I Like Engineering, But I Love The

Boy, Am I Glad There Wasn't A Fourth Episode Of Lord Of The Rings.

Once The Image Was In The Digital Environment, One Of The Problems Was, We Had No Means To Reproduce The Color Spectrum, Grey Scale, And Contrast That Film Produces, Without Converting The Digital File To Film, Evaluating It, Then Going Back And Changing The Digital Image.

You Had To Make A Camera Look Like It's Traveling At 300 Mph, But You Couldn't Make It Actually Travel At 300 Mph So You Had To Slow Everything Down And Build Devices To Do That. So You Were Constantly Engineering.

I Come From An Era When We Had To Figure Out How To Bolt A Camera To A Motorcycle Or An Airplane Or Dig A Hole And Find A Canyon Deep Enough To Repel Into It So That We Can Capture Images That Were Real.

With The Advent Of Digital Imaging I Made The Transition From Trying To Figure Out How To Do Things To Creating Objects, Characters And The Whole Cloth. It Kind Of Freed Up The Analytical Part Of My Brain And I Had The Opportunity To Use More Of The Creative Side Of My Brain For How Things Interact With Light And Integrate Into Stories.