Exploring the intersection of cinema, game development, tech, and AI, alongside personal notes from the director's chair.
To be read after Chapter One: Lost In Wilderness The New Playground The game dev studio felt like a completely different world. And I mean that in the best possible way. Where I had come from, things were predictable. Here,…
Rethinking Creativity in the Age of AI: Tool, Threat, or Something Else? Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most disruptive tools of our time. It has entered industries across the globe, changing the way we work, create, and think.…
The Art of Workflow Transformation Every studio, whether it’s a scrappy indie setup or a large production house, has those moments where things don’t go according to plan. A render fails minutes before delivery, a camera rig doesn’t behave as…
Creating Histories, Cultures, and Atmosphere Through Design In storytelling, be it film, games, literature, or interactive media, world-building is a narrative force in itself. The choices you make when designing a world, its history, culture, and sensory atmosphere, shape how…
And What I’m Taking Into My Own Game Perhaps you already know the answer to this question. Because, I’m one of the millions who fell in love with Red Dead Redemption II by Rockstar Games. I don’t know why the…
Blending Game Logic into the Filmmaking Process I’ve always been a gamer – never hardcore, never purely casual. My favorite games are the ones with depth: a layer of strategy, a demand for careful management, and, most importantly, a story…
Storytelling in Games and Films That Never Break Perspective In film, cuts are like punctuation. They separate ideas, change pace, and guide the audience’s focus. In games, their equivalents are loading screens, transitions between levels, or abrupt shifts in perspective.…
How Silence, Emptiness, and Absence Drive Storytelling in Film and Games We’re so used to thinking about stories in terms of what fills them, dialogue, action, music, mechanics, that we sometimes forget the power of what isn’t there. Silence. Emptiness.…
The Editor as the Second Director: Film Editing Techniques That Shape Every Great Film In the world of filmmaking, there’s a saying that resonates deeply with anyone who understands post-production: the editor is the second director of a film. While…
How I Became a Filmmaker Without Film School I’ve been making films for the past 15 years. So far, I’ve directed 6 live-action feature films and acted as the animation head in two animated feature length films. And I did…