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Foundry Super Session: VFX Supervisor Roundtable

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Join five of the industry’s top visual effects supervisors as they offer exclusive insight into their career—spanning their stories starting out in vfx to their current role, and all the steps they made to get there. Learn how to progress in the industry, and get tips and tricks to make you the best person for the job straight from the horse’s mouth in this fun and informal roundtable discussion.

Speakers include:

  • Dan Akers - VFX Supervisor at Blur
  • Lindy De Quattro - VFX Supervisor at Technicolor 
  • Christian Manz - VFX Supervisor at Framestore 
  • Elliot Newman - VFX Supervisor at MPC 
  • Shahin Toosi - Senior Lighting and Compositing Artist 



At a time when we’re not able to get together, Foundry is pleased to host webinars across industry-wide topics, developments and releases that we believe are relevant to our user base and the broader VFX and digital design communities. Our panel discussions are intended to provide an open forum for people to share their opinions, views and personal experiences. The views and opinions expressed belong to those that share them, and do not necessarily represent those of Foundry. Please read our policy for digital events.












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    Christian Manz Creative Director, Film @ Framestore

    Christian is a VFX Supervisor with over 20 years experience in the industry, accumulating four BAFTA and an Academy Award nomination for his work in feature film. In 2013 Christian completed work on Carl Rinsch’s 47 Ronin as the VFX Supervisor for Universal Pictures.

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    Shahin Toosi started his career in VFX for feature film in 2005 on X-Men 3 and has since worked at Framestore, MPC and as Senior Compositor at DNEG for the last 7 years. Shahin’s work can be found in such films as “The Dark Knight”, “The Dark Knight Rises”, “Scott Pilgrim vs the World”, “ Captain America: The First Avenger”, “Thor: The Dark World, “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, “ Godzilla”, to name but a few.

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    Dan Akers VFX Supervsior @ Blur

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    Juan Salazar Creative Product Manager @ Foundry

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    Lindy De Quattro VFX Supervisor @ Technicolor

    Lindy is best known for her work on Pacific Rim, which received a BAFTA nomination for Special Visual Effects and made the Academy Awards long list. Guillermo del Toro’s apocalyptic epic required a range of complex work including digital characters, creatures and environments.

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    Elliot Newman VFX Supervisor @ MPC Film

    Elliot Newman has more than 15 years experience working on the visual effects for some of the industry’s biggest movies, from Harry Potter to The Jungle Book.

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