V-Ray Day @ FMX 2019

After beginning a career as an architect, Andrea went to Filmakademie Ludwigsburg to study film and media. She co-founded LUXX Studios in 2006, specializing in VFX and animation, and LUXX Film in 2012, which focuses on the development and production of films. In 2018, she co-directed animated feature Manou the Swift.

Christian studied at Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg for six years before starting his career in the visual effects industry as a 3D artist, effects specialist, and on-set supervisor. His credits include effects for White House Down, Grand Budapest Hotel and Independence Day: Resurgence. In 2018, he co-directed the animated feature film Manou the Swift.

Christian is unexpected GmbH’s Animation Director based in Stuttgart, Germany. As well as overseeing the variety of impressive full-CG animations created at unexpected, Christian has also been directing and developing many exciting interactive applications for VR, AR and MR over the last several years. Passionate about filmmaking, he also takes the time to support young filmmakers on their journeys from script to distribution through his own registered association.

Agon is Head of CAD Management at unexpected GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. Responsible for industrial visualizations and their 3D data management pipeline, Agon sets the standards when it comes to studio lighting/shading for CGI, implementing real-time technologies, and developing applications and other solutions for production in the field. A V-Ray user since the very beginning, Agon initiated the integration of V-Ray as unexpected’s main rendering environment back in 2004 — and they’ve been using it ever since.

Daniel is Head of Modeling and Lead Creature Artist at Goodbye Kansas Studios’ Stockholm office. Daniel creates characters and creatures, and oversees general asset production in terms of modeling, sculpting, grooming, textures and lookdev. Together with the team he strives for efficient workflows and the highest possible visual quality.

Vincent joined creative production studio Ambassadors in 2009, where he was quickly recognized for his quirky animations and love of character-driven storytelling. After a stint at Buck in LA, Vincent has since become a key driver of Ambassadors’ creative output on projects such as award-winning Dutch favourite Creatures of Habit for ASN Bank and Ride the Future for VanMoof.

As CG Supervisor at Ambassadors in Amsterdam, Ivor looks after lighting and rendering for the creative production studio’s brand and agency clients such as Philips, Jaguar and Wieden + Kennedy. Ivor graduated from AKV St. Joost in Breda in 2013 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Animation, and kicked off his career with media company Wenneker where he was responsible for implementing the V-Ray pipeline.

Got questions about V-Ray? Gerrit is your man! For more than 20 years, Gerrit has worked as a 3D Artist, a Chaos collaborator, and a certified V-Ray Instructor. While Gerrit will not be presenting a talk, he will at our Chaos booth in the Marketplace to help answer any V-Ray related questions you might have.

Veso joined the Chaos CG team in 2015. He is actively involved in creating presentation content and videos for workflow training and product launches. Veso holds a Master’s degree in Digital Media from the Technical University of Denmark. He is passionate about computer graphics and photography.