Academy Award winner Brian Van't Hul is a Visual Effects Supervisor at LAIKA and has had the opportunity to work for Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Imageworks, Weta Digital (Peter Jackson's visual effects company) and Disney.  He has worked in a wide range of roles, including:  miniature, live-action and digital lighting, location plate photography, 2nd unit directing, and visual effects supervising.  Brian has worked on Nightmare Before Christmas, Forrest Gump, all three Lord of the Rings films, Master and Commander, I Robot and King Kong -  for which he received a Bafta and also an Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2006. At present Brian is working in Portland on LAIKA's first stop-motion feature being shot in 3D, directed by Henry Selick. As part of his talk, Brian will show some clips from Coraline, based on the book by Neil Gaiman and featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and Ian McShane.