About
James Bartolozzi is a software engineer and artist based in San Francisco. James has experience prototyping generative AI and LLM workflows at Valve, working in feature animation at Pixar Animation Studios, and synthetic data and computer vision research at Magic Leap. He has collaborated extensively with Saad Moosajee on various 3D animated music videos.
In his free time he enjoys photography, building apps to make his life easier, and playing banjo and lap steel guitar in Layton and the Bushwhackers.
Publications
- Atlas: End-to-End 3D Scene Reconstruction from Posed Images — co-author, arXiv 2020
- DELTAS: Depth Estimation by Learning Triangulation and Densification of Sparse Points — co-author, arXiv 2020
- Joji 777: Animated Multi-Character Paintings with a Single Performer — presented at SIGGRAPH 2021
- A Hybrid Approach to Procedural Tree Skeletonization — presented at SIGGRAPH 2017
Press
- Rolling Stone on Thom Yorke, “Last I Heard (He Was Circling the Drain)”
- The FADER on Mitski, “A Pearl”
- SideFX on making the Thom Yorke video
Awards
- D&AD Graphite Pencil, 2023 — Woodkid, “Reactor”
- Cannes Silver Lion, 2023 — Woodkid, “Reactor”
- ADC Bronze Cube, 2023 — Woodkid, “Reactor”
- Special Jury Recognition for Animation, SXSW 2020 — Mitski, “A Pearl”