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," ...
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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 ...
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...
Academy Award for OpenColorIO
At this year’s Academy Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards show, OpenColorIO was among 19 other winners. If you haven’t heard of OpenColorIO, ...
Academy Award for Katana
This weekend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Steve LaVietes, Jeremy Selen and Brian Hall an Academy Award for their work on Im...
Open Source @ Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks announced our first 5 open source projects today. We’re still getting some of the code online, but the initial reception has ...
Convert a 3d point to 2d Screen Space in Maya
Very often you want to find the 2d coordinates on the screen for a given 3d point. Here’s a little mel script that knows the projection math and takes...
Renderman on Film: With Examples from Stuart Little
In 2002 I was invited back to present in the Renderman course. This time, I used examples from Stuart Little 2 and walked through the then-current vis...
Renderman Course: Fur in Stuart Little
In 2000, I was invited to help teach a Siggraph session on Renderman. I was able to present the work of many people at Sony Imageworks who helped brin...