Peter Plantec is a writer, digital artist and software designer.

Career

As president of Virtual Personalities, Inc., Plantec was responsible for the design and development of Sylvie, the first practical commercial virtual human interface using an animated human face. He is Contributing Editor of ''STUDIO'' magazines in New York and a columnist at ''

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''. In 2004 he published ''Virtual Humans'', around which has grown a community of software developers, graphic artists and A.I. researchers. Plantec is a frequent presenter and host at various film and animation conferences worldwide. He is co-chair of Mundos Digitales in

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, Spain and hosts and sits on the Board of Associates of FMX, Europe's largest digital entertainment conference in

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where he curates and hosts the FMX Virtual Humans Forum. In 2008, he was a special guest of the People of China at their ICCIE international arts and culture expo, where he gave several talks on virtual humans. He is also an advisor to Design Cinema Conference in Istanbul, and VIEW Conference in Turin. He also gave a talk about virtual humans at SIGGRAPH ASIA in Singapore, in 2008. In 2010, he was a special guest at the

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for a presentation on virtual actors arranged to assuage fears that virtual actors would take jobs from

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members. Plantec is an organizer and moderator for the 5D Conferences, which are supported by the University Art Museum at

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, California, and the

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, Hollywood.

Works

* ''Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions ; Creating the Illusion of Personality''. New York, NY:

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, 2004. * ''Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible''. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 1996.

References

External links

Official website
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