This stream is all about the 5 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, Why. The creative teams from top studios present on the creation of some of the most thrilling, dynamic films and television series to date.
Featured in this stream are popular productions such as The Umbrella Academy, The Expanse, Star Trek: Discovery, Monster Hunter, and more. It’s not just the “talks” there will be some pretty cool clips and techniques shared too.
In this stream:
- Creating Creatures with the VFX Team Behind Monster Hunter
- Indie Projects Through the Lens of a Professional VFX Studio
- Building the World of Bridgerton in VFX
- From Mystical Caves to Outer Space: Creative Muti-tasking on Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
- The VFX Story of The Umbrella Academy
- The VFX Journey of Warrior Nun: From Pre to Post Production
- Big Effects for the Small Screen: Destruction in The Expanse
- Indie Voice: In Conversation with Gabriel Kalim Mucci
- Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source Visual Effects and Animation
It is true. Being a creative is the proverbial labor of love. Beginning with the birth of the concept, molding, cultivating, and nurturing it into what thrills and provokes the mind, body, and soul. This is more so with independent VFX projects. Considering they are often projects with tight budget constraints, sometimes fluid timelines and expectations that are stratospheric in terms of quality and quantity of work.
Chocolate Tribe has done in-house as well as collaborated on several independent VFX projects and will share how these projects came about, how they developed concepts, the software used, techniques gained, timelines taken to achieve certain aspects, and highlighting low points at each stage of the project; from Lego Jurassic Park – the Land of Giants, showcasing RnD processes for collaborating with partners, through to the award-winning, highly recognized short films Noodles, Robot and Scarecrow and Cognition.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Nosipho van den Bragt
Owner and Managing Director // Chocolate Tribe
An attorney, creative business entrepreneur, and aspiring writer, Nosipho is a multipotentialite that thrives in idea synthesis, rapid learning, and adaptability. With a passion for storytelling and breathing life into concepts in visually realistic ways, but also a passion for advocating strongly for creatives, Nosipho co-founded Chocolate Tribe in 2014.
Nosipho has helped cultivate Chocolate Tribe into a professional Animation and VFX studio that not only produces work of the highest international standard, but with its over 20 years of industry experience, a studio that aspires to harness and develop the potential of young talent in the Animation and VFX industry.
As an owner and managing director of Chocolate Tribe, Nosipho continues to be an advocate for growth and development. Breaking local and international boundaries with global clients in feature film, TV-series, and commercials.
Rob van den Bragt
Executive Creative Director & VFX Supervisor // Chocolate Tribe
(Pringles, Chicken Licken "They Also Crave It", Showmax "Game Changers")
Rob comes with a wealth of international experience having over 25 years in various leading VFX studios such as The Mill, Cinesite, Passion pictures, and Glassworks. While overseas, his creative expertise and burning passion for animation and VFX afforded him opportunities to work on several successful international productions in feature film, TV-series, and commercials as an animation/ CGI supervisor.
Rob came to South Africa in 2011 and after a few years working for several local studios, co-founded Chocolate Tribe, a high-end VFX and Animation studio based in Johannesburg and services commercial and feature film clients globally, such as Netflix, Disney, and more.
As the Executive Creative Director and one of the Senior VFX Supervisors at Chocolate Tribe, Rob continues to redefine local and international industry standards through the delivery of exciting, jaw-dropping, and award-winning work. Under his creative leadership, Chocolate Tribe continues to enjoy growth and attract young talent.
Tiaan Franken
Executive Technical Director // Chocolate Tribe
(Pringles "Space Return", Chicken Licken "They Also Crave It", Showmax "Game Changers")
Tiaan’s journey started in 2005, as a Technical Director developing pipeline workflows and working in motion capture. Later expanding his skills into the fields of water simulations, massive crowd simulations, lighting, rendering, and complex creature rigging, using many of his own custom tools.
Later joining a film production and developing its pipeline and technical requirements for worldwide release. From automating initial character setups and workflow requirements to converting the film for stereoscopic release. This experience in pipeline development on a big scale enabled the studio to produce a multitude of short films and series work over a period of 5 years.
After working with “The Tribe”, including on the award-winning Robot and Scarecrow short film, Tiaan joined Chocolate Tribe in 2017 as Executive Technical Director where he continues to push pipeline solutions, creature rigging, lighting and simulation on feature films, TV-series, and commercials for local and global clients.
This stream is all about the 5 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, Why. The creative teams from top studios present on the creation of some of the most thrilling, dynamic films and television series to date.
Featured in this stream are popular productions such as The Umbrella Academy, The Expanse, Star Trek: Discovery, Monster Hunter, and more. It’s not just the “talks” there will be some pretty cool clips and techniques shared too.
In this stream:
- Creating Creatures with the VFX Team Behind Monster Hunter
- Indie Projects Through the Lens of a Professional VFX Studio
- Building the World of Bridgerton in VFX
- From Mystical Caves to Outer Space: Creative Muti-tasking on Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
- The VFX Story of The Umbrella Academy
- The VFX Journey of Warrior Nun: From Pre to Post Production
- Big Effects for the Small Screen: Destruction in The Expanse
- Indie Voice: In Conversation with Gabriel Kalim Mucci
- Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source Visual Effects and Animation
It is true. Being a creative is the proverbial labor of love. Beginning with the birth of the concept, molding, cultivating, and nurturing it into what thrills and provokes the mind, body, and soul. This is more so with independent VFX projects. Considering they are often projects with tight budget constraints, sometimes fluid timelines and expectations that are stratospheric in terms of quality and quantity of work.
Chocolate Tribe has done in-house as well as collaborated on several independent VFX projects and will share how these projects came about, how they developed concepts, the software used, techniques gained, timelines taken to achieve certain aspects, and highlighting low points at each stage of the project; from Lego Jurassic Park – the Land of Giants, showcasing RnD processes for collaborating with partners, through to the award-winning, highly recognized short films Noodles, Robot and Scarecrow and Cognition.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Nosipho van den Bragt
Owner and Managing Director // Chocolate Tribe
An attorney, creative business entrepreneur, and aspiring writer, Nosipho is a multipotentialite that thrives in idea synthesis, rapid learning, and adaptability. With a passion for storytelling and breathing life into concepts in visually realistic ways, but also a passion for advocating strongly for creatives, Nosipho co-founded Chocolate Tribe in 2014.
Nosipho has helped cultivate Chocolate Tribe into a professional Animation and VFX studio that not only produces work of the highest international standard, but with its over 20 years of industry experience, a studio that aspires to harness and develop the potential of young talent in the Animation and VFX industry.
As an owner and managing director of Chocolate Tribe, Nosipho continues to be an advocate for growth and development. Breaking local and international boundaries with global clients in feature film, TV-series, and commercials.
Rob van den Bragt
Executive Creative Director & VFX Supervisor // Chocolate Tribe
(Pringles, Chicken Licken "They Also Crave It", Showmax "Game Changers")
Rob comes with a wealth of international experience having over 25 years in various leading VFX studios such as The Mill, Cinesite, Passion pictures, and Glassworks. While overseas, his creative expertise and burning passion for animation and VFX afforded him opportunities to work on several successful international productions in feature film, TV-series, and commercials as an animation/ CGI supervisor.
Rob came to South Africa in 2011 and after a few years working for several local studios, co-founded Chocolate Tribe, a high-end VFX and Animation studio based in Johannesburg and services commercial and feature film clients globally, such as Netflix, Disney, and more.
As the Executive Creative Director and one of the Senior VFX Supervisors at Chocolate Tribe, Rob continues to redefine local and international industry standards through the delivery of exciting, jaw-dropping, and award-winning work. Under his creative leadership, Chocolate Tribe continues to enjoy growth and attract young talent.
Tiaan Franken
Executive Technical Director // Chocolate Tribe
(Pringles "Space Return", Chicken Licken "They Also Crave It", Showmax "Game Changers")
Tiaan’s journey started in 2005, as a Technical Director developing pipeline workflows and working in motion capture. Later expanding his skills into the fields of water simulations, massive crowd simulations, lighting, rendering, and complex creature rigging, using many of his own custom tools.
Later joining a film production and developing its pipeline and technical requirements for worldwide release. From automating initial character setups and workflow requirements to converting the film for stereoscopic release. This experience in pipeline development on a big scale enabled the studio to produce a multitude of short films and series work over a period of 5 years.
After working with “The Tribe”, including on the award-winning Robot and Scarecrow short film, Tiaan joined Chocolate Tribe in 2017 as Executive Technical Director where he continues to push pipeline solutions, creature rigging, lighting and simulation on feature films, TV-series, and commercials for local and global clients.
