I am a Research and Development Engineer at Industrial Light and Magic.  My work focuses on the design and development of computer software for animation in movies and video games.

 

 
Research

As a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graphics Group, I worked on several different research projects under the guidance of my advisor Michael Gleicher.  These projects included:

Virtual Videography

Motion Splicing

Parametric Motion Graphs

For more information about my research, education, and professional activities, please see my current resume.

 

Rachel Rose

(formerly Rachel Heck)

heckr@cs.wisc.edu

 

 

 

Significant Papers and Videos

Heck, Rachel and Michael Gleicher.  "Parametric Motion Graphs."  Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2007, April 2007.  [PDF]

Heck, Rachel, Michael Wallick, and Michael Gleicher.  "Virtual Videography."  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications in February of 2007.  [PDF]

Heck, Rachel, Michael Wallick, and Michael Gleicher.  "Virtual Videography:  A Video Demonstration."  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2006:  Video Program, October 2006.  [Video] [Abstract]

Heck, Rachel, Lucas Kovar, and Michael Gleicher.  "Splicing Upper-Body Actions with Locomotion."  Proceedings of Eurographics 2006 in September 2006.  Second Best Paper Award!!  [PDF]  

Wallick, Michael, Rachel Heck, Michael Gleicher.  "Marker and Chalkboard Regions."  Proceedings of Mirage 2005, March 2005.  [PDF]

Gleicher, Michael, Rachel Heck, Michael Wallick.  "A Framework for Virtual Videography." Proceedings of SmartGraphics 2002, June 2002.  [PDF]

Glynn, Corinne, Rachel Heck, Sarah Luebke, Weichao Ma, Hilary Mason, Erin Nichols, Eleanor Raulerson, Izabela Staicut, Samuel A. Rebelsky.  "Blazing Trails on the World-Wide Web."  Proceedings of Ed-Media 2000.  Vol. 1.  p. 335-340. Outstanding Paper Award.  [WORD]

Affiliations

Current Employer:  Industrial Light and Magic

Graduate Institution:  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Company Where I Interned:  Rockstar Games

Undergraduate Institution:  Grinnell College

High School:  Cypress Creek High School

Fun Stuff

Our Wedding Website

My Pictures

Grinnell Plans

My Space

Adagio Tea