Kimball is the Chief Technology Officer at Wētā FX, a New Zealand company who specializes in premier visual effects for big movies like the Planet of the Apes franchise, the Avatar franchise, and of course the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies. He is a professional software engineer who knows all about video and image processing, and programming in C. He is the current maintainer of the OpenEXR image file format, and has decades of experience with advanced graphics programming. He recently was awarded an Academy award for some machine learning denoise technology he wrote!
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