Thad Beier This is Me

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1. 1. Hammerhead Productions Mission

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   Published on: 8/5/2006   Last Visited: 8/5/2006

   Hammerhead Productions was founded by four partners, Jamie Dixon, Dan Chuba, Rebecca Marie, and Thad Beier, in February, 1995.
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   Thad Beier Thad is our programmer and tool builder. He won an Acadamy Technical Award during this past year for Ras track, and was the Visual Effects Supervisor for Shadowbuilder. He has supervised Hammerhead's work on various other films including Paulie. He's been working in the computer graphics field since '78, first at the New York Institute of Technology, then Lucasfilm, Pacific Data Images and Silicon Graphics. Here's Thad's personal home page.

2. 2. Hewlett-Packard x4000 Workstation | Linux Journal

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   Published on: 2/10/2006   Last Visited: 2/10/2006

   By Thad Beier on Sat, 2002-06-01 01:00. Hardware
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   Thad Beier is an owner of Hammerhead Productions, a digital film company based in Los Angeles, California. He can be reached at thad@hammerhead.com.

3. 3. LA SIGGRAPH Newsletters/1999_03_09.html

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   Published on: 3/1/1999   Last Visited: 8/23/2005

   Kleiser, Wahrman, Beier and Williams can each speak of the past and lend us their experienced conjectures on what new directions lie ahead for us all.
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   THAD BEIER BIO
   
   Thad Beier is a partner in Hammerhead Productions, a small digital film company. His roles include both software tool design and implementation, and visual effects production. He was the Visual Effects Supervisor for Shadowbuilder, and has supervised Hammerhead's work on various films including Paulie: A Parrot's Tale. He has been working in the computer graphics field since 1978, first at the New York Institute of Technology, then Lucasfilm, Pacific Data Images and Silicon Graphics, before founding Hammerhead. He is the author of a SIGGRAPH 1992 paper titled "Feature Based Image Metamorphosis," and has also presented Siggraph courses on implicit surfaces in 1992, and on morphing in 1997.
   
   At New York Tech, Thad participated in early computer graphics research and production, working on projects such as The Works, and numerous commercial and broadcast productions. At Pacific Data Images, he was the second employee, and stayed with the company for 10 years; working as an animator, programmer, animator manager, and finally R&D manager. At PDI, he worked with his future Hammerhead partners in the very beginning of the digital film effects revolution in the early 90's.
   
   Thad just won a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on the design and implementation of ras track, a system for 2D tracking, stabilization, and 3D camera and object tracking. He has also won a Bay Area Emmy award in 1985 and shared a national Emmy in 1982.