Roto and Prep in the age of AI | a Visual Effects Society London Event

Hi, good evening everyone . I'm Claudia Serach. I'm just going to read because I'm known for talking too much . So, I'm just going to read and not waste any time . Uh, I'm sorry there are no sandwiches yet . We can have them. We can have them after the event, right ? We are all hungry . Um, so I'll just get on now . Um, so I'm uh one of London board managers . Uh, I'm also a program leader for visual effects and compositing lecturer for new and silhouette at Escape Studios . Um, so I would like to welcome you on behalf of London to this exciting event uh, roen prep in the age of AI . Um, I just want to do give special thanks to Nas Parker from Amazon U and Amazon uh for hosting us . Uh, and also Hugo uh thank you for coming and enjoy . [applause] Hi folks, thank you very much for coming uh to this VES event and um just to sort of say it's kind of divided into two halves . The first half we've got presentations and demos and then we're going to go into a Q&A . We've only got 45 minutes for the Q&A . So we'll probably end up speaking really really fast like a like on [snorts] YouTube when you increase the speed . But, uh, nevertheless, let's start off . And we've got our first guest, the kind of Renaissance man himself, and that's Hugo Guerrera