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| Making of the "Matrix" |
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Tuesday 9.3.2004, 16:30-19:00 |
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Taub Building Auditorium 1, Technion |
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Speaker: |
George Borshukov,Visual Effects Technology Supervisor,
ESC Entertainment/Warner Bros |
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Subject: |
The Making of the "Matrix":
A New Dimension in Visual Effects |
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Sponsor: |
mental images® |
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 mental images®
mental images®, founded in 1986, is the recognized international leader in providing rendering software to the entertainment, computer-aided design, and other industries that require sophisticated images. The company's main product is the high performance photorealistic rendering software mental ray® which was released in 1989 and has been used in the production of more than 130 major motion pictures, including such recent blockbusters as "Matrix Reloaded" and "Matrix Revolutions", the "Harry Potter" series, "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", "Hulk," and "Terminator III." Leading visual effects companies and studios, such as Industrial Light and Magic, ESC Entertainment and DreamWorks are among mental images's largest customers.
mental images GmbH is a privately held company based in Berlin, Germany, with a wholly owned subsidiary mental images, Inc. in San Francisco, California.
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George Borshukov
George Borshukov is the Visual Effect (VFX) Technology Supervisor at ESC Entertainment and recently completed work on "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions". He is a recipient of an Academy Scientific and Technical Achievement Award "for the development of a system for image-based rendering", and have recently recieved a Visual Effect Society Award for the development and application of the Universal Capture facial photography technique.
Borshukov began his career in visual effects in the R&D team of the Academy Award winning film "What Dreams May Come". He served as the Technical Designer for the "Bullet Time" sequences in "The Matrix".
George studied computer graphics and computer vision at the University of California at Berkeley.
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