Presenter

Nicolas Nghiem was a crowds artist apprentice for “Raya and the Last Dragon” at Walt Disney Animation Studios. After studying animation at Gobelins School and receiving a Master’s of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer science from Ecole Polytechnique in France, he started his career as a software engineer at Mercenaries Engineering. He contributed to their animation software ‘Rumba’, then conducted research at KAIST Visual Media Lab in South Korea on Motion analysis for motion capture data. His work focuses on using topological and geometric techniques to understand the motion and providing artist-friendly tools for animation.