Join Robert Hranitzky in this exciting presentation as he will be sharing his latest tips and tricks on how he creates visual effects and motion graphics. Robert will explain the creative as well as the technical approach but also talk about how moving between motion design and VFX projects can broaden your skillset as an artist and help you become more for clients. Besides these tips and bad jokes you will also get a behind the scenes look to find out how he uses the dynamic duo of Cinema 4D and After Effects to create high quality visuals while keeping budget and tight deadlines in mind.

Dušan is a self taught award winning 3D artist with over 15 years of experience in 3D industry. He specializes in architectural visualizations and animations. He works with the world’s top creative studios, companies and individuals from his small office in a remote part of Slovenia. He will describe his journey and his life as a 3D artist and he will talk about his passion for design and his constant chase for photorealism.

Igor Simic (1988, Yugoslavia) graduated Film and Philosophy from Columbia University, New York. With extensive contemporary art exhibitions and film festival screenings, Igor is represented by Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt. Simic is the creative director and CEO of Demagog Studio, the company behind the award-winning game and transmedia project Golf Club: Wasteland.

Debbie has always loved working with creative people and supporting talented teams to make amazing content. She started producing live action 25 years ago and moved into high-end animation half way through her career. Debbie was Senior then Executive Producer at Axis Animation for over 12 years. Throughout her career she’s developed many close and trusted relationships with international clients, studios, freelancers, producers and directors. It’s this valuable network of people, combined with her many years of experience, that inspired Debbie to start her own company, Braw Production. Braw is a hub of international creative and production talent, working mainly in animation and across all kinds of content for the games and entertainment industries. Debbie values creative and collaborative culture and her aim is for Braw to be supportive and nurturing for teams and clients alike.

Started as a Compositor in 2008, Florian Dehmel quickly became a VFX-Supervisor at Sehsucht (formerly LIGA 01). He mostly works on Commercials but also supervised the work on the feature film “The Bloom if Yesterday” in 2016. With the spots for Innogames “Elvenar” he also dived into the role as director. For the “Penny – Fine Day” commercial he supervised the whole postproduction process from concept to final delivery.

Roland Reyer has started in 1992 as an Application Engineer at Wavefront Technologies GmbH in Germany. He became an industry expert for the entire product portfolio of Wavefront Technologies, later Alias | Wavefront, Alias and finally Autodesk M&E. In his role as an application specialist he tested, showcased and trained Maya from its very first version. With over 25 years product and market experience, Roland now works at Autodesk as a Solutions Engineer for Maya, Shotgun, Mudbox and Motionbuilder throughout Europe.

Sava Zivkovic is a Director and CG artist based in Belgrade, Serbia. Born in 1989, he graduated from the Belgrade University of Arts in the department of Interior and Furniture design in 2012. Having developed a strong passion for film and animation, he decides to take on this career path and focuses on motion graphics, architectural animation and all things CG. He has a strong belief in devoting time to personal projects, has received several awards and recognitions from the CG industry and has also given back to the industry by publishing some of his personal tutorials.
In late 2017 he started his directing career at Axis Animation and continues the collaboration with Glasgow based studio, working on AAA game cinematics as well as never ending development of personal IP’s.

Lazar Bodroža is director, visual artist, founder and creative director of the independent design studio METAKLINIKA. He was born on August 19th 1983. in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In 2011 Lazar Bodroža won the award TOP 20 under 30 given by PRINT magazine. He was selected as one of the world’s top 20 visual artists under the age of 30. He is the author of the interactive film UBER LIFE (2010) and the short film THE MOUNTAIN WREATH (2006). Ederlezi Rising is his debut feature film.

By founding studio Fried, Vuk became one of the pioneers of the new wave of Serbian motion graphics. He has been awarded for his work, working as a director on many projects, both animated and featured.
Beside many commercials, he did two movies, one short movie “E-pigs”, for which he wrote script and was also VFX director, and feature films “About bugs and heroes” (VFX director and executive producer) and “Ederlezi rising” (VFX supervisor).