The Award Winning Italic Pig team do a deep dive into their experience running a creative digital entertainment company on a 4-day work week. The panel includes a wide-ranging, hard-hitting, and honest look into the pros and cons of pioneering and adapting to a 4-day week within a project-driven studio. The panel hosts a cross-section of team members from all specialties within Italic Pig, each with their unique perspectives on what works and what needs work. Featuring a case study for anyone considering introducing a 4-day week to their own studios.
About Italic Pig:
Italic Pig is a kickass Northern Ireland’s entertainment studio filled with creative, talented and attractive individuals. Italic Pig creates and develops award-winning, sarcastically epic, narrative-driven games and stories for all audiences and platforms. This is an opportunity to hear from:
• Aimee Lingman, Panel Chair and COO of Italic Pig. Aimee Lingman has over 20 years producing digital content, dating back to The X-Files and Sliders during her time with SyFy (USA Networks). She was also responsible for the strategic direction of Girlguiding UK for seven years, with over 45 original online productions. Aimee has been with Italic Pig for the past 4 years ensuring that the rampant creativity is balanced with a good dose of budget-driven pessimism.
• Kevin Beimers, CEO of Italic Pig. Kevin has won three Very Big Indie Pitches, a Big Indie Award, GDC Best In Play, three Creative Europe awards, and been nominated for Best Script by both Writers' Guilds of Great Britain and Ireland on a few occasions. He's worked on a number of UK and International narrative projects, including The Bunker (Splendy), Wailing Heights (Outsider), and the recently released Beyond A Steel Sky (Revolution). He’s also a former chair of GamesNI, a STEM Ambassador, creator of Run For The Border, and is virtually mentoring a young coding team in an upcoming 2021 Cambridge robotics competition.
• Aisling McElroy is a young ambitious producer that has considerable experience in gaming, animation, TV and film and has worked within some of the very best local studios. Coming from an artistic background and originally graduating as a 3D generalist, she has an ability to communicate between creative and production, and she has an appreciation for all avenues in the creative industry here in NI.
• Rachel Dixon has had the pleasure of working on a wide variety of creative projects while exploring different areas of the game production pipeline by bringing worlds to life through modelling and animation. In doing so, she has found her passion and flair as a 3D animator and can't wait to push her skills further with new projects that come her way.
• Jakub Bojanowski is a talented 3D Artist experienced in all areas of Animation and Game production. His combination of 2D and 3D skills and expertise allows him to create award-winning characters, environments, landscapes and level designs.
• Dillon Hemphill is a North coast native living in Belfast, currently working in his first big boy job as a programmer at Italic Pig. He owns one cat and four guitars. The previous write up for this event labelled him as one of the best programmers in the gaming world, and despite his apprehension, no one can prove this statement isn’t true.