

“Character Animator kind of spun out of that because we had done a lot of things and then we decided we’d do character animation. “Basically we were trying to do tech transfer from research into After Effects and Premiere,” he explains. His team was tasked with moving research from the lab into products. He was the engineering manager on After Effects and in 2007 he switched to advance product development team.

Simons was one of the co-founders of Cosa which invented After Effects and was acquired to become a part of Adobe. We spoke to Dave Simons, Adobe Fellow and former Principle Scientist at Adobe running the Advanced group. Adobe has just shown its new Character Animator 2019 complete with Style Transfer for automatic face animation.
