A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
When Rory was little he would try to make his family laugh by making cartoons using any animation technique he had access to, whether it was pausing and unpausing his dad’s camcorder or hitting spacebar really fast on Powerpoint. This eventually led to him learning professional animation skills, becoming a highly skilled CG Artist specialising in Assets and Animation Production. As Head of Assets at Emmy and BAFTA-winning studio Blue Zoo, he was an integral part of every production, mentoring artists to produce the incredible characters, props and environments seen in all of their productions. After show running Millie and Lou with Mandy, Rory is now directing a show for Ritzy Animation.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.