1. Gary Yost was born on 1959 and is an American filmmaker, musician and software designer, best known for leading the team that created Autodesk 3ds Max.
12 Facts About Gary Yost
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Gary Yost met Tom Hudson at the Fall 1985 Comdex trade show and they began planning a suite of 3D animation tools for the Atari ST line of microcomputers, which became the Cyber Studio suite of animation products, beginning with CAD-3D 1.0, released autumn 1986.
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In 2013, Gary Yost joined Rolf Herken's Mine Innovation as an engineering advisor.
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In 2020, Gary Yost was interviewed about his life's experience in CGI on the 300th episode of the CG Garage VFX podcast.
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Gary Yost spent seven years working with the Marin Municipal Water District and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy on a trilogy of films about Ground Equipment Facility J-33, the abandoned Mill Valley Air Force Station on the West Peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California.
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Tamalpais, Gary Yost has been working on films that document the cultural life of Fijians in 2015.
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Gary Yost has been actively promoting the use of time-lapse to tell stories, and was a judge for the LA-based 2016 Timelapse Film Festival along with Godfrey Reggio, the producer of the seminal time-lapse film Koyaanisqatsi.
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In 2017 Gary Yost was the recipient of the Mill Valley Creative Achievement "Milley" award from the Mill Valley, California Arts Commission, joining previous recipients including Dan Hicks, John Korty, Joyce Maynard, Sammy Hagar, Jane Hirshfield and Bob Weir.
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In both 2018 and 2019 Gary Yost won the Best Indie Filmmaker reader's choice award in Marin County, California from the Pacific Sun and he began working in the field of immersive cinema.
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Gary Yost was the director of photography for "Circle of Dreams," a virtual reality project with the legendary SF-based art collective The Residents.
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Gary Yost launched the nonprofit WisdomVR Project as a 501 with strategic partnership support from Oculus VR and the Long Now Foundation in early 2019.
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Gary Yost released a series of devotional original musical videos dedicated to Mt.