Biography

Originally from the Isle of Man and now based in Dundee, Scotland, Morgan Skillicorn is a technical artist and academic specialising in real-time virtual production and in-camera visual effects (ICVFX). His foundation in the field began at Abertay University with a BA (Hons) in Game Design and Production. During his subsequent MSc in Technical Art and Visual Effects, Morgan transitioned his focus from traditional game development to leveraging real-time engines for virtual production. Today, he serves as a Teaching and Research Fellow at Abertay, where he leads the upcoming MSc module “Introduction to Virtual Production” and contributes to ICVFX optimisation research at the AHRC-funded CoSTAR Realtime Lab.

As part of his research at CoSTAR, Morgan is actively contributing whitepapers focused on optimising a virtual production studio infrastructure. He recently co-authored the upcoming paper “Optimising nDisplay render topologies for small and medium scale real-time virtual production,” which explores how to efficiently configure various GPU rendering topologies to maximise performance in Unreal Engine’s nDisplay system on an LED volume stage.

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