Digital Domain

He is an extremely insightful person.

He has worked in the visual effects industry forever uh he started in visual effects back in 93 at digital domain where he headed up commercials over there and that's where i got to know him and daniel got to know him as well and honestly one of the things that you know he evolved quite his career became eventually became the ceo of digital domain but One of the things he did that I think is important for us to learn now is that he either pitched or helped people pitch major feature films through the process of doing these tests that end up getting the features made.

So three of those examples are Benjamin Buttons that he worked with David Fincher on, Tron Legacy, which pretty much kick-started all of the film career of Tron.

Joe Kaczynski.

And the third one is Ender's Game, which was a major, major project that was done inside of digital domain that he got involved with.

So lots of great work from him and I really appreciate it.

He then sort of got involved in the AI scene very early on in many ways and played a leadership role at companies like Metaphysics and Moon Valley and is now sort of consulting AI startups in the industry and helping letting them know what's going on.

Exactly.

yeah.

Well, one of the shops, obviously, Digital Domain did some of that.

So Nikos' group did that.

Wonderful work.

Yeah.

I mean, I remember when my first movie was Zonday After Tomorrow and Digital Domain had spent nine months and a lot of TDs to develop an ambient occlusion pipeline to put ambient occlusion on all the buildings because they wanted to avoid ray tracing.

And it was so much money, so long.

It's like if you just ray traced it, it would be done.

You can tell it's early digital effects, but it's still really cool, and it fits real well with the rest of the effects for the movie.

Yeah, it's definitely 90s digital effects and not from ILM or Digital Domain, which was doing the Terminator stuff.

The poster of this movie was kind of cool.

It was very minimalist almost.

She also went to MIT and received a Master's of Science in Visual Studies.

She has worked as a technical director for Digital Domain, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Sony Pictures.

She's worked on many movies, including The Fifth Element, Dante's Peak, Dinosaur, Hollow Man, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Charlotte's Web.

She has worked for NVIDIA for a number of years as a product manager, trainer, and course developer.