• An interview with Paul Debevec

    Back in the late 90s I was still at university and I stumbled upon the SIGGRAPH Video Review. One piece I watched was Paul Debevec’s The Campanile Movie where he’d used image-based modeling and rendering techniques to do virtual camera moves on a bell tower at the UC Berkeley campus. It was also an example…

  • Indie vfx at MovieMaker

    MovieMaker Magazine asked me to look at how indie filmmakers could make the most of vfx in their films – check out the ‘Complete Guide to Making Movies 2017’ issue for the article.

  • New Pioneers showcases new rigging tools

    At VIEW Conference in Italy I got to meet Chris Perry. His Bit Films outfit and Raf Anzovin from Anzovin Studio collaborated on this New Pioneers pitch, and utilized some neat new rigging tools to do it. Here’s my interview, and an exclusive video, at Cartoon Brew.

  • Appearing on…CG Garage

    If you don’t already listen to Christopher Nichols’ CG Garage podcast (part of Chaos Group Laboratories), now’s a great time to start. Because I’m on it with Chris for a podcast we recorded at THU! We talk about what things get noticed on the internet, especially vfx stories.

  • Beauty and the Beast had a very cool partly CG sequence in 1991

    I’m sure you already know this was the ballroom sequence. I talked to CG supervisor Jim Hillin about how it all came together, for Cartoon Brew.

  • ILM is on fire with Deepwater Horizon

    You might not have seen Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon when it hit cinemas. But I’d implore you to check it out, if only for the remarkable combination of practical set photography, fire simulation and compositing involved in depicting the catastrophic – and real life – oil rig explosion that occurs in the film. I had…

  • Let’s celebrate the 20th anniversary of this amazing First Contact vfx shot

    It was the end of 1996, I had just finished high school and was discovering visual effects – in particular, the coverage of vfx in Cinefex – and then, Star Trek: First Contact came out. There are some incredible vfx shots in the film. The opening pull-back from Captain Picard. The ship to ship battles.…

  • Those insane bending buildings

    Could probably watch the New York kaleidoscope sequence in Doctor Strange all day. It was made possible by ILM with previs from The Third Floor, and here’s my coverage over at Cartoon Brew.

  • The best Harry Potter vfx…so far

    With Fantastic Beasts out, Inverse asked me to write a retrospective on the best Harry Potter vfx scenes from the franchise so far. It was HARD to choose, but here they are. I also managed to grab some extra info from Jim Mitchell, the vfx supe for Goblet of Fire about the creation of the Hungarian…

  • Space Jam’s crazy race to the end

    It was pretty crazy. Read the final part of the Space Jam oral history at Cartoon Brew.