Awards & Winners

Lance Williams

Lance J. Williams is a prominent graphics researcher who made major contributions to texture map prefiltering, shadow rendering algorithms, facial animation, and antialiasing techniques. Williams was one of the first people to recognize the potential of computer graphics to transform film and video making.

Awards by Lance Williams

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lance Williams.

2001


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For his pioneering influence in the field of computer-generated animation and effects for motion pictures. The ongoing influence of Lance Williams is exemplified in his three seminal papers Casting Shadows on Curved Surfaces, Pyramidal Parametrics and View Interpolation for Image Synthesis.)