The VFX of 'Fast X': VFX Supervisors Panel

Peter Chiang is co-founder of DNEG and a prolific and critically acclaimed Visual Effects
Supervisor. He is one of the leaders in his field with over 30 years experience in the industry
and has been nominated for two BAFTA’s and a VES Award. Along with so many VFX artists
working today, Peter was inspired to join the film industry after watching Star Wars in 1977. A
foundation course and three years at Art College landed Chiang his first job in the British film
industry – Krull, in 1982.

Starting as a graphic artist, animator, and later a visual effects art director, Chiang quickly
moved into VFX supervision on films including Pitch Black (DNEG’s first project), Chronicles of
Riddick, Flyboys, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, John Carter, Total Recall, Pacific Rim:
Uprising, as well as Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings and Justin Lin’s Star Trek: Beyond.
Most recently, Peter has helmed the two latest ‘Fast & Furious’ entries as the Production VFX
Supervisor: F9: The Fast Saga and Fast X. To this day, he feels that VFX is one of the most
rewarding careers that one can choose and finds it a privilege to work with so many talented
people.

Aleks Pejic is a VFX Supervisor at DNEG with over twenty years of experience in the film and TV industries. He began his visual effects career at DNEG in 2002 as a CG Artist and stepped into the role of CG Supervisor in 2010 on Christopher Nolan's Inception. He went on to work for several industry-leading studios, including Framestore and Cinesite, before returning to DNEG as a VFX Supervisor in 2021. Most recently, Aleks was VFX Supervisor on the latest, highly-anticipated installment in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, Fast X. Prior to this, Aleks worked as VFX Supervisor on Space Jam: A New Legacy and Netflix's The Witcher, for which he won the BAFTA Award for ‘Special, Visual & Graphic Effects’ for his work on the second season. He is currently supervising work on Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Paul Jones joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2019. He has over a decade of unique experience working across film and television as both a Visual Effects Supervisor and Emmy-award-nominated producer.

Recently, Paul served as ILM VFX supervisor on Universal’s tenth installment in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, Fast X. Prior, Paul oversaw ILM’s work on the Apple TV family series, Lovely Little Farm, as head of department VFX Supervisor, and Lucasfilm’s episodic series Willow for Disney+ as one of ILM’s Associate VFX Supervisors.

In 2019, for his work as VFX producer, he received the honor of Outstanding Supporting VFX in a Photoreal Episode from the VES Society for the HBO mini-series, Chernobyl and on Netflix’s Altered Carbon, he received a Primetime Emmy nomination.

VFX Supervisor Jesper Kjölsrud has over 25 years of experience working on high-profile films and television productions such as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and R.I.P.D. Prior to joining Ghost VFX, Kjölsrud worked for MPC, DNEG, Image Engine, Goodbye Kansas, and most recently Outpost VFX.

Huw Evans is a BAFTA-nominated VFX Supervisor at beloFX with over 16 years of industry experience. He most recently worked as VFX Supervisor on Fast X and The Wheel of Time Season 2 and is currently helming belo’s visual effects on an unannounced project. Before this, Huw spent 15 years at DNEG where he amassed extensive on-set experience in his role as VFX Supervisor on The Matrix Resurrections, Wonder Woman 1984, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout. For his efforts on The Matrix Resurrections, Huw and his team received a BAFTA nomination for ‘Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects.’ Other titles in Huw’s early filmography include The Dark Knight, Fast and Furious, Man of Steel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Inception, and several Harry Potter movies