Davide Pesare
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SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014
Davide Pesare is a Lead Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios with credits on Toy Story 3, Monsters University and several shorts. His specialty, as an artist, is shading, painting, rendering and lighting, while he has been developing software to support artists on all the same disciplines. He was deeply involved in the physically based technologies used in all shows at Pixar since Monsters University. Davide has worked on Visual Effects productions in the UK and Australia, with credits on Harry Potter 5 and 6, Narnia 2, Happy Feet, 300, Sweeney Todd, and several others. While he earned his Master Degree in virtual reality and multimedia in Madrid, Spain and Turin, Italy, his background touched on telecom technology as well as video-games, and industrial lighting, camera and projections as well as laser shows in night clubs and fashion events.
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013
Davide Pesare has been working in the game, visual effects and animation industry for about 11 years. After joining Pixar in 2008, he contributed to Toy Story 3, Monsters University and The Good Dinosaur, as well as the Research on new looks development and the shorts La Luna, Moon Mater and The Blue Umbrella. His work has been focused on Lighting, Shading, Compositing and Rendering as well as painting tools.
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