Presenter

Sam Cole is a VES Award winner, multi VES Award nominee and Annie Award
nominee. Having worked on compositing for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in
2003, he joined Wētā FX full time in 2012 as a compositor after a decade at Fuel VFX
in his native Australia. Sam worked on James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash, the culmination of Wētā’s Water and Fire Development tools, where Sam was focused on compositing tools and workflows. He has spent a total of seven and a half years on Avatar films.