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Rick Vertolli

Technical/Creative Director

M.S. Computer Graphics
B.F.A. Fine Arts

With a fine arts background in painting and sculpture and a degree in Computer Science, Rick Vertolli's perspective bridges both the technical and the artistic aspects of high-end computer animation.

Rick manages the computer graphics and animation studio and oversees the work of several talented staff animators and student interns. He is responsible for the concept, design and implementation of computer graphics, computer animation, and special effects for a wide variety of campus and government projects.

Rick and his talented staff have won numerous awards for computer animation and are among the chosen few who have been invited to present their work at SIGGRAPH, the prestigious international computer graphics and animation conference.

Rick Vertolli continues to teach in the Department of Computer Science and has been a key player in the creation of a new major in Computer Animation for California State University, Chico.