Those lads at BoingBoing pointed their readers to a contest to win a signed Ray Harryhausen DVD set. Cool! Don’t surf on over there, I’d like to maximize my own chances of winning. 🙂

One of the great perks of working Pixar is that occasionally you get to meet interesting people. Ray has stopped by twice in the time I’ve worked here, and was kind enough to sign a copy of his book for me. Little could I have imagined growing up and watching films like The Golden Voyage of Sinbad that I would later be able to meet such an inspiring legend in the film industry.

Don’t just sign up for the contest: FPS Magazine is a pretty cool website, and even includes articles about a little film that I worked on and you might have seen.

Addendum: The shot that they at the top was a particularly difficult one, but typical of Brad’s choice of camera angles: very, very low, with a quickly moving camera. This is one of the cases that RenderMan has difficulty with.