Gladys Tong is the Founder and President of G Creative Productions Inc., a Vancouver-based company specializing in interactive motion graphics and visual effects for the film and television industry. For over 25 years, she has worked on Hollywood’s top feature films such as Deadpool II, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Rise of the Planet of the Ape, and more. Gladys is a 9T4 Graduate of the Biomedical Communications Program at the University of Toronto.
In the field of entertainment, her role has been running a company producing interactive graphics and visual storytelling for the film and television industry for over 25 years. Since the work she and her team does has been tied to technology, it has always been a challenge for them to keep up with the latest hardware and software tools. For the past year, she has been engaged with the latest technology in film production called Virtual Production. Her talk will focus on the key aspects of Virtual Production as well as the challenges of embracing discomfort when jumping from a relatively comfortable position to suddenly being immersed in a new environment with an unfamiliar risky emerging technology.
