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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wrote most of this topic during the 2010-11 academic year while on sabbatical
from theDepartment of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Thanks to Kim Boyer, David Rosowsky, and Robert Palazzo for
their support. Thanks to my graduate students at the time — Eric Ameres, Siqi Chen,
David Doria, Linda Rivera, and Ziyan Wu — for putting up with an out-of-the-office
advisor for a year.
Many thanks to the visual effects artists and practitioners who generously shared
their time and expertise withme during my trip to Los Angeles in June 2011. At LOOK
Effects, Michael Capton, Christian Cardona, Jenny Foster, David Geoghegan, Buddy
Gheen, Daniel Molina, and Gabriel Sanchez. At Rhythm & Hues, Shish Aikat, Peter
Huang, and Marty Ryan. At Cinesite, Shankar Chatterjee. At Digital Domain, Nick
Apostoloff, Thad Beier, Paul Lambert, Rich Marsh, Som Shankar, Blake Sloan, and
GeoffWedig. Inparticular, thanks toDoug Roble at Digital Domain for taking somuch
time to discuss his experiences and structuremy visit. Special thanks to PamHogarth
at LOOK Effects and Tim Enstice at Digital Domain for organizing my trip. Extra
special thanks to Steve Chapman at Gentle Giant Studios for his hospitality during
my visit, detailed comments on Chapter
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, and many behind-the-scenes images of
3D scanning.
This topic contains many behind-the-scenes images frommovies, which wouldn't
have beenpossiblewithout the cooperationandpermissionof several people. Thanks
to Andy Bandit at Twentieth Century Fox, Eduardo Casals and Shirley Manusiwa
at adidas International Marketing, Steve Chapman at Gentle Giant Studios, Erika
Denton at Marvel Studios, Tim Enstice at Digital Domain, Alexandre Lafortune at
Oblique FX, Roni Lubliner at NBC/Universal, Larry McCallister and Ashelyn Valdez
at Paramount Pictures, Regan Pederson at Summit Entertainment, Don Shay at Cine-
fex, and Howard Schwartz at Muhammad Ali Enterprises. Thanks also to Laila Ali,
Muhammad Ali, Russell Crowe, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hiddleston, Ken Jeong, Dar-
ren Kendrick, Shia LaBeouf, Isabel Lucas, Michelle Monaghan, and Andy Serkis for
approving the use of their likenesses.
At RPI, thanks to JonMatthis for his time and assistance withmy trip to themotion
capture studio, and to Noah Schnapp for his character rig. Many thanks to the stu-
dents in my fall 2011 class “Computer Vision for Visual Effects” for commenting
on the manuscript, finding errors, and doing all of the homework problems: Nimit
Dhulekar, DavidDoria, TianGao, RanaHanocka, Camilo Jimenez Cruz, Daniel Kruse,
Russell Lenahan, Yang Li, Harish Raviprakash, Jason Rock, Chandroutie Sankar, Evan
Sullivan, and Ziyan Wu.
Thanks to Lauren Cowles, David Jou, and Joshua Penney at Cambridge University
Press and Bindu Vinod at Newgen Publishing and Data Services for their support and
assistance over the course of this topic's conception and publication. Thanks to Alice
Soloway for designing the topic cover.
Special thanks to Aaron Hertzmann for many years of friendship and advice,
detailed comments on the manuscript, and for kindling my interest in this area.
Thanks also to Bristol-Myers Squibb for developing Excedrin, without which this
topic would not have been possible.
