Scott Cedarleaf interviews on-set and post VFX professionals whose responsibilities are either overlooked or shrouded in mystery. What does a VFX Supervisor do during Pre-Production? What does a Data Wrangler’s day-to-day look like and why? What’s the wildest thing a VFX Coordinator has ever coordinated? Find out the answers to these questions and more!
Trip a little light fantastic with episode 35 of the Fantasy/Animation podcast, which marks Christopher Holliday and Alex Sergeant's very own return to Cherry Tree Lane as they visit musical sequel Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall, 2018). Joining them underneath the lovely London sky are Visual Effects Supervisor Christian Kaestner and Compositing Supervisor Frederikke Glick, who both worked as part of VFX studio Framestore’s contribution to the film. Topics for discussion include the construction of a fictional London that owes a debt to design of the 1964 original; the ‘keying’ or extracting of bluescreen and greenscreen images as part of the compositing process; the production of the Royal Doulton Music Hall sequence; lighting effects and practical sets in the film’s climactic Big Ben set piece; and the pleasurable fantasy of hybridity when integrating (yet keeping separate) live-action and cel-animated components. Click here and Off we go!
Great podcast to listen to when you want to learn more about VFX, challenges, opportunities, tips & tricks and much more...
We enjoy a variety of them, but our favorite is #18, when you get to meet our interns!
This week on the Movidiam Creative Leader's Podcast, George Olver talks to James 'Razz' Razzall, president of advertising at Framestore, the world-renound producer of VFX content. Razz gives George his unique insights into his creative process.
Mike McGee is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Framestore, a global visual effects company. He founded Framestore with 4 partners in London, in 1986.
Framestore has been referred to as Hollywood's go-to visual effects company and has received five Oscars - for Golden Compass, Gravity and Blade Runner 2049. Today, Framestore employs 3000 people across offices in London, New York, LA and Montreal, working across film, advertising and VR.
We talk with Mike about the importance of putting creativity first, about not making your job feel like a job and about doing what you love.
Today's guest is amazing artist Ruairidh MacNeill who is a vfx modeller @ Framestore. He has worked on many titles from Endgame, Infinity War to Fantastic Beasts. Make sure to go give him a follow. He also has a range of tutorials/social media pages highlighted below.
An audio interview that Pascal Chappuis did with Max Solomon, Animation Supervisor at Framestore during VIEW Conference in October 2014.