Listen on Apple, Google, Audible, Spotify, and more. Hear Ed Kramer’s “CGI Fridays” podcast free from The Companion Pioneering computer animation artist and educator Ed Kramer brought the creepy Scarabs from The Mummy and the threateningly funny Rock Monster from Galaxy Quest to life at the close of the 20th century, working as a Sequence…
The new CGI Fridays retro logo, click to play Join us for the live kickoff event for Ed’s new podcast, “CGI Fridays” on TheCompanion.app at 10:00am Pacific, Saturday May 28! Visit www.thecompanion.app/ed-kramer for a free three-month subscription, to join Ed live and participate in the Q&A. “CGI Fridays” is a podcast featuring the some of…
Free Live Event Celebrates Ed Kramer’s Podcast about the Pioneers of Computer Animation Ed Kramer has spent the last few years interviewing some of the early computer animation “wizards” about their groundbreaking feature film work. The Wizards of Hollywood project then morphed from a book to a feature-length documentary. But when Covid put the documentary…
Kramer’s Computer Graphics blog to appear weekly on new Sci-Fi fan subscription service “The Companion” We are excited to announce that as of today, July 9 2021, Ed Kramer officially joins the staff of The Companion.app, a new app-based service for Science Fiction movie and TV super-fans! Ed’s blog is appropriately named “CGI Fridays” a…
Ed Kramer reveals twisting backstory of his life – on route to becoming a Senior Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic from 1994 thru 2006 Matt Wallin’s 8111 blog is a great way to learn about the lives of many of the early artists who called Industrial Light & Magic home during the exciting…
Latest interview drops in the “SIGGRAPH Pioneers” series from Ed Kramer Jon Peddie has been a guiding force in the CGI industry for decades. His company, Jon Peddie Research publishes TechWatch and numerous other data-heavy reports on the latest developments in the world of computer-generated imagery. Companies world-wide rely on the news and in-depth research…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amAlcPqWYe4 Virtual MileHiCon attendees from all over Colorado logged on Friday afternoon as former Industrial Light & Magic supervisor Ed Kramer shared a talk about his personal history in computer animation. His presentation – titled Wizards of Hollywood – featured rare photos and video clips to illustrate the evolution of computer animation. Starting with crude…