Creative Management

The AI Filmmaking Spectrum

The AI Filmmaking Spectrum

AI has become such a broad term that it's almost useless, especially in relation to filmmaking. When someone says "I don't want AI used on my movie," ...

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 ...

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 I...

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 Produc...

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 su...

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, bla...