Co-I & Head of PartnershipsPhillip Vaughan

Phillip Vaughan is a Researcher, Practitioner and Senior Lecturer, with over 26 years’ experience in industry and academia, is a Co-I on CoSTAR (National and Network), and has expertise in virtual production, real-time pipelines and digital avatars. Academically, Phil was previously a Co-I on AHRC’s £11M InGAME project as well as other technology-led funded research projects over the years including game development, digital avatar production and eye tracking. His professional work includes productions with the BBC, Sony, DC Comics and Warner Bros. In this work he was responsible for the implementation, production and teaching of highly specialised 2D & 3D animation and visual effects techniques, and credited on published work such as Braveheart, Jim Henson’s Farscape, Star Trek, Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Tom & Jerry, Commando Comic and Superman, as well as various other original IPs.