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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

How to Win a VES Award

David Johnson  (CEO/Creative Director, Undertone FX, Inc.)
Sandy Lin-Chiang  (Art Director, Insomniac Games)
Eben Cook  (Visual Effects Director, Naughty Dog)
Janne Pulkkinen  (Art Director, Remedy Entertainment)
Location: Room 2001, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 9
Time: 1:50 pm - 2:50 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Visual Development
Format: Microtalks
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All

For over 20 years, the Visual Effects Society has had an award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real Time Project". Only 9 people, worldwide have won this category multiple times.

Join us as these outstanding artists and leaders discuss their work, thoughts, planning and execution of the best effects in the world, and how they navigated their careers such that they positioned themselves at studios that are accomplishing the best work in the industry, worthy of realizing a VES award.

Takeaway

We hope to inspire real time visual effects for artists across the industry to strive for, to navigate their careers around, and modify their day to day approach such that their default mode is to create award worth work, and that this will result in them also winning a VES award one day.

Intended Audience

Video Game Real-Time Visual Effects Artists and the VFX Summit.