| 2022 | Received the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award with Pol Jeremias for our decade long work on Shadertoy |
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| 2020 | Co-created "Memix", a video conferencing plugin with shader based filters; later acquired by "mmhmm, inc". |
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| 2016 | Created "Quill", the VR animation tool and production ecosystem (and became its Product Manager). |
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| 2013 | Co-created "Shadertoy.com", the online site for realtime procedural computer graphics. |
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| 2010 | Created "Wondermoss", Pixar's system for procedural terrains, vegetation and foliage (used from Brave to Coco). |
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| 2009 | Co-created "Elevated", the 4 kilobytes realtime procedural terrain demo winner of Breakpoint. |
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| 2013 | Won the Visual Effect Society (VES) award for "Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture" for Brave's forest |
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| 2001-2022 | Given 75+ talks, written 100+ tutorials, created 500+ educational shaders, made 50+ realtime demos, given 25+ workshops. |
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| 2014-2022 | Multiple times Siggraph's Real-Time Live! and Art Gallery jury. |
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| 2010-2012 | On Pixar's "Brave", created, painted, shaded, coded the forest's grass, moss, weeds, bushes, lichens, tree canopies, etc. |
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| 2012 | On Pixar's "Lava", created the island's middle and background trees. |
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| 2013-2015 | On Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur", made the terrains, procedural grass,
moss, bushes, rocks, mulch, river rocks, distant trees. |
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| 2016 | On Oculus Story Studio's "Henry", Emmy winning short, developed fur, eyes and lighting technology. Also did character shading and set lighting work. |
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| 2017 | On Oculus Story Studio's "Dear Angelica", official selection at Sundance, developed innovative visual technology ("Quill") for the film. |
| 2022 - today | At Adobe (San Francisco, California) as Principal Research Engineer. |
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| 2019 - 2022 | Freelancing. |
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| 2016 - 2019 | At Oculus+Facebook (Menlo Park, California) as Product Manager and engineering lead for Quill. |
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| 2015 - 2016 | At Oculus Story studio (San Francisco, California) as Visual Effects Supervisor. |
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| 2009 - 2014 | At Pixar Animation Studios (Emeryville, California), in charge of building the procedural sets for the films, doing the dressing, modeling and shading in the shots as well as creating the software/algorithms and architecture needed to do so, including the low level development. |
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| 2003 - 2009 | At VRcontext (Brussels, Belgium) as VR software engineer, realtime rendering of massive CAD models (billion polygons) in Virtual Reality CAVEs (raytracing and OpenGL). |
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| 2003 | At Trabajos Catastrales, SA (Pamplona, Spain), R+D on color image processing GIS software (256 Megapixels photo correlation and matching). |
| 2022 | "Practitioner Award - Shadertoy" talk at Siggraph, in Vancouver - Canada |
| 2020 | "Shader Rendering Techniques - Exact Solutions for Approximated Problems" talk at Bicfest, in Busan - South Korea |
| 2019 | "Why I create images with Mathematics" keynote speaker at Siggraph Asia, in Brisbane - Australia |
| 2016 | "Discovering the New Frontier of Shadertoy" talk at GTC, in San Jose - California |
| 2016 | "Rendering Challenges in Quill: A VR Sketching Tool" talk at GTC, in San Jose - California |
| 2016 | "Quill: VR Drawing in the Production of Oculus Story Studio's New Movie" talk for Real Time Live!, at Siggraph Anaheim (California - USA) |
| 2016 | "Oculus Quill - A Production Tool for VR" talk for The Art & Science of Immersion, at Siggraph Anaheim (California - USA) |
| 2015 | "Introduction to VR Filmmaking from Oculus Story Studio" talk at Oculus Connect, in LA - California |
| 2015 | "From Feature Animation to VR Story Telling" production lessons from Oculus at Siggraph, in LA - California |
| 2015 | "Environment Rendering Optimization for Pixar's The Good Dinosaur" talk at Siggraph, in LA - California |
| 2015 | "Shadertoy Workshop" at Siggraph, in LA - California |
| 2015 | "Shadertoy: From the Web to Virtual Reality" talk at GTC, in San Jose - California |
| 2014 | "Shadertoy: Learn to Create Everything in a Fragment Shader" course at Siggraph Asia, in Shenzhen - China |
| 2014 | "Do You Know What a Fragment Shader Can Do?" talk at NVidia booth during Siggraph, in Vancouver - Canada |
| 2014 | "Shadertoy Hackathon" course at Siggraph, in Vancouver - Canada |
| 2014 | "New Ideas and Techniques For Creating Real-Time Imagery" talk for NVScene, in San Jose - California |
| 2014 | "Do You Know What a Fragment Shader Can Do?" talk for GTC, in San Jose - California |
| 2013 | "Shadertoy: live coding of reactive shaders" talk for Real Time Live!, at Siggraph Anaheim - California |
| 2012 | "Reactive Visuals" talk for Real Time Live!, at Siggraph LA (California - USA) |
| 2010 | "Formulanimations" seminar, at FITC San Francisco - California |
| 2009 | "Behind Elevated" seminar, at Function 2009, Budapest - Hungary |
| 2009 | "Matimágenes y Formulanimaciones" Universidad Pública de Navarra - Spain |
| 2009 | "The world with two triangles" seminar, at Visionday 2009, Technical University, in Copenhagen - Denmark |
| 2008 | "From abstract to organix", at Function 2008, Budapest - Hungary |
| 2008 | "Rendering worlds with two triangles", at nVision 2008, San Jose - California |
| 2008 | "Making graphics in 4 kilobytes", at Inspire 2008 in Errenteria - Spain |
| 2007 | ""40 años de geometrí a fractal" lecture together with B.Mandelbrot and J.Barrallo, at Universidad del País Vasco in San Sebastián - Spain |
| 2007 | "Matematicas en Movimiento" at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain |
| 2007 | "Mesh encoding for 4k intros", at BCNParty 2007 in Barcelona - Spain |
| 2007 | "Putting Theory into Practice", "State-of-the-art in Massive Model Visualization" tutorial at Siggraph 2007, in San Diego - California |
| 2007 | "Tricks and techniques for rgba's past and future intros", at Breakpoint 2007, Bingen am Rhein - Germany |
| 2006 | "Putting Theory into Practice", "Real Time Interactive Massive Model Visualization" tutorial at Eurographics 2006, Vienna - Austria |
| 2006 | "Mathematics in Movement", workshop at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid - Spain |
| 2022 | Recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award with Pol Jeremias for our decade long work on Shadertoy |
| 2021 | Winner of the "Best Executable Graphics" Meteoriks Awards 2001 |
| 2020 | 1st prize, "4kb executable gfx" at Revision 2020 |
| 2019 | Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica for Shadertoy (Linz - Austria) |
| 2013 | Visual Effect Society (VES) for "Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture" (Los Angeles - California) |
| 2009 | 1st place for "Best 4kb intro" at Scene.org Awards 2009 |
| 2009 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at Breakpoint 2009 (Bingen, Germany) |
| 2008 | 2nd position at Animatu international digital animation festival 2008 (Beja, Portugal) |
| 2008 | Nomination for "Best 4kb intro" at Scene.org Awards 2008 |
| 2008 | 1st prize, "4kb procedural gfx" at Function 2008 (Budapest, Hungary) |
| 2008 | 1st prize, "4kb procedural gfx" at Euskal Encounter 2008 (Barakaldo, Spain) |
| 2008 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at Inspire 2008 (Errenteria, Spain) |
| 2008 | 1st prize, "4kb procedural gfx" at Breakpoint 2008 (Bingen, Germany) |
| 2008 | Nomination for "Realtime Animation" at BitFilem Festival (Germany) |
| 2007 | Nomination for "Best 4kb intro" at Scene.org Awards 2007 |
| 2007 | 4th prize, "4kb procedural gfx" at TUM (Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany) |
| 2007 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at BCNParty 7 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 2007 | 2nd prize, "intro 4kb" at Assembly 2007 (Helsinki, Finland) |
| 2007 | 4th prize, "intro 4kb" at Breakpoint 2007 (Bingen am Rhein, Germany) |
| 2006 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at BCNParty 6 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 2006 | Selected, "Enmpperaltta" painting computation for the international art exposition in honor of Benoit Mandelbrot at ICM 2006. |
| 2005 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 13 (Barakaldo, Spain) |
| 2005 | Nomination for "Best 64kb intro" at Scene.org Awards 2004 |
| 2004 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 12 (Barakaldo, Spain) |
| 2004 | 1st prize, Silicon Graphics & ATI international demo contest |
| 2003 | 3st prize, "Segundo Certamen Nacional de Imágenes Fractales" (Second Spanish Contest on Fractal Images). |
| 2003 | 1st prize, "demo" at BCNParty 3 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 2003 | Nomination for "Breakthrough Performance" at Scene.org Awards 2002 |
| 2002 | 1st prize, "Primer Certamen Nacional de Imágenes Fractales" (First Spanish Contest on Fractal Images). |
| 2002 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at BCNParty 2 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 2001 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at BCNParty 1 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 2001 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at DurangoParty 2 (Durango, Spain) |
| 2001 | 1st prize, "intro 4kb" at EuskalParty 9 (Bilbao, Spain) |
| 2000 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at ArroutadaParty 8 (Acoru༚, Spain) |
| 2000 | 2nd prize, "intro 64kb" at GaliciaNetParty 1 (Santiago, Spain) |
| 1999 | 1st prize, "demo" at ArroutadaParty 7 (Acoru༚, Spain) |
| 1999 | 1st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 7 (Donostia, Spain) |
