Agraphic researcher and developer,and the co-creator of the Render Manrendering software.
Biography
A software programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s and was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia. He designed and created the computer game D/Generation and was technical director. RednerMan Co-creator and Developer of D/Generation Computer Game
A computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the Render Manrendering software.
His contributions are considered to be highly influential in the field of animated arts.He takes up Bachelor of Science in
Physics and finished I at Duke University, N.C. by the year of 1973.And finished M.S. in computer graphics in year 1991 at
Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y.Cook was born in Knoxville,Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University.
While at Cornell, Cook worked with Donald P. Greenberg.Robert Cook was the co creator and primary author of Pixar’s RenderMan software.
Which creates photo-realistic computer images.In 2001, he and two colleagues received Oscars for
their contributions, the first ever given for software.In the last 16 years, every film nominated for a
Visual Effects Academy Award has used RenderMan.He has a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Duke University
and a Master’s degree in Computer Graphics from Cornell University.At Cornell, he worked on simulating realistic
surfaces, taking computer-generated images beyond the distinctive plastic look they had at the time.In 1981,
he joined Lucasfilm/Pixar, where he developed the first as well as high-end renderers.He was the first to use
Monte Carlo techniques in computer graphics, particularly important in the special effects industry, because it a
allowed computer-generated imagery to match the motion blur and depth of field of the live-action footage with which
it was combined.In 1987, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in recognition of
lifetime contributions to the field.In 1999,
he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Rob Cook was one of the co-creator of the said Software where he works in Pixar Animation Studios as a Vice President of Software engineering.And guess what, RenderMan was the first software product to be awarded by Oscars.Some Hollywood blockbuster movies such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Termination 2: Judgement Day, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Avatar. Titanic, The Star Wars Prequels and The Lord of the Rings. Robert cook as of now is retired and living in San Fransisco, California with his wife and son.In year 2016 at the month of November he became the commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service of the US General Services Administration.
Rob Cook received an award in ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the fields of computer and visual effects in 1987.In 1999, he received an award in Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2001, he received an Academy Award of Merit (Oscar) “for significant advancements to the field of motion picture rendering as exemplified in Pixar’s RenderMan”. In 2009, he received the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.
Robert cook as of now is retired and living in San Fransisco, California with his wife and son. In year 2016 at the month of November he became the commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service of the US General Services Administration.
At present
Robert cook as of now is retired and living in San Fransisco, California with his wife and son. In year 2016 at the month of November he became the commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service of the US General Services Administration.