Bill Polson
About Bill Polson
Affiliations (Current and Past)
- Pixar Animation Studios, Independent Consultant
- PipeGadget
Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Bill Polson is the head of production engineering at Pixar. Prior to this position, he was Pixar’s supervising technical director of short films. In that capacity, he planned and supervised all the technical work on the above films, as well as a dozen other short projects for DVD release, etc.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
Learning
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Courses
Dailies
Panels
Production Sessions
Sessions Moderated
- “Rapid avatar capture and simulation using commodity depth sensors” by Feng, Shapiro, Ruizhe, Li, Bolas, et al. …
- “Live real-time animation leveraging machine learning and game engine technology” by Corazza, Piña and Gambaretto
- “Alternative strategies for runtime facial motion capture” by Siddek
- “Real-time motion capture of the human tongue” by Farrar, Balasubramanian and Eubanks
- “Data Mining for Effective Render Farm Management” by Wood-Gaines and Grant
- “Environment Rendering Optimization for Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur” by Garcia, Quílez, Dixon, Fedorov, Kuruc, et al. …
- “Progressive Render Checkpoint Workflows in Production” by Harvill, Kensler and Laur
- “TaskProcessor: A Pipeline Execution Framework and IDE” by Staeubli and McGuire
Courses Organized
- “Building Blocks for Making 3D Pipelines” by Polson
Other Information
Roles
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Presenter
- Dailies Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Production Session Presenter
- Production Sessions Organizing Committee Chair
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
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