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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

VFX Roundtable Day 2

Jason Keyser  (CEO, VFX Apprentice)
Ellie Koorlander  (Technical Art Director, Creative Assembly)
Location: Room 312, South Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 11
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Visual Development
Format: Roundtable
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Audience Level: All

On Day 1, Ellie and Jason will facilitate the roundtable covering general topics and revisit ground broken in the VFX Summit earlier in the week. Be sure to also check out the Thursday session if you'd like to discuss the artistic aspects of VFX and in the Friday session the discussion will go deep on more technical aspects of VFX. See you there!

The roundtable on Day 2 will focus on VFX through an ARTISTIC LENS. Jason will focus the discussion on your questions concerning the artistic aspects of VFX. This may include art education (as students or veterans), art direction, or whatever else comes up! See you there!

On Day 3, the roundtable will give a TECHNICAL LENS for creating VFX. Ellie will guide the conversation through such as graph based effect authoring, effect lighting and optimization, new mesh based techniques, VR/AR/XR and/or whatever attendees want to go deep on.

Takeaway

Attendees will leave with an increased awareness of visual effects techniques, approaches and technology, as well as a greater insight into how different artists and studios approach visual effects challenges.

Intended Audience

This is for visual effects artists, technical artists, students, graphics programmers and anyone else with an interest in the art and creation of visual effects.