Ron Brinkmann (born 1964), a visual effects supervisor and a founding employee of Sony Imageworks.
While there he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for his work on the movie Speed.
He later co-founded Nothing Real, a software company that produced the digital compositing application Shake.
Brinkmann is also the author of the book The Art and Science of Digital Compositing (ISBN 0-12-133960-2).
He is a regular guest in the podcast 'This Week in Photography'.