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About Natalya Tatarchuk

Affiliations

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
Bungie, Inc.
Activision Publishing
Microsoft

Location

Kirkland, Washington, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2025

Natalya Tatarchuk is a graphics engineer and rendering enthusiast at heart, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Activision Publishing. In this role, she leads the technology strategy and execution across major Activision franchises—including Call of Duty—driving innovation at the intersection of cutting-edge tech and game development at scale. Previously, Natalya was Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, VP of Wētā Tools at Unity, where she advanced state-of-the-art rendering, graphics performance, and character creation tools for film and games. Before that, as VP of Graphics for the Unity Editor and Engine, she led Unity’s graphics initiatives across the real-time rendering stack. Prior to Unity, she was a AAA game developer at Bungie, where she contributed to the visual innovation and cross-platform rendering of Destiny, and earlier, the Halo series—including Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach.Earlier in her career, she worked at AMD’s Graphics Products Group, where she pushed the boundaries of parallel computing and explored advanced real-time graphics techniques, graphics hardware design, and next-generation API development.

SIGGRAPH 2023

Natalya Tatarchuk (@mirror2mask) is a graphics engineer and a rendering enthusiast at heart, currently focusing on driving the state-of-the-art rendering technology, graphics performance, and character content creation in her role as a Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, VP, Wētā Tools at Unity. Prior to that, she led the graphics team at Unity, as VP of Graphics for the Unity Editor and Engine. Before that she was a AAA games developer, working on innovative cross-platform rendering engine and game graphics for Bungie’s Destiny franchise, as well the Halo series, such as “Halo: ODST” and “Halo: Reach,” and AMD Graphics Products Group where she pushed parallel computing boundaries investigating advanced real-time graphics techniques, and graphics hardware design and APIs. Natalya has been encouraging sharing in the games graphics community for several decades, largely by organizing a popular series of courses such as Advances in Real-time Rendering, Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering, and Rendering Engine Architecture at SIGGRAPH and convincing people to speak there. It seems to be working.

SIGGRAPH 2018

Natalya Tatarchuk (@mirror2mask) is a graphics engineer and a rendering enthusiast. As the Director of Global Graphics at Unity Technologies, she is focusing on driving the state-of-the-art rendering technology and graphics performance for the Unity engine. Previously she was the Graphics Lead and an Engineering Architect at Bungie, working on innovative cross-platform rendering engine and game graphics for BungieâĂŹs Destiny franchise. Before moving into game development full-time, Natalya was a graphics software architect and a lead in the Game Computing Application Group at AMD Graphics Products Group (Office of the CTO) where she pushed parallel computing boundaries investigating advanced real-time graphics techniques. Natalya has been encouraging sharing in the games graphics community for several decades, largely by organizing a popular series of courses such as Advances in Realtime Rendering and the Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering at SIGGRAPH. She has also published papers and articles at various computer graphics conferences and technical book series, and has presented her work at graphics and game developer conferences worldwide. Natalya holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Harvard University with a focus in Computer Graphics and B.A. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Boston University.

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Committee Member

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: Courses

Conference Contributions

Learning

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2025 Course_Tatarchuk_Advances in Realtime Rendering in Games 1
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part II
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part I
SIGGRAPH 2024
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II
SIGGRAPH 2024
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering Part I
SIGGRAPH 2023
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2022 Courses Tatarchuk_Advances in real-time rendering in games part I
Advances in real-time rendering in games: part I
SIGGRAPH 2022
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2022 Courses Tatarchuk_Advances in real-time rendering in games part II
Advances in real-time rendering in games: part II
SIGGRAPH 2022
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2022 Courses Tatarchuk_Advances in real-time rendering in games part III
Advances in real-time rendering in games: part III
SIGGRAPH 2022
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2022 Courses: Cozzi_Building the open metaverse: part I
Building the open metaverse: part I
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2019 23 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 1
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 1
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2019 24 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 2
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2
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2019 25 Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
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2018 20 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 1
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 1
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2015 5 Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part II
Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part I
SIGGRAPH 2015
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2015 6 An Overview of Next-Generation Graphics APIs
Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part II
SIGGRAPH 2015
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2015 12 Bullet-Physics Simulation
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
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2014 10 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part I
SIGGRAPH 2014
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2014 11 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II
SIGGRAPH 2014
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2014 15 Character Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Destiny
Character Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Destiny
SIGGRAPH 2014
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2013 12 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I
SIGGRAPH 2013
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2012 19 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part I
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2012 21 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part II
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part II
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2011 8 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 2
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2
SIGGRAPH 2011
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2011 5 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part I
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2010 15 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I
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2010 17 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II
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2009 01 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I
SIGGRAPH 2009
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2009 04 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II
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2008 Course Cover 03 Advances in Real Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games Part 1
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games: Part 1
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2008 Course Cover 04 Advances in Real Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games Part 2
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games: Part 2
SIGGRAPH 2008
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Frontiers

2020 SA_Bargteil_A Conversation With…
A Conversation With…
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
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Keynotes

2023 Featured Speaker: Natalya Tatarchuk
Sponsored by Unity Technologies: Assisted Artistry Unleashed: Powering the Future of Film and Real-Time 3D With Unity Wētā Tools
SIGGRAPH 2023
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Panels

The Present and Future of Real-Time Graphics in Film
SIGGRAPH 2018
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Production Sessions

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Creating Content to Drive Destiny’s Investment Game: One Solution to Rule Them All
SIGGRAPH 2014
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Talks-Sketches

2005 Talks: Tatarchuk_Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping
Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping
SIGGRAPH 2005
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2004 Talks: Tatarchuk_RenderMonkey: An Effective Environment for Shader Prototyping and Development
RenderMonkey: an effective environment for shader prototyping and development
SIGGRAPH 2004
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Technical Papers

2015 SA Technical Papers_He_A System for Rapid, Automatic Shader Level-of-Detail
A system for rapid, automatic shader level-of-detail
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
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Courses Organized

“Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games” by Evans, Wenzel, Oat, Sander and Mitchell
“Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games” by Oat, Mitchell, Green, Andersson, Mittring, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II” by Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I” by Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I” by Ownby, Hall, Hall, Einarsson, Martin, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games II” by Vlachos, Lauritzen, Salvi, Kihl, Hable, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2” by White, Barré-Brisebois, Lazarov, Fillipov, Malan, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part I” by Chen, Hall, Hall, Edwards, Evans, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part I” by Malan, Hennessy, Yang, Bowles, Acton, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part II” by Mittring, Hill, Baker, Edwards and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I” by Salvi, Persson, Olsson and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part I” by Karis, Drobot, Schulz, Mader, Jimenez, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II” by Bezrati, Valient, Brainerd, Wronski, Sikachev, et al. …
“Character Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Destiny” by Burke, Sanocki, Jones and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part I” by Hillaire, Stachowiak, Schneider, Bowles, Zimmerman, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part II” by Pettineo, Wright, Haar, Aaltonen, Evans, et al. …
“Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering” by Lefohn, Salvi, Fatahalian, Andersson and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part I” by Jimenez, Jiang, Gonzalez-Ochoa, Xu, El-Garawany, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part II” by Jimenez, Jiang, Gonzalez-Ochoa, Xu, El-Garawany, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part I” by Shneider, Bowles, Sloan, Iwanicki and Jimenez
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering, Part II” by Cichocki, Ishiyama, de Carpentier, Krebbers, Whitley, et al. …
“Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering” by Lefohn, Lagarde, Salvi, Barré-Brisebois and Lauritzen
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 1” by McAllister, Chan, Abadie and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part 2” by Lagarde, Golubev, McGuire, Heitz and Hill
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 1” by McAuley, Benyoub, Tafuri, Uralsky and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2” by Feeley, Bowles, Bauer and Tatarchuk
“Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering” by Lefohn, Pharr, Karis, Kelly, Wyman, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II” by Vance, Etienne, Hillaire, de Rousiers, Jimenez, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering Part I” by Aaltonen, Schneider, Zirr and Tatarchuk
“Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering” by Lefohn, McGuire, Foley, Fatahalian, Aila, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part I” by Iwanicki, Taylor, Cao and Tatarchuk
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games, Part II” by Vance, Apers, Roughton, Benyoub, Dupuy, et al. …
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part I” by Tatarchuk, Drobot, Leblanc, Conte and Kulikov
“Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part II” by Tatarchuk, Narkowicz, Costa, Lempiäinen, Zhang, et al. …

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