AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – ILM’s Olivier Maury

Industrial Light & Magic Principle R&D Engineer and Lead Renderer Olivier Maury discusses recent advancements in digital pyrotechnics.

As part of AWN’s Professional Spotlight series -- a series of exclusive video interviews shot during FMX 2014 -- here is a candid discussion with Olivier Maury, principle R&D engineer and lead renderer at Industrial Light & Magic. In this two-part interview, Maury talks about recent advancements in ILM’s work on digital pyrotechnics.

Produced in collaboration with the FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia, AWN has been publishing Professional Spotlight interview videos since 2008. FMX 2015 runs May 5-8 in Stuttgart, Germany. Visit the FMX website for more information on this year's fantastic program of speakers and sessions. Check out hundreds of video interview segments with some of the industry's leading professionals on the AWNtv FMX Channel.

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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.