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, ...
Open Source
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 ...
Surf's Up Course at Siggraph
On Monday, August 6th 2007, the Surf’s Up team presented a half day course detailing The Making of the Animated Documentary. If you couldn't make the...
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...
Stuart Little Effects Animation
The evolution of the first Stuart Little film was a very interesting process to participate in as we created the star of the film to fill the empty mo...