working on the hotly anticipated PS4...
Christian Bense Electronic Arts - Criterion Christian Bense has been in the industry for 12 years, working at studios like Streamline Studios, Lionhead, EA Frostbite and currently EA Criterion. Starting out as an environment artist, he has had a hand in env. art,...
Joshua Beveridge Animation Supervisor - Sony Pictures imageworks Joshua Beveridge is an animation supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently completing work on the Academy Award ®-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Beveridge joined Imageworks in...
Stuart Bayley Art Director - RealtimeUK Responsible for all visual aspects of RealtimeUK’s games and TV outputs; Stu Bailey has employed his artistic eye at the studio for eight diligent years and has a lot to show for his time as RealtimeUK’s Art...
