A real-world snapshot of how AI in business workflows is reshaping productivity, leadership, and the future of work. This conversation began over lunch. It was one of those rare discussions that cut through the noise. I sat with a couple of people who build and manage AI systems for large corporations, and we focused heavily […]
Authentic storytelling in the age of AI is becoming the defining difference between content that disappears and content that actually connects. Something is happening right now that’s difficult to ignore once you see it. We are living in a moment where content has never been more abundant, more accessible, or more technically refined, yet at […]
AI in animation was a topic that surfaced in nearly every panel I participated in this past weekend at Comic-Con—specifically, WonderCon 2026. The event itself was wonderful, full of energy, creativity, and community, but one conversation kept returning again and again: artificial intelligence. It did not matter whether the discussion centered on storytelling, production, or […]
A few days ago, I found myself attending the Saturn Awards, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write. I had been invited only a few days earlier, and although I knew the name, I did not really understand the event. I knew it was an awards show of some kind, but that […]
The Question That Keeps Returning About What We Build Is Who We Are When I reflect on the idea that what we build is who we are, I often think back to a long conversation I had with philosophers, policy thinkers, and individuals affiliated with various think tanks. We were discussing human behavior — how […]
Owning your own intellectual property changes the position of an artist in the marketplace. Artists do more than make things. They create ideas that did not exist before. Once those ideas take shape, they become intellectual property (IP). In practical terms, that means the artist can control, license, protect, and expand what they create. At […]
A Reflection on Instinct, Spirit, and the Quiet Language of Line Developing Your Art Style and Artistic Voice Developing your art style isn’t something I set out to engineer — it’s something I discovered by accident. People often ask how I approach drawing. Some artists study style obsessively — analyzing technique, perfecting realism, refining their […]
The Radford Studio Center is currently in foreclosure. I never expected to write that sentence about a place filled with early career memories—not just of soundstages and shows, but of how the television industry actually works. Long before streaming wars, shrinking episode orders, and the shifts I’ve written about in the future of the entertainment […]
Every time a handful of films cross the billion-dollar mark at the international box office, the same question resurfaces: are movie theaters really back? In 2025, three Disney-backed releases — Avatar, Lilo & Stitch, and Zootopia — each surpassed $1 billion internationally. Outside of Disney, only one film reached that level: Ne Zha 2, which […]
A company isn’t only defined by what it sells. It’s defined by what it signals—what it promises before a product is even opened, before a ticket is even scanned, before a word is even spoken. That signal is identity, and for entertainment companies, especially, identity is often carried by one thing above all else: a […]