Stewart Mayer

Stewart Mayer grew up in Jacksonville, Florida with a supportive family and friends. He participated in sports and theater in high school, and was also apprentice to Louis Cheatham, a retired Navy master machinist. Stewart attended Southern Methodist University and was mentored by now long time friend, Director/Cameraman, Steve McWilliams. After studying engineering and film, Stewart began his career as a full-time cinematographer filming nationally syndicated documentaries and television programs while working for Quin Mathews Films. In 2002 Stewart began his freelance career which has taken him on some pretty exciting film making adventures.

Early in his career, to achieve special effects for his own low budget films he built several cinema cameras, developed new mechanical systems, wrote custom software, and dabbled in motor control. His efforts led him to the invention of his first motion control time-lapse and real-time robotic system that made it possible to bring big budget movie effects to the small screen. It did not take long for Stewart's invention to get noticed, so in 2008, he re-designed his prototype into a marketable system and created the company camBLOCK LLC.

Stewart has personally put camBLOCK to use around the world on dozens of projects, including the Emmy Award-winning National Geographic series "Great Migrations"; in the Arctic for the CBC Award-winning "Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey"; and as the stop motion director of photography for the 2012 Academy Award-winning animated short "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore."

camBLOCK systems have gained traction with professional filmmakers and have been used across the globe by top filmmakers for the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, NFL Films, TNT and Imax 3D.

Stewart continues to develop new motion control technology, work as a cinematographer, and take care of his much loved family.