The VFX Oscar shortlist has been announced, and Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is in the bakeoff! Digital Domain has two films in the running.  Along with The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button also made the list.  Congratulations to everyone who worked on both of these [...]

Just look how damn good this looks..  This is 1/4 scale footage off of a DSLR..  What the hell?   That is full sweetness right there..  The only thing I can hope for beyond this on the final production model is a 24p mode and shutter speed control.  If they added those I think I’d collapse [...]

So, this is the camera I’ve been waiting on to upgrade my aging Canon 10D.  I love the Canon 5D but I was holding out for its replacement.  I heard the announcement was coming up soon so I was literally checking out Keith Coopers’ website 5 times a day for new information.  His website is [...]

I’ll be attending Siggraph this year and I’m really looking forward to it.  It will be great checking out new technology, but it will be even more fun catching up with old friends.  I’m going to be quite busy, I have two panels, the first on is on Monday, 11 August, between 3:45 – 5:30 [...]

An interview that I did with CG Society is now up.  If you’re interested check out some behind the scenes making of the vfx we did at Digital Domain.  Click the image below or follow this link.

Here’s another article on Mummy 3 that I did that’s now online.  This one will be printed as well I believe.  Check it out, it’s called Step by Step: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

pineapple
(pīn‘ăp‘əl)
n.

A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.
The fruit of this plant.

Slang. A hand grenade.
A shot at Digital Domain that was as painful as passing this fruit.