Will Byles
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Will Byles

Executive Director

Will Byles has been an actor, writer, designer, animator and director in games, film, T.V and theatre. He began his career at the famous Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, before moving to London, and the film industry, as stop frame animator, DOP and ultimately director for commercials in Soho until 1993. He then set up his own successful film and animation studio in Bath, HarumScarum Films where he ventured into CGI and post production. In 1997 he went to work with Aardman Animation as a Creative Director and helped establish their then burgeoning CGI department. In 2004 he made the transition into games when he started work as Art Director on the famous Battlefield franchise with EA and Dice; going on to become Executive Producer with EA Partners. Will joined Supermassive Games as Executive Director in 2010 to work on new AAA projects and is Creative Director on, ’Until Dawn’.


Events featuring Will Byles

Storytelling in Games

Will Byles | Supermassive Games

Will Byles, Director of the critically acclaimed, Until Dawn, talks about the challenges and hidden blessings unique to storytelling in games. GQ magazine said "Until Dawn is scarier than any horror film ever made” and Will reveals how Supermassive Games used new and bespoke techniques in cameras, lighting, performance capture, animation and writing to convey emotion, tension and horror.

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Storytelling in Games

Will Byles | Supermassive Games

Will Byles, Director of the critically acclaimed, Until Dawn, talks about the challenges and hidden blessings unique to storytelling in games. GQ magazine said "Until Dawn is scarier than any horror film ever made” and Will reveals how Supermassive Games used new and bespoke techniques in cameras, lighting, performance capture, animation and writing to convey emotion, tension and horror.

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