Directory Profile

Bruce Block is a tenured professor and holds the Sergei Eisenstein Endowed Chair in Cinematic Design.  Professor Block has over forty years of experience in the production of film, television and digital entertainment. His career encompasses feature motion pictures, television and streaming programs, commercials, documentaries, live-action and animation, video games, museum installations, and Imax films.

Professor Block has produced major studio motion pictures including The Holiday, Something’s Gotta Give, Christmas With The Kranks, What Women Want, Father Of The Bride, The Parent Trap, and Baby Boom.  Block also serves as a creative consultant. These credits include How Do You Know, Stuart Little, As Good As It Gets, The Great Outdoors, Some Kind Of Wonderful, The Noel Diaries and Pretty In Pink.

Additionally, Block conducts seminars on the visual structure of film, television and digital media for animation studios, advertising agencies, video game companies, and graphic design studios in America and Europe. His clients include Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Blur, Cartoon Network, Direct TV, Dreamworks Animation, Hasbro Interactive, Hewlett-Packard, ILM, Lucas Film, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Pixar Studios, Screen Training Ireland, Tencent, Starz Entertainment, Treyarch, Troika Design Group, Seasun, Valve, and Walt Disney Feature & Television Animation.

For over twenty years Professor Block supervised visual effects for film, television, Imax movies, and NASA simulations. He has also directed documentaries and informational films for museums, private industry and various government agencies.

His book, The Visual Story, now in its third edition, has been translated into eleven languages and is used by students and working professionals throughout the world.  His second book, 3D Storytelling, co-written with Phillip McNally, is the prime resource for explaining and understanding the principles of integrating 3D photography with a narrative story.

Professor Block is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and the Art Director’s Guild.