The suite was developed in an era of 56K modems to enable seamless collaboration between different artists and technicians in film-making . In Thakkur 's words : - " They wanted any artist to view to view any number of shots , back-to-back , from part of the film , in high resolution , at 24 fps , with high quality audio , with speed-change control , from any phase of production from any department ( story , editing , animation , modeling , layout , lighting , vfx , etc. ) ... " At PDI and DreamWorks , Thakkar worked on several films , including '' Forces of Nature '' , '' Antz '' , '' The Legend of Bagger Vance '' , '' The Peacemaker '' and '' A Simple Wish '' . He was also a member of the animation software development team for '' Shrek '' , which went on to win the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Awards . After leaving DreamWorks in 2002 , Thakkar worked in PIXIA Corp from 2003 to 2013 as a Chief Architect and was the Vice President of Technology in the area of satellite imagery . He then worked at Madison Square Garden from 2013 to 2014 as Vice President of Technology contributing in the entertainment , media and sports fields . Later , in 2014 , he became the Vice President of R&D at Brivio Systems , a company operating in the access control industry . Thakkar noted certain surveillance drones used in the rescue of Captain Philips ( from Somalian pirates ) ran on their software . He left Brivio in 2015 , and since then has been engaged with the aerospace industry , working for a Boeing subsidiary in the cloud-computing sector
74th Academy Awards
74th Academy Awards
Rahul Thakkar