Apples Graphic Architecture Director Raja Koduri joins Hyderabads Makuta VFX
Hyderabad based National Award Winner Makuta VFX, with its first big asset EEGA conceived by path breaking director SS Rajamouli, that won the National Award for best visual effects now has announced that Raja Koduri is appointed as Chief Technical Advisor to Makutas board of directors.
January 20th, 2014
Hyderabad based National Award Winner Makuta VFX, with its first
big asset EEGA conceived by path breaking director SS Rajamouli, that
won the National Award for best visual effects now has announced that
Raja Koduri is appointed as Chief Technical Advisor to Makutas board of
directors. Raja most recently served as Director of Graphics
Architecture at Apple Inc and as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for
Graphics at AMD Inc.
Raja is amongst the top
architects in real-time computer graphics world today and we are very
excited to have him advise our board. We anticipate that he will bring
exciting technological advances for Makuta and help move the state of
art in Indian VFX industry forward said Dasaradha Gude, Chairman Board
of Directors, Makuta Inc.
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