Jon Weinbren

I head up the Centre for Creative Arts and Technologies an interdisciplinary, inter-organisational research development and production initiative alongside a bunch of hugely talented and inspirational people researching and working at the forefront of the screen industries. Before this I set up and ran the Games Department at the National Film and Television School. My journey here has involved stints in both academia and industry, often simultaneously. I spent many years running my own independent studio and my experience covers film, broadcast television, animation, interactive/digital media, games, commercials, installation, performing arts and more. I've worked as a screenwriter, story editor, director/producer, animation and digital effects specialist, games designer/developer, performance director, copywriter, creative consultant, researcher and various other roles. My current areas of interest include: digital actor performance; emotion synthesis in computer animated characters; virtual cinematography; interactive narrative; digital and participatory theatre; and other spaces where the culture, practice and theory of film, animation, television, theatre, games and other artistic arenas collide and coalesce.