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  • Voyage of cloud tanks and practical fx

    Love the approach vfx supe Dan Glass took for the visual effects in Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time. Here’s my write-up at Cartoon Brew.

  • No, I’m not crying

    The new trailer for Moom is featured exclusively at Cartoon Brew, and I got to speak to the filmmakers Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo about the short film’s Japanese influences.

  • Come for VIEW, stay for the workshops

    One of the big drawcards of VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy is its workshops. These include masterclasses from big Hollywood directors, animators and visual effects artists and from specialized training bodies and industry players. The workshops take place between 24 October and 28 October at VIEW. Check out the list below and find out more…

  • When skeletons attack

    Here’s a new piece I wrote for Cartoon Brew on Double Negative’s visual effects for the skeleton attack sequence in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

  • Beetlejuice was just the beginning

    Tim Burton’s newest film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is out soon, and it made me think just how many of the director’s films are either huge VFX blockbusters or do a great job of using subtle – but a lot – of effects. So I wrote about it for Inverse.

  • STYLE FRAMES 2016 is close, and has the big studios in design

    In the design world, it’s pretty easy to look new projects up, watch the latest pieces of advertising and check out making ofs. But it’s not always as simple to hear from the people – the creatives – behind the work. Luckily, there’s a Design Conference in New York on 7th and 8th November called…

  • The vfx supe who doesn’t really think about vfx, and how you can learn from him

    Rob Legato has won two visual effects Oscars (for Titanic and Hugo). He also got nominated for Apollo 13 and he’s won a couple of Emmys for his work on two Star Trek TV series. You most recently saw his vfx supervision in The Jungle Book, an almost all-CG film. But Legato is one of…

  • The kills of The Walking Dead

    Empire Magazine Australia asked me to write about the VFX of The Walking Dead, so I turned to Swedish studio Fido to find out what they’d been up to last season. Really happy with how this came out!

  • Chicken kung fu

    Animal Logic’s The Master: A LEGO Ninjago Short plays before Storks in cinemas right now, and I got a chance to talk to some of the team about how it was made. And about LEGO chickens. Here’s the story at Cartoon Brew.

  • Brenda Chapman on life after Pixar

    At Trojan Horse, I spoke to Brave director Brenda Chapman on what she’s been up to after Pixar. Great news is she and husband Kevin Lima have a hybrid film they are pitching. The interview is at Cartoon Brew.