Ron Brinkmann a visual effects

Visual effects

Visual effects are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects involve the integration of live-action footage and generated imagery to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or...

 supervisor and a founding employee of Sony Imageworks

Sony

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. While there he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

*2010 - Inception - Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb**Alice in Wonderland - Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Sean Phillips and Carey Villegas**Black Swan - Dan Schrecker...

 for his work on the movie Speed. He later co-founded Nothing Real

Nothing Real

Nothing Real L.L.C, founded in October 1996 by Allen Edwards and Arnaud Hervas, developed high-end digital effects software for the feature film, broadcast and interactive gaming industries. Apple Inc...

, a software company that produced the digital compositing

Digital compositing

Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display...

 application Shake

Shake (software)

Shake is a discontinued image compositing package used in the post-production industry. Shake was widely used in visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. Shake exposes its node graph architecture graphically. It enables complex image processing sequences to be designed...

. Nothing Real was acquired in 2002 by Apple

Apple Computer

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Brinkmann is also the author of the book, 'The Art and Science of Digital Compositing' (ISBN 0-12-133960-2).

He is a regular guest in the podcast 'This Week in Photography

This Week in Photography

This Week in Photography is a weekly photography podcast. TWiP recorded its first show at the MacWorld Expo in 2008 launching on January 28, 2008, and is consistently ranked as the #1 photography podcast on iTunes. The show is co-hosted by Frederick Van Johnson and Alex Lindsay with contributors...

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