October 1, 2019 9:00am MCLT101

Abstract: This talk gives an overview of how modern digital image synthesis has evolved, in terms of the physical models to be solved, the mathematical approaches used, and explains some of the things that Weta currently finds challenging and some of the open problems. Heavy mathematics is avoided; mostly, pictures will speak for themselves.

Bio: Dr. Droske manages a team of researchers and engineers developing in-house rendering technology used in all ongoing movie production. Previously, he was a Senior Rendering Software Engineer at NVIDIA and Research Mathematician and Software Engineer at Mental Images. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Duisburg-Essen.