VES Germany invites you to join us at the upcoming worldwide VES Megabrain Masterclass, which will include top industry professionals covering a wealth of topics.

Date: October the 3rd (Thursday)

Time: 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CET

Zoom Webinar

VES members, please login to RSVP at the bottom of the page!
Spots are limited to the first 100 attendees, so be sure to register today!

SESSION 1 : Python for Visual Effects

Alexander Richter

I’m Alexander, an Award-Winning Technical Director & Coach in Visual Effects, Animation and Games. My skills are solving technical problems, simplifying workflows and mentoring career goals.

One of my biggest decisions was to switch my first mayor from law to Media Computer Science. There I found a new appreciation for technology and film. This led me to study Technical Directing at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on blockbusters such as Avatar: The Way of Water, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Monsters at Work, and The Amazing World of Gumball. At big studios like WetaFX, Framestore, and Mackevision.

We won the Oscar for “Best Visual Effects” (2023) for Avatar: The Way of Water. Before my work on the Open Source Pipeline “Plex” on the short film Breaking Point won the VES Award (2017).

After teaching at ArtFx and CG Master Academy I’m thrilled to share my knowledge and experience with artists and technical professionals worldwide via masterclasses and coaching. To create the same opportunities from intern in small company to a supervisor in the biggest production studio

SESSION 2: Advanced techniques for Nuke’s 3D space

Andreas Krein

Andreas Krein is head of 2D at Automatik VFX, and graduated at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2003. He has since worked at DNEG, MPC, Framestore, Cinesite, Trixter, Scanline, and Mill Film, and has helped to create visual effects for over 50 motion pictures..

Automatik VFX is a boutique studio creating world class visual effects. They have rapidly grown into one of Europe’s most respected boutique VFX studios, creating creatures, environments and seamless FX for a
broad range of budgets and production scales.

SESSION 3: Exploring How Film Effects Can Drive Game Art

Jeff A. Johnson

Jeff’s career extends back more than 2 decades, spanning film visual effects, feature animation, and AAA game development, at many top studios around the globe. such as Tippett Studio, ILM, Weta Digital, DreamWorks, Method Studios, and ImageMovers Digital.
His film work included a range of disciplines, many as a Lead – Compositing, Lighting, Look Dev, Crowd simulation, and FX animation. He transitioned over to games as a Senior Artist on “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3”, and moved on to become a VFX Lead on “Gears Tactics”, “LOTR: Return to Moria”, and “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2”.