chase the light

This weekend one of the guys I had worked with on Polar Express decided it was all too much. So he took his life. I worked with him a lot on the caribou sequence in Polar and man did I ever ask some dumb questions of him over a period of several months. From the simple… “Why do all of my caribou have white antlers?” to the complex “What’s for lunch?”

Above is one of my shots from Polar that he helped nurse through. Those thousands and thousands of caribou I had to light, render and comp all look beautiful thanks to him. He was quite busy fixing any little hiccup that came along to make them look good and make my life easier. It’s been a bit downbeat around here.

Ladies, check your boobs. Men, check your balls. Everybody, check your heads.