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 ...
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Thoughts on filmmaking, technology, and creative collaboration.
Lighter Darker The ILM Podcast
I've been enjoying producing and co-hosting Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast with Todd Vaziri. We dive into the creative process of filmmaking and the ...
Lucasfilm at D23
Disney holds an event every other year for fans called D23 and this year's was held in Anaheim, CA. After several years of hoping to be able to put ou...
The Acolyte Season 1, First Reviews
I'm very encouraged by the viewership and the reviews for our new show, The Acolyte, this week. Viewership from Variety: > “The Acolyte,” Disney+’s n...
Making Solo: A Star Wars Story
My book, ILM Presents: Making Solo A Star Wars Story is out and I got to sit down with the team at StarWars.com to chat a bit about the book. Excerpt...
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...
Trials on Tatooine First Reviews
This week ILMxLAB did the first public play test of Trials on Tatooine at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Trails on Tatooine is a fir...
Lucasfilm Releases Trailer for Episode VII
Lucasfilm released the teaser trailer for Episode 7 today. I am loving the new job at Industrial Light and Magic and am happy to see this trailer bein...
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...