Hector Yee is a rendering specialist at PDI/Dreamworks, a leading producer of animated feature films. He worked on the renderer for Shrek 2, where he developed new lighting techniques and optimizations for large-scale rendering.

Prior to this, Hector was a graphics programmer at Westwood Studios. At Westwood, Hector developed the planet mode graphics system for the massively multiplayer game “Earth and Beyond.” This involved the rendering of many hundreds of trees over a large terrain model that worked well on old and new graphics hardware. It included a terrain lighting model that calculated one-bounce indirect illumination, co-developed with his colleagues at Westwood. Hector built an automated cinematic camera system for the space mode in the game. This system tracked the users ship from dramatic camera angles at appropriate times in the game. He also built an artist-tweakable lighting model for the avatars in the space station mode of the game.

He has a Bachelor's of Science (summa cum laude) from Cornell University and a Master's of Architectural Science (Computer Graphics) from the Program of Computer Graphics, also at Cornell University.

Hector has reviewed papers for ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

His papers have been published in ACM Transactions on Graphics and The Visual Computer, as well as other publications. In addition, Hector has given presentations on procedural shaders (2004 Game Developer Conference) and local adaptation via segmentation and assimilation (SIGGRAPH 2003).