Seminar
"Confessions of a Visual Effects Physicist"
Jerry Tessendorf, Rhythm and Hues Studios
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 4:00 P.M.
Room 368 (CIT 3rd Floor)
Visual effects in films combine computer graphics, applied math, and physics to produce the imagery seen on-screen. In this talk we look at the mixtures that have been assembled for several different film projects, and the (sometimes eccentric) artistic requirements that drove them. We focus on projects involving fluid dynamics in several different forms, in films such as "X-Men 2", "Superman Returns", "Happy Feet", "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", and others.
Dr. Jerry Tessendorf is a Principal Graphics Scientist at Rhythm and Hues Studios, where he develops new methods for artists to construct visual effects for feature films. He has also been a scientist at Arete Associates, performing research in remote sensing and environmental simulation. Dr. Tessendorf received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1984 from Brown University. From 1999-2004 he was a lecturer at the Siggraph course on "Simulating Nature", and he gave the Invited Talk at the Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenonmena in Praque this year.
Host: John Hughes
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