Darin Kyoichi Grant
About Darin Kyoichi Grant
- Affiliations
- Method Studios
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 2022
I am the group CTO at Animal Logic, the preeminent animation and VFX studio in Australia and Vancouver. Having graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a degree in computer science, I went on to work for several companies within the industry across all aspects of production and technology. Over 25 years, I have held a variety of senior positions as a technologist focusing on both visual effects and animation. I have volunteered my time to SIGGRAPH since 2001 as a juror, program chair, and advisor, including the Computer Animation Festival in 2003 and the SIGGRAPH Asia Business Symposium in 2014. Though working in the Australian time zone, I live in Los Angeles with my son and dog.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2003: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Computer Animation Festival – Electronic Theater
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2014: Business Symposium
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2002: Computer Animation Festival
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2004: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Studio
- SIGGRAPH 2002: Sketches and Applications
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2001: Sketches and Applications
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2011: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Courses
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Classes
- Reviewer
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Sketches
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
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- Sessions Moderated
- “Monsters vs. Stereo: How Stereo Affected Production on “Monsters vs. Aliens”” by Bielenberg, Ramasubramanian, McNally and Shiba
- “High-Dynamic-Range Photography, Global Illumination, and Mental Ray on a Commercial Budget and Timeline” by Goldberg and Lemmon
- “Rendering Pepe with Global Illumination” by Fajardo, Lara, Puertolas, Oliva and Rueda
- “Linux for the Production Pipeline” by Wike
- “Creating Tools For PlayStation2 Game Development” by Rose and Brown
- “Image-Based Photometric Reconstruction for Mixed Reality” by Gibson, Howard and Hubbold
- “A Real-Time High Dynamic Range Light Probe” by Waese and Debevec
- “Light Stage 2.0” by Hawkins, Cohen, Tchou and Debevec
- “HDR Shop” by Tchou and Debevec
- “Shader analytical approximations for terrain animation in The Time Machine” by Gibson
- “Evolution of a VFX voxel tool” by Kapler and Flores
- “Star fields in 2D” by Giannakouros
- “Interruptible rendering” by Woolley, Luebke and Watson
- “Improving frameless rendering by focusing on change” by Dayal, Watson and Luebke
- “Real-time image-space outlining for non-photorealistic rendering” by Mitchell, Brennan and Card
- “Probabilistically placing primitives” by Secord and Heidrich
Other Information
- Roles
- Business Symposium Organizing Committee Chair
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Production Session Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Reviewer
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