Rob Bredow is Chief Technology Officer and Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. As CTO, Bredow has brought a production-perspective to the role and also created Imagework’s open source initiative—most recently releasing Open Shading Language to the community. Prior to accepting the CTO position, Bredow supervised the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. His other most recent film, Surf’s Up, was nominated for an Academy Award® and was also recognized with two Annie Awards wins for its groundbreaking visual effects.
While at Imageworks, Bredow has been involved in creating many of the complex visual effects featured in The Polar Express, Stuart Little 2, Cast Away, and Academy Award® nominated Stuart Little. Bredow’s other credits include Godzilla, Independence Day and several others which you can read about on his resume.
He also doesn’t usually write about himself in the third person. This page was an exception.
Rob can be reached at rob@185vfx.com.