Anthony Apodaca
{{Short description|American computer graphics professional}}
Anthony A. Apodaca is Director of Graphics Research and Development at Pixar. He is co-creator of the RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec). His film credits include almost all of the titles produced by Pixar.
Awards
In 1993, Apodaca, along with 6 others, received an Academy Award in science and engineering for the development of RenderMan software.{{cite web |title=Everything You Ever Saw |url=https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2009/Volume-32-Issue-2-Feb-2009-/Everything-You-Ever-Saw.aspx |website=Computer Graphics World |access-date=22 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=65TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS: THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARDS |url=https://collections.new.oscars.org//Details/FilmWorks/1000347 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=22 August 2023}}
In 2013, he won the 13th Visual Effects Society Awards award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project for the 3D dark ride RATATOUILLE: L’Aventure Totalement Torquee de Remy https://www.vesglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/13th_annual_ves_awards_the_winners_the_art_of_vfx.pdf] and received a nomination at the 2018 16th Visual Effects Society Awards for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project for Nemo & Friends SeaRider, a simulator ride at Tokyo DisneySea.{{cite web | url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/ves-awards-despicable-3-leads-animated-films-5-nominations-156001.html | title=VES Awards: 'Despicable Me 3' Leads Animated Films with 5 Nominations | date=17 January 2018 }}
Bibliography
- Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz: Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, {{ISBN|1-55860-618-1}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0032071|name=Anthony Apodaca}}
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