BFX Festival 2023 Programme
Games & Interactivity Speaker Series | Location: The Hilton, Bournemouth PhoxTrott
Speaker Series hear from the industry’s finest VFX, computer animation, and games specialists during the following sessions:
10.00 – 10.50 Finbar Hawkins / Aardman Animations, Lawrence Bennett / NoGhost – Creating the first VR adventure for Wallace and Gromit in The Grand Getaway
11.00 – 11.50 Callum Macmillan & Simon Windsor / Dimension Studio – Volumetric capture & digital humans in real-time & film production
12.00 – 12.50 Paul Hamblin / Treehouse Digital – Real-time moviemaking
13.00 – 14.00 Keynote: Richard Copperwaite / nDreams – nDreams, Synapse & VR
14.30 – 15:20 David Pumpa / Playground Games – Cinematics in games
15.30 – 16:20 Nathan Lawrence / Frontier – Tech Anim: the forging of a cinematic
16.30 – 17.20 Keynote: Leah Caldwell / Larian Studios – Production of Baldur’s Gate III – Embracing the Tadpole
Selections & Panels Speaker Series | Location: The Hilton, Bournemouth Conference Room
Speaker Series hear from the industry’s finest VFX, computer animation, and games specialists during the following sessions:
10.00 – 11.50 BFX Selections screening & panel. Panel includes: Scott Eaton, Adrien Saint-Girons / ReDefine, Andy Lomas, Tom Box BlueZoo & Richard Southern / Foundry – AI in animation
Screening Selections to include work by Electric Theatre Collective, Andy Lomas, Nicolas Neubert, as well as work by Curious Refuge.
12.00 – 12:50 Jahirul Amin / CAVE Academy – Taking care of yourself in the creative industry
13.00 – 13.50 David Burnet & Lily Larsimont / INVIDAR – Hyperrealistic digital human
14.10 – 15.45 BFX Selections screening & panel Simon Legrand & Matt Kavanagh / Untold Studios & Jonny Freeman & Abi Klimaszewska Black Kite – VFX in music videos.
Screenings will feature work from the Electric Theatre Collective, as well as work from Untold Studios and Black Kite.
15.40 – 16:20 David Ball / Random 42 – Applications of AR/VR/XR in visualisation
16.30 – 17.20 Finbar Hawkins – Aardman Animation / Lawrence Bennett – NoGhost / Michael Ewing – Nexus Studios / David Ball – Random 42. Panel: Immersive technologies in media
Tech & Media Speaker Series | Location: The Hilton, Bournemouth Poise
Speaker Series hear from the industry’s finest VFX, computer animation, and games specialists during the following sessions:
10.00 – 13.00 Technical demos from Bournemouth University’s Research students: VR / Exergames
14.00 – 15.00 Dr Brad Gyori , Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou, Dr Panos Amelidis, Martin Sharp / BU – Exploring affect in creative media practice
15.30 – 16.30 Games: David Pumpa / Playground games – Portfolio reviews (games)
Masterclasses | Location: Poole Gateway Building, PG-106
Masterclasses learn from industry professionals in these creative & technical BFX masterclasses
14.00 – 17.00 Masterclass: Jahirul Amin / CAVE Academy – Introduction to surfacing for VFX Difficulty level: Beginner
Screenings Speaker Series | Location: Talbot Campus, Fusion Building, Share Lecture Theatre
Speaker Series hear from the industry’s finest VFX, computer animation, and games specialists during the following sessions.
18.00 – late Q&A and Screening with Joe Darko / Sony Animation – Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse