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Animating and directing animation at ILM, drinking lots of coffee and trying to minimize saying dumb things.

San Rafael, CA
Joined July 2013
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Our first full trailer, great work from a great team Wicked - Official Trailer youtu.be/6COmYeLsz4c?si=oUS8… via @YouTube
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Hey, why not? :)
I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours
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This surprised me today, the interview was a long time ago! Thanks to my old friend Oz for sending it along youtu.be/RLqN0StNtUE?si=9-vW…
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Happy May the 4th! Very happy to see this fellow return to the screen and also happy to be part of the team!
They're coming. #ObiWanKenobi, a limited series, starts streaming May 27 on @DisneyPlus.
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Excited to see our work out in the world!
Between darkness and defeat, hope survives. Watch the new teaser trailer for #ObiWanKenobi, and start streaming the limited series May 25 on @DisneyPlus.
Almost there!
Obi-Wan Kenobi, a limited Original series, starts streaming May 25 on @DisneyPlus.
Loved this. Then I spent a bunch of time watching more of these great little films by @shinohara_kenta youtu.be/EJu5HXjHD_E
One of my favorite film scores
Finale of 𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝟯, Prague 2014, conducted by Elliot Goldenthal
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A few colleagues posted this, silly and fun! First 7 jobs: 1-Paperboy 2-Grocery bagger/stocker 3-Clerk in scholarship office 4-Machine shop inventory 5-Computer lab monitor 6-Freelance CG artist 7 -Toy shop clerk (last detour before making my full time living at animation)
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Saw #ninedays last night. Edson Oda and a brilliant cast created a film that is moving and profound, showing how life can be defined as moments of heartbreaking beauty and darkness. It's still sitting in my head a day later. See this movie.
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The clutter on my desk at home is better than the clutter on my desk at the office ever was.
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She looks like she's charging off the mag port on my laptop.
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This afternoon I was paging through a beautiful book: Seung Woo Cha's "The Art of Wild Life", originally found and purchased secondhand at @IliadBookshop (one of my fave places in LA) The gorgeous animal drawings are hugely inspiring-
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-Anyway, it seems to be a bit challenging to track down, but if you do ever stumble across this book in the wild, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's amazing. That is all. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.…
One of my projects this year has been searching for a few old issues of @cinefexNOW to complete my collection. Big score! This beauty was delivered today. Reading these older issues, the insights and sheer inventiveness on display remind me of what first drew me to this business
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"Well, can't you just ____?"
Write a horror story for your industry using just four words
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This is really beautiful. Artists building around a simple character walk, with hypnotic results. youtu.be/iKBs9l8jS6Q
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Oh man, this is a shock. I've been reading @cinefexNOW since the earliest issues. It fired my imagination and fueled my desire to pursue my career from the time I was a teen. What a loss.
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Definitely one of the best things on the internet today! abcn.ws/3mh6DMp via @ABC
I enjoyed watching Mank - the first time a "reel change" happened, I whooped out loud. Then subjected my wife to a rambling remembrance of my time as a projectionist when I was in college.
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RIP Ron Cobb. I spent hours poring over his design work for the movies when I was a kid, eventually discovering also his cartoons and an amazing body of work. roncobb.net/img/filmography/…
That horrific moment when a maya crash happens in the middle of a huge breakthrough on a tough anim scene and you realize the last save file is an hour old.
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I mean, software crashes are part of your life as a digital artist but man, does it ever feel like a personal betrayal...
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