After his one year post-doc, he got married and proceeded to take off on a climbing expedition with his wife and several months later, he returned to the UK looking for work. The owner of System Simulation, George Mallen (Wyvill's boss and the person who ran the company), contacted him and said that the company had a big contract to make some sequences for a Hollywood movie. Wyvill though that "the money was good, seven pounds an hour," which, for Wyvill, was "a fortune for [him] at that time." He promptly set off for the Atlas lab, where Colin Emmett (an artist and one of Wyvill's colleagues) was having a very hard time making his software, FROLIC, behave well enough to finish the required sequences which were notably late. Wyvill settled down to help out, debugging Colin's code and addin