Michael Scaramozzino

Michael Scaramozzino was one of the early computer graphics pioneers, with a dual background in both the art and science of digital media. He studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and animation/illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he earned a BFA a year early through a special portfolio review and then ran RISD's computer center for a year, teaching students computer graphics on the early Macintosh 128K computer.

Since founding the award-winning DreamLight® Interactive™ studio over 20 years ago, he has been pushing the limits of digital media in a wide range of computer graphics fields. With awards for digital design, 2D PostScript illustration, interactive multimedia, 3D illustration, and 3D animation, his work has been published in magazines from HOW to Art Direction, books from FreeHand Bible to The Best of 3D Graphics, and exhibits from Siggraph to Imagine - Tokyo. He was a contributing author to FreeHand Bible 7 and 8 as well as the LightWave 3D 9 manual. His first 3D animated short film BlastOff!™, has screened at over a dozen international animation film festivals and won a number of awards including a Merit Award from its initial festival screening at the inaugural 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival with keynote speaker Roy E. Disney, a Best Animation Nomination from the Danville International Children's Film Festival, a Silver W3 Award for internet video, an Official Honoree Award from the Webby Awards and was hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet," by the New York Times. Michael continues to run DreamLight Interactive where he is currently producing The Autiton Archives, a 3D animated CGI series of shorts for the web of which this book details the production of the series pilot episode.