Global Wahrman

It goes without saying that when a genuinely interesting movie comes out in America, that the film critics and media organizations will a...

draft Allen Debevoise (aka "devo") and one or more of his brothers sold one of their companies for $200M.  I have known Allen si...

Part one of this series is  here . In part one of our series on the “mysteries of underbidding in visual effects”, we discussed som...

I am looking for information on the origins of the .obj 3D object format.  By the time I had arrived at Robert Abel & Associates in 198...

If one wants to know the very essence of Hollywood creativity, look no further than Ender's Game . It is the very height of what ma...

For the betterment of my colleagues in the VFX industry and other people interested in the history of this screwed up field of visual ef...

[Substantially revised 2/19/2013] Anyone who looks at the field of Computer Graphics and Animation today sees vast misery, incredible and ...

[This post has wildly screwed up the blogspot GUI and it will need to be completely reformatted, yikes!  Not to mention typographical and gr...

The following image was brought to my attention by Clark Anderson and has been making the rounds on the Internet.  I looked ...

Tomorrow is the Robert Abel event at the UCLA school of Theatre & Film, which I may or may not be able to attend. I have taken th...

This essay is on the general topic of how we perceive coincidence, and read patterns into them.  Do those patterns actually exist?   I doubt...

[Updated 3/6/2013   I am now quite sure that other companies also did TRW commercials, I remember explicitly one that Digital Productions wo...

This is a brief anecdote on how I first became aware of the work of Tony Scott. When I started work at Robert Abel & Associates (RA...