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Selective attention is a concept that all filmmakers need to understand. When an audience is focusing on something, the aspects of the fram...

It's time for the  Awesomest Oscar Pool Ballot In The History Of Oscar Pool Ballots. Every year  I create a special ballot based on a ty...

Watch on YouTube The beautiful and moving film "The Creator" (2023) is nominated for the Academy Award for visual effects, and ...

It was my absolute pleasure to (finally!) be a guest on Jason Snell's The Incomparable podcast! We talk about one of my favorite movies ...

Kris Tapley invited me to be a guest on his wonderful podcast 50 MPH, the oral history of the making of 1994's "Speed". The mo...

Folks who follow me on Twitter (currently known as X) are probably aware of my years-old, depressing, frequently updated and repetitive thre...

The gang behind my favorite movie podcast asked me to be a guest on the show, and it was scientifically impossible for me to be more giddy a...

Anthony Breznican from Vanity Fair asked me if I could take a peek at a shot from "The Exorcist" (1973), and get my thoughts on i...

watch Part 1 on YouTube I was thrilled to be a guest on Corridor Crew’s “VFX Artists React” YouTube series. Watch Part 1 here. Watch Part 2...

I was on KPIX CBS San Francisco to talk about visual effects in the "Mission: Impossible" film series. I didn't work on "...

I was the compositing supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic's work on "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves". The...

illustration by Graham Edwards update, May 2023: Since Cinefex shut down, this article had been inaccessible. I've resurrected it and r...