Bill Ferster

Bill studied design in college in the mid-1970s and began his working life as an film animator. When personal computers came along, he used them in my work to automate the tedious camera movements, and ultimately began manufacturing motion-control systems for other animators to move their cameras. As digital graphics technology progressed, he founded a number of companies that made tools for creative people to ply their craft from drawing to animation to editing. He changed careers mid-life into academia, as an educational technology professor at UVA, until retiring in 2021.