Sony Pictures Digital topper Yair Landau will be the keynote speaker at the vidgame industry's DICE summit in February.
Sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, DICE is a confab for vidgame developers and execs held each year along with the Interactive Achievement Awards, the vidgame industry's equivalent to the Oscars.
Landau is the first film studio exec to get a keynote slot at DICE, where most of the speakers come from game publishers and developers.
Exec, who oversees Sony's Imageworks FX house and animation division, as well as the studio's web ventures and its Sony Online Entertainment PC game division, will speak about the creative process for effects and CGI animation, which is increasingly crossing over with vidgame production processes.
DICE will be held Feb. 7-9 at the Green Valley Ranch in Las Vegas.
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