User:AthomasGoldberg

Athomas Goldberg was the co-inventor, along with Ken Perlin of the Improv Animation System, one of the first examples of a real-time character animation technology featuring animation layering and blending for which they recieved a patent in 1994.

Athomas later went on to launch Improv Technologies, Inc. an animation and game middleware company, based in New York, where he served as President and Chief Technology Officer from 1999 to 2003. Improv Technologies was awarded a Year 2000 Innovation Award from Computer Graphics World for their non-linear animation production pipeline tool, Orchestrate3D.

Athomas is currently the World Wide Product Manager for Animation, Physics & Behavior Tools and Technologies at Electronic Arts.