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Sean Looper, AWS

Chatting with Sean Looper, Software Development Manager, Creative Tools at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Emily OlinJuly 16, 2020

Behind the Screens

Larry Gritz, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Tell us a bit about yourself – how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I had a hobby interest in visual effects and photography after seeing Star Wars in 1977. In particular, this 1980 TV special was transformative for me. I recorded it (VHS!) and probably…

Emily OlinApril 21, 2020

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Ken Museth, NVIDIA

Tell us a bit about yourself – how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? It’s a long and twisted storyline, but I’ll try to give a short version. My background is computationally physics and chemistry (PhD in quantum dynamics), so it’s safe to say I had…

Emily OlinApril 14, 2020

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Michael Dolan, Epic Games

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I’ve been tinkering with computer graphics since I was a kid in the 80’s, with a Commodore 128 and a light pen. I studied visual effects in college, and started my career…

Emily OlinApril 3, 2020

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Bill Ballew, DreamWorks Animation

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? While in college and during the beginning of my professional career, I had been fascinated by animation. Disney was going through their resurgence with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast,…

Emily OlinMarch 27, 2020

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Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? When I was a freshman in college at Johns Hopkins University in 1982, I went to a lecture by a chemical engineering professor who showed some graphs of a 3-dimensional function describing…

Academy Software FoundationMarch 4, 2020

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Brian Cipriano, Google

In Behind the Screens, we talk to developers and software engineers from across the motion picture and media industries to learn more about their work in visual effects and animation, how they use open source software, and their involvement in the Academy Software Foundation. Tell us a bit about yourself…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 19, 2019

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Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I took a computer graphics class in grad school and was instantly hooked. I spent way more time on that class than I should have, working on a primitive Z buffered renderer…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 8, 2019

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Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I have been working at Blue Sky Studios as a Software Engineer for the past 5 years. I got my first job in networking and databases after getting my undergrad degree in…

Emily OlinOctober 10, 2019

Behind the Screens

Sean McDuffee, Intel

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I studied Physics in college and towards the end of school, I met some guys that were modifying the original Quake source (this is like 2003) and implementing their own rendering algorithms.…

Emily OlinSeptember 20, 2019

Sean Looper, AWS

Larry Gritz, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Ken Museth, NVIDIA

Michael Dolan, Epic Games

Bill Ballew, DreamWorks Animation

Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

Brian Cipriano, Google

Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios

Sean McDuffee, Intel

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