If you’ve seen “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and marveled at the fantastic shader and colors, then you can thank Danny Damian (amongst many others). From humble Romanian origins, he’s risen to a star inside Imageworks for his computer programming and graphics knowledge, and discusses it all with CGSociety.
“I was really excited to have the opportunity to use a GI [global illumination] renderer in such a creative way,” he says. “We did a lot of exploration into how to do highly choreographed, artistic work with a ray tracer, to constantly shape it to do what we wanted to do, to manage the rays to shape the light the way we wanted. The art director was particular about hues, ranges and colors inside and outside, so we provided more creative control in shaders and lighting that you might expect.”
