Were you in the audience when The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980? If so – and if you lived in the UK, Scandinavia or Australia – you may remember the […]
Roger Christian’s Black Angel
Venom: Let There Be Carnage — Framestore’s Animated Backstory for Cletus
The Illusion Almanac is pleased to share this press release from Framestore. Framestore steps into the world of comic book heroes and villains once again forthe latest adventures of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and […]
Coming Soon — The Illusion Almanac Covers The Matrix Resurrections
Join me in 2022 as I journey down the rabbit hole to explore the mind-bending visual effects of The Matrix Resurrections. Issue 2 of The Illusion Almanac, out March 2022, features in-depth […]
VFX Wire — Harry Potter: 20 Years of Wizarding Wonder
Twenty years after the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, visual effects is more in demand than ever before. What better time to reflect on the magic spell cast by […]
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. […]
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