Last week, some top executives from Disney and Walden Media came to Framestore to see how things were going. They went into the screening room with our production team and were watching some of the latest images that we had made. They had been in there for about 30-40 minutes, when Robin (our producer) came to my office and asked where Joe was. (His desk is next to mine.) I said that he had been there just a moment earlier, but that he must have stepped out for a minute. She asked if I knew where a particular thing that he had been working on was, and I looked and he still had it up on his monitor, but it was hidden behind a few other windows. I brought it forward and left it alone.
A few minutes later, Robin came back and asked if he had come back. Then all the executives and their entourage, our production team, Robin, Jon, our VFX Supervisor, and Mike, our CGI Supervisor, were crowded around the door to my office, waiting for Joe. Mike went to find Joe, and found him in the bathroom. Joe told me later that he actually knocked on the door to his stall and said,"Wipe faster." Joe replied from inside the W.C.,"Some things can't be rushed."
Joe eventually came back to his desk and showed the work to the people and was quite brilliant about the whole thing. They all apologized for lying in wait by his office, thanked him for his hard work and went away.
It was one of the funniest episodes in our office the whole time I've been here.
Dave
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