Ron Brinkmann

An occasional supervisor in the visual effects and animation world, Ron Brinkmann is the author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, which is regarded as a standard reference book in the visual effects industry.

One of the founding employees of Sony Pictures Imageworks, he was also part of the initial design and development team that produced the digital compositing application Shake (subsequently acquired by Apple). Brinkmann continued at Apple for a while, working on, among other things, their photo-management software Aperture.

Mr. Brinkmann frequently speaks at seminars on the topics of visual effects, photography, digital filmmaking and general technology, having given talks in Europe, China, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Japan and India (and several less-interesting locations).

He blogs, sporadically, at www.digitalcomposting.com and can be found on twitter at www.twitter.com/ronbrinkmann