Posts tagged: visual-effects
The Origins of Krakatoa: A VFX Rendering Journey
By Ben Houston, 6 Minutes Read, 2024-12-06
From solving a unique rendering challenge for a single film to becoming an industry-standard tool used in blockbuster movies like Avatar and Harry Potter, the origin story of the Krakatoa point renderer.
Tags: enterpreneurship, frantic-films, visual-effects, software-development
Building Deadline: Finding Product Market Fit in a VFX Studio, and almost winning an Oscar
By Ben Houston, 7 Minutes Read, 2024-12-05
Sometimes big opportunities come from solving what seem like minor problems. In 2002, fresh out of university, I accidentally co-created what would become one of the most widely-used tools in Hollywood visual effects - all because I needed a better way to run fluid simulations.
Tags: visual-effects, frantic-films, entrepreneurship, computer-graphics, software-development