Jason Bayever
Jason Bayever is an award-winning VFX Supervisor and Industry Leader in Virtual Production, Animation, and VFX. He was previously the Vice President of Virtual Production and VFX at Lux Machina Consulting. He is a former VFX Supervisor - Visual Effects Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering. He also wrote, designed, and produced the short, A Hard Place, as a 2020 Epic Games Unreal Engine (UE) Fellow (Pilot).
Jason’s credits include work on 15 feature films at studios such Rhythm & Hues and Sony Imageworks, including Life of Pi and Superman Returns. He won a VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (2019). He is also a three-time VES Award Nominee for: Disneyland Resort: Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission Breakout! (Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project, 2017) and Life of Pi (Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture AND Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture 2013).
Jason is a graduate of the Computer Animation program at the Art Institute of California-Los Angeles.
Interview: Between a Rock and a Hard Place