Presenter

Cassidy Curtis is an animator and researcher at Google DeepMind, and served as Supervising Animator for "Dear Upstairs Neighbors". Previously, he worked for almost two decades at PDI/DreamWorks, where he supervised animation on characters like Toothless in "How to Train Your Dragon" and Alex the Lion in "Madagascar 2" As a researcher, he developed stylized rendering techniques for immersive animated films like "Pearl" (the first VR short to be nominated for an Oscar) and "Age of Sail" (which won the VES award for real-time visual effects) at Google Spotlight Stories.