Hilmar Koch embodies the term creative technologist like no other. He's a Research Director @ Autodesk and prior to that led Virtual Production at ILMxLAB and ILM where he worked on a slew of Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars Episode III, Transformers, Star Trek, Super 8, and Avatar. Let's explore how he got into CGI & VFX. Hint: It involved writing a ray tracer :)