Gary Demos

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Gary Demos Alfred (born on 13. September 1950 in Los Angeles County is) an American , award-winning visual effects - expert for the film industry .

Life

Demos studied at the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology , where he received his B.Sc. made. One of his mentors there was John Whitney, Sr. He dealt with computer-generated images for the film sector, an area that demos should also be interested in.

In the early 1970s he worked as a project-based computer graphic artist for Vector General . He also worked for IBM as a consultant for explanatory films about computers. In this role he also met the professors at the University of Utah Ivan Sutherland and Dave Evans and joined Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation in 1973 . For the latter, he worked on a flight simulator for Lufthansa and NASA, among other things. From 1974 to 1981 he worked with John Whitney, Jr. as a scientist at Information International, Inc. There he developed both hardware and software that generated visual effects for films. The software was used in the films Futureworld and No Mord Off the Rack . In 1981 Demos co-founded Digital Productions with Whitney , which continued until 1986. Then he directed two years, until 1988, again with Whitney Whitney Demos Productions . Demos then founded DemoGraFX , which existed until 2003. In 2005 he founded Image Essence LLC . In 2008 he started working at Lowry Digital . Demos is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Demos lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Awards

Demos has received several awards for its work. In 1985 he and Whitney received an Academy Scientific & Engineering Award , ten years later he shared it with Dan Cameron, David DiFrancesco, Gary Starkweather and Scott Squires. In this case, it was about scanning films for subsequent processing.

The following year, 1996, he and David Ruhoff, Can Cameron and Michelle Feraud received an Oscar for technical merit .

In 2006 Demos received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award , an honorary Oscar.

literature

  • David Chell: Gary Demos. Computer Graphics , in: David Chell: Moviemakers at Work , Redmont, Washington 1987, pp. 245-263. ISBN 1-55615-037-7
  • Gary Demos: My personal history in the early explorations of computer graphics , in: Visual Computer (2005) 21: 961-978. doi : 10.1007 / s00371-005-0360-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rawbw.com/~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?12196
  2. ↑ a b c d e David Chell: Gary Demos. Computer Graphics , in: David Chell: Moviemakers at Work , 1987, pp. 245-263, p. 245.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caltech.edu
  4. ↑ http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/08/gary-demos-joins-lowry-digital/
  5. ^ Gary Demos: My personal history in the early explorations of computer graphics , in: Visual Computer (2005) 21: pp. 961-978, p. 962.
  6. ↑ http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/08/gary-demos-joins-lowry-digital/
  7. ↑ http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/08/gary-demos-joins-lowry-digital/
  8. ↑ a b David Chell: Gary Demos. Computer Graphics , in: David Chell: Moviemakers at Work , 1987, pp. 245-263, p. 246.
  9. ↑ http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/08/gary-demos-joins-lowry-digital/
  10. ↑ http://hollywoodpostalliance.org/?page_id=9979
  11. ↑ http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/08/gary-demos-joins-lowry-digital/
  12. ↑ http://hollywoodpostalliance.org/?page_id=9979
personal data
SURNAME Demos, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demos, Gary Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American visual effects expert
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles County