Turbo Release & Crew Party

It's a big day of Turbo celebrating at DreamWorks today.  Lots themed-out lunchtime fun.  We also had a great crew screening and wrap party a few weeks ago at the Petersen Auto Museum.  It's been over a year and a half since I saw a version, so it's really great seeing the finished film with all the final details in place.

Happy Smekday!

Moving on to yet another show here.  I'm joining up with Happy Smekday! and it looks like it's going to be a blast.  I'm getting to use the fancy new next generation animation software DreamWorks has been building.  You know it's going to be a great show when the director, Tim Johnson, swings by your desk to introduce himself on the first day :)

Turbo Final Trailers

Time for a rundown of some new Turbo trailers out there!

Turbo Time Once More

Well, rolling off of "Peabody" has me now going back to "Turbo" for a month or so doing one-off hero work for crowds.  Lots of fun to be back with the ol' crew again - and fascinating to see how the movie is shaping up after a year away.

Today they also released this new poster.

Wife & Oscar

Insanely proud of my wife!  She stopped by work (she's still on maternity leave) to have her picture taken with a couple of guys named Oscar.  She was the Lead Matte Painter on "Life of Pi" and I'm insanely impressed by all she has accomplished.  Way to go honey!

You can see some of her work on the film here

VFX, Layoffs, Oscars, & Uncertainty

Lots of developments this month.  DreamWorks is laying off up to 350 people, Rhythm & Hues is laying off most the company and going bankrupt, there was a vfx protest at the Oscars - oh, the Oscars, where the vfx supervisor on Life of Pi was cut off mid-speech while trying to mention the stress and turmoil currently in the industry.  We'll see where this goes - but it's been quite the ride for the last 4 weeks....

Oh, and everyone on social media is changing their profiles to green squares (as in "without visual effects your movie would look like this").