Terrence Masson is an animation and visual effects artist and producer with over 30 years of production and education leadership experience. His work includes feature and short animated film, VR/AR, video games and interactive media.

His book CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference is a standard text worldwide for both studio execs and students. www.historyofcg.com 

Terrence came up through the ranks on more than 20 feature films including Hook, True Lies, Interview with the Vampire and three Star Wars movies; along with supervising numerous interactive projects such as SimCity4, and the Xbox launch title Bruce Lee.  He developed the original CG animation method for SouthPark in 1996 and his short film Bunkie & Booboo won first place in the World Animation Celebration in 1998. 

An active volunteer with SIGGRAPH since 1988, Terrence served as 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair, SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair and a past ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Terrence is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and has Advised the VIEW and FMX conferences for many years.