„Making machines more human“
Peter Plantec is a writer, digital artist and software designer. His books Virtual Humans and The Caligari trueSpace2 Bible are both five stars at Amazon. As president of Virtual Personalities, Inc., he was responsible for the design and development of Sylvie, the first practical commercial virtual human interface using an animated human face. He is Contributing Editor of STUDIO magazines in New York and a columnist at VFXWorld in Hollywood. His digital graphics artistry can be visited at caedes.net where his handle is DigitalFX.
Around the book Virtual Humans has grown a community of software developers, graphic artists and A.I. researchers, which can be met at the Virtual Humans Forum
Plantec is a frequent presenter and host at various film and animation conferences worldwide. He is Co-Chair of Mundos Digitales in La Coruña, Spain and hosts and sits on the Advisory Board of FMX, Europe's largest digital entertainment conference in Stuttgart. 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, 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 will take jobs from SAG members.
Plantec is an organizer and moderator for the 5D Conferences which are supported by the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach and The Art Director's Guild, Hollywood.
