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Prior to co-founding RE:Vision Effects in the Fall of 1998, and forming an official partnership with Peter Litwinowicz, Pierre Jasmin worked for two years for Mass Illusion, first in Western Massachusetts then in the Bay Area. He worked on What Dreams May Come from creating visual demos to help the film get funded to the final day before the film release. While at Mass Illusion, Pierre also worked with Nick Brooks and John Gaeta to deliver the initial bullet-time effect for “The Matrix” prior to the movie getting greenlight. Previously he also worked for Hybride Technology north of Montreal from 1994-1996 as a visual effects artist and software developer on numerous effects films.

Pierre came to Hybride from Discreet Logic (now Autodesk Media and Entertainment), a visual effects compositing software powerhouse in Montreal, where he was a start-up engineer that helped develop Eddie, the industry’s first commercial nodal compositing application, as well as other software modules that evolved into the company’s flagship products, including flame, flint, fire, and smoke.

Prior to joining Discreet Logic, he worked as a freelance image processing developer, 3D animator and technical director. At Taarna and Pyrate Animation, he animated 3D computer characters, and also wrote and supported shaders for their Renderman-compliant renderer (which eventually became 3Delight).