Here is an excerpt from his web site:
"I am from Massachusetts, my family having lived in Concord (where the 'shot heard round the world' was fired at the Old North Bridge) for most of my life. There are lots of tourists there and the leaves turn unusual colors in the fall."I am too old to be part of the "Star Wars" crowd. I was probably brainwashed into believing that Movies and Special Effects were a neat thing to work on by the string of Disaster films and the Thunderbirds TV show.
"I did not do much about that until the last year I was at MIT (where I was in course VI-3, as they call computer science). While there I produced a small comic strip in The Tech called "Space Epic". Maybe somebody there remembers it?
"And I started working with a small informal group in Waltham that was trying to make a 16mm science fiction film.
"They tried to make several, and I designed and built a number of spaceship interior sets. Every time though interest evaporated as we all realized just how much work making a movie is.
"However we also made some sets for commercials, and working on commercials I found that a lot more got done and everybody was much more enthusiastic. I suspect that getting paid, the fact that somebody was actually relying on this thing being done, and a free catered lunch made the most difference in everybody's attitude.
"So somehow that made me go to the University of Southern California, where I tried to study to be a Production Designer, and purposely avoided any work with computers. It turns out that USC is the wrong school to go to for art design, and eventually I found myself doing animation exclusively, and from there doing computer graphics.
"I started at Digital Domain as a software engineer. I then decided to become a Digital Artist, but it looks like I am drifting back to software again, just for old times sake. I am the original author of Nuke, the Digital Domain in-house compositing program."
Technical Achievement Awards (Certificates) 2001: For their pioneering effort on the NUKE-2D Compositing Software. (w. Paul Van Camp, Jonathan Egstad and Price Pethel)
1 Scientific/Technical Award