Terrence Masson is an educator and computer graphics historian with 30 years
of production and education leadership experience. As an animation and visual
effects artist and producer his work includes live action and animated feature and
short animated films, VR/AR, video games and ride films.
His book CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference is a standard text
worldwide for both studio execs and students, now available online at
www.historyofcg.com
Terrence came up through the ranks on more than 20 feature films including
Hook, True Lies, Interview with the Vampire and three Star Wars movies; along
with supervising numerous interactive projects such as SimCity4, Bruce Lee,
Batman Dark Tomorrow and Alter Echo. He developed the original CG
animation method for SouthPark in 1996 and his short film Bunkie & Booboo won
first place in the World Animation Celebration in 1998.
An active volunteer with SIGGRAPH since 1988, Terrence served as 2006
Computer Animation Festival Chair, SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair and
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Awards Chair. Terrence is a member of
the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and a past ACM
Distinguished Lecturer. He has been involved with the View conference since
2010.