Jobs and Scholarships in Computer Graphics

The Carnegie Mellon University Career Center has a lot of information.

Companies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• EventScope, on CMU campus
• Zaxel Systems, Lawrenceville, 3-D digitization of dynamic scenes ("virtualized reality"), co-founded by Takeo Kanade
• Reality Capture Technologies, Squirrel Hill (main office in San Jose), 3-D model acquisition software
• Color Field, software consulting, web design, Jim Grandy's company
• Adaboy, virtual billboards, downtown (formerly Virtual Motion, virtual reality, medical imaging)
• KO Interactive, Oakland, 3-D games
• eGenesis, networked multiplayer games
• Home Run Pictures, computer animation
• Media Site, (formerly ISLIP Media) digital video and audio libraries, spinoff of CMU SCS's Informedia project, Howard Wactlar's company
• TerraSim, Oakland, simulator databases (for flight & driving simulators), spinoff of CMU SCS's MAPS lab, Dave McKeown's company.
• Quantapoint, Pleasant Hills, (formerly called K2T), laser scanning for architectural modeling, Takeo Kanade co-founded
• ANSYS, Canonsburg, finite element analysis software (engineering simulations), some graphics.
• VR Telecom, Wexford, internet telecommunications, virtual reality
• Maya Viz, visualization
• Pittsburgh Technology Council's career center, (list of high tech job openings)

Companies outside Pittsburgh

• 3-D graphics software companies
  • Electric Image, Southern California
  • Exluna, Berkeley CA, Larry Gritz & other ex-Pixar people, rendering software. hiring as of 5/01
  • Reality Capture Technologies, San Jose, Pittsburgh PA, 3-D model acquisition software
  • Immersive Technologies, Boston, fast graphics software, ray tracing?
  • Re:Vision Effects, Alameda, CA, movie special effects, morphing, view interpolation, worked on "What Dreams May Come"
  • Intrinsic Software, Mountain View, CA. software for real time graphics (e.g. software library to make Playstation 2 easier to program)
  • Macromedia, are doing some 3-D now
  • Zoesis, Newton, MA, animated agents
  • Raindrop Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, NC. surface modeling tools.
  • Alias/Wavefront, Toronto; Seattle; Santa Barbara. large modeling and animation tools
  • LightWork Design, Sheffield UK. graphics & CAD software (incl. radiosity)
  • Visualization Technology, Inc, Woburn, MA. medical imaging.
  • MetaCreations, Santa Barbara. (or did they move to New York? Now called Viewpoint?) 3-D web authoring tools.
  • Corel, Ottawa, Canada. bought Bryce, Painter, and other software from Metacreations, 4/00.
  • Paraform, Palo Alto, CA. fitting parametric surfaces to scanned data.
  • Unchained Geometry, Seattle. skeletonization and character animation
  • Multigen-Paradigm, San Jose, CA. simulation/game database creation software (terrains, cities, etc).
  • Veridical, Iowa, real-time urban simulation for architectural design, etc
• Image processing software companies
  • Orad, Israel, virtual sets for broadcast television
  • Shutterfly, Redwood City, CA, image processing software
  • Live Picture, image processing software for the web, panoramas
  • Adobe, San Jose, CA. Postscript, Photoshop, Illustrator. Bought Canoma (image-based modeler) from Metacreations 3/00.
• Graphics chip/board/console companies
  • Nvidia, Santa Clara CA, Research Triangle Park NC, Austin. Making the graphics chips for Microsoft XBOX game console.
  • ATI, Toronto. Acquired ArtX, Santa Clara, CA, around 4/00. Making the graphics chips for Nintendo Gamecube game console.
  • Sony Playstation 2 game console. Sony Computer Entertainment America has a research group in Redwood City, CA
  • 3Dlabs, Sunnyvale, CA
  • Rendition, Sunnyvale, CA
  • Matrox, Montreal
  • S3, Santa Clara, CA, 4/00 merged with Via Technologies
  • Intel, Santa Clara, CA
  • other people's lists of 3D graphics chip companies: try this Altavista search
• Graphics workstations and other hardware companies
  • Silicon Graphics (SGI), Mountain View, CA. graphics workstation & software manufacturer. Once great. Unfortunately, most of the good people left in the late 90's.
  • Intergraph, Huntsville, AL, graphics workstations, sold graphics unit to 3Dlabs 4/00
  • Be, Menlo Park, CA
• Game / Location Based Entertainment Companies
  • Xulu Entertainment, San Francisco, location based entertainment (VR environments),
  • Electronic Arts, Redwood City, Maxis division in Walnut Creek, CA
  • id, Mesquite, TX, games (e.g. Quake)
  • Square USA, Honolulu, Los Angeles, games (e.g. Final Fantasy)
  • Ultimation, Petaluma, CA
• Animation studios
  • Pacific Data Images, Palo Alto CA, animation studio. They're looking for summer interns as of 1/01
  • Rhythm & Hues, Los Angeles, animation studio
  • Hammerhead Productions, Studio City
  • Digital Domain, Los Angeles, animation studio
  • Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), San Rafael CA, animation studio
  • Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville CA
  • Walt Disney Feature Animation Technology, Burbank CA and Orlando FL, mostly

Scholarships

• Rhythm & Hues Scholarship for modeling or animation by students.
• CMU Scholarship & Fellowship info

Computer Graphics Web Collections

• Peter Shirley's Computer Graphics Links