Deborah R. Fowler

Visual effects professor

Professor of visual effects, 2010–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Full-time position teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in visual effects. Department graduate coordinator, 2013–2016. NASA collaborative project (Spring CLC 2014 continuing relationship to date). Twenty seven internship opportunities created on various projects. SCAD alumna hired at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. SCAD day participant organizing and conducting motion capture demos for five years. Member of department curriculum, grad review, and reel review committees. Maintain extensive website resources related to topics taught.

Technical director, 1993–2000, Pixar
Toy Story 2 Lighting Team: As senior member of the lighting team, performed master and shot lighting, sequence lead. A Bug’s Life Lighting and Modeling Team: As senior member of the lighting team, performed extensive master lighting, entrusted with complex shots; provided a framework for building vegetation working closely with the art department; mentored team members. Toy Story Lighting and Modeling Team: quickly mastered Pixar’s proprietary software tools, and as one of four lighting leads, performed master and shot lighting, sequence lead and trained team members; created foliage and tree models for the film. Pixar Shorts: modeled plants in the Clio-winning Listerine Arrows commercial.

Meinhardt, H. The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells, 2009, Images.
Prusinkiewicz, P. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, 1996, contributor.
Ph. D. dissertation: Visualization of Spiral Phyllotaxis and Seashells
Two SIGGRAPH papers, SIGGRAPH technical slide sets (17 images), SIGGRAPH presentation
M.Sc. thesis: Rectilinear Voronoi Diagrams, presented at Allerton Conference
Women in Animation (WIA) panel presentation at View Conference, Turin, Italy, Oct. 2015