Presenters

Presenters at Chapter Events since 2009. You may type in a name or part of a name to quickly search the list.

Virtual Production Supervison; MPC

Girish Balakrishnan is a technical and collaborative leader of rapid prototyping visualization teams, able to work with creative supervisors in hig

Lead Researcher; Sci-Arc Robot House

Curime is an artist, architect, and educator, interested in the amalgamation of spaces, materials, interfaces, media, and automation technologies. 

Digital Environments Supervisor; Digital Domain

Geoffrey Baumann’s career at Digital Domain spans more than ten years with credits on over a dozen feature films, most recently as digital environm

Richard’s interest in film making began as a summer project making movies with his friends.

Creative Lead; Moby Games

Remi Benoist is the creative lead at LOOT Entertainment within Sony DADC.

President; PaintScaping, Inc.

Computer animator / actor / landscape designer Philippe Bergeron is President of PaintScaping, Inc, a production company specializing in spatial au

Motion Control Expert; organizaton

Leslie Bernstien has worked in the Visual Effects field in New York and Hollywood for nearly 4 decades.

Creative Director; The Bezark Company

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Director of Design | Virtual Strategy | 3D; CrypticLight Studio

Austin Blaisdell - Presentation

President, Animation and vfx Recruiter; Fringe Talent

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Head of Pipeline; Shotgun Software

Rob Blau started working on animation pipelines ten years ago at Dreamworks Animation during Sinbad, and eventually managed the global pipeline tea

My name is Vanessa Blaylock. I am an avatar. Some people call avatars “pseudonymous identities” which is true.

Durector for Mixed Reality Research; Institute for Creative Technologies

Mark Bolas, Director for Mixed Reality Research at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, will describe the MxR Lab and Studio’s recent work on:

Founding Director; MPAI

Marina is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Associate Professor; Politecnico di Torino

Andrea Bottino is an Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where he heads the Computer Graphics and Vision Group (CG&

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Virtual Production Supervisor; Magnopus

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Director of the Mixed Reality Lab; Institute for Creative Technologies

Jessica Brillhart is the Director of the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, and the

Managing Creative Director; Troika

As Troika’s Managing Creative Director, Paul is responsible for the oversight of design and creative execution of all projects within Troika.

Founder; Symbol Zero

Rafael is a game designer, game developer, XR technologist, and studio head.

Technical Animation Supervisor; Rhythm & Hues

Matt Brown is currently serving as technical animation supervisor for Rhythm & Hues on Yogi Bear.  Most recently, Matt served in a sim