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Cursed
2005 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Wes Craven
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all.
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> Krakatoa?? I thought that was Bobo Petrov?
I wrote the core of the actual renderer (the piece that generates the images) with help from Marc Wiebe. Bobo wrote the 3DS Max GUI -- which is very important as well. One of the first films to use Krakatoa was Wes Craven's Cursed: http://exocortex.org/siggraph/2005-2.html
I also created Deadline (a popular render manager), and started Frantic Films Software to sell it. Proof: http://cgpress.org/archives/frantic_films_software_releases_deadline_2004.html
But I left that group in 2005 to start Exocortex, which has its own popular VFX-related products: http://exocortex.com