The premiere weekend of the new Looney Tunes short, “Coyote Falls” in theaters has come and gone. And it’s left in it’s wake some really stellar reviews from critics and audiences a like! Now I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. I am SO PROUD to have been apart of this [...]

Wanna see what my wife Jess and I have been working on for the past 4 months? And also the reason I haven’t posted diddly on this blog either? Well then check out this shot of Wile E. that Jess lit / comp’d that was featured in the New York freakin’ Times! LINK: New York [...]

Check out this really well done short by Patrick Jean, called Pixels. Using wonderful special effects and combining the upbeat music, Patrick has made a wonderful nostalgic video that features the old style and pixel look into a realistic suburban city with the Pixels taking over. With so much color, sound and things happening at [...]

I’m alive! Just incredibly busy. Hince my lonngggg absence from posting on my blog. But don’t worry I’ll be back soon, I promise. I’m even spending what little free time I have designing and coding the 2010 update for DH.com! I’ve learned a lot in the past 6 months about web design, so I can’t [...]

I’ve got a great award winning short film for you all today called “Nuit Blanche”. It comes to us by way of Spy Films, and was directed by Arev Manoukian. After seeing the video below, I doubt you’ll be surprised to find out that Spy Films is the directing troupe that Neill Blomkamp calls home [...]

Check out this amazing piece of software coming out of Cambridge, that turns your little old web cam into a surprisingly accurate 3D scanner. It’s called ProFORMA for short, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition for long, and it works by generating a point cloud through a Delaunay tetrahedralization process. Which means it uses 2D XY [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Houston native Steve Johnson, but I know you’ve heard of his work. Predator, The Abyss, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man 2, Where the Wild Things Are, and so on and so on. The point is that he’s had a very long and successful career in practical make-up fx. Now he’s nearing retirement but instead of [...]

For those of you who couldn’t make it to this years Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, I’ve got some good news for you. Lucas Martell’s animated film, “Pigeon: Impossible”, has finally been released for all to see on YouTube! It’s a really charming short, expertly done, and is honestly just as good as anything Pixar has [...]

OMG…never before seen Ghostbusters II Behind the Scenes footage!

Zoic Studios, one of my favorite VFX studios in the bizzzzzz, has recently launched a new blog called “I Design Your Eyes“! Where a couple days ago they profiled their work on ABC’s newest series “V”. And as always, the work Andrew Kramer and Co., have done on the show is absolutely amazing. Read more about [...]