Bryan Ervin Bentley

Honorary Lecturer

Bryan Ervin Bentley solves digital problems, specializing in computer graphics for entertainment. He brings over 20 years of post-production experience and higher education instruction. Bryan served as a creature technical director at Industrial Light & Magic (a division of Lucasfilm Entertainment) in Singapore and San Francisco, as a technical animator at Rhythm & Hues in Los Angeles, and as a junior pipeline development artist at The Jim Henson Company. In these roles, he contributed to films such as Transformers 4, Pacific Rim, and The Golden Compass—which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects that year. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University and a Master of Fine Arts in Animation from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His specialties include real-time modeling, subdivision surface modeling, texturing and look development, CG lighting and rendering, 2D and 3D compositing, character rigging, cloth and soft-body simulation, Python programming, rigid simulation, and geometry fracturing for destruction.