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VES NY continues their new series, a dedicated forum for the region’s premier VFX vendors to showcase groundbreaking work and novel techniques. The goal is to share knowledge, inspire great work, and connect VES members, students and graduates with great companies.
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An Evening with Zoic Studios:
There’s No Place Like Immersive
Crafting the Magic Behind the Wizard of Oz at Sphere
Click your heels and step behind the curtain with Nate Overstrom and David Eschrich of Zoic Studios as they explore the creative and technical journey behind The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas. They’ll walk through their methodology, the key decisions that shaped the project, and the cutting-edge internal advancements including AI-driven workflows that made one of their most ambitious collaborations possible. Expect a candid conversation about the challenges, breakthroughs, and lessons learned from a project that pushed the boundaries of immersive storytelling.
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An Evening with Preymaker:
Artistry, Agility & A.I. (ft. Angus Kneale)
Success today in commercial Visual Effects starts with exceptional creative vision, agility, and lightning-fast development. Angus Kneale, Chief Creative Officer of Preymaker, gives us an exclusive look behind the scenes of their latest work on Anomaly’s Super Bowl campaign for Kinder Bueno—”Yes Bueno.” A tour de force of CGI animation, the spot features Aliens with chameleon tongues, Astronaut babies floating in zero gravity, an out of control space ship navigating asteroid belts, an animated Black Hole sequence bending the fabric of space-Time, Astronauts going through parallel multi-verses, and Gravitational Gradient inspired “Spaghettification,” all crammed into 30 seconds of cosmic chaos and fun for advertising’s biggest event … Super Bowl XL. Angus shares an overview of proprietary technologies along with how the team utilized A.I. as a tool to maximize creativity.
Moderated by Angus Kneal.
An Evening with Crafty Apes:
Inside the Apocalypse
How Dead City Was Made
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Dead City, as Sr. VFX Supervisor Alex Dreiblatt and Sr. VFX Producer Sarah McCulley break down the work that brought a post-apocalyptic New York to life.
From the large-scale digital recreation of iconic locations – including a haunting reimagining of Radio City Music Hall – to complex environment builds, extensions, and invisible VFX, the team walks through the creative challenges and post execution behind the work. They explore Dead City in depth, along with highlights from other recent projects, through detailed shot breakdowns and a discussion on collaboration and visual storytelling within high-volume episodic and feature post workflows.
An Evening with Electric Theater Collective:
Taste Over Tools
What still makes a VFX Artist valuable in 2026
At a time when AI and emerging technology are reshaping the creative landscape. Kyle Cody (Creative Director from ETC) and Chris Connolly (Executive Producer from ETC) lead a conversation about why taste, craft, storytelling, problem-solving, and human judgment remain the true differentiators in visual effects. The talk looks at how ETC approaches new tools without losing sight of fundamentals, and how artists can stay relevant by combining technical curiosity with cinematic instinct, collaboration, and a deep understanding of what makes an image feel believable, emotional, and worth watching.