In March, JC Reyes, the Head of Creative and New Business at production company Monster & Bear, joined us for a MasterTalk at AIT’s Melbourne campus.

From animating Lil’ Elvis and the Truckstoppers in the ’90s to starting his own creative studio and later turning a hugely successful, award-winning brand film around in just six weeks as a creative director at Monster & Bear, JC Reyes has done it all.

In our recent Mastertalk, we brought together leading creative minds, Marc Bouyer (BUCK), Ryan Penning (ScreenNSW), and Will Pietsch (freelance animator), to explore what it really takes to thrive in today’s creative industries.

We’ve taken their insights (plus a few from broader industry discussions) and turned them into real, practical advice that you can actually use – whether you’re a student, an emerging creative, or an experienced professional ready to grow.

Annemarie Gereis is a seasoned career coach and visual effects artist with a passion for empowering creatives to achieve their full potential.

Some of Annemarie’s notable titles include Guardians of The Galaxy, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Power Rangers, Gotham, Minority Report, CSI and The Hunger Games: Mockingbird.

Dean Musumeci is a digital compositor and motion graphics artist. He’s also a former AIT educator, and this April he returned for a MasterTalk presentation at AIT.

From his own business as a director of photography and digital compositor, to his work on Gooseworx and Glitch Productions’ The Amazing Digital Circus, Dean walked students through his journey and shared invaluable industry advice.

Lukas Sarralde from Mandrake Studios recently held an engaging talk, where he discussed motion capture technology and its uses in film, animation, and gaming.

Lukas gave our students a practical demonstration, setting up one of our guests with a motion capture suit, gloves and helmet rig, before showing how the captured data can be translated to a 3D animated character.

In a fantastic conclusion to our 2023 AIT MasterTalks, we were joined by Bowen Ellames, award-winning concept artist and graphic designer for Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Our students felt so deeply inspired by this talk, with many patiently waiting for a chance to speak to Bowen 1:1. It was an unforgettable evening for everyone!

This October, AIT was very proud to host Brisbane-based illustrator, Costa Daniel Kassab, the art director for Ludo Studio’s Bluey.

AIT students are already in love with the process of making art, just as Costa always has been, and it’s wonderful to see just where this passion for creating can take you.

For our Grads in Focus day last November, we were joined by AIT alumni who shared their experiences since graduation. Hear from Tash Perrett, who works as a junior artist at Industrial Light and Magic, Bailey Papic – corporate videographer and editor, Chloe Lambley – a 2D animator with Flying Bark Productions, Jack O’Shea – lead software engineer at Red Cartel, and Goran Ilievski – CRM specialist and web developer.