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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

Tech Zulu Event

Despite the fact that he can create things on Autodesk’s Maya that their own software designers may have never have dreamed up (or more accurately, that only a few people on this Earth can), being a ‘big wig’ was never May’s intention. Character design is thus begun by the modeling department, with permission from the art department.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

Tech Zulu Event

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. YouTube is joined by the SoCal outpost for Facebook.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

And as tech founders have skewed younger over the years due to the need to raise less capital and the fact that startups are often more technology-based at their cores – the shifts to areas where younger founders want to live has happened all over the world. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco. Thank you, Jordan.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Earlier this year, Mr. Rappaport sold a beach cottage in Malibu to a Facebook executive for $6.8