“Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Wallace & Gromit” at the View Conference

Merlin Crossingham, who shared directing duties with Nick Park on “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” and Simon Otto, who directed “That Christmas,” are among the new speakers on the program for View Conference, the annual VFX and animation conference scheduled to take place in Turin, Italy, from October 14 to 19.

Otto, the animation supervisor on the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, makes his directorial debut with Richard Curtis' upcoming holiday film for Netflix. Crossingham's time at Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman Animation included the Emmy-nominated Creature Comforts America. Vengeance Most Fowl, which sees the return of Wallace & Gromit's nemesis from Wrong Trousers, the villainous Penguin Features McGraw, is coming to Netflix this winter.

View will also host a session on the Marvel hit “Deadpool & Wolverine,” with VFX supervisor Sven Gilberg, previously nominated for a VFX Oscar for “Fall Guy” and “Real Steel.”

Newly announced View speakers include filmmaker and animator Amanda Strong, who will discuss her experiences directing a television series, working in independent animation, and building a stop-motion studio with a focus on collective Indigenous storytelling.

Industry veteran Richard Kerris, General Manager of Media and Entertainment at NVIDIA, has also joined the speaker list for View, which will include AI.

Previously announced speakers include directors of several of this year's animated films, including Chris Sanders for Universal/Dreamworks' “The Wild Robot,” based on the book series by Peter Brown; Kelsey Mann for “Inside Out 2,” the sequel to Pixar's Oscar winner; Josh Cooley for Paramount's Transformers origin story “Transformers One”; and Shannon TIndle for Netflix's “Ultraman: Rising,” a superhero adventure based on the Ultraman franchise.