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Peter Michel Plantec is a writer, digital artist and software designer. [1]
Raised in Milltown, New Jersey, through early adulthood, Plantec graduated from New Brunswick High School and attended Union Junior College (since renamed as Union College), where he majored in pre-law and studied meteorology. [2] He earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree in psychology from American University. He married the former Adele Bernstein in June 1967. [3]
He has been a resident of Aspen, Colorado. [4]
His 1996 book Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible was one of the earliest guides to using computer-generated imagery to create short animated films. [5]
In 2004, he published Virtual Humans, around which has grown a community of software developers, graphic artists and A.I. researchers. [6] [7]
Plantec is a frequent presenter and host at various film and animation conferences worldwide. He is co-chair of Mundos Digitales in A Coruña, Spain and hosts and sits on the Board of Associates of FMX, Europe's largest digital entertainment conference in Stuttgart where he curates and hosts the FMX Virtual Humans Forum. In 2008, he was a special guest of the People of China at their ICCIE international arts and culture expo, where he gave several talks on virtual humans. He is also an advisor to Design Cinema Conference in Istanbul, and VIEW Conference in Turin. He also gave a talk about virtual humans at SIGGRAPH ASIA in Singapore, in 2008. In 2010, he was a special guest at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for a presentation on virtual actors arranged to assuage fears that virtual actors would take jobs from Screen Actors Guild members.
Plantec is an organizer and moderator for the 5D Conferences, which are supported by the University Art Museum at Long Beach, California, and the Art Directors Guild, Hollywood.
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