(1996) The Crow: City of Angels (1996) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Fight Club (1999) The Affair of the Necklace (2001) Minority Report (2002) The Cat in the Hat (2003) The Terminal (2004) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Corpse Bride (2005) Breaking and Entering (2006) Bee Movie (2007) Watchmen (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (visual consultant) Rise of the Guardians (2012) (visual consultant) Upside Down (2012) Man of Steel (2013) Production Bunraku (2010) (co-producer) World Building As opposed to World building in interactive and multi-player games, the world building practice as initiated by McDowell in 2000 describes a narrative design system capable of addressing massively complex challenges in both fictional and real-world scenarios. World building is the engine that initiates each output. The practice that McDowell launched upturned the cinematic tradition of linear storytelling that conventionally springs from a funded script or a client brief. In world building a world is developed as a container for multiple narratives. Each world is developed in cross-disciplinary collaboration and expertise, distributing broad research to a holistic knowledge-base known as a Mandala, which leads to further research, culminating in multiple narratives. This helps organizations to envision, design, and experience preferred futures. Current work Experimental.design is a multi-platform, cross-discipline narrative design studio at the forefront of World Building. Led by McDowell, every project and partnership begins with the creation of a world. In April 2015, McDowell was awarded the BritWeek Business Innovation Award. McDowell currently serves as a professor of cinema practice at the University of Southern California. McDowell was named the William Cameron Menzies endowed chair in Production Design in 2014. World Building Media Lab In addition to teaching world building, he directs the USC World Building Media Lab (WbML), where McDowell and his interdisciplinary students engage in funded research to build immersive worlds for storytelling and vast collaboration for synchronous media technologies. In 2014, the research lab was awarded the prestigious Future Voice Award at the Interaction Awards. The lab is engaged in an ongoing research project to develop a new visual language for molecular biology and the biological sciences, expressed in the World in a Cell, development of an immersive virtual reality experience of the interior of a single Pancreatic Beta Cell. In a funded partnership with the USC Bridge Institute, the project aims to create outcomes that include high school and undergraduate teaching platforms, public-facing exhibitions, and a