For Thrillist, I wrote about some of the awesome ways effects were used in unusual ways to help make Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, including cat litter, a roller coaster and inflatable puppets.
Category: Freelance
New 3D Artist shines light on Incredibles 2 and RenderMan
I talked to Pixar for this issue of 3D Artist – it’s a pretty special one.
New VFX Voice is…incredible
The latest VFX Voice magazine with Incredibles 2 on the cover is an issue I loved writing for – it includes a chat with Pixar producers for that film, plus VFX supes on ‘what’s in their kit’, coverage of Black Panther, Infinity War and Stranger Things 2.
Optical craziness
If you just think for a second that all the compositing for Who Framed Roger Rabbit was done optically, it blows your mind. Check out my interview with ILM’s then optical photography supervisor Ed Jones about how that was done, on the 30th anniversary of the film, at Cartoon Brew.
The tree-makers
A look behind the scenes at how Weta Digital, Imageworks, Animal Logic and ILM craft digital foliage, at 3D World magazine. Loved writing this one.
Mighty Mike from TeamTO
A look at some new animation software made for TeamTO’s new project, Mighty Mike & the Wild Bunch, at Cartoon Brew.
Behind the scenes of the DIY minisodes
For Cartoon Brew, I talked to Encyclopedia Pictura about their neat DIY minisodes for Cartoon Network.
Meet Piggy
If you get a chance to see Google Spotlight Stories’ latest VR experience, Piggy, do it. Or you can read about it in my piece at Cartoon Brew after I had a go of the short at Annecy and then spoke to director Jan Pinkava.
Inside the Falcon
For VFX Voice, I asked Solo vfx supervisor Rob Bredow about some of the rear projection work for the cockpit scenes.
A convoy clash
For VFX Voice, my newest piece on Deadpool 2 – the huge convoy sequence!
