Anthony Apodaca

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.^[1]^[2]

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 ^[3] 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.^[4]

Bibliography

Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz: Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-618-1

External links

Anthony Apodaca at IMDb

References

^ "Everything You Ever Saw". Computer Graphics World. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^ "65TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS: THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARDS". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^ https://www.vesglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/13th_annual_ves_awards_the_winners_the_art_of_vfx.pdf]
^ "VES Awards: 'Despicable Me 3' Leads Animated Films with 5 Nominations". 17 January 2018.