The VFX, Games and Animation Festival 2020

The VFX Festival Virtual Series

The VFX Festival hosted by Escape Studios, is a celebration of visual effects, animation, games and motion graphics. For the last 7 years the annual festival hosted in London has attracted many attendees and high profile speakers from award-winning studios.

For the first time in its history the VFX Festival is being divided into a virtual series to support emerging talent from all over the world by allowing professionals to share their insights on award-winning productions and encourage collaboration among the international participants.

Upcoming virtual events

The VFX Festival Virtual Series

The VFX Festival hosted by Escape Studios, is a celebration of visual effects, animation, games and motion graphics. For the last 7 years the annual festival hosted in London has attracted many attendees and high profile speakers from award-winning studios.

For the first time in its history the VFX Festival is being divided into a virtual series to support emerging talent from all over the world by allowing professionals to share their insights on award-winning productions and encourage collaboration among the international participants.

The VFX Festival Virtual Series will commence from May and will run until The VFX Festival next year, scheduled to take place in early February 2021 in London.

The Third Day - VFX | Ivor Middleton, VFX Supervisor and Rob Delicata, VFX Producer

Tuesday, 6th October at 11.00 - 12.00 (BST) Attendees will gain insight into the whole process of creating the VFX for this highly regarded series. From concept art through to final shots, how the supervisor and producer worked with the various vendors, what this entails in terms of creativity, the process, pipelines, talent and how this was achieved in lockdown.

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Real-Time at Blue-Zoo Animation | Phil Stewart, Head of Real-Time at Blue-Zoo Animation

Tuesday, 10th November at 14.00 - 15.00 (BST) This event will cover an overview of Real-Time projects at Blue-Zoo: short films program, productions and commercials, all are being touched by Real-Time technology now.

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Practical Deep Learning for VFX and Technical Artists' | Valentine Kozin, Lead Technical Artist at Rare

Thursday, 22nd October at 14.00 - 15.00 (BST) At this session we will present an overview of existing open-source deep learning frameworks for media synthesis and discuss the possibilities for practical applications inside VFX and CGI tools pipelines.

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