Tim Cheung is Vice President - Animation of Imagi. Mr. Cheung oversees the animation for all of the Company's CGI feature films and manages the studio's 400+ Hong Kong-based animators. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Cheung had worked at DreamWorks for 12 years, where he had earned a reputation as one of the world's top CGI animators, and had received acclaim for his contributions to the Academy Award®, Oscar® winning Shrek trilogy as directing animator, supervising animator and head of character animation, respectively. Mr. Cheung was also a senior animator on Antz, and wrote and directed two award-winning shorts: 1995's Rolling Stone and 1997's Gabola the Great.

Founded by George Lucas in 1971, Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world's leading fully-integrated film and entertainment companies. Lucasfilm’s studio in Singapore - Lucasfilm Animation Singapore – produces digital animated content for film and television, visual effects for feature films and multi-platform games. Recent projects include the CG animated TV series STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS and the Star Wars™ The Clone Wars™: Jedi Alliance™ game for the Nintendo DS platform.

Benjamin Huber is originally from Basel, Switzerland. Benjamin joined Lucasfilm Animation Singapore in 2006 as matte painter for the first season of the CG animated TV series Star Wars™: The Clone Wars™. He was then promoted to lighting and compositing lead in 2007-2008, then lighting and compositing supervisor for the highly-rated show, now on its second season.

With more than 13 years of production experience in visual effects, Markus Kurtz serves as production technology manager at Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles, a position he has held since 2007. Markus interacts closely with all of the studio’s productions and technology teams to design solutions based on their current production needs and future technology goals. Markus has been actively involved in such recent movies as "Night at the Museum" “Land of the Lost,” “Fast & Furious,” “The Incredible Hulk” and “Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor."

Previously, Markus worked as a digital effects supervisor at Rhythm & Hues and CG supervisor at Digital Domain. His many film credits include “Titanic," "Lord of the Rings," "Happy Feet” and “Superman Returns.”

Markus holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University for Arts and Industrial Design, in Linz, Austria.

Rising Sun is a leading film visual effects company with offices in Adelaide & Sydney, Australia. Fourteen years of collaboration with the industry's top filmmakers has seen Rising Sun's filmography grow to exceed sixty feature films. Long time contributors to the highly successful Harry Potter franchise [/The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince/] they are currently working on The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2 as well as Peter Weir's The Way Back.

Rising Sun work released in theaters this year includes Terminator Salvation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Watchmen. This presentation will give a behind-the-scenes look at Rising Sun's innovative use of Autodesk's products with some specific examples from recent blockbusters.

Daniel Thompson has been with Rising Sun Pictures for the past 3 years.
Daniel has used his generalist skills for many duties such as previsualisation, character setup, lighting, modelling and texturing on projects such as Harry Potter, Terminator Salvation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Speed Racer, Australia, The Ruins & Superman Returns. He completed a Master of Arts Degree in Digital Media at The Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney, Australia. The two year degree was highly collaborative and allowed him to work with directing, producing and cinematography students and have hands-on experience in all facets of the film making process. Whilst at AFTRS, Daniel developed a motion control solution that allowed camera information to seamlessly travel from Autodesk Maya to onset. Prior to Film School, Daniel was a freelance TV editor, as well as working on numerous short films.