I’m one of the old schoolers, doing flame since the onyx days.

I started out in very early 3d graphics, with a “Sinclair” computer, when you had to roll-your-own software (in “basic”), print the images out and shoot your frames with a downshooter film camera.

In the beginning of my professional career, I was involved with the transition from analog to digital video. I worked with 1" tape, the very first d-1 digital tape, and the first “ddr’s” (digital disk recorders). I had the opportunity to work on some great stuff from a certain era - including Star Trek TNG, Max Headroom and too many videos to count from the “Golden Age” of MTV, with the likes of Madonna, Van Halen, Michael Jackson and many many more - with then young directors like Dom Sena, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Michael Bay Mark Romanek and others during their formative years doing commercials and music videos.

I was a programmer for a very early 3d digital video machine called a “mirage” made by Quantel - which also produced the “Paintbox”, which was the precursor to photoshop, as well as the “Harry” and the “Henry”, the precursors to the Flame.

I started a company in the late '80s called Planet Blue. We were one of the very first to use digtal video in the commercials business, back when everything was still being done with chemistry and light.

I’ve written software to animate faces from speech, for which I was awarded a couple of patents.

I’m still working in the commercials business, doing mostly flame work, with an ever growing helping of cgi, and enjoying it immensely.