Jim Houston, a senior engineer who was a pioneer in motion imaging standards, computer animation, and digital restoration, died at age 61 Thursday in Pasadena from a heart attack. His death was announced by the Hollywood Section of Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (Smpte),
Houston worked for 34 years for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pacific Title & Art, Walt Disney Feature Animation and, since February of this year, Samsung Research America. He won two Academy Awards for Scientific and Engineering Achievement.
“Jim made a profound impact on Smpte and the industry in general,” said Smpte Hollywood Section Chair Brian Gaffney. “He was a founding member of the Academy Color Encoding System (Aces) committee. He wrote influential...
Houston worked for 34 years for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pacific Title & Art, Walt Disney Feature Animation and, since February of this year, Samsung Research America. He won two Academy Awards for Scientific and Engineering Achievement.
“Jim made a profound impact on Smpte and the industry in general,” said Smpte Hollywood Section Chair Brian Gaffney. “He was a founding member of the Academy Color Encoding System (Aces) committee. He wrote influential...
- 3/27/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Wendy Aylsworth, Rob Bredow, Douglas Greenfield, Rob Hummel and Bev Pasterczyk have accepted invitations to join the Science And Technology Council of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.
The new members will raise the council’s 2013–2014 roster to 25.
Aylsworth is svp of technology for Warner Brothers Technical Operations and became an Academy member-at-large in 2012.
Bredow is Cto and visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Animation, Colorworks and Post Production and has been a member of the visual effects branch since 2011.
Greenfield has been at the forefront of innovations in cinema sound for more than 30 years and is currently senior director of content services at Dolby Laboratories. He is a returning member of the council and previously served for nine years starting in 2003.
Hummel began his career at Technicolor Laboratories and joined Douglas Trumbull’s visual effects company during the making of Blade Runner. He too is a returning member of the council and previously...
The new members will raise the council’s 2013–2014 roster to 25.
Aylsworth is svp of technology for Warner Brothers Technical Operations and became an Academy member-at-large in 2012.
Bredow is Cto and visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Animation, Colorworks and Post Production and has been a member of the visual effects branch since 2011.
Greenfield has been at the forefront of innovations in cinema sound for more than 30 years and is currently senior director of content services at Dolby Laboratories. He is a returning member of the council and previously served for nine years starting in 2003.
Hummel began his career at Technicolor Laboratories and joined Douglas Trumbull’s visual effects company during the making of Blade Runner. He too is a returning member of the council and previously...
- 10/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Las Vegas -- 4K is a pervasive topic this week at the Nab Show, but hang on: The 8K flavor of Ultra HD -- representing a whopping 16 times the picture resolution as today’s HD -- is also generating discussion on some panels. Jim Houston, principal of Starwatcher Digital and AMPAS Scitech Council member, even predicted that it would be as easy to accommodate 8K 120 frames per second in a decade as it is do 2K today. “Manufacturers are working toward that goal,” he said during a session at the Nab Technology Summit on Cinema. To illustrate the difference in file sizes,
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- 4/7/2013
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Thad Beier, Elizabeth Cohen, Don Hall and Jim Houston have accepted invitations to join the Academy’s Science and Technology Council. From the Academy’s press release: Beier, the head of CG at Digital Domain, was awarded an Academy Technical Achievement Award (shared) in 1998 for the design and implementation of the ras_track tracking software, a device which allows the user to determine the position and location of the camera and objects in a scene by tracking points in scanned sequence. Beier has been a member of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch since 1999. Founder of Cohen Acoustical Inc. in 1982, Cohen’s work is focused [...]...
- 11/25/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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