The Art of VFX Podcast

Yesterday, GRAVITY won the BAFTA Special Visual Effects award and many VES awards last week! It is the perfect time for the audio interview that Pascal Chappuis did with Max Solomon, Animation Supervisor at Framestore during VIEW Conference in last October.

During View Conference, we spoke with Peter Muyzers about his career, Elysium and his collaboration with director Neill Blomkamp.

VFX Legend John Knoll has made an impressive presentation about Industrial Light & Magic work on PACIFIC RIM at View Conference in Turin, Italy. Just after it, Pascal Chappuis and I took the chance to discuss with him.

Pascal Chappuis spoke with Matthew Butler, Overall VFX Supervisor, about his work on the first production by Digital Domain, Ender's Game. Come have a look at the great VFX pictures by Digital Domain: www.artofvfx.com/?p=5344

We were really happy to welcome Scott Ross at Imaging the Future 2013 in Neuchatel for his great masterclass. Pascal Chappuis and I took the opportunity to made an discussion with Scott Ross during his stay. This discussion is about Scott Ross career, full of anecdotes and also about how the visual effects industry is today.

During his last visit Alessandro Cioffi told us about the work of Trixter on CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Since then he has worked on films such as THE AVENGERS, MARVEL ONE-SHOT: ITEM 47 or CLOUD ATLAS. For concept and final shots pictures: http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=4522

Steve Preeg has an experience of over 15 years in the animation and visual effects. He has worked on many films such as FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, KING KONG or TRON LEGACY. In 2009, he won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. OBLIVION is his second collaboration with director Joseph Kosinski. Breakdown videos and final shots pictures: : http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=4303

Aaron Gilman, Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital talks about his work on Iron Man 3. This audio podcast was made during the FMX 2013.

Here is the first audio podcast on The Art of VFX. I'm happy to introduce to you Pascal Chappuis who has made this interview and will made the next ones. Thad Beier has worked for over 20 years in visual effects. In 1995, he founded Hammerhead with Rebecca Marie, Jamie Dixon and Dan Chuba. He has worked on many projects such as TITANIC, U-571, FAST AND FURIOUS or 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. In 2010, he joined the team of Digital Domain. Final shots and breakdown videos : http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=4079