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

Founder & Creative Director

REVENANT

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 & Innovation Manager specialised in technologies and projects for the film and broadcast industries with Virtual Productions and Remote Productions. I am applying my background in Mechatronics Engineering and Business Management to the entertainment, film & broadcast industries.

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MO-SYS Engineering

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 Compositor - Important Looking Pirates

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Over 13 years of experience, including ILM, DNEG, and MPC. Josh is deeply committed to bridging the gap between education and the VFX industry. He has collaborated with universities, and He is also the founder of a VFX education company that designs bespoke training programs tailored to individual needs. Josh was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of West London.

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