Gordon Cameron

Work History

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  Technical Supervisor

  Pixar

  June 2009 - Present

  2014 - 2015 : The Good Dinosaur
  Simulation and Crowds Supervisor
  Responsible for supervising the work of a tremendously talented team of artists and engineers who both developed the technology and process to create a wide range of animated visual elements in the film - vegetation/environmental motion, crowds choreography, flesh and skin simulation atop most of the hero characters, hair and cloth and several other special case elements - then utilized that technology with a custom pipeline to deliver an enormous quantity of high quality simulation work that is present in most shots of the film.
  
  2013 - 2014 : Toy Story That Time Forgot
  Shots Supervisor
  (Global Technology, Crowds, Simulation, FX, Rendering)
  
  2012 - 2013 : Toy Story of Terror!
  Shots Supervisor
  (Global Technology, Simulation, Effects, Rendering)
  
  2009 - 2012 : Brave
  Global Technology, Crowds and Rendering Supervisor
  Responsible for supervising development of many film-specific cross-discipline technologies as well as the development, deployment and support of a new production pipeline. Pre-production and development in areas of pipeline, tools, crowd toolkit implementation, rendering and support.

  
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  Technical Director

  Pixar

  January 2006 - May 2009

  2009 : Toy Story 3
  2008 : Up
  2006 - 2007 : Ratatouille
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  Production Software Engineer

  Pixar

  June 2002 - January 2009

  2008 : Brave
  2007 : WALL:E
  2006 : Ratatouille
  2005 : Cars
  2003 : The Incredibles
  2002 : Finding Nemo
  I've worked as a software engineer, developing tools and technology mainly targeted toward the animation department within the studio, and as technical lead on project within that team. I'm currently working in production developing character technology for future features.

• Development Manager, Project Leader, Developer

  Softimage

  April 1995 - May 2002

  Joined to work as developer on motion capture and virtual theatre applications with Softimage|3D, then moved to be project leader for animation on Softimage's next generation XSI product. Was also lucky enough to work as one of lead engineers on the animation mixer (with Glen Fraser), and with a great many talented individuals both within the tools animation team, and in the field. Latterly, worked as development manager for the interactive toolset on XSI v1.5 and 2.x, trying to help with the release at both tactical and strategic levels. Again, I was lucky to be able to work with a wide range of outrageously talented individuals.
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  Editor

  SIGGRAPH

  March 1995 - March 2001

  Edited SIGGRAPH's Computer Graphics newsletter for 6 years : worked to set up a new roster of columnists and maintain regular focus, trying to present high quality content each issue of interest to both technical and artistic folks, whilst also reworking the format and launching an online presence. Worked with a highly talented production editor and a great staff of freelance writers - here's an example issue : https://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v33n4/index.html

• Software Engineer

  Quadstone

  1994 - 1995

• Visualization Engineer

  Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

  August 1991 - December 1994

  Worked on visualization problems as well as parallel programming on (what were at the time!) supercomputers within the unit. Projects included the Paramics microscopic traffic simulator, as well as being involved in modular visualization environments use & customization (ran a worldwide user group at one point in time, and also guest edited an issue of the Computer Graphics magazine that I would later become editor of)

• Research Assistant - Dept of Artificial Intelligence

  University of Edinburgh

  July 1990 - June 1991

  Worked on the IMAGINEII model invocation and recognition system (computer vision)

• Intern

  DNV (Technica UK)

  May 1989 - September 1989

  I worked in a team building risk analysis software for the oil industry.
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  Pixar

  ? - Present