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About Me

A big kid at heart who fortunately gets to be a big kid at work. I love having fun and being around those people that can have fun doing pretty much anything.

In all sorts of exciting news...(Woo-hoo!)

Happy Feet won both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Animated Feature Film!

and...
Rhythm and Hues (my former studio) won a Technical Academy Award for their Fluid System Tools which I used on Superman Returns and Happy Feet

and...
The Golden Compass has won both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Visual Effects!

What I am working on now: Check out Aint-It-Cool-News' article on BOLT: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36393

My Interests

Art
Museums
Hiking
Surfing (still learning)
Rafting
Caving
Movies
Tennis
Taekwon Do
Theatre
Amature Photography
Drawing
Bars
Chilln' with Friends
Hanging out

I'd like to meet:

First off, if you think I am interesting or anything, drop me a line.

To be specific in what I am looking for in the two usual categories...
Romantically...
I'd like a girl who is:
...daring enough to go mini-golf putter fencing with me
...bold enough to go out and play in the rain
...ready to conquer the world
...can appreciate the beauty of the strangest things
...can be a big kid like myself

Friendship wise...
People who are goal oriented but fun at heart and have lots to share.

Music:

Crazy Wide Selection.
Rock, Pop, Jazz, Opera, World, Classical, Blues and so on.

Movies:

off the top of my head...
Goonies
Explorers
Rudy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Toy Story 1+2
Shrek
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Lilo and Stitch
Swingers
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Zoolander (drinking movie)
Serendipity
Sliding Doors
A Love Song for Bobby Long (rent it!)

and ones I've worked on or am working on, which you may or may not care to see :P
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Garfield: The Movie
Constantine
Ultraviolet
Superman Returns
Happy Feet
Meet the Robinsons
Golden Compass

Television:

currently watching...
...thanks to TV Torrents :)
Simpsons
Vegas
24
Smallville
Weird Travels
Ghost Hunters
Rescue Me
Family Guy
SG-1
Scrubs
Supernatural
Desperate Housewives
Prison Break
Rome
My Name is Earl
Dr. Who
The Unit
Heroes
Eureka
Entourage
Weeds
Torchwood

Books:

Lord of the Rings
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Harry Potter books
Dancing Corndogs in the Night

and the one I'm always putting together

Heroes:

My grandfather - because he showed me no matter what you can't give up on life

My Blog

Costa Rica !!!

So come tomorrow night I'm leaving for Costa Rica. This will be my first trip flying overseas since 95! Its about damn time. Its a short trip, but it will be quite relaxing and a lot of fun.So if I am...
Posted by Brock on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

Superman Returns - How'd we do that?

So a lot of people have asked about what I worked on or what my studio worked on for Superman Returns. I found two good articles today about our work. I was a lead for the team doing the Lighting for ...
Posted by Brock on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:11:00 PST

Superman Returns is Done!!!

So after 10 months of work on Superman Returns, my work and most of my fellow artists' work is now done. I just got the news and it is quite a relief and now its time for some good R&R. Overall th...
Posted by Brock on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:00 PST

Yup, I'm from PA

You Know You're From Pennsylvania When... Your idea of Chicken Pot Pie has nothing to do with a pie and you can't figure out why people might think it would. You know at least 5 euphemisms...
Posted by Brock on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:28:00 PST

For those that live in LA...

My god this is all so true... You Know You're From LA When... You're driving on the 101 and see a clear cut definition of where the smog begins and ends You go to a karaoke bar and batt...
Posted by Brock on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:26:00 PST