
Before Brian Fox marketed visual-effects software, he used it against deadlines. Now the Boris FX CMO and Sapphire product manager argues for something refreshingly practical: faster tools, wider hardware choice, and fewer obstacles between an artist and the frame.

Before he built displays that turn photons into objects, Jon Karafin made a two-ton sculpture run on living yeast. His career is a study in what happens when an artist's appetite for wonder meets an engineer's refusal to hand-wave the physics.