Anthony (Tony) Apodaca

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):

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.

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Courses, SIGGRAPH 2005

Learning Category: Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses ]
RenderMan in Production Organizer(s): [Gritz]
Presenter(s): [Gritz ] [Apodaca ] [Quaroni ] [Bredow ] [Goldman ] [Landis ] [Pharr ]
Entry No.: [16 ]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]

Type: [Courses ]
Advanced RenderMan 3 Organizer(s): [Gritz]
Presenter(s): [Gritz ] [Apodaca ] [Bjorke ] [Pharr ] [Hery ] [Treweek ]
Entry No.: [48 ]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]

Type: [Courses ]
Advanced RenderMan 2: To RI_INFINITY and Beyond Organizer(s): [Gritz]
Presenter(s): [Gritz ] [Apodaca ] [Prater ] [Bredow ] [Lancaster ]
Entry No.: [40 ]
[SIGGRAPH 2000]

Type: [Courses ]
Advanced RenderMan: Beyond the Companion Organizer(s): [Gritz]
Presenter(s): [Gritz ] [Apodaca ] [Barzel ] [Epps ] [Hanson ] [Johnston ]
Entry No.: [25 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]

Type: [Courses ]
Advanced RenderMan: Beyond the Companion Organizer(s): [Apodaca]
Presenter(s): [Apodaca ] [Barzel ] [Gritz ] [Durr ] [Johnston ]
Entry No.: [11 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]

Type: [Courses ]
Using Renderman in Animation Production Organizer(s): [Apodaca]
Presenter(s): [Apodaca ] [Gritz ] [Jacob ] [Letteri ] [Poon ] [Turner ]
Entry No.: [04 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]

Type: [Courses ]
Writing Renderman Shaders Organizer(s): [Apodaca] [Peachey]
Presenter(s): [Apodaca ] [Peachey ] [Porter ] [Sayre ] [Smyrl ]
Entry No.: [21 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1992]

Type: [Courses ]
The RenderMan Interface and Shading Language Organizer(s): [Apodaca]
Presenter(s): [Apodaca ] [Beffrey ] [Hanrahan ] [Peachey ] [Upstill ]
Entry No.: [21 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]

Type: [Courses ]
The Renderman Interface and Shading Language Organizer(s): [Apodaca]
Presenter(s): [Apodaca ] [Beffrey ] [Dippe ] [Hanrahan ] [Peachey ] [Upstill ]
Entry No.: [18 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1990]

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