Global Wahrman

I believe that as we live our pathetic lives in our corrupt society, that we are all of us under a moral obligation to enliven and otherw...

At one time or another, many computer animation people have worked to create an illusion of the night sky from earth or of its cousin, a ...

About two years ago, I decided to learn NVIDIA's GPU programming environment, CUDA. I wrote a volume renderer in it which can render...

An electronic musician named Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) creates remixes of well-known films using sounds and images from the film with some r...

New York Magazine  has an excellent essay on the subject of whether or not we ever really leave High School.   Its a topic of great interes...

This post will review various space program "launch attempts" (e.g. rocket failures) in the context of the study of animation tec...

As we have previously discussed, visual effects can be used for purposes beyond mere reality, but can be used to express an emotion, or th...

As everyone who has done computer animation knows, some of our favorite images are not intentional.  In fact, they were so not intentional ...

There are several issues that are demonstrated with this picture of my friend, Nicki K, at the VES awards many years ago. The first iss...

Of all the phrases that made me sick to my stomach, a client asking for "photorealism" was one of the most potent nausea producers...