Toby Hyder is a creative technologist and filmmaker with over a decade of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies, visual effects, and AI-driven production. Beginning his career at Dimension Studio, he specialised in volumetric capture, virtual production, and immersive filmmaking, working on projects for global brands including Disney and major international sporting events.
He later joined Synthesia, one of the UK’s leading AI companies, where he led a specialist team developing human performance capture pipelines and training AI systems to understand human movement, expression, and behavioural nuance.
Toby went on to found XOLink, an AI production company pioneering identity capture, AI filmmaking, and proprietary dataset creation, delivering work for clients including Sky, Hasbro, NVIDIA, and Perfecto Records while producing award-winning original films such as Bones of Yew, which has received international recognition across AI and film festivals.
A strong advocate for hybrid AI production, Toby champions workflows that empower creatives by combining traditional filmmaking expertise with emerging AI technologies to unlock new forms of storytelling.
