Jose Maria de Espona. Born in Cadiz in 1963. After he studied industrial engineering, he founded in the 80's and 90's some pioneering computer graphics companies in Europe, as Triplefactor, RDE, REM infografica or DEI. These companies developed innovative and revolutionary computer graphics applications, as the first commercial metaball modeller, the first cloth simulator or the first extense library of textured, high quality 3d models. These models have been used in thousands of productions for broadcasting, movies and videogames by many top production houses around the world, as Dreamworks,