There’s something ironic about spending
much of your career developing tools
and automating production workflows, only
to find yourself wondering whether
automation might eventually make your own
work unnecessary.
Early in my career, we used to joke about
how people
thought visual effects were made.
There seemed to be this assumption that we
had some magical button in our software
that would do everything for us.
Push a button, and there’s your animation.
Move a slider, and suddenly you have a
realistic