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...
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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...
Trick Work
(Originally published in the March 2014 VFX issue of ICG Magazine) > “What a vista opens before us at the very mention of trick-work! There is hardly...
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...
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...
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...