Cassidy J. Curtis
About Cassidy J. Curtis
Affiliations
- University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Pacific Data Images (PDI)
- DreamWorks Pictures
- Google LLC, Google Spotlight Stories, Co-creator
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2003
Cassidy Curtis is a character animator at PDI/DreamWorks. He has worked in many other roles at PDI, including character TD (on Shrek), effects animator, and look developer. Prior to that, he worked at Xaos, Inc. and R/Greenberg Associates as an effects developer and animator. He holds a BA in mathematics from Brown University.
In 1997 and 1998, Curtis taught the group-based interdisciplinary animation course founded by David Salesin at the University of Washington. The course brought together a mix of seniors and graduate students from the departments of art, computer science, music, and architecture, culminating in the short films Whose Hat is That? and The Art of Survival, which Curtis directed.
Curtis’s other short films include Brick-a-Brac (1995), The New Chair (1998) and Fishing (look developer, 1999). His previous contributions to SIGGRAPH include “Computer- Generated Watercolor” (paper, 1997), “Loose and Sketchy Animation” (sketch, 1998) and “Non-Photorealistic Animation” (course, 1999).
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
Artworks
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Animations / Videos
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VR Experiences
Learning
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Courses
Education
Production Sessions
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
Web Graphics
Sessions Moderated
- “RainMan: Fluid Pseudodynamics with Probabilistic Control for Stylized Raindrops” by Herman
- “Fast-moving Water in DreamWorks’ Spirit” by Raghavachary and Lindquist
- “Hybrid Ink-Line Rendering in a Production Environment” by Tamstorf, Montoya-Vozmediano, Teece and Dalton
- “Creative Approaches to the Integration of CGI with Traditional Animation in Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”” by Joshi and Hobbs
- “Mosaic for Stackable Objects” by Park
- “Surfaces Paper Illuminated Using Drawings for Strokes” by Murakami, Tsuruno and Genda
- “A Viscous Paint Model for Interactive Applications” by Baxter, Lin and Liu
- “Automatic Image Retargeting” by Setlur, Takagi, Raskar, Gleicher and Gooch
- “Tweaking stylized light and shade” by Anjyo and Wemler
- “Sketch Interface for 3D Modeling of Flowers” by Ijiri, Igarashi, Takahashi and Shibayama
- “SketchPose: Artist-Friendly Posing Tool” by Swain and Duncan
Other Information
Roles
- Art Show Artist
- Computer Animation Director
- Course Presenter
- Education Program Presenter
- Immersive Pavilion (VR Village) Developer
- Production Session Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Web Graphics Presenter
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