Founded in 1991, Epic Games is the creator of the Unreal, Gears of War and Infinity Blade series of games. Today Epic is building Fortnite, the new Unreal Tournament, and multiple unannounced games. Epic’s Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, the Web and VR. Unreal Engine is freely available at unrealengine.com. For more information on the studio, visit epicgames.com and check out @EpicGames.

Developed by Epic Games, the award-winning Unreal Engine is known for bringing high-fidelity experiences to PC, console, mobile, Web and VR. Unreal Engine accelerates the creation of games, applications, simulations, visualisations and cinematic content. Download Unreal Engine for free at www.unrealengine.com, and follow @UnrealEngine for updates.

Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri is responsible for continuing Epic’s tradition of fusing state-of-the-art technology with the pinnacle of visual artistry, and for defining the studio’s Unreal Engine as the platform of choice for all types of interactive experiences including games, movies, visualisation and virtual reality.

Prior to joining Epic Games, Kim was the Chief Strategy Officer at Lucasfilm, where he was responsible for the company’s Star Wars technology strategy and innovations in interactive storytelling, including the highly-awarded 1313 prototype. Kim’s career in digital technology and visual effects spans over 20 years and he has credits on more than 25 films including ‘Super 8’, ‘Speed Racer’, ‘Poseidon’ and ‘The Matrix Trilogy’.

He led the development team for the award-winning ‘What Dreams May Come’ as well as for the original ‘Matrix’, developing the now-legendary Bullet Time technology.

Kim is a respected member of many visual effects bodies, including the visual effects branch of the Academy. He has received numerous awards for his work and contributions to Motion Picture technology including an Oscar nomination in 2006 and two Academy Awards in 2000 and 2015.

Wyeth is a 15 year veteran of the game industry with artistic and managerial contributions to more than 16 titles across multiple platforms and game technologies, including the entire Gears of War series and franchises such as Unreal Tournament, Counterstrike, Star Trek and Sin. He has a strong focus not only on technical art, visual language, and design, but also on creative leadership and what it takes to ship games and not kill each other in the process.

In the time since shipping Gears of War Judgment, he has acted as art director on a number of projects including internal game projects and the UnrealEngine4 realtime cinematic, “Infiltrator”. He is now the lead technical artist on the UnrealEngine 4 team, contributed to the 2015 realtime cinematic “A Boy and his Kite”, and is now running the Archvis initiative internally at Epic Games.

Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print.

With an exceptional style of his own, Ash quickly gained recognition for his astounding UI (user interface) graphics in Ender’s Game and Total Recall. Thorp has also contributed to the design direction and concepts for Person of Interest, Prometheus, X-men First Class, the Amazing Spiderman 2, and many more titles. His work has been featured in various publications, such as Motionographer, ImagineFX, Kotaku, and Art of VFX.

Compelled to give back to others, Ash Thorp has traveled the globe to speak at conferences and help share his journey and industry lessons with other creatives. He also wanted to find another way to personally share his experiences and connect artists from all over the world together, so he created The Collective Podcast, which is currently distributed via iTunes. Thorp aimed the podcast at exploring the struggles of work/life balance and to share the experiences of influential creatives from all realms of media, including (but not limited to) designers, illustrators, visual effects artists, writers, painters, and programmers.

Ash Thorp’s career is a continuous rotation of roles from designer to creative director. He is fueled by a tremendous internal drive to develop his own signature imprint on the industry. His first directorial debut started with the assembly of an international team for his visionary Ghost in the Shell tribute titled Project 2501. Ash then wrote and directed the main title for OFFF Barcelona 2014 alongside his close friend and acclaimed director, Anthony Scott Burns. In 2015, he was requested once again to assemble an international team of designers and create the title sequence for FITC Tokyo, which instantly gained monumental attention, including selection as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Through his multitude of career roles, Thorp still finds the time to maintain his connection with his early childhood love of drawing. He recently created a graphic series titled Lost Boy, which is in further development alongside his co-director, Anthony Burns. PostPanic Pictures announced that they will be producing a concept short for Lost Boy with an aimed release date in 2016.

His passion for architecture and computer graphics’ techniques bring him to continuously reach for new ways to express projects’ vision through images. After several work experiences in Italy, in 2007 worked for the well known English Studio Hayes Davidson as a Project Lead Artist, where he created images for Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Kohn Pedersen Fox, John Pawson, David Chipperfield, Hamiltons Architects, West8.

In 2009, together with Roberto and Manuela, he set up State of Art, working as a managing Director. SOA is also a Chaos Group Certified Training center with more than 200 graduate students working in various studios and firms all over the world.

His passion for graphic changed completely his personal education, leading him first to work as Web Designer and then as 3D Artist. After nine years of personal artistic growth he comes close to the architectural Computer Graphic field.

Roberto is working also on the educational side of the studio with SOA Academy. the cooperation with Gianpiero and Manuela gives birth to SOA, and his aim is to promote Architectural Vision at the highest level.

Ronen Bekerman is an Architectural Visualisation Artist based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In 2005, With background in both Computer Science and Architecture, Ronen decided to focus on Architectural Visualisation and 3D Design Exploration and formed Polytown Media. A studio producing visuals for a wide range of project types and support in the design process of leading Israeli architecture firms. Polytown Media also provides Software and Training for professionals in 3d visualisation, architecture and design industries.

In 2009, Ronen launched, what has now become, an extremely popular Architectural Visualisation Blog offering an invaluable source of information on all aspects of the architectural visualisation field.