Author of "CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference" (Second Edition) www.cg101.com

SHOTS magazine called Terrence “Possibly the most mobile practitioner in the CG industry” [Nov. 98]. With 20 years of very eclectic production experience, he has served his own consulting company "Digital Fauxtography" as a Creative Producer, Director and VFX Supervisor. Terrence came up through the ranks on about 20 feature films including three Star Wars movies, Hook, True Lies and Interview with a Vampire. He is also well known for single-handedly developing the CG pipeline for SouthPark in 1996. Interactive projects have included Cyberia2, SimCity4, Batman: Dark Tomorrow, and Alter Echo. As an award-winning Director & Producer his short animated film Bunkie & Booboo won first place in the World Animation Celebration in 1998. He currently consults with major production studios world-wide on creative development and pipeline efficiency. Terrence also currently serves as an on-camera image analysis expert for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters.

As Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University in Boston, MA he oversees seven dual majors in Game Design and Interactive Media as well as a new GPU production research initiative. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and has been active in SIGGRAPH since 1988, most recently as the 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair and currently as SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair.  ( www.visualfx.com )