The Wizard's Apprentice

To nonphotorealistic rendering and beyond

An exploration of some of the nonphotorealistic rendering techniques I used to create multiple intros for some videos we worked on at work.

A quick overview of how and why I created a batch downloader for images, the dwimgs command line utility.

A brief talk about my workflow for storyboarding my upcoming animated short “Daydream” and a showcase of the first sketches from the film.

A shout out to Fountain, the simple screenwriting markup language that is making writing screenplays simple, elegant and fun.

I am starting a new extremely short animated film as a side project to satisfy my creativity.

A discussion of the workflow I use while creating previz in Blender and the Python automation scripts that make it possible.

A review of some of the techniques I picked up while doing the planar tracking for my latest compositing gig.