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  • Victoria Alonso does sleep. A bit.

    Had a great time meeting and chatting to Marvel’s Victoria Alonso at VIEW. The EVP has wrangled some incredible vfx work for much of Marvel’s latest MCU. Here’s my interview at Cartoon Brew.

  • Trolls: the interview

    At VIEW I got to speak with Mike Mitchell and and Walt Dohrn about their film Trolls made at DreamWorks Animation. It’s based on the trolls dolls, but ‘based’ isn’t really a good way to describe it. Here’s the Q&A at Cartoon Brew.

  • Memories of Cow & Chicken: David Feiss

    At VIEW, I sat down with director David Feiss to discuss his work on Cow & Chicken, Yohoo and Friends and the Open Season films. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.

  • 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?

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.