JUAN CAÑADA 
 MUNDOS DIGITALES 2023 SPECIAL AWARD 
     
      
            
        
         Each year Mundos Digitales granted this honour to one of the animation, VFX or new media industry professionals in recognition to his career and contributions to the world of digital entertainment. 
        
        Mundos Digitales team is pleased to announce that the Mundos Digitales 2023 Special Award will be awarded to Juan Cañada, due to his contribution to the Computer Graphics industry.
      
        
        
           Director of Graphics Engineering
          
        
        
     
        
        Juan Cañada is the Director of Graphics  Engineering at Epic Games, where he leads the graphics development in the  Unreal Engine engineering team. 
        
        
       Juan has been passionately working on computer  graphics for more than 20 years where he filled different roles, from  programmer to lead engineer or executive. After leading the Maxwell Render team  at Next Limit Technologies for more than a decade he moved to the US to join  Epic Games and lead the graphics efforts for UE5. 
        
        
       His team is working on next generation graphics  technology such as Nanite, Lumen, TSR or Real Time Ray Tracing.