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Founders Series: Jim Blinn

by Paul Roberts
June 8, 2014
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In the first of their founders-series articles, FX Guide profile and interview CG progenitor and inventor of bump mapping Jim Blinn. Read it in full and hear the interview at FX Guide.

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