Massive Training was founded by
3 visual effects supervisors with years of Hollywood film
production experience. The main goal was to help educate
our beloved Computer Graphics industry in our beloved
Thailand, using what we have learnt from working, building,
supervising, troubleshooting and enjoying visual effects
projects in Hollywood film productions.
Stephen
Regelous
Academy Award winner of 2003
Science and Engineering category, Stephen has become world
famous for his software 'Massive'. Having written the
software to realize Peter Jackson's dream of epic battle
scenes in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen took
artificial intelligence, autonomous agent animation to the
new height that no one has gone before using simplistic
interface, fuzzy logic and natural senses to closely
imitate behavior of anything and everything. Coupled that
with his 10 years of production experience in TVCs and
feature films, Stephen is an all around, forefront artist
in the field.
Starting his own software company after the Lord of The
Rings, his software was picked up by practically all
leading computer graphics studios around the world, Digital
Domain, Pixar Animation Studio, Rhythm & Hues, The Mill
London, Double Negative, Animal Logic, Framestore CFC,
Moving Picture Company, Square-Enix to name a few.
Artaya
Boonsoong
After working in various fields
of computer graphics such as TV commercials, TV production,
Game Development, Artaya turned his interest fully to
feature film production. Co-founding a very successful
visual effects production facility, 'Luma Pictures' in Los
Angeles, California, Artaya took it from 2 man boutique
house to full-fledge 50 man Hollywood film visual effects
production facility in a matter of 3 years. His movie
credits included the like of Sky Captain and The World of
Tomorrow, Crash, Charlie's Angels, Underworld Evolution,
Ray, Into The Blue among others.
Having seen every facet of Hollywood film visual effects
production, artistically, technically and satisfactorily,
Artaya left his own company heading back to Thailand where
his soul belong. Aiming to spread his hard-earned knowledge
to Thai CG industry, doing his little part to make it a
better place. Currently his brain-child, Luma Pictures, is
an 80 man visual effects house working on 7-8 Hollywood
films at a time.
Danop
Dharmaraksa
For over two decades, Danop has
worked in various fields of CG productions, encountering as
many deadline as a man can take in TV production, feature
film production, TV documentaries, photography, and video
game production. A man with many talents, Danop is
well-versed in the art and science of production, including
but not limit to directing, art directing, technical
directing, writing, voice acting, music score, photography.
Danop undertook large scale architectural animation of
several UAE's world rocking monumental projects, most
noteworthy The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Health Care City, and
The Dubai Land Resort. He has won many awards for his
contributions to those programs. His animated series,
animated features, visual effects, and commercial work for
world class clients can be seen throughout Europe and Asia.
Aside from hands-on production works, Danop took many
people under his wing as an industry leading lecturer, a
professor of computer animation.