• Quickshots: How one of the coolest shots in ‘Baby Driver’ was pulled off

    Last night in Sydney I got to watch Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver for a second time, and see a post-film Q&A hosted by director George Miller. The Q&A was fantastic, diving into Wright’s directing choices, musical influences and juicy details about how some of the big driving stunts and shots in the film were captured.…

  • How the beach scene in ‘Contact’ went down to the wire

    Yesterday I posted an interview with Contact’s visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston about his work on the film, which is now 20 years old. This included the incredible mirror shot, and for that high speed compositing supervisor Sheena Duggal also weighed-in on how that shot was made at Imageworks. Well, Sheena has now also provided…

  • Behind the scenes of ‘Okja’

    I talked to Method Studios visual effects supervisor Erik De Boer about Okja – and how the team gave a personality to the CG super-pig. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.

  • The famous mirror shot in ‘Contact’ was almost something else entirely

    Visual effects artists and aficionados are often asked which movie or shot was their biggest influence, a question that regularly evokes a response about films like Star Wars, Blade Runner or Jurassic Park. Those films, of course, are all milestones in the VFX world. But in recent years, if that kind of question has come up…

  • Get ready for more ‘Game of Thrones’

    The July 2017 issue of VFX Voice from the Visual Effects Society is out, and it includes a bunch of articles I am proud to have contributed. I’ll link to them here at vfxblog over the next few days. First piece is a retrospective on Game of Thrones, with the new season just around the…

  • Wonder Woman’s home

    For VFX Voice, I chatted to vfx supervisor Bill Westenhofer about making Wonder Woman’s home.

  • The making of ‘Extravaganza’

    A VR experience made with the help of Cinema 4D. Pretty neat. Here’s the VFX Voice story I wrote about it.

  • Wingnut AR’s super-cool ARKit demo at WWDC

    At Apple’s WWDC, Peter Jackson’s augmented reality studio Wingnut AR demo’d a scene using Apple’s ARKit – here’s a look behind the scenes at Cartoon Brew, including lots of testing photos.

  • Getting back on the Trojan Horse

    The first time I went to Trojan Horse was a Unicorn, we built sandcastles. The second time, there was bubble soccer. Who knows what’s in store for my third time? I’ll find out on 18 September, when the fifth edition of this highly unique event – known as THU – gets underway in the resort…

  • ‘Men in Black’ and its crazy collection of real and CG creatures

    “I’ve always told people that when you have a movie that’s fairly complicated be sure to have a talking pug dog in it, because then you can fix things after with the same pose.” – Eric Brevig, Men In Black visual effects supervisor Twenty years ago, Barry Sonnenfeld delivered the quirky action sci-fier Men in…