Perry Kivolowitz received an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award in 1996 for his design and invention of shape based warping and morphing (Elastic Reality®). As the founder and President of Elastic Reality, Inc. ( ASDG, Inc.), Perry guided and oversaw the development of that company's award winning products including Elastic Reality, No Strings Attached™, LFX™, Art Department Professional (ADPro) and others. As a Senior Consulting Engineer with Avid Technology, Perry oversaw the Elastic Reality Technology Center and helped shape a number of Avid® products. Perry has also been a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, and the founder and President of Hypercosm, Inc., a provider of highly interactive 3D simulations for Web based customer care applications.

Perry co-founded Profound Effect and spearheaded the creation of Elastic Gasket, Useful Things, Useful Assistants and the Camera POV plug-ins.

Paul Miller was the principal engineer behind the IRIX® version of Elastic Reality. He wrote several other IRIX effects applications including No Strings Attached, a 64-bit wire and scratch removal system, and Image Independence®, a batch image format converter. After Elastic Reality, Inc. was acquired by Avid Technology, he designed Avid's AVX™ plugin architecture, and was project lead for Avid Marquee®, their OpenGL®-based 3D title animation system. Most recently, Paul co-founded Profound Effects and as VP of Engineering was instrumental in the creations the company's popular, Python based After Effects plug-in called Useful Things.

Paul has extensive experience in cross-platform design, user-interface design, software architecture, and computer graphics. His languages of choice are C++ and Python.

Marco Paolini is the President of Digital Film Tools and the Senior Visual Effects Artist at Digital FilmWorks in Los Angeles, CA. Over the years, his visual effects, commercials, music videos, and documentaries have brought him numerous Telly and Addy awards. Prior to Digital FilmWorks, Marco worked his way up through the special effects ranks, advancing from videotape operator, to editor, to effects editing and finally to digital compositing. In years past, he was with Avid Technology where he worked with feature film and video special effects customers on their projects as well as determine future directions for their graphics software. His feature film special effects work can be seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna and the King, Men of Honor, Red Planet, Exit Wounds, Moulin Rouge, Behind Enemy Lines, The One, Collateral Damage, Duplex, The Italian Job, The Last Samurai and The Terminal.

Peter W. Moyer is the President and Owner of Digital FilmWorks, a Los Angeles based visual effects company. Starting his career in Philadelphia, Peter worked as an editor on "The Mike Douglas Show" and while at KYW-TV won two Emmy awards for art direction and editing. In 1987, Peter was recruited by The Post Group and moved to the West Coast. Within two years, he was the visual effects editor of such high-profile series as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Mission Impossible". Peter's work in "Pee Wee's Playhouse" earned him a third Emmy for videotape editing in 1989 and his visual effects compositing for "The Flash" captured him a Monitor Award in 1991. Peter left The Post Group in 1995 to concentrate on his newly formed company, Digital FilmWorks. Specializing in feature films, Peter currently supervises visual effects at Digital FilmWorks, which includes coming up with innovative solutions to everyday special effects challenges.