Giant robots! Here’s a new piece on Pacific Rim Uprising I wrote for Cartoon Brew, about Double Negative’s work on the film.
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How to animate a Wes Anderson film
Isle of Dogs. Isle of Dogs. It’s here. And so is my first piece on the film for Cartoon Brew, with animation director Mark Waring.
The Tick and the CG human
Have you been watching The Tick? It’s a really zany superhero show with some pretty great VFX work, including a fully CG human giant made by FuseFX. Check out Cartoon Brew for the story.
7 Weeks, 917 Frames, Glass Beads, Hair Wax, And Vaseline
…and don’t forget a power drill for motion blur, and that time Nick Park massaged Tom Hiddleston. Check out how it was done for Early Man in my Cartoon Brew story.
That car chase in Black Panther
This has got to be one of the coolest scenes in Black Panther. Find out how Luma Pictures pulled it off at Cartoon Brew.
Tips from the VFX Oscar nominated supes for working with directors
Joe Letteri. Chris Townsend. John Nelson. Stephen Rosenbaum. Ben Morris. They all weigh-in in this piece for Cartoon Brew on how they worked with their director.
An amazing part of this piece is that I was able to speak to three of these visual effects supervisors (John Nelson, Joe Letteri and Chris Townsend) at VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy in October 2017. That’s three Oscar-nominated supervisors at the one event (incredibly, VIEW in 2017 also featured the Oscar nominated animated features The Breadwinner and Loving Vincent).
If you haven’t been to VIEW before, I strongly recommend it – in 2018 the conference is on October 22-26. It’s a small event compared to say a big SIGGRAPH or FMX, but this intimacy is VIEW’s selling point. You actually get to interact with the speakers themselves, and they are presenting on THE big films and projects of the year, as evidenced by the Oscar nominees who tend to be there.
Keep an eye out on vfxblog.com for information on what will be coming up at VIEW this year.
A candid chat with the director of Peter Rabbit
“We did a lot of planning and then I threw it all out, and then I planned it again, and then I threw it all out.”
I had a really frank discussion with Will Gluck, the director of Peter Rabbit about working on the hybrid cg-live action feature, with VFX by Animal Logic. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.
Character and performance in Paddington 2
In this new article for Cartoon Brew, I go through with Framestore animation supervisor Pablo Grillo how the studio crafted Paddington.
A director’s perspective on VFX
It was such a pleasure to be able to interview Bong Joon-ho, the director of Okja, about his experience with VFX on the film. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.
Downsizing is a great addition to a rich history of miniaturization effects films, without being an effects film
For Cartoon Brew, I talked to vfx supervisor James E. Price about the miniaturization work in Downsizing. Loved this film.