Hal Bertram Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Co-founded Ito World to apply experience in visualisation techniques to real world transport problems.Ito Transit Data feeds power some of the largest journey planning apps in the world.Directing the transit-data development team; ensuring the platform ingests, refines, augments and delivers Ito’s data to clients in a reliable, continuous and scalable way..

I worked primarily as a rendering consultant, developing code and extensions for all parts of the rendering pipeline.I also developed non-rendering applications and libraries for clients, and a number of personal projects such as the interaction tools.

Los Angeles, US

In 1993 I set up the CG department at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London. The aim was to transfer the animatronic performance skills of puppeteers to the CG medium. This required a large amount of research and development as we were starting well before the tools needed were commercially available. We worked on a wide range of feature, TV, commercial and.

I designed and implemented the animatronic edit suite for the Creature Shop, primarily used for detailed lipsync performances. Initially developed for Babe, the system was used for many feature films.The system allowed pre-performed and tweaked lipsync to be subtly incorporated into a live performance, all under control of the performer. It was implemented.

I worked with Peter Miller to implement Dave Housman's design for the Creature Shop's first computerised animatronic control system. It was used on several feature and TV projects (including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Storyteller), and won an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award in 1991.I also implemented a laser projection system called.