Guillermo Quesada3D ANIMATOR | VFX ARTIST | GAME DESIGNER

Guillermo Quesada is a graduate of NYFA’s Master of Fine Art in Game Design. He recently worked on worked on Visual Effects Society Award Winner The Lion King (2019) and currently works as a VR/AR Developer for the visual development company Magnopus. The company pioneered a virtual reality system that allowed director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Lion King) and director of photography Caleb Deschanel (The Passion of the Christ) shoot a film using extensive computer imagery in a physical three dimensional space. This system helped The Lion King earn an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects as well dominate the 2020 Visual Effects Society awards.

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Program Studied at NYFA: Game Design
Program Type: MFA in Game Design
Year Attended/Graduated: 2017
Location: Los Angeles


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