With film and television production booming, the visual effects industry faces a unique set of challenges as it crews up to meet an unprecedented demand for content. I spoke with Sashka Jankovska, […]
VFX Wire — VFX Recruitment in a Post-COVID World
Denis Villeneuve: The Path to Dune — BFI Southbank
As anticipation grows for the release of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune, the classic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, BFI Southbank is celebrating the director’s career with Denis Villeneuve: The Path […]
Into the Virtual World — New Article for Producers Guild of America
I recently had the pleasure of writing an article for Produced By, the official magazine of the Producers Guild of America. Into the Virtual World explores some of the ways in which […]
VFX Wire — The Visual Effects of The Crown
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Turner, production visual effects supervisor of The Crown, about the Emmy-nominated work done by the visual effects team for Season 4 of the Netflix […]
The Illusion Almanac: Creating Godzilla vs Kong — Out Now
Issue 1 of the new filmcraft magazine The Illusion Almanac is available now as an 80-page* digital magazine formatted for Kindle. Download it from Amazon online stores worldwide — just search for […]
The Visual Effects of Ex Machina
In 2015, I had the pleasure of interviewing visual effects supervisor Andrew Whitehurst about Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s iconic film about a startlingly human robot and the quest for artificial intelligence. The […]
Artemis Fowl — The Cinefex Article That Got Away
Through February and March 2020, I conducted a series of interviews for an in-depth article on the Disney adaptation of Artemis Fowl, for publication in Cinefex 171, due out in June of […]
The Making of ATROPA
In March 2015, I conducted a interview for Cinefex with filmmaker Eli Sasich, discussing his sci-fi short film ATROPA. Three years later, we came together again – joined this time by visual […]
The History of the Optical Printer
What is an optical printer? Simply put, it’s a piece of equipment designed to copy motion picture film. A typical optical printer has a projector at one end and a camera at the other. […]
VIEW Conference 2021
If you’re interested in animation, visual effects, computer graphics, digital cinema, VR or gaming, then VIEW Conference is the place for you. Beginning with a rolling programme of free online PreVIEW events, […]
