An Evening with DreamWorks Animation | The Look of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Mark Edwards recently served as the VFX Supervisor for the VES and Annie Award-winning and Academy Award®-nominated "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” from DreamWorks Animation.  Prior to this role, Mark was the VFX Supervisor on “Abominable” and “Kung Fu Panda 3”.  He worked as the Head of Lighting on the prehistoric family comedy “The Croods”, as well as a CG Supervisor on the critically acclaimed “How to Train Your Dragon”.  In 2022, he celebrated 25 years at DreamWorks and continues to strive to push the visuals possible in animated feature films.

Ludovic Bouancheau is Head of Character Animation at Dreamworks Animation. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. In the industry for 15 years, he worked as an animator on many feature films like Megamind, Puss in Boots, and Home and as a Supervising Animator on Kung Fu Panda 3, The Boss Baby, Abominable, and Trolls World Tour. He most recently worked on the academy awards nominated feature Puss in Boots the last wish as a Head of Character Animation. Ludo was nominated to the VES Awards in 2012 for his work on the character of Puss in Boots and to the Annie Awards in 2017 for his reel on Kung Fu Panda 3.

He gave master classes about acting and workflow at DreamWorks studios, Gobelins Summer schools in Paris and Hong Kong, and at the CTN expo, among others.

David joined the Effects Department in 2019 and is currently an Effects Lead on Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. He enjoys working in Effects because each film brings new challenges that require unique and creative solutions. In his free time, David enjoys sports, video games, and wildlife photography.

Sonda has been at DreamWorks since 2009 and has had many roles from Lighter to Lead Lighter, Surfacer, and is now currently a CG Supervisor. She started her career at Disney Feature Animation as a Render Wrangler many years ago. Sondra is an Academy of Art College Alumni and spent the last several years working on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, helping with the early looks of development to finishing the film. She has a two-year-old son and a Goldendoodle. In her free time, Sondra enjoys triathlons, skiing, hiking, and scuba diving.

Pramita joined DreamWorks Glendale in 2019 as a CFX Artist and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was her recently served show. She started her journey in 2007 as a Rigger and slowly moved into CFX. She has an overall experience of 16 years working in multiple animation and VFX studios like DreamWorks (India) and DNEG (London), to name a few. Some of her projects are Alpha Omega, Penguins of Madagascar, Boss Baby, Croods 2, Wonder Woman, Venom, and Fantastic Beasts.