Program

DigiPro 2026 | 18 July 2026

Keynote

My Journey Through Pandora

My Journey Through Pandora

Pavani Rao Boddapati (Wētā FX)
Keynote
18 July 2026 | 1:30PM - 2:30PM (PDT)

Talks

KPOP Chibi Face

KPOP Chibi Face

Armin Bruderlin (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Joshua Beveridge (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Irene Hernandez (Sony Pictures Imageworks)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 9:15AM - 9:35AM (PDT)

Kora: A Physics-Based Fire Pipeline and Toolset

Kora: A Physics-Based Fire Pipeline and Toolset

Alexey Stomakhin (Wētā FX), John Edholm (Wētā FX), Murali Ramachari (Wētā FX), Aleksandr Isakov (Wētā FX), Zahra Forootaninia (Wētā FX), Marcus Schoo (Wētā FX), Nicholas Illingworth (Wētā FX), Joe Letteri (Wētā FX)
Technical Paper
18 July 2026 | 9:35AM - 10:00AM (PDT)

Experiments in Gaussian Splatting for VFX Scene Reconstruction

Experiments in Gaussian Splatting for VFX Scene Reconstruction

Chen Wu (AWS), Yin Song (AWS), K. Ho (AWS), GG Heitmann (Wētā FX), Peter Hillman (Wētā FX), Ibrahim Gabr (Wētā FX), Kimball Thurston (Wētā FX), Josh Passenger (AWS), Viral Shah (AWS)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 10:00AM - 10:20AM (PDT)

From Brief to Scene: Agentic AI for Asset Production at Ubisoft

From Brief to Scene: Agentic AI for Asset Production at Ubisoft

Cyrus Rahgoshay (Ubisoft), Nicolas Gaffiero (Ubisoft), Patrick Sauvageau (Ubisoft), Maxim Parisée (Ubisoft), Anna Jaeeun Cho (Ubisoft), Alessandro Bernardi (Ubisoft)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 10:50AM - 11:15AM (PDT)

Smart Set Assembly

Smart Set Assembly

Matt Lathrop (The Walt Disney Studios), Raymond McCord (Deloitte), Abdullah Nasir (Deloitte), Abby Wysopal (Deloitte)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 11:15AM - 11:35AM (PDT)

Squid: USD Material Authoring at Scale

Squid: USD Material Authoring at Scale

Eric Vezinet (Wētā FX)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 11:35AM - 12:00PM (PDT)

Automating the Handoff: From Hardcoded QC Scripts to a Multi-Agent Architecture for Layout-to-Animation Reviews

Automating the Handoff: From Hardcoded QC Scripts to a Multi-Agent Architecture for Layout-to-Animation Reviews

Cole Pearsall (Symbiote), Alaina Hardie (Symbiote), Mo Sakr (Symbiote), Jonasz Bigda (Symbiote)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 3:00PM - 3:20PM (PDT)

Previs to Final Pixels: Rethinking Feature Animation Production in Real-Time

Previs to Final Pixels: Rethinking Feature Animation Production in Real-Time

Olivier Pinol (Dwarf Animation Studio), François Tarlier (Dwarf Animation Studio), Maxime Robinot (Dwarf Animation Studio), Vincent Callede (Dwarf Animation Studio)
Technical Paper
18 July 2026 | 3:20PM - 3:45PM (PDT)

From Front-End to Final Frames: Building a 2D/3D Hybrid Back-End Pipeline for Feature Animation at Scale

From Front-End to Final Frames: Building a 2D/3D Hybrid Back-End Pipeline for Feature Animation at Scale

Vijoy Gaddipati (Paramount Animation), Andrew Titcomb (Paramount Animation), Karyn Buczek Monschein (Paramount Animation)
Talk
18 July 2026 | 3:45PM - 4:10PM (PDT)

Invited Talk

A Wearable Shader Ball

A Wearable Shader Ball

Takahito Tejima (Polyphony Digital), André Mazzone (Industrial Light & Magic)
Invited Talk
18 July 2026 | 4:10PM - 4:30PM (PDT)