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This idea of planning with intention became even sharper thanks to our Director of Photography, Richard Crudo, ASC. Richard has lived through every phase of this industry, from the tail end of the great 1970s to the digital explosion of the last two decades. He spoke about the way movies used to be made in the 70s and 80s, when filmmaking was essentially a heist. Film stock was expensive. Crews were lean. Every shot had to be earned. You did not dare walk onto set without a p

So with Skydance's acquisition of Paramount, it looks like we're going to get some new Star Trek. They want to reboot it because the license is a mess. But why is such a durable IP struggling so hard? Do we need more modern jokes? More self-aware references? More explosions? How about more revenge plots? What will fix it? Well first off, redshirts, you can stay. But all you red hats, you won't like my answer: Star Trek isn't struggling because its “gone woke.” It’s always b

I started out as a natural media illustrator, self-taught, largely working in pen and ink. I was able to draw since I was young, but it took a lot of regular day-in-day-out grinding to actually get good with the tools, and my art got better and better. It started to make (very little) money for me, and I got jobs like illustrating the contents of patio furniture crates. They were pretty good drawings of patio furniture. Were they art? There was a lot of craft and time put in