Conference
Tools of Tomorrow
Artificial Intelligence
ON SITE
Meidinger-Saal
Wednesday, May 06, 18:15
The End of the Beginning: AI and the Next Act for VFX
The End of the Beginning: AI and the Next Act for VFX will bring together some of the industry’s most respected voices to explore not just what AI can do, but what it should do within modern production. Framed around the idea of how we keep the human artist in the loop – while harnessing the power of a very fastly evolving technology, the track will focus on how artists, supervisors and technologists can combine emerging AI systems with traditional VFX craft, rather than viewing them as opposing forces.
Ben Grossmann, CEO, Magnopus
Ben Grossmann is co-founder of Magnopus, a company creating immersive content and technologies that work across physical and digital experiences with more than 200 artists, designers, and engineers in Los Angeles and London. He is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning artist in media & entertainment. His most recent projects include The Wizard of Oz at Sphere, the world’s largest social digital twin at Expo 2020 Dubai for tens of millions of visitors, as well as the 2025 Fortnite Remix with Snoop Dogg simultaneously across a physical concert on all screens in Times Square NYC, and tens of millions of players in Fortnite’s Battle Royale.
Mohsen Mousavi, Head of Visual Pioneering, Eyeline
Mohsen Mousavi is an Emmy and VES-winning VFX Supervisor and Senior Director of Visual Pioneering at EYELINE. With decades of experience in advanced visual effects and filmmaking, his work now focuses on the intersection of these fields with cutting-edge machine learning and generative AI.
He currently leads the studio's generative production efforts, focusing on innovative, creative solutions for integrating Generative AI into production.
His VFX Supervision credits include the final season of Game of Thrones, NYAD, Independence Day: Resurgence, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Mike Seymour, Co-Founder, FXGuide
Mike has a Ph.D in digital humans built on a B Sc. in Pure Maths from the University of Sydney where he also did his Masters. His research is into using interactive realtime photoreal faces in new forms of Human Computer Interfaces (CHI). Mike has worked in R&D and in production, winning an AFI and being nominated for an Emmy. He has worked as a compositor, vfx supervisor and second unit director on various TV shows. He is perhaps best known for his work as a writer, consultant and educator with the web sites fxguide and fxphd. Now with huge followings, these sites provide an important link between the film and vfx community and the researchers and innovators who constantly push the limits of technology.Mike has lectured at SIGGRAPH, HICSS, FMX, CVMP and SMPTE. Mike co-founded the Motus Lab at the University of Sydney with explores digital humans using both traditional high end computer graphics and also advanced neural rendering and Machine Learning.