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Tech has transformed nan world of VFX but location will ne'er switch nan quality touch, Walt Disney Animation Studios SVP of Production & Technology Nick Cannon told delegates astatine Web Summit Vancouver.
“Visual effects and animation person been done immense transformative changes. The measurement we activity today, successful immoderate ways, is very different from 10 aliases 20 years ago, but nan fundamentals are still nan same,” Cannon said. “Human productivity is immense and unique, and we’re ne'er going to automate nan sensation and nan imagination of nan amazingly talented artists that we person successful our studio.”
The Disney exec was speaking astatine a Web Summit convention looking astatine really Vancouver has go a immense hub for VFX successful caller years, boosted by incentives that person attracted a ample excavation of talent and awesome studios. The likes of Industrial Light & Magic, Sony, and Blue Ant besides person important bases successful Vancouver. Cannon was joined connected shape by Michelle Grady, President, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Jennifer McCarron, President, Blue Ant Studios.
Blue Ant’s McCarron said astir its acquisition outreach arsenic portion of its effort to seed talent arsenic Vancouver grew to beryllium a important VFX hub. “We utilized to spell to schools and say, ‘in nan lifespan of an animator, you could make much than nan mean NHL subordinate successful Canada,’” she said.
Each speaker talked done nan projects they are moving on. Blue Ant highlighted its animation activity pinch Lego and said location is much to come. Sony’s Grady, meanwhile, said: “There’s a mates of bully ideas retired there, Spider-Verse being one; we’ve sewage different 1 to do successful that franchise. And yes, we’re ever talking astir KPop Demon Hunters.”
Cannon teased Disney’s coming of property saga Hexed. “We’re very excited astir that one, being a wholly original story. And adjacent year, we tin look guardant to Frozen 3.”
