“Words cannot express how excited I am to present the 2024 VIEW Visionary Award to Ramsey Naito,” says Conference Director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “Ramsey’s contribution to animation throughout her career has been immeasurable, and she truly deserves this accolade.”
Taking place in beautiful Turin, Italy, from October 14-19, the 25th Anniversary Edition of the VIEW Conference is an English language event celebrating the latest achievements in VFX, animation, game design, and much more. Offering an unrivaled program of speakers, panels, workshops, and masterclasses, the conference immerses attendees in an inspiring, inclusive environment as they expand their industry knowledge, meet their heroes, and advance their careers.
With a stellar lineup of award-winning directors, animators, artists, and game designers from around the globe, VIEW Conference 2024 brings industry professionals, students, and enthusiasts together to explore their creative visions for the future.
About Ramsey Naito
Ramsey Naito is President of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation. As President of Paramount Animation since September of 2021, a role which she assumed in September 2021, Naito oversees all of the animation group’s operations from development through theatrical release. Naito previously served as Executive Vice President of Paramount Animation in 2018 before assuming her role as Executive Vice President of Animation Production and Development at Nickelodeon Animation.
In her role as President of Paramount Animation and Nick Animation, Naito has been a driving force in reinvigorating the studio’s feature film animation business, with a robust and diverse slate of animated features including last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, which helped the two franchises earn a combined 2.5B at retail in 2023 alone. Looking ahead, this September brings the highly anticipated
Transformers One, the first animated Transformers film in 20 years, with an all-star voice cast including Chris Hemsworth as Young Optimus Prime, Bryan Tyree Henry as Young Megatron, Scarlett Johansson as Elita, and Keegan-Michael Key as fan favorite Bumblebee.
Next year brings The Smurfs Movie to theaters on Valentine’s Day, also with a star-studded voice cast, led by James Corden and Rihanna, who is voicing Smurfette in addition to writing, producing and performing original songs. And SpongeBob, which is celebrating its landmark 25th anniversary, is back and bigger than ever for Christmas 2025 with
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.
In 2026, the much-anticipated Aang: The Last Airbender hits theaters in Q1, followed by a third installment of the
PAW Patrol Movie series, and a sequel to Teenage Mutan
t Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, slated for October release.
At Nickelodeon, Naito oversees animation content across all formats and platforms—spanning linear, digital, TV movies, theatrical motion pictures and SVOD. Since joining the network in 2018, Naito has overseen a renaissance at the studio of animation content and production in scale and creativity.
Naito produced DreamWorks Animation’s Oscar-nominated feature, The Boss Baby, while also earning her a PGA nomination for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures.
About Josh Cooley
Josh Cooley is an American director, screenwriter, and voice actor. After graduating art school, he was hired by Pixar Animation Studios as the first intern in the story department. He worked at Pixar Animation for 18 years, contributing to many films including The Incredibles,
Ratatouille, and
Up. In 2015, Josh became part of the Pixar Senior Creative Team and Braintrust, helping to oversee
Coco,
Incredibles 2,
Onward, and
Soul. He is best known for writing on the 2015 Pixar animated film
Inside Out, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In 2019, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature with his feature film directorial debut,
Toy Story 4. In 2020 and 2021, Josh wrote the live-action adaptation of the young adult novel
Malamander for Sony Pictures, a live-action/CG hybrid film for Universal Pictures based on the classic Universal Monsters, and the live-action
Tower of Terror for Disney and Scarlett Johansson, based on the Disney theme park attraction.
About Transformers One
Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie,
Transformers One features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm. Transformers One will be released in theaters September 20, 2024.