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TED 2025: Artist-Driven Innovation in the Age of AI

TED 2025: Artist-Driven Innovation in the Age of AI

I’m grateful to have been invited to speak at TED 2025 about the latest developments in filmmaking. My talk focused on Artist-Driven Innovation and a possible path forward for artists in this time of significant change. As technology rapidly …

On Creativity: Theme Driven Design

On Creativity: Theme Driven Design

Excerpted from a Q&A with ACM Siggraph 2018

SIGGRAPH: As former Chief Technology Officer and current SVP, Executive Creative Director, and Head of ILM, you clearly have a deep understanding of the ways technology and creativity can come together …

Things I learned as CTO at Sony Pictures

Things I learned as CTO at Sony Pictures

For the past few years I’ve been the CTO of a division of Sony Pictures heading up Imageworks, Animation, and more recently Colorworks and Post Production. Before this time, I’d had opportunities to lead large teams on movies, but had never served in …

Creativity Inc.

Creativity Inc.

A few great quotes from the excellent book by Ed Catmull, Creativity Inc.

“There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.”

“Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more …

Ask who

Ask who

Working at large companies requires involvement with lots of people, across separate departments, divisions and business units. A lot of the time, blame gets assigned to a “group”, rather than a person.

A while ago, I learned from one of my favorite …