• A new THU Tale

    Keep an eye on the Trojan Horse website for more of these – loved talking to some inspirational artists about their journeys on and before THU.

  • Proton pack beam curves

    …and other Ghostbusters effects, thanks to Imageworks vfx supe Dan Kramer. A new article on One Perfect Shot.

  • I literally cannot wait for SIGGRAPH

    …but luckily it’s only 2 days away! Here’s my preview for Cartoon Brew.

  • You know they’re in there, but not how they were done

    That’s the premise of my latest piece for Thrillist, Special Effects You Never Noticed in Movies. Like this amazing ILM shot of the Delorean coming into land in BTTF2.

  • When you crave creative content

    I spend a lot of my working life looking for great visual effects, animation and CG content. There’s a lot out there. I’m of course drawn to making ofs and studio and film profiles, particularly about visual effects, but it wasn’t until last year that I discovered a new kind of VFX content. That’s when…

  • Return of the Slimer

    How the vfx team on Ghostbusters brought back Slimer, Stay Puft and used new innovations to make the ghosts possible (like LED’s on set). A new piece for Inverse.

  • Victor Hugo and the power of THU

    3D Artist Victor Hugo is one of the nice guys in the industry and I had the pleasure of meeting him last year at Trojan Horse was a Unicorn in Troia. Here he talks more about his thoughts on THU.

  • Who ya gonna call (to do vfx)?

    Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is out this weekend and takes the franchise to a whole new level. The original films were masterclasses in using visual effects to help tell the story – and telling jokes too. For my book, Masters of FX, I got to talk to both Richard Edlund, the original film’s visual effects supervisor…

  • John Knoll’s Death Star hobby project because, well, he’s John Knoll

    “…a fun hobby project that may or may not see use in an upcoming film…” If you were lucky enough to be at the Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016 event in London on Friday or watching the livestream, then hopefully you saw what I think was one of the most insightful panel presentations that’s ever…

  • Shark!

    The Shallows has some amazing CG shark visuals, but you’d expect that with Important Looking Pirates on board, as well as VFX supervisor Scott E Anderson. I talked to Scott for this new piece on One Perfect Shot.