Directory Profile

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

Professor Block produces 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 and Pretty In Pink.

Block also 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 Blizzard Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Direct TV, Dreamworks Animation, Hasbro Interactive, Hewlett-Packard, Nickelodeon Network, Pixar Studios, Screen Training Ireland, Tencent, Starz Entertainment, Troika Design Group, Seasun, Valve, and Walt Disney Feature and Television Animation.

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

His book, ‘The Visual Story’, now in its third edition, is published in 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 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.