"hi everyone welcome to the a 6nz podcast I am sonal today's episode is continuing our new medium storytelling series this episode in particular is focusing on virtual worlds and more broadly filmmakin..."

"we're really excited to have you and I think what's really special unique about your background is a the immense variety of things and the range of things that you've done but also because you bring s..."

"designed so much in the movie that he gave me the credit on the film as visual effects designer and it was really interesting because I hadn't really started off to be a production designer actually w..."

"on a moon that's orbiting a big gas planet he said he said there's floating mountains floating mountains is on a moon and that yeah can you come see me tomorrow and I said okay yeah so so I had never ..."

"design what did that entail roughly we're not familiar with the industry so production design includes everything from oh every plant every everything about the the world of Pandora creating that worl..."

"shift in doing say production art and design to the directing I mean beyond like the scope of what you're doing is it's kind of interesting I was doing a panel in Oslo Norway and someone in the audien..."

"when you think about the fact that you created entire worlds like from down to the plants in an avatar how does that sort of translate to VR where it seems it's almost like unmooring there's no place ..."

"the ability to you know change that into any lens any scale of movements you could have a techno crane move or just a little bitty move all with the same cool the ability to to use any lens or any cam..."

"I was during the middle of Maleficent and and read that Facebook had bought you know company called oculus as an investment of ours just a safe full disclosure so that very day I read it I got up and ..."

"right from the beginning well that tells you how long ago it was I have a question for you on the on the technology and the creatives or the balance because one of the things that I know a lot of peop..."

"think very much like avatar I look at things not today but you know five years from now ideas will always be ideas that are catching up and the tech is catching up with they're constantly trying to sp..."

"stories I do you know I was just on the phone this morning with somebody talking about this because you know in when I was doing didn't not directing but when I was doing visual effects I would work o..."

"way if the virtual reality company is famous for anything today it's the first production that you did with Fox innovation labs which is the Martian basically letting you be Matt Damon stuck on Mars f..."

"events happening in a specifically timed way but I got to spend time actually there and write what's a game like about is the fact that the story it's not controlled entirely by the filmmakers it's yo..."

"because when you see wait why is that such a hard problem because there's just so much you know so much happening and and by the way you know this is taking the you know the vibe and an oculus and the..."

"and he was kind enough to let us work while he was in editorial still on making the actual film but he allowed us to take their footage and experiment with it so I came up with this this thing I calle..."

"edit by the way you just have to do it in clever ways I've done a lot of research in you know motion because obviously if you if you artificially give somebody a sense of motion they can not feel well..."

"to those things or these would that's right if you're someone like me who gets seasick on a rowboat you make a motion that's a constant up-and-down motion where the horizon is changing if you're on a ..."

"front of you just take it in and let somebody tell you a story now I have the choice right now to go to a movie theater sit back in the dark and let somebody tell me a story or I could go home and tur..."

"storytellers will get involved when I first saw the movie gravity for instance yeah oh man this make a great VR film you have these super long moves you're floating it's emotional eighty-five percent ..."

"Globes you know I'm I go back far enough where I witnessed analog-to-digital right in the first place where computers were these things no one knew about and what was interesting is in the early days ..."

"there was going to have to be a symbiotic relationship between the technical and the creative and so from day one my intent was to be a pioneer in the content of VR and not an innovator in any new sor..."

"great of adoptions of these VR headsets you know several hundred thousand units each for the rift and vibe let's say does the idea of having some other form of getting to people sound like are you int..."

"we're at now I think this next year is very exciting because a lot of attention will focus on on better compelling content so what are some of the things just to wrap up that you are excited about and..."

"writing challenge around that to make it not like kind of thing choose one door well it is Alice in Wonderland but look at we can read a book and we can adapt that to a screenplay and we can do certai..."

"maybe if you're watching VR on a boat so bring back the intermission that's super exciting and interesting I also like the narrative tool that the intermission was you know what one particular divides..."