Great Failed Ideas in Production
Planning to attend Siggraph next week? I’m organizing an interesting panel to discuss some great ideas that just didn’t work out in production, presen...
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Wrangling Waves
Cortes Bank is a break 100 miles off the coast of California created by a giant underwater mountain that makes the water shallow enough to create breaking waves with 30-60 foot faces in the right conditions. Sean Collins, who runs surfline.com, is the master at predicting these waves and had just moved our timetable up...
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...
From Mocap To Movie
Course \ 28, SIGGRAPH 2005 Los Angeles, CA, USA !0image0.avif Important Note: I am part way through reformatting these course notes from the origina...
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...