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  • Could these be the contenders?

    It’s a little early but here’s my look on Cartoon Brew at the VFX Oscar contenders – with most likelys, likelys and outliers as the key categories. Who do you think will get nominated?

  • A VIEW conference primer

    I’ll soon be in Turin, Italy for the VIEW Conference – hope to catch up with people there – it starts on 24 October. Please come say hi! And it’s not too late to get tickets, either. Getting to Turin is easy, there’s flights from all over Europe and also of course from Rome. I’ll…

  • ‘Run with it’: designing a huge VFX sequence

    Some of the most intensive work for visual effects artists on any project can be when they are asked to design characters, environments and even shots – often from scratch. That creative process is a mix of concept design, devising a shooting methodology and technical R&D. All of those things were required on director James…

  • Westworld’s out-there vfx

    I wrote about the many different kinds of vfx in HBO’s new Westworld series after talking to Jay Worth, vfx supe. Here’s the piece at Thrillist.

  • Quick guide to the VIEW keynotes

    Check out who’s talking at VIEW conference (starting on 24 October) with this guide to the keynotes.

  • Dream interview: Steve Williams & Mark Dippé

    Ever since I saw the making of featurettes for films like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, I’ve known about Steve Williams and Mark Dippé. They were at ILM in the early days of CG visual effects, but they also quickly attained notoriety for being rebellious. At Trojan Horse, I sat down with the duo for…

  • A short retrospective in Godzilla VFX

    Shin Godzilla is having a run in U.S. cinemas, so the guys at Inverse asked me to look back at where the franchise has used special effects. Loved revisiting the man-in-suit, miniatures and CG work.

  • Ben West’s latest short has legs

    You might know Ben West from his incredible short FUGU & TAKO. He’s now creative director at Framestore in LA and he’s back with a new short film called OtherHalf, about a man whose legs have a different idea to living their lives than the rest of its body. Check out the film below and…

  • VR for theme parks…it’s happening

    Talked to two former DreamWorks Animation employees who have started their own VR venture, and it includes theme parks. Here’s the interview at Cartoon Brew.

  • Movies that were saved by special effects

    Thrillist asked me to come up with some examples of where movies were ‘saved’ by special fx. And I had a lot of fun coming up with this list, which included Kevin Costner’s merman ears and Ryan Reynolds’ penis.