Gillis joins a host of effects and animation artists and other filmmakers in Turin, Italy.
Once again, befores & afters is attending the visual effects and animation conference VIEW in Turin, Italy this year. The event, being held 14-19 October, 2024, will include a huge gathering of filmmakers discussing their latest projects.
One of them is Alec Gillis from Studio Gillis. He was a creature FX designer on Alien: Romulus, and of course has a huge body of work behind him on some of the biggest and most-loved creature films of all time, including Starship Troopers, Death Becomes Her and Alien3.
Find out more about Gillis’ talk, ‘Practical Character Effects & Why They Still Matter’, here.
VIEW Conference is one of those rare events where you get to see the absolute LATEST from the industry, while also being able to be up close to all the speakers. This is a fantastic event to meet your heroes, mingle with other artists and pros, and get great pieces of practical industry advice.
Don’t forget to get your tickets here.
I can also exclusively announce that Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will get a special preview at VIEW!
Meanwhile, the stage is set at VIEW for a whole host of other talks from an incredible list of speakers. They include:
Kelsey Mann
Director, Inside Out 2, Pixar Animation Studios
Chris Sanders
Director, The Wild Robot, DreamWorks Animation
Shannon Tindle
Director, Ultraman Rising, Netflix Animation
Josh Cooley
Director, Transformers One
Will Becher
Supervising animator and stop-motion lead at the Aardman Academy
Raymond Zibach
Production Designer, The Wild Robot, Deamworks Animation
Paul Lambert
Overall VFX Supervisor, Dune: Part Two
Patrick Heinen
Second Unit VFX Supervisor, Dune: Part Two
Rhys Salcombe
VFX Supervisor, DNEG
Stephen James
VFX Supervisor, DNEG
Rob Bredow
Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)
Jeff Budsberg
VFX Supervisor, The Wild Robot, DreamWorks Animation
Jay Worth
Overall VFX Supervisor, FALLOUT
Hal Hickel
Sr. Animation Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Oscar, BAFTA winner
Swen Gillberg
VFX Supervisor, Deadpool & Wolverine
Pascal Campion
Artist, Storyteller, Production Designer
Rochele Gloor
Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts
Rob Coleman
Creative Director & Animation Supervisor, Transformers One, ILM, Sydney
Hayden Jones
Overall VFX Supervisor, ILM
Jake Maymudes
Founder & CEO, Wylie Co. VFX
Habib Zargarpour
Virtual Production Supervisor, Unity Technologies
Setareh Samandari
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Interdimensional VFX
Stefen Fangmeier
Production VFX Supervisor, 3 Body Problem, Netflix
Nicolas Doucet
Founder & President, Team Asobi
Jan-Bart Van Beek
Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games
Dylan Sisson
Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios
Balazs Kalazdi
Principal Cutscene Animator, Ninja Theory
Nikola Damjanov
Lead Game Artist, Nordeus
Terrence Masson
MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC
Tim McLaughlin
Interim Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University
Amelie Dillig
VFX Producer, Accenture Song VFX
Gus Martinez
VFX Supervisor, Accenture Song VFX
James Coore
VFX Supervisor, REALTIME
Jono Rawlinson
Head of Episodic & Film, REALTIME
Megan Brain
Paper Sculpture Designer, World of Color, Walt Disney Imagineering
Liberty Worth
Artist, Quilter, Designer, Teacher and Poet
Joseph Wallace
Animation Director, Writer, Producer
Diego Alonso Sanchez de la Barquera
Director, Animator, Storyboard, Nube
Christian Arredondo Narvaez
Director, Animator, Background & Ilustrator, Nube
Loic Espuche
Animator/Writer/Director, Yuck!
Anthony Giacchino
Filmmaker, Colette, Oscar winner
Michael Coldewey
Professor of Concept Art, Drawing & Design, Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich
Florian Witzel
VFX Supervisor, Twisters (2024)
Jeff Dillinger
VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis
Scott Eaton
Artist, Designer, Creative Technologist
Jason Greenblum
VFX Supervisor, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Oleg Fryazinov
Associate Professor in The National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University
Mike Jelinek
ArtD. Researcher, MX Lab, Inst of Design Faculty of Arch/Design, Slovak U. of Tech, Bratislava
Andreas Maaninka
VFX Supervisor
Matthias Buehler
Founder & CTO | MSc Arch ETH Zurich
Amie Loyd
Director of F & A, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
Michel Bellini
Professor, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
Alexandre Poncet
Director, Composer, Film Historian
Jesper Ejsing
Fantasy Artist
Mark Flanagan
Global Manager of Learning & Development, Feature Animation, Netflix Animation/Animal Logic
Simon Otto and Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn
Director and production designer, That Christmas
Hope to see you in Turin!
