By CHRIS McGOWAN
Roblox
US
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Tom Sanocki
Engineering Director for Avatars at Roblox.Formerly Engineering Manager at Facebook AR/VR (Horizons) and CEO of Limitless, VR startup building a platform for believable characters in virtual reality (acquired by Lytro).
Character/Cinematics Tech Art Lead at Bungie, working on realtime cinematics, cloth simulation, social spaces, and characters for Destiny.
11 years as a Character Lead with Pixar; master rigging and character simulation; co-designed and implemented Pixar's next-gen simulation pipeline; rig and master rigged a number of characters, including Mater in Cars and Kevin in Up.
VES award for Outstanding Character Animation in a Feature Animated Film (for Mater in Cars).
Inventor or co-inventor on 5 character-related patents; presentations at SIGGRAPH and GDC.
IMDB profile: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2456062/