Natasha Devaud was born and raised in Switzerland. As a little girl she learned how to knit before she knew how to write her own name. She earned a degree in Education and moved to Palo Alto in the US to work as a nanny and learn english. She returned to Switzerland to enroll in an accelerated program in fashion design. An intriguing and fateful visit to a lab at ECAL in Lausanne led to a Master's Degree in computer graphics. Natasha travelled to SIGGRAPH in Chicago to serve as a volunteer and went the following year to Anaheim where she was hired by Rhythm & Hues. She was later hired by ILM where she worked for the next 22 years. Her credits include several Star Wars, Transformers, Harry Potter and Marvel movies. Natasha was my office mate for several years at ILM in the 1990's. She's always been a great friend and her story of happy accidents, passion, drive, and luck is amazing.