The quick question
I ask you one question about how AI is changing your work. I ask a handful of other people the same one, then cut the answers together so the industry can hear itself think.
Clever Stegosaur, with Elizabeth Willaman
Nobody in VFX has AI figured out. So I'm asking everyone.
I'm Elizabeth, a VFX producer. The tools my job is built on are changing faster than any of us can keep up with. I'm recording short conversations with people across the industry about how they're adapting, and I'd like you in one.
The premise
Why a stegosaur?
A stegosaur is anyone who has been good at this for a long time and can feel the climate changing. That's me. It's probably you.
The clever ones look up, compare notes and adapt. This is where we compare notes.
How it works
Two ways to take part
The panel
Five people around one topic. Some want to make the move into AI work, some already have. Less keynote, more comparing notes.
Both are recorded. Short clips go out on LinkedIn and YouTube with your name and title. This is brand new, so you'd be among the first.
Examples
The kind of thing I'll ask
- What's your biggest fear about AI in VFX? And your biggest hope?
- What's one thing you're doing differently this year because of AI?
- What was your "everything is different now" moment?
- What's something about AI you nodded along to in a meeting and had no clue about?
- If you could go back two years, what would you tell yourself?
Who I'm looking for
VFX people, at any level
Still working it out
Producers, coordinators, supervisors, artists. You don't need answers. Honest questions are the point.
Already made the move
You've changed how you work, or what you do, because of AI. I want to hear what you tried, what worked and what you'd skip.
Who's asking
Elizabeth Willaman
VFX Producer. 2026 Emmy nominee for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
I've spent more than 15 years in visual effects. I started as a coordinator on shows like The Walking Dead and The Jungle Book, worked my way through Ad Astra, Cruella and Masters of the Air, and most recently produced the visual effects on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. That adds up to 16,000-plus finaled shots and roughly 37,000 cups of coffee.
My job has always been turning creative chaos into a schedule and a budget that hold. Now the ground under that job is moving, and I'd rather ask good questions in public than nod along in meetings.
Take part
Tell me who you are
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