Listen to Alvy Ray Smith on Radio New Zealand just after 10am this morning, ahead of his New Zealand tour next week. Details below on how you can purchase tickets ($39). From Radio New Zealand.....Alvy Ray Smith is one of the pioneers of the computer graphics industry. His work with computers started with the very birth of the personal computer in the 1960s, and the development of the computer graphics tools which revolutionised the way we watch films. He directed the first computer graphics sequence in a motion picture, the Genesis sequence from Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan in 1982. He went on to direct the worlds first computer animated short film in 1984 - The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. He also went on to found Pixar with Ed Catmull. He talks to Kathryn Ryan about his career and what the future holds for CGI. He will be visiting New Zealand in early December as a guest of the US Embassy and Auckland University of Technology to deliver a lecture Technology & entertainment: From pixel to Pixar and beyond. Radio New Zealand link: radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:14:28 +0000
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