Marc-Andre Davignon

Software design, image processing, non-photorealistic rendering, compositing, and painting algorithms for visual effects in animated and live action movies
Designing and writing computer graphics software for live-action and animated movie production with credited work in over 20 feature films. Most notably, tools to achieve the challenging non-photorealistic looks of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and GOAT. Designing new software tools for the achievement of a greater diversity of non-photorealistic art styles in animated movies. Exploring algorithms to support the creative abstraction of light, depth and shape when guided by our artists’ hands.
2026 Technical Achievement Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the design and engineering of the suite of brushing and patching tools used at Sony Pictures Imageworks.