Presenter

Alain Hostettler is a Senior R&D Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He joined ILM in 2021 after finishing his MSc in Computer Science at ETH Zurich with a focus on computer graphics, and an internship at Disney Research Studios in Zurich, where he researched methods to improve the ML-based denoising of Monte Carlo renders. At ILM, Alain is working in the offline rendering and shading engineering team. He has implemented numerous plugins for RenderMan to support productions and is continuously working on improving and extending Lama, the modular material system that powers the look development at ILM.