Marcos Fajardo

Marcos is the founder of Madrid and London-based Solid Angle, now part of Autodesk, Inc., where he leads the research and development team working on the Arnold path-tracing rendering software. Previously he was a visiting software architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks, a visiting researcher at USC Institute for Creative Technologies under the supervision of Dr. Paul Debevec, and a software consultant at various CGI and animation studios around the world. He studied Computer Science at University of Malaga, Spain. Marcos is a frequent speaker at SIGGRAPH, FMX and EGSR. He has recently received an Academy Award for the design and implementation of the Arnold renderer. His favorite sushi is engawa.