March 01, 2004
IMSC Student Council Presents Speaker Series VI
The IMSC Student Council Presents Speaker Series VI - "Special Effects R&D Topics", held on Friday, 5 March, 12:00pm-1:00pm in SAL 101.
In this talk, J.P. Lewis will mention some issues and trends in motion picture special effects, and relate these problems to research projects at IMSC. Topics will include virtual actors, face tracking and computer vision, and software development.
J.P. Lewis is a research associate in the IMSC Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology Lab. He has software R&D credits on films including The Matrix Reloaded, Forrest Gump, and 102 Dalmatians.
Everyone is welcome, and there will be free pizza and soda!
(And for my usual editorial comment, J.P. Lewis is an amazing guy, who worked as the director of software R&D at Disney's Dream Quest Images/The Secret Lab before coming to USC, and at Industrial Light and Magic even before that, and speaks to a lot of groups, including the local USC Linux Users Group.)
Posted by jason.scott at March 1, 2004 09:56 AM
