Years back, I was working for a studio on a very complicated shot. The supervisor explained what was needed and provided the source material. After a moment of reluctance I was suddenly hit with a rather impressive solution.

The supervisor was still standing over me and I began to explain my brilliant solution. Then while in the middle of divulging this master plan, he interrupted and asked “So you’re all set?” I replied “Yeah, no problem”, and then he said “Great!” as he walked away.

I wanted to explain to him my incredible solution and further impress upon him that I was a valuable member of the team. But he didn’t want to hear it; he wanted to see the shot finished.

The following morning after dailies, he casually told me “Nice job with your shot.” as we all walked to our posts. There was no congratulatory announcement or trophy at my station, just a friendly “nice-job” in passing. If they only knew what I went through.

Then later, I was asked to come back on another project so I guess they liked the work after all, despite the lack of my creative explanations.

I learned that supervisors don’t really care how you get your work done; they just want to see it completed. They...

Just wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be in New York this March 27, 2008 for the monthly AE meeting. I have a presentation planned and hopefully I can meet some of you at the meeting as well. Should be a lot of fun with our friend Aharon Rabinowitz too, so please come on down if you can.

On a side note:
Here is a higher resolution version of the Twitch Plug-in promo for those interested.
Watch Video Here

I also want to thank my friend Jacob Rowan for inviting Sam and I to the Clippers Basketball game last night; never sat so close before. Did I mention front row seats? The coach actually called on me to play in the game, but my knee was acting up so I played anyways. True story.

I know, I know. Twitch is finally done. But the promo video isn’t quite finished. This is one of the toughest parts for us and so we are trying some new things and being creative. We’re also staying up late, eating fruit snacks and drinking lots of sodas so hopefully we wont die. Long story short, we were still finalizing a couple of features and wanted to make sure everything was done before we tell you about it in the new promo…

Be prepared to see it on Wednesday or perhaps sooner with an official release date not too far away.