Carlos F. de Vigo

Carlos F. de Vigo

Producer, Director & Screenwriter

Dr.Platypus & Ms.Wombat


Producer, director and screenwriter of films and videogames, CEO of Dr.Platypus & Ms.Wombat studios, Director of the Laboratory specialised in Artificial Intelligence applied to Digital Creative Industries, 'Professor Octopus I.A. Lab', Professor in the engineering programme of the Public University of Navarra and member of the Spanish and Catalan Film Academies.

He has participated in dozens of productions including feature films, TV series, short films and video games. In addition to his work as a film and video game director, he also works as a researcher. He has designed and participated in more than a dozen R&D projects with numerous European universities and technology centres. Some of the results have been applied to video games, smartphone content or animated feature films.

As director of the Professor Octopus Laboratory specialising in AI applied to the audiovisual industry, he has designed and directed the disruptive R&D project Emotional Films, winner of one of the prizes at the Science Ekaitza Congress, with the participation of more than 40 researchers and a budget of more than 1.8 million euros, with the aim of developing a technology based on Artificial Intelligence that allows productions to adapt in real time to the emotions of the viewer, among other contextual data of the spectator.