Gadgetory

hi I'm Paul at the verge I am here in Queens at the Museum of the moving image I'm gonna meet Masi oka from hero's he was hero in heroes which should give you a clue about how awesome he was in that show and he's basically the best human being on the planet Earth so just know no big deal oh okay you were involved with like during the prequels Mother's Day I was doing other people's as well yes what software were you making for them then well you know our main our main platform was Maya so I wrote a lot on Maya plugins you know a specific example might be like we're both at chases in the asteroids sequence so basically the production that said and we need to be able to destroy this asteroid in a million pieces but we won't be able to control which way everything goes you know because an animator needs to be able to have all that fine control and when you know when in ILM when in visual effects you want to be able to do it so that it's visually accurate but that's not necessarily physically active it has to be physically accurate enough so there's a lot of communication back and forth where they want to make something look you just have to amaze yeah I remember one shot where we had to be breast enhancement it's good yeah so say there was a shot of a breast and the director wanted it bigger so we had to like wow digitally enhanced it sounds like really hard work yes you I think you right after ILM yeah you got the job with tears that's like why you left right well actually what I started was I went to San Francisco was their headquarters I was there and I finished my first big show there on perfect songs on there like two or three years okay and I said you know I loved working here I could I'm a life I could stay here so that meant that was a sign for me to leave so I came down to LA and you know I ran out money very quickly right sounds like oh yeah I got to do something about my financial situation but then my mom said you know what if you're gonna look for jobs elsewhere want you to stay working for us you could kalakeya for us in that way Wow so that was that was very nice to them and then but I had to sign at this contract saying if I didn't get a recurring role on a pilot or a supporting role in a film they my first year in LA I would have to move back up to San Francisco I feel like heroes was this realization that you could do movie level effects now on a TV show I was that pretty big leap forward but I actually think you know before that you know lost did a great job of making come bring something cinematic yeah especially when you tell a serie live show it goes that but with that always comes budget you know I think right now if we did heroes you know we could do it on a but you a slightly cheaper budget and if you get you know it's going to get better and better do you have any of these growing up I actually didn't have a lot of the figures you know I only wanna how does that do it at the Cape I don't even know it's great because there's all these fans of that world you know and and to have people who are so passionate about it but it's also you know it's it's upon the filmmakers you know my former boss George you know he if he needs to take care of that pan you know these days is getting to a point that I feel like she's milking every cent the possible which is uh yeah I get it's a business you know you know he's he was a Great Creator when he created the the first Star Wars you know we create something revolutionary if you see the original original Star Wars yeah there's a lot of interesting mistakes he saw all these mistakes when he when he first created right so he had ILM through an entire path at the movie right and makes little changes so were you there at the time yeah they're like those projects like just like simple things like putting their badges here here you know there's actually a fan project to restore the original cut because you can't buy in high-definition and original cuts of the movie so they're like they're tried to undo you they're reverse engineering your work you know is there's a reason why it was a classic of that yeah yeah I think you need to embrace him mistakes as well yeah there's always gonna be minted even this shoot right now like I was wearing a watch do you have action figures of yourself well no my action figure was like really you know loosely made so the head would always come off oh there's like oh that's kind of a like a disc I have a confession I bought the first two cen the first two seasons and I saw the first episode of the third Isis I walked away I totally understand okay with that I think so I think the first season of that show was absolutely insane you know as a fan myself I was a fan of the show yeah we were so proud and yet everybody around the world you know there was a phenomenal without yeah I'm very proud of the work we can receive do you do you think there's something to that where you get a back lot Lego Star Wars because the first season or the first movie was so good and fans just expect that greatness throughout and they get mad when that's not met yes I mean it's a little bit difficult at the same time that's our job you know I think unique you take a bowl you know choice make a bold choice in a c50 and sometimes it works and sometimes it didn't did you play emulated game I play melee games yeah absolutely I spent so much Porter's are like gauntlet so I kind of go back oh that's I played some gauntlet that thing is designed it to make so much money I realize that but each other yeah where do you see yourself going you're direct uh yeah I think ultimately I left at the wreck I love the collaborative nature behind the scenes I also like being in front of camera so I think direction directing seems to be a natural kind of weird culminating all the experience that I've had I mean you know you've got sort of all angles of the craft I try it you have a you thing you have a blind spot you got you all I have so many flies buzz I you know this life this is a continuing education you can always be one yeah I could be like nine years old and I could still be learning stuff yeah and that's what's kind of fun I enjoy knowledge I can I create new stuff I love exploration in it you know it's constant learning something new every game which is great that's cool thank you so much oh thank you you