Ryo Sakaguchi (he/him) brings over 20 years of industry expertise with the last decade spent at Scanline in numerous roles from CG Supervisor to VFX Supervisor. As one of the Directors of CG, he played a pivotalrole in establishing company workflows and mentoring leads and supervisors. He recently served as theProduction VFX Supervisor on Netflix’s live action adaptation of “Yu Yu Hakusho”, receiving an Asian Content Award nomination for Best VFX. Ryo was a core contributor to the development of multiple Sci-Techaward-winning fx pipelines, and was recognized with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2008 for the development of a fluid simulation workflow during his time at Digital Domain. Ryo is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Talk - A Global VFX Production Challenges of "Yu Yu Hakusho”
Sat - 15:15 - room1Yu Yu Hakusho, based on a popular Japanese manga, is a Netflix live action series about the con-
flict between humans and the Yokais: Japanese folk tale monsters.Due to the volume and the complexity of the creature work, we decided to attempt one of the
first Global VFX productions for a Japanese project.
Challenges included bringing in the foreign methodologies to the Japanese culture, building the
infrastructure to produce a global standard turnover material, and to find the “hybrid” approaches
between the Japanese and the Hollywood methodologies.
The talk will cover the challenges first, and then followed by behind the scenes of some of the
hero sequences.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1234200/