Perry Kivolowitz
American computer scientist
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Perry Kivolowitz (born 1961) is an American computer scientist and special effect designer.
- Recoverable RAM drive
- Shape-driven warping and morphing
- Elastic Reality software
- SilhouetteFX
- Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement (1996)
- Engineering Emmy Award (2019)
- Computer science
- Computer graphics
- Digital imaging
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Kivolowitz was born in New York City.[1] He is a professor of Computer Science at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has also taught at UW-Madison.[2]
In 1992, he won an Emmy certificate for his work on Babylon 5.[3]
In 1997, he received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the invention of shape-driven warping and morphing as exemplified in the Avid Elastic Reality.[4] This software was used in Forrest Gump (1994), Titanic (1997) and "every film nominated for best special effects since 1993," Kivolotitz said in 2000.[5]
He is also the creator of rotoscoping software SilhouetteFX that has been used in editing feature films including Christopher Robin, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Avengers: Infinity War and received a Technical Achievement Certificate from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018.[6][7]
In 2019, SilhouetteFX won an Engineering Emmy Award.[8]