Masters of Motion

Andrew has a strong visual foundation in fine art, technical knowledge and creative passion partnered with a wealth of production and post production experience. A multidisciplined artist, who works at the elite level in both motion design and commercial visual effects, as well as being a accomplished live-action director in both television commercials and short films. He has worked on Australian TV dramas, films and in some of the top VFX and Motion Design studios in Australia, London and New York. Andy is currently a TVC Director & VFX Artist at Pixel.

www.pixel.melbourne

- Advice to VFX artists & motion designers

- Being multi disciplined in motion design & visual effects

- Money, pressure on rates, negotiation and incomes

- Failures in your career & hard things you had to learn

- Working at The Mill in London

- Head of motion design at MPC In New York

- Writing for Motionographer

- About pixel & studio pipeline

- Winning work and pitching

- The Art of Online editing

- Lessons learned Directing TVCs

- Directing Short films : Attic & Blackwood

Diana Costantini is a multi-award winning Creative Director with a diverse history in broadcast design, branding, promotions and marketing. Diana travelled the world working for various media organisations before founding her own design and branding agency, Tactic Creative, based in Sydney Australia. Tactic operated for 12 years and during that time, the creative team were successful in winning pitches all over the world. Diana has personally been Creative Director across 30+ TV channel branding projects and is currently head of the in-house creative agency, ABC MADE, at the Australian public broadcaster. With a team of 55+ mixed-discipline creatives, MADE look after the concept and creation of marketing and branding for all ABC content, brands and platforms (TV, Radio and Digital).

Topics Discussed

- Advice to motion designer’s and animators

- What TV & books inspired you

- Becoming a creative director

- XYZ Entertainment : Creating TV Channel Brands

- Early career & Working in New York

- Failures in your career & hard things you had to learn

- Starting your own design agency Tactic Creative.

- Winning work and pitching

- 12 years of Tactic Creative & closing Tactic

- Creative Direction of brands and projects at the ABC

- What makes a good creative director

- Working with stake holders

- Selling your ideas

- ABC Kids Brand development

Travis is the owner and senior director at the award-winning Airbag productions, which he established with his partner over 16 years ago. He focuses on photo-real VFX which allows him to transform any 'out-there' idea into something visually amazing. Travis has a decorated past, winning many Awards. He began as a commercial photographer in London, moving through a landscape of still work, live action, and visual effects, to arrive where he is today at AIRBAG. His work is - all at once - technical, beautiful, subtle and bold. www.airbag.co

Topics Discussed

- Advice for Director’s & VFX Artist’s on the best way to progress your career

- Early career - Starting out in the UK & working with Nick

- Challenges & failures

- Moving into Richmond & bringing on partners

- Running your own production Company

- Studio Pipeline & Being on the Tools

- Importance of awards

- Directing skills & supervising style

- Treatments and Pitching

- Directing TVC’s with visual effects

- VFX post production

- Passion Projects

- The future

Topics Discussed

- Advice for animators & designers

- Best way to progress your career

- Early career - Melbourne & Perth

- The New Adventures of Ocean Girl & QUADS

- Bigkidz : Building an animation studio

- Merging animation studios

- 12field animation studio work & culture

- Pipeline and studio development

- Collaboration with Media world

- Being a first time director

- Exploring directing The Flaming’ Thongs

- Directing skills & supervising style

- Narrative and story

- Sustainability of the industry

- Narrative and Story

- Quality & Failures

- Having kids

- Sustainability of the industry ?

- The Future

Kelly is a director, animator and producer with over 20 years experience in animation. She has worked on a variety of high quality Australian and international TV series. She co-founded the animation studio Bigkidz Entertainment in 2001, working variously as a director, editor, animator, production manager and background designer on television series and pilots, TVC’s and award-winning short animated films. Kelly has a degree in Visual Arts in Animation and has lectured at a tertiary level in Story Structure and Project Management. Currently Kelly is a director and co-owner of 12field Animation studio. www.12field.com.au

Topics Discussed

- Lukes story & career path

- Early career - TVC’s, broadcast design & Farscape TV series

- How did Happy Feet change Animal Logic

- Becoming a supervisor, challenges, promoting artist’s & advice

- Leadership, challenges learnings & tips

- Outward facing as a executive producer & pitching process

- Projects : most successful and satisfying

- ILM Transition - internal training - software & pipeline

- Work life Balance

- About ILM Sydney

- Inspiration & the Future

Luke Hetherington is the Executive in Charge of ILM’s Singapore studio and responsible for all films in production at the studio as well as overseeing all studio operations, marketing, and bidding on future projects. In July 2019, his role expanded to include the buildout and oversight of ILM’s Sydney studio. Hetherington’s experience in building high functioning teams plays a critical role in his work at the studio.

Prior to joining ILM, Hetherington had 20 years of experience in the animation and visual effects industry. He spent the 17 years at Animal Logic in Australia where he helped lead the company through a period of outstanding growth in roles including Head of Film VFX, Executive Producer, Head of Production, and Head of CG. His credits include: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ready Player One, Avengers Infinity War, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, Happy Feet and the sci-fi TV series, Farscape. www.ilm.com

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Alan Do is Co-founder and Look Development artist at Cadre Pictures. Since early 2000s, he's worked in the 3d industry for over 15 years. His VFX work includes the automotive, financial, retail and entertainment in the advertising industry. Having worked as a Senior 3d Generalist / Lighter at Robot VFX and Method Studios, his expertise concentrates cinematic quality on photo-realistic creatures, stylised characters, natural and mechanical surfaces. Since co-founding Cadre Pictures, Alan has focused his efforts to ensure that every project is finished to the highest possible standard with stunning visuals to match.. www.cadrepictures.com.au

Topics Discussed

- Alan's story & career path

- The process of 3D look development

- A good promotional, texturing and lighting shot

- Generalists to specialists

- What it takes to become an expert - the Conan wheel of pain

- Robot VFX, Ben West & Fugu and Tako the movie

- Creating high-end TVC’s

- Briefing a 3d artist

- Starting your own studio

- Understanding Cadre specialist pipeline

- Podcast recommendations & lots more

Topics Discussed

- Growing up in South America

- Starting out in visual effects on Farescape

- Starting, building, operating and closing a small studio.

- Tips for starting up a small studio

- Salaries rates and payments

- Running small teams & creating 3-D for advertising

- Transitioning into liquid and particle work

- How to brief a liquid simulations job

- How to produce a successful particles project

About :

Octavio De Lellis has over 25 years of experience in the VFX and post-production industries. He has worked across a range of diverse roles, from modeling, to animation and lighting, to creative direction and directing. Octavio's years of working in post-production also mean he has nurtured a deep familiarity with the inner workings of the advertising industry. This knowledge, coupled with a strong design background and a keen eye for detail make him an outstanding problem solver. Over the last 6 years Octavio has specialised in Fluid Simulation. www.octavio.tv

Topics Discussed

- CV, cover letter and Interview

- Framestore

- Explore the issue of women in the industry

- Dr D & George Miller - building a studio of 800 artists

- Artist management, Negotiations, recruiting and future jobs

- Working overseas

- Leadership

- Having kids

- The Future

Lara Hopkins : Framestore

Over the last 25 years Lara Hopkins has worked internationally in production and talent management across most areas of animation and VFX including stop motion, cel animation, VFX + CG features, commercials and immersive projects. Starting her career in production in Adelaide at claymation specialists Anifex, she then moved to Sydney to produce commercials at Animal Logic. After a short stint at Advertising Agency Saatchi and Saatchi in Hong Kong, Lara joined Framestore in London as a Senior Producer in Advertising. In 2003 she moved to a CG artist manager role in Framestore's feature film division, covering both artist resource management and recruitment in CG and compositing. Heading back to Sydney she became Studio Manager for Rising Sun Picture's Sydney office, moving then to Dr D Studios to head up the recruitment team. She then returned to Framestore, moving to New York in 2012 to expand their film division, and also crewing Framestore's new offices in Montreal, Los Angeles and most recently Chicago. Lara is currently based in Sydney and consults exclusively for Framestore. She is also passionate about supporting gender diversity in animation and VFX with a strong belief that the best teams are those that are balanced. www.framestore.com

Annabel Dundas

Annabel has been Founder and Creative Director of TILT for nearly twenty years and the company has a portfolio of impressive projects and highly regarded clients globally. Having worked around the world she has been influenced by many cultures and therefore has a broad understanding of different markets and how audiences perceive communication. Although small, TILT has worked with some big name clients, producing some award winning projects. www.tiltcreative.com.au

Topics Discussed

- Running your own studio

- Being a top freelancer

- Early career - working overseas

- Tilt - London

- Tilt : Melbourne

- FIFA and World Cup

- Broadcast design industry : Budgets, sustainable and the future

- Women in the workforce - Explore the issue of women in the industry

- Side-sizing Tilt Melbourne

- The Future

From 2001-2007, Darren Price established the 3D studio for Nexus Productions in London, then went on to win a BAFTA for his first short movie “Potapych – The Bear Who Loved Vodka”. Moving back to Sydney, Darren set up and built Mighty Nice into an internationally recognised creative studio delivering award-winning animation. Working on “This Way Up”, the short film was nominated for an Oscar for best animated short and won numerous film festival awards. He has directed hundreds of acclaimed TV commercials and co-directed ‘Bottersnikes & Gumbles’ in 2015-2016, a twice Logie-nominated children’s series. He is also co-creator of preschool TV series ‘Kazoops’. www.mightynice.com.au

Topics Discussed

- Running your own studio

- Being a top freelancer

- Early career, building Nexus 3D Studios - London

- Building an animation studio - Mighty Nice

- Pipeline and studio development

- As a creative director : Maintaining quality

- Developing series animation content : The process

- Project : Bottersnikes and Gumbles and Kazoops!

- Project : ‘Square Peg’

- Inspiration