My big brother, Agent FX

When I was a kid, everything my big brother's did was cool - and I wanted to do whatever they did. In fact, I owe my choice to pursue photography to my brother David. He started taking a photography class about his freshman year of high school, so I started wanting to be a photographer around the age of 11 or 12. We didn't compete with each other directly. He did not end up pursuing photography as his life study, but he did one-up me in the end. My brother is an effects animator with an impressive list of films in is resume. The local newspaper just ran a short story about one of his latest achievements, he was one of the animators on the Academy Award nominated Kung Fu Panda. David's job included adding naturalism to scenes involving snow, dust and confetti. He often also works with water effects (he spent 7 months working on the final battle in the Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End)


When asked if he was nervious about Kung Fu Panda's chances at the Ocsars, he joked about how it's not his first Oscar nominated film. He was part of the Oscar winning team that made Crash in 2004. So David may be far out perfoming me so far in the Oscar nomination competition - but you never know - this could be my year! :)