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Matt Elson

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About Matt Elson

Affiliations

Symbolics Graphics, Director of Visual Effects

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 1990

Matt Elson is currently the Director of Visual Effects at Magnet in Washington DC. He is an Internationally award winning artist who has been working with computer graphics since 1983. Following a Masters Degree from NYIT in 1985, he joined the Symbolics Graphics division where he directed special projects including the HDTV short films “The Little Death” (1989) and “Virtually Yours” (1991). After leaving Symbolics he was Creative Director for 3D Graphics at The Post Group in Los Angeles, where he designed and directed computer animation. Matt has annually spoken at Siggraph, and other conferences internationally, since 1989 on the topics of 3D character animation and associated systems. 

SIGGRAPH 1989

Matt Elson studied computer graphics at NYIT and practiced production at Teletronics. He works in New York and is currently the stall artist at Symbolics Graphics Division, where he is completing a short movie featuring fully animated humanistic characters.  

 

Conference Contributions

Experiences

Emerging Technologies

Hellraiser And Icebreaker
SIGGRAPH 1995
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Entry #: 02

Learning

Courses

1995 15 Cover Making Multimedia From Vaporware to Goldrush
Making Multimedia: From Vaporware to Goldrush
SIGGRAPH 1995
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Entry #: 15
1994 09 Cover Character Animation Systems
Character Animation Systems
SIGGRAPH 1994
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Entry #: 09
1993 01 Course Cover RES Character Motion Systems
Character Motion Systems
SIGGRAPH 1993
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Entry #: 01
1990 10 Cover Character Animation By Computer
Character Animation By Computer
SIGGRAPH 1990
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Entry #: 10
1990 26 State of the Art in Facial Animation
State of the Art in Facial Animation
SIGGRAPH 1990
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Entry #: 26
1989 09 Cover Introduction to Computer Animation
Introduction to Computer Animation
SIGGRAPH 1989
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Entry #: 09

Panels

2002 Panels 07 Animation's Turning Tide
Animation's Turning Tide
SIGGRAPH 2002
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Entry #: 07
1991 Panel 04 Making Virtual Artificial or Real Computer Art
Making Virtual, Artificial, or Real Computer Art
SIGGRAPH 1991
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Entry #: 04

Talks-Sketches

2004 Talks: Elson_Making The Leap - Cross-training 2D Artists into 3D
Making The Leap: Cross-training 2D Artists into 3D
SIGGRAPH 2004
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