Cogswell Polytechnical College is proud to present Richard Chuang as the keynote speaker at their Commencement ceremony taking place on Saturday, May 10th, 2008.

A co-founder of PDI over 27 years ago, Richard pioneered the studio’s powerful proprietary animation system, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized with a Technical Achievement Award in 1997. PDI’s proprietary animation system has been used on countless commercials, live-action features and throughout PDI/DreamWorks’ feature films, ANTZ, the Academy Award-winning SHREK, and SHREK 2 for which Chuang served as vice president of special projects.

Known for his hands-on creative approach, Chuang’s expertise is in computer animation and visual effects for both animated and live action films. His credits range from directing commercials to winning an Emmy Award for graphics design.
Richard also led the team that created digital superheroes in the Warner Bros. blockbuster BATMAN AND ROBIN. These digital heroes were a follow-up to his earlier pioneering digital character work in BATMAN FOREVER. He has 16 live action film credits as visual effects supervisor through 2002.

In his last five years serving as the executive responsible for developing CG projects with other animation studios, Richard planned and guided the CG production for FATHER OF THE PRIDE, DreamWorks first all computer animated primetime TV show. He also was instrumental in developing the plan for DWA’s venture into India in cooperation with Technicolor. Before leaving PDI, Richard also developed a new process for scheduling and managing resources for all of production at DWA.

At the start of 2008, Richard left PDI/DreamWorks to start a new company. After spending 27 years in helping to build the largest CG film production studio in the industry, he is now taking a fresh look at how to capture the creativities of the next generation of talents in the new world of digital content creation and multi-channel deliveries.

March 31, 2008