VFX Interview Marcos Fajardo

February 23, 2017, 06:12 AM

https://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpodcast-316-m...

Marcos Fajardo won the Sci-tech Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) along with Chris Kulla, Alan King, Thiago Ize and Clifford Stein for Arnold. Their renderer was honored for being a highly optimized geometry engine with novel ray-tracing algorithms which unified the rendering of curves, surfaces, volumetrics and subsurface scattering. Arnold started life at Sony Pictures Imageworks and then split into two development streams when Fajardo established Solid Angle SL. Solid Angle wa...