I spent a week as a guest professor at the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, Germany. This is the stream from a talk I gave to about 250 film students on Thursday afternoon. I had given this talk to the animation/vfx students earlier in the week. 02:40 - My Intro 03:30 - A [...]
Photo courtesy of Paul Debevec On Thursday, September 27th, 2012, I received the Visual Effects Society's Founders Award. The award was presented at the Annual Membership Meeting, and included a great video produced by Van Ling, and a wonderful introduction from my buddy and VES Chair, Jeff Okun. I then had the floor for [...]
Photo courtesy of Paul Debevec Writing is a very painful thing for me. I fret over words and structure, over ways to express my ideas clearly. The speech I gave accepting the Visual Effects Society’s Founders Award was particularly challenging, it was important, deeply personal, and directed towards potentially 3,000 of the most [...]
AnimFX was held at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington, NZ (Note: My wife and I spent two weeks in New Zealand, with AnimFX making up the first five days. This post is mostly excepted from our travelog for the whole trip which can be found here.) I was invited to speak at [...]
First view of Korea I just returned from the ICON2008 International Content Creator's Conference in Busan, Korea, which I was invited to attend as a keynote speaker. I was busy enough that I didn't post while on the trip, but I'm going to break the trip down into a few different posts here. [...]