Speakers

With over three decades of industry experience, Paul is recognised for his 360-degree approach to Virtual Production with in-depth experience of the full VP pipeline.

His experience across real-time 3D, cinematography, VFX and Virtual Production has been sought by clients internationally including Sky, Netflix, Standard Chartered, Samsung, ITV and the BBC to produce work across commercial, broadcast and cinematic productions.

With a diverse career starting as a successful professional track cyclist with 14 British titles and a World series to his name, Paul later worked several years in the games industry as a lead animator, gaining extensive experience across 3D production. He worked in lead roles for Acclaim Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment and Rage Software.

Later moving into VFX and TVC work, he honed in-depth expertise across direction, VFX supervision, game engines (both Unity & Unreal), compositing, fluid simulations, lighting, cinematography and colour grading.

Paul used the lockdown period to explore the potential of VP and launched RecodeXR studio based in Manchester. Their point of difference standing out as offering a full-service approach to achieve high-end productions which side-step some common VP challenges.

Recode XR Studio works across everything from corporate, commercials, drama and film, managing the whole pipeline from 3D asset creation, filming plates for the volume, on-set supervision, and post-production.

Paul is an avid VP evangelist.