John Wick, Avatar, Men In Black and hundreds of other shows use production technology made by Petty's Melbourne-based Blackmagic Design company. Grant Petty, 52, was raised in public housing in regional Victoria before his stellar successAmazingly, Petty had built Blackmagic without external investors, venture capital or debt. 'Here was the trailer-trash, housing commission guy but the teacher had to ask, 'could you help us out in the computer room?'' Petty quickly decided television production would be an industry in which he'd never be bored, leading to work experience with local TV stations. It was while fixing production equipment working as a production engineer in Singapore that the idea for Blackmagic came to him.

Source: The Nation May 24, 2021 03:56 UTC