The Rendering Killer (dot com)

via CGTalk

It'll be interesting to see where this goes:

www.therenderingkiller.com

FTA: "We felt it was important for us to be able to communicate our most wild ideas with the greatest simplicity, but it was a mistake to believe that 3D design studios would give us an easier life. So, several years ago, we decided to fill in what we felt was missing from those software dedicated to 3D design and architectural communication, and gave birth to Twinmotion."

Doing Y Combinator in your 30s

via Hacker News

Doing Y Combinator in your 30s

Interesting article debunking the myth of the 20-something protégé by an entrepreneur in his early 30's who participated in a web startup at YC. Personally, I would think that the 20 something web CEO has got to be the rare exception, not the rule. For one thing, entrepreneurs don't stop after their first success.

Mohen Leo is on a mission

via CGSociety

31 August 2010, by Barbara Robertson

Mohen Leo is on a mission. At this point in his career as a visual effects supervisor, he believes he has found the perfect studio in the perfect location, and he’s recruiting 100 mid- to senior-level effects artists and geeks from around the world to join him.

Five of the films Leo has worked on have received Oscar nominations for best visual effects. And Leo personally received two Visual Effects Society nominations – for best single visual effect of the year 2012 and outstanding created environment in a live action movie Poseidon.

He was a visual effects artist on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and technical director for The Perfect Storm and Pearl Harbor at Industrial Light & Magic. He left ILM to become technical director at ESC for The Matrix Reloaded and then became sequence lead for The Matrix Revolutions. Back to ILM where he was associate visual effects supervisor for Poseidon, then on to Digital Domain to become visual effects supervisor for Speed Racer and 2012.
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