movies

During my career i had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of movies, either directly or indirectly.

You can find my IMDB page here.

Avengers: Endgame (senior developer: Cinesite - as Shyal Beardsley)
Robin Hood (development team: Cinesite - as Shyal Beardsley)
Avengers: Infinity War (senior software developer - as Shyal Beardsley)
The Commuter (development team: Cinesite - as Shyal Beardsley)
The Star (senior software engineer - as Shyal Beardsley)
The Great Gatsby (senior software engineer - as Shyal Beardsley)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (research & development - as Shyal Beardsley)
Sunshine (research & development engineer)
Curse of the Golden Flower (crowd technical director: digital army, MPC - as Shyal Beardsley)
X-Men: The Last Stand (research & development)
Poseidon (research & development)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (research & development - uncredited)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (research & development - as Shyal Beardsley)
Kingdom of Heaven (crowd simulation technical director: MPC)
The Da Vinci Code (research & development - uncredited)

What is it like working in the film industry?

Actually it's pretty enjoyable. One of the unique things about the VFX and film industry is that movies get announced months in advance, and huge amounts of capital ride on the movie getting released on time.

In fact, i recently got to learn that traders can even bet on how much movies will gross on release dates.

As such, deadlines are utterly immutable. There really aren't that many industries where deadlines absolutely cannot be moved under any conditions. This really affects how the industry conducts business.

Generally this means the focus is on the shortterm. Yes there is also medium to longterm focus, but the real #1 focus is to just get the movie out on time, everything else is secondary.