We’re very pleased to introduce the industry professionals who will be providing feedback on the first challenge of this year’s Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star!
For the first stage of the game dev challenge, art students are asked to submit the portfolio piece that they’re most proud of so that judges can take a look and provide some critique before embarking on the second challenge project.
These developers know the industry like the back of their hand, and will be looking closely at submissions, giving marks for research, creativity, technical skill & artistic technique and finally, overall presentation.
Animation and VFX Judges
Pawel Margacz – Senior 3D/VFX Artist
Daniel Seager – 3D Animator
Antony Ward – Creative Director
Ivan Pedersen – Visualisation Engineer
David Zwierzchaczewski – Animation Specialist / Engineer
Sterling Reames – Principal Animator
Ross Sharp – FX Artist
Aran Anderson – VFX Artist
David Rolfe – VFX Artist
Adonis Stevenson – Lead VFX Artist
Bertram Kemmler – Senior Animator
Double Negative Visual Effects
Karl Wickens – Global Head of VFX
Michael Morgan – Senior Animator
Dave Freeman – Senior Concept Artist
Justin French – Founder & CEO
Loic Bramoulle – Art Director
Jason Edwards – Lead modeler
Iskander Mellakh – Creative Director & VFX Artist
Vidas Rimkevicius – VFX Artist
Steven Knock – Artist
Gary Bendelow – Animator
Sam Obasa – Lead Animator
Benjamin Liu – Senior FX Artist
Jerome Rodgers-Blake – Animator
Remar Jones – Environment Artist
Entire studio!
Xavier Malard – Lead Character Artist
Daniel Kim – Art Director
Iain Anderson – VFX Artist
Bruno Afonseca – Technical Artist
Dan Tyler – Lead CG Artist & 3D Animator
Glenn Brace – Art Director
Max Fannng – Lead Animator
Sun He – Lead Artist
Augusto Moura – Gameplay Animator
Chloe Price – Marketing Assistant
Harrison Ly – QA Engineer
Tessa Knopf – UI Artist
Richardo Rodrigues – Senior Video Editor
Raúl Ibarra Díez – 3D Character Animator
Nic Chambers – Senior Visual Effects Artist
Katie Talbot – FX TD
Jim Southworth – Art Lead
Daniel Willers – Creative Director
Freelance
Adam Ostridge – VFX & Concept ARtist
Daniel Navas – 3D Artist, Modeller & Animator
Paul Bahr-Naylor – CG Artist