An Unconventional Journey of a Small Team to the Golden Globes and Oscars — or — How to Do Things Wrong to Get Them Right
Martins Upitis is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Physical Addons, where he and his team design Blender addons. Passionate about shading, physical lighting, and space, Upitis is an Academic Arts graduate and has worked as a Technical Artist in games and VR. He teaches a course in physical lighting and materials using Blender, in art schools and universities in Latvia, while also juggling being a father of two.
Konstantins Visnevskis has for 20 years been a freelance 3D artist in the world of TV commercials; he then suddenly found himself at home in a motion picture production. He has an MA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia, where he is also currently lecturing. Visnevskis rejects as a false dichotomy the polarization of technical, functional and rational against inspiration, aesthetics and creativity in professional art.