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An Interview with Red Riding Hood’s VFX Supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun
Visual effects supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun has been creating outstanding effects for films over the past two decades with a further 10 years working in various capacities in movies. His credits as supervisor range from early work with directors Renny Harlin and Roland Emmerich, to more recent films with Edward Zwick. Over... »
Burton in Wonderland
It's not every film that's big enough to warrant three separate visual FX supervisors, but Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Disney's not-a-remake revisiting of material they last brought to screen in 50's-era animation, apparently nibbled the cake that said "Eat Me," and became that big. »
Joe Letteri on the Visual Effects of Avatar
After supervising visual effects on massive projects such as Peter Jackson’s final two films in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen Sommers’ Van Helsing, and Jackson’s King Kong, Joe Letteri might have faced an even greater challenge with James Cameron’s Avatar. For this newest project, which is winning troves of awards and breaking... »
Men Who Stare At Monitors
Visual FX supervisor Thomas J. Smith has overseen digital effects on pictures where you know you’ll be watching a lot of digital sleight-of-hand, like The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and The Chronicles of Riddick, and also films you wouldn’t immediately expect to be FX heavy, like all three Ocean’s films with George Clooney. He... »
Apocalypse-Almost-Now: Volker Engel and Marc Weigert on World’s End FX in 2012
At the recent Production Summit thrown by the Visual Effects Society in Marina del Rey, collectively attempting to suss out the future of Hollywood filmmaking in a world both all-digital, and all-outsourced, director Roland Emmerich’s visual effects cohorts, Volker Engel and Marc Weigert—the former supervising VFX on most of his pictures, the latter in... »
Charles Gibson, VFX Supervisor, Terminator Salvation
Charles Gibson, the VFX Supervisor for Terminator Salvation, recently talked to Below the Line about the state-of- the-art CG animation and effects work that it took to create the army of Terminator killer robots featured in the post-Apocalyptic world of T4. Gibson—winner of two Oscars for best special effects-for Babe in 1995 and for... »
A Sense of Travel: Alex Wuttke and Victor Wade on Quantum of Solace
James Bond’s problems tend to work themselves out a little differently than yours or mine. In the current outing of the franchise Quantum of Solace, which transports an obscure Ian Fleming short story title to a film that is now a sequel to the previous Daniel Craig installment Casino Royale, Bond finds that he... »