Anthony Apodaca
About Anthony Apodaca
- Also Known As
- Tony Apodaca
- Affiliations
- Pixar Animation Studios, Senior Engineer
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 1995
Tony Apodaca is the Director of Render Man R&D at Pixar. Tony is co-developer and reigning Chief Architect of the Render Man Interface Specification. He is also one of the Unknown Implementers of all of Pixar’ s image synthesis products, both famous and infamous. Tony received his Master’s degree in Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. His screen credits include Tin Toy and knickknack, but unfortunately not Jurassic Park.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Tony Apodaca is a Senior Engineer and Project Manager in the RenderMan Division at Pixar. Tony is co-developer and reigning Chief Architect of the RenderMan Interface Specification. He is also one of the Unknown Implementers of Pixar’s image synthesis products. Tony received his Master’s degree in Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. His screen credits include Tin Toy and knickknack, but not Terminator 2.
SIGGRAPH 1990
Tony Apodaca is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the RenderMan Division of Pixar. Tony is a co-developer of the RenderMan Interface Specification and currently serves as the Chief Architect of the Render Man Interface. He is one of the Unknown Implementers of both of Pixar’s image synthesis products. He received his Master’s degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. His screen credits include Red’s Dream and Tin Toy.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
- Competitions Participated
- Presentations
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- Courses Organized
- “The Renderman Interface and Shading Language” Chaired by Anthony (Tony) Apodaca
- “The RenderMan Interface and Shading Language” by Apodaca, Beffrey, Hanrahan, Peachey and Upstill
- “Writing Renderman Shaders” by Apodaca, Peachey, Porter, Sayre and Smyrl
- “Using Renderman in Animation Production” by Apodaca, Gritz, Jacob, Letteri, Poon, et al. …
- “Advanced RenderMan: Beyond the Companion” by Apodaca, Barzel, Gritz, Durr and Johnston
Other Information
- Roles
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Competition Participant
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Courses Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Courses Organizing Committee Member
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