Loren C. Carpenter
About Loren C. Carpenter
Affiliations
- The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research
- Pixar Animation Studios, Co-Founder
- The Boeing Company, Boeing Computer Services
Location
- Nicasio, California, United States of America
Website
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/locarpenter/
Bio
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Carpenter
Loren Carpenter was a co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and renders all of Pixar’s movies. Following Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Carpenter became a senior research scientist at Disney Research. He retired in early 2014.
Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 1985 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Carpenter
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
Artworks
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Courses
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Technical Papers
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Awardee
- Computer Animation Director
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Member
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Special Session Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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