Gary Roberts is the President of VICON House of Moves and the VICON Feature Unit and has enjoyed a career at the forefront of visual effects and motion capture, both in production and product development for over 14 years. Gary and his team are responsible for providing the latest custom motion capture solutions and animation services for feature film, game, TV, music video and commercial productions throughout the world. Gary has consulted and provided industry leading motion capture and visual effects services for many clients such as Sony Pictures Imageworks, SQUARE Enix, THQ, Electronic Arts, Method Studios, Digital Domain, Rhythm and Hues and countless more.

Mike Sanders is a Digital Supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic. He has more than 12 years experience in visual effects and has worked on over 40 projects, including a handful of the top grossing films of all time. Mike specializes in advanced technologies related to data acquisition and integration, focusing mainly on photorealistic creature and digital double performance. Some of his creature work includes the digital passengers on the Titanic and Pearl Harbor, the Star Wars clonetroopers, the Hulk, the Mummy, the Vampire Brides of Van Helsing, the Terminator, Transformers, and Davy Jones and his pirate crew. Mike is continually working on new technologies related to realtime virtual cinematography and on-set integrated creature performance during live action photography.

Darren Waters has been a journalist for 11 years and has worked in papers, TV and online. Some of which include Arts and Media, The Western Mail and presenting, producing and reporting for HTV Wales. Darren began working for the BBC in 2000 and is now the Technology Editor for BBC News Interactive, encompassing the award-winning website, mobile devices and interactive TV. The BBC News website technology section is read by more than 400,000 people each day around the world. More than five million people daily read the news website.

Chris Mais is the writer and director of the award winning animated short film, SMILE. As an undergraduate film student, Chris pushed the boundaries of visual effects in student filmmaking by utilizing the innovative workflow and technologies of the feature film industry. These processes included the use of motion capture, 3D laser scanning and digital cinematography. Chris is currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree in animation at the UCLA Animation Workshop in Los Angeles, CA. His passion for visual effects technology and animation has been the motivating force behind the creation of “Smile”. More information about SMILE can be found at www.myspace.com/smilethefilm.

Eric Furie is a specialist in digital technology and an instructor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His focus at the school is on the most advanced technologies in filmmaking and computer graphics, such as motion capture. Eric is also a filmmaker who has worked and consulted as a director, producer, cinematographer and visual effects artist for the last 12 years. His own films have often involved the use of cutting-edge technology in 2D, 3D, and cinematography. Most recently, Eric co-taught the school's first course in performance capture with renowned film director Robert Zemeckis.

Takashi Fukumoto, president of Links DigiWorks Inc., Tokyo, Japan. It was 25 years ago when Fukumoto joined the pioneering CG production company in Japan, TOYO LINKS as one of the original members. Since then, Fukumoto has been creating wide-ranging of contents, such as TV commercials and exhibition films as a CG director / producer. As a director, for “Bio-Sensor” (1984), Fukumoto created 3D motion data of a walking tiger by combining front and side views of a tiger that was shot by two 35mm film cameras. “In Search of Muscular Axis” (1990) was his other major work in his career. This work demonstrated the muscular surface movement of alphabet letters, X, Y, Z and O in 3D, by just moving their skeltons. On the other hand, as a producer, Fukumoto worked on the facial captures and simulation of hand held camera motion by making full use of Vicon camera system for “Onimusha” (2001) and “Resident Evil” (2002) game cinematics.

Mick Morris is Managing Director of Audiomotion Studios, Europe’s most advanced motion capture studio. Since joining the company 10 years ago he has overseen dozens of projects, including feature films, TV, pop promos and cinematics for three generations of videogames. The company has been delivering mocap for features since Gladiator in 1999 through to today’s blockbusters including Posideon, Fred Claus, The Golden Compass and Narnia. Game clients include Sony, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Lucas, Vivendi and many more. For more info visit www.audiomotion.com.