Peter Litwinowicz ('81) won a Technical Achievement Academy Award in 2007 along with the co-founder of his computer software company in San Francisco. Inscribed on the award:
To Peter Litwinowicz and Pierre Jasmin for the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation. A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects community.
Peter's company also provided software for "Dreamkeeper," a short feature that won the 2003 Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. (Watch some of "Dreamkeeper.")
In 1999, the company's work on "What Dreams May Come" earned an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects as well as the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Visual Effects and the Imagina Awards for Best Visual Effects and Visual Innovation. (Watch a clip from "What Dreams May Dome.")
Here's what reviewer Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about "What Dreams May Come":
In one sequence that is among the most visually exciting I have ever seen, he occupies a landscape that is a painting, and as he plucks a flower it turns to oil paint in his hand.
Litwinowicz received computer graphics degrees from the University of North Carolina and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland OH).
