Pushing Pixels

My name is Kirill Grouchnikov and I am a software engineer. I work at Google on the Android team. I have zero patents to my name, and I intend to keep it that way. Read more here.

Interviews on the art and craft of visual storytelling

» Chicken Bone VFX work on “Westworld” – interview with John Renzulli and Arissa Blasingame
» Invisible digital worlds – interview with John Renzulli and Arissa Blasingame of Chicken Bone VFX
» Production design of “Hanna” – interview with Carly Reddin
» Designing the Oscars 2020 – interview with Jason Sherwood
» Cinematography of “Hanna” – interview with Ollie Downey

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Interviews on screen graphics in film and TV

» The art and craft of screen graphics – interview with Steven Bussey
» The screens of “Black Mirror” – interview with Clayton McDermott
» Catching waves – interview with John Koltai
» The art and craft of screen graphics – interview with Stylow
» The art and craft of screen graphics – interview with Jamie McCallen

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General thoughts, musings, and deliberations

» Fixing Twitter not loading in Firefox with “network protocol violation that cannot be repaired” error
» Theming in Substance, now with icons
» Any day now
» The future of movie theaters
» Radiance 3.5.0

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