Dr Tom Livingstone is a Research Fellow working in the UKRI’s MyWorld programme, where he focusses on cutting edge R&D taking place within a range of creative productions, from VR biography to stop-motion animation. He was the recipient of a British Academy Talent Development Award to pilot the use of game engines for producing academic outputs and a piece of this playable criticism was exhibited at the British Academy Summer Showcase 2024. His first book Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects is published by Edinburgh University Press.