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Magali Rigaudias : Animation Supervisor at Animal Logic

About

Magali has worked in the animation industry for nearly 30 years.
After spending some time working in Paris early on in her career, she went to Industrial Light & Magic in California and worked as an animator on VFX films such as Dragonheart, Mars Attack, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode I & II, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Van Helsing.

After almost a decade at the studio in San Francisco, she decided to broaden her experience to work on animated films and in 2004, she joined the Sydney team at Animal Logic as a lead animator to work on George Miller's Happy Feet. The film went on to win the Academy Award in 2007 for best Animated Feature Film.

Other credits include Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Maya the Bee Movie, Monsters Hunt, LEGO Batman, Peter Rabbit and The LEGO Movie 2.

Magali recently joined Animal Logic again as an animation supervisor after anim directing on Maya the Bee - The Golden Orb at Flying Bark and Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness for the Belgian studio nWave Digital.

Jason Galeon is an HPA nominated CG Supervisor at Wētā FX with more than 20 years of experience working on a huge range of major films.
Jason began his career at Blue Sky Studios and went on to work at some of the biggest VFX studios, including Framestore London and MPC, working on films like The Dark Knight, Ice Age, and The Matrix sequels.
He joined Wētā in 2009 on the first of James Cameron’s Avatar series as a lighting artist and held key roles in many Wētā projects including The Avengers, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
His more recent projects include The Suicide Squad, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He’s been a CG Supervisor for years, and more recently has become a VFX Supervisor.

Ep 1 :
- How to improve your folio and showreel for VFX Artist’s
- Failures in your career and lessons you’ve learnt
- What inspired your journey
- Working in Film/VFX and specialising in CG Supervising
- Working at BlueSky Studios
- Working at WetaFX
- Working on sequels compared to original films
- Being a good Supervisor and Leader
- VFX Pipeline
- Working in creature development

Jason Galeon is an HPA nominated CG Supervisor at Wētā FX with more than 20 years of experience working on a huge range of major films.

Jason began his career at Blue Sky Studios and went on to work at some of the biggest VFX studios, including Framestore London and MPC, working on films like The Dark Knight, Ice Age, and The Matrix sequels.
He joined Wētā in 2009 on the first of James Cameron’s Avatar series as a lighting artist and held key roles in many Wētā projects including The Avengers, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

His more recent projects include The Suicide Squad, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He’s been a CG Supervisor for years, and more recently has become a VFX Supervisor.

Ep 2 :
- How to improve your folio and showreel for VFX Artist’s
- Advice for aspiring managers and supervisors
- Working at a big studio versus a small studio
- When to switch studios
- Working at Framestore
- How to improve and grow as a VFX Artist
- Building relationships with supervisors and directors
- Working with Christopher Nolan and James Cameron
- Project Discussions: Terminator 3, The Dark Knight
- Work/Life Balance

Topics Discussed
- Advice to mid level to junior producers, VFX artist & Motion designers
- Working in advertising versus longform TV or film
- Failures in your career
- Lessons you have learnt
- Working in motion desgin at Engine
- Managing multiple projects efficiently
- Producing for Motion design
- Producing vfx for film, tv & advertising
- Quoting, Team management & Negotiation
- Fin Design + vfx - Moving in to Longform VFX
- Project Discussion - I Am Mother &
- Project Discussion - Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Reflection & the future

Alastair Stephen : Head of Visual Effects at Fin Design + Effects

Alastair has been working within the Australian visual effects industry for the last 25 years.

Alastair started his career in the advertising sector working within leading international agencies such as DDB, McCann-Erickson, George Patterson Bates
and Attik as well as Australia’s foremost visual effects studios, Fuel VFX, Iloura,The Lab and Engine.

He has collaborated with directors, supervisors, producers and artists on a myriad of awarding-winning projects throughout his career.
Alastair joined Fin Design + Effects in 2013 as Executive Producer and after six years developing Fin’s strategic business plan, expanding its operations and attracting significant international film and television work into the studio, he waspromoted to Head of Visual Effects in 2019.

Alastair has been instrumental in securing and managing international productions for Fin comprising: Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok, & Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Twentieth Century Fox’s Logan, Fox Entertainment’s Cosmos Possible Worlds, Sony Television’s Preacher Season 4, Netflix’s I Am Mother, and Legendary’s Lost in Space 3

Alastair’s skill set includes management of large teams of creative and technical personnel, effective client management, clear communication and strategic business growth within a SME. He has a deep respect for, and extensive understanding of, creativity, technology and innovation within the visual effectsindustry.

Alastair’s professional philosophy has been to share knowledge and support the development and growth of a globally competitive visual effects industry in Australia. Alastair is an active member of the Visual Effects Society and is currently Co Chair of the Australian Section

www.findesign.com.au

Scott Geersen : Substance
Scott is the founder and director of Substance, a strategic moving image studio known for refining complex ideas into essential truths, for brands that want to help re-make the world. With a background as an awarded motion designer, compositor, 3D artist, VFX supervisor, and director, Scott leads Substance to create powerful narratives, characterised by collaboration and invention. From title sequences that enthral and commercials that captivate, to motion systems that help define brands, the stories that move us start with substance www.sbstnc.co

Topics Discussed
- Advice to mid level - Motion designers, Compositers & directors
- Running your own studio - Substance
- Early career : Post Prodution & VFX - Digital Pictures, Cutting Edge & The Lab
- Compositing & VFX : Flame sessions & Flame in the future ?
- VFX Supervising
- Being multi disciplined
- Learning 3-D
- International collaboration
- Working on title sequences
- Project review : Aco 2020 Season Launch
- Project review : Tedx 2017 to 2021
- Inspiration & podcasts
- Lessons you have learnt
- Reflection & the future

Jon Gorman : Creative Director at Buck New York
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Originally from Melbourne Australia, Jon has worked first at Buck LA and then at Buck New York for over 15 years and is now a creative director.

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https://buck.co/
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Topics Discussed

- Advice to mid level - Motion designers, art directors & directors
 
- Early career Melbourne Freelancing - XYZ & 21:19

- Buck LA - Moving to the USA
- Buck NYC
- Pitching
- Briefing & idea development
- Moodboards, storyboards, style frames & concept art
- Presenting and your concepts storyboards
- Art directing storyboards
- Editing
- Project review - explainer videos
- Writing good scripts
- Art directing & creative direction 
- Lessons you have learnt
- Reflection & the future

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