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Lemuel (Lem) Lanier Davis (born 1953 in Mississippi) is a software engineer and instructor.
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Education
Lemuel (Lem) Davis earned his master's degree in electrical engineering (M.S.E.E.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (B.S.E.E.) from the University of South Alabama.
Career
Davis's career contributions are primarily in the field of computer-generated imagery in animated films and military technology. His career highlights include winning an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award in 1992 for his work at Walt Disney Studios with the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) team. CAPS was a significant advancement in the field of animation, as it was the first digital ink and paint system used in animated feature films. As part of the CAPS team, Davis worked as a technical director on Disney's first fully computer-animated short film, Oilspot and Lipstick. Davis is credited with the concept of the experimental film, in which two junkyard dogs fall in love and are menaced by a monster made of junk. It debuted at the 1987 SIGGRAPH Conference and was shown again in 1988 at the NCGA Video Showcase.
In 2000, Davis won the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Journal Award along with Arjun Ramamurthy and Franz Herbert for their article, "Achieving Color Match Between Scanner, Monitor, and Film: A Color Management Implementation for Feature Animation."
During Davis's time at Disney, he contributed to the animated films The Black Cauldron (1985) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990) as Digital Production System Developer. At Warner Bros. Studios, Davis contributed to the animated films Balto (1995) as Director of Technology, Quest for Camelot (1998), The Iron Giant (1999) as Technology Supervisor, and Osmosis Jones (2001) as Technology Manager. He later worked for Laika, Inc. as they produced Coraline (2009).
Davis currently lives in San Diego, California, and continues to work as a software engineer consultant and adjunct professor at the Palomar College district. He is the instructor of the CSCI 212 course, an assembly language course.
As befitting the name Lemuel Davis, he can and does play the saxophone on occasion.