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Expertise

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Video Games, Animation and Visual Effects Technology and Software

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Created a year ago in Technology / Software Development

I have 35 years of expertise in the entertainment software industry, where I have pioneered technologies like motion capture, virtual production and digital character development.
I have supervised several films, such as Superman Returns and The Polar Express and made significant developments for others, such as Avatar: The Way of Water, Spiderman 1,2 & 3, Shrek, Harry Potter, and many others. I have also developed several systems for video game development.
Among the tools that I have developed are animation systems for body and face, deformations, AI data generation, facial recognition and tracking, geometry acquisition and real-time tools.
I have created a large number of applications for different platforms, such as Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and embedded platforms, such as NVidia Jetson.
I served as an expert witness for the plaintiff in Rearden vs Disney in 2023.

alberto menache

Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Alberto Menache is a technology consultant for various industries, including visual effects, film, videogames, AI, and others, with clients including Lightstorm Entertainment, Electronic Arts and Sony. He served as Digital FX Supervisor at Imageworks and Character Technology Supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks, and was the founder of TSi, where he created the first commercially available Performance Capture Solver and the first captured character for a videogame (Soul Edge). In 2008 Alberto created the first real-time Virtual Production pipeline. He has also designed several VFX and animation pipelines. Other innovations include volumetric character deformation, muscle-based facial animation, markerless real-time facial tracking, digital human acquisition, wireless simulcam, etc. Alberto has supervised digital effects for several films, including The Polar Express, Superman Returns and the Oscar winning short The Chubb-Chubbs. He wrote, among other books, the defining textbook on Motion Capture. Alberto holds several patents on various innovations.

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