This was my third film for the Pens To Lens student screenwriting festival. The script for this film was written by two 7th grade students. I was interested in...
I wrote Genie to be a simple interface to create atomically accurate DNA models in Maya based on real gene sequence data. It allows the user to create data...
Ytini is a collaboration between AVL and Jill Naiman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It is a plugin for Houdini that uses the scientific analysis and visualization tool...
For most of my career I have been responsible for working with students on innovative research through the NCSA’s Students Pushing INnovation internship program. These internships focus on student-driven...
I was the fortunate recipient of an early-access developer kit of the Leap Motion hand-tracking device. My first experiment with it was to build a Python program that sent...
Crops in silico is a mutli-disciplinary collaboration of several years amongst plant biologists and computer scientists to study the possibilities of simulating fully virtual crops as a means to...
I’ve contributed a couple of FX-inspired art prints to local art shows. Because FX tools process rules that are inspired by nature, I see them as a way to...
This was my short film directorial debut. The film was produced from a student script submitted to the Pens To Lens student screenwriting festival which I helped found in...
Building off some incredible work by Alex Betts, a former colleague at the NCSA, I was able to connect our Microsoft Kinect datastream directly to rigged characters in Maya....
This 4k flatscreen documentary was produced with our production partner Tom Lucas for streaming on Amazon Prime. We worked with researchers on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the...
