It doesn't look like anything to Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin as they talk theories and visual effects in HBO's Westworld Season 2. Listen online for free at FX Guide.
VFX Show 234: Solo
Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson, and Matt Wallin round down to make the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs while they talk Star Wars and the visual effects in Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story. Listen online for free at FX Guide.
VFX Show 233: Deadpool 2
Luck isn't a superpower. And it isn't cinematic! Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin talk Deadpool 2 visual effects. Listen online for free at FX Guide
VFX Show 232: Avengers Infinity War
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin ponder the philosophical implications of "why is Gamora?" and use the reality stone to unmask the visual effects in Marvel's latest Avengers: Infinity War. Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show 231: Ready Player One
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin lobbith thy holy hand grenade towards they foe... as they talk about the visual effects in Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One". Listen online for free at FX Guide.
VFX Show 230: Black Panther
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin freeze like an antelope in headlights at Ryan Coogler's smash hit, Black Panther. We discuss the film, its paradigm shifting success, the visual effects (of course), and offer up our Oscar predictions (recorded prior to the awards show...obviously since we were all wrong). Click on the image below to listen online at FX Guide.
Understanding Color
Click on the image to read the paper online at mapping color.com
VFX Show 229: The Last Jedi
Join Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond & Matt Wallin as we dine on barbecued porg. In this episode we discuss Rian Johnson's film, The Last Jedi, it's visual effects, Lucasfilm/Disney, filmmaking food analogies, and the future of the Star Wars universe. Click on the image below to listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show 228: Thor: Ragnarok
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin make a little rock, paper, scissors joke and talk #VFX in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok. Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show 227: Mother!
Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin embrace the allegory of Darren Aronofsky's film "Mother!" We talk visual effects, Super 16mm filmmaking, Matthew Libatique, emerging cinema tech and the auteur theory.
Listen online for free at FX Guide.
VFX Show 226: Blade Runner 2049
Jason Diamond, Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin take the Voight-Kampff test and talk replicants, ethics, Roger Deakins and visual effects in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner: 2049. Listen online for free at FX Guide.
Read about the Esper Machine from the original 1982 film.
Below is the storyboarded opening sequence from the original Blade Runner. This scene was never shot but was clearly re-used for the opening sequence in 2049 with Ryan Gosling and Dave Bautista. Click on the images to enlarge. Scene goes from left to right through the nine pages.
The VFX board for the original film's opening shot.
VFX Show 225: Star Trek Discovery
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin beam up with CBS All Access & discuss the visual effects in Star Trek Discovery. Listen for free online at FX Guide.
VFX Show 224: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin answer the call and board the mothership to discuss the VFX in the 40th anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show 223: IT
Matt Leonard, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin leave their bikes in the middle of the street and explore the sewers of Derry and the VFX of "It". Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show #222: Game of Thrones Season 7
Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin breathe fire into the penultimate and final episodes of season 7 of HBO's Game of Thrones. Click on the image to listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show #221: Wonder Woman
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin recognize that they are needed for procreation but not for pleasure. Give a listen on FX Guide as we talk about the visual effects Patty Jenkins' hit film, Wonder Woman.
VFX Show #220: Alien: Covenant
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin take off and nuke the entire site from orbit in the latest episode of the VFX Show where we talk Ridley Scott and Alien: Covenant. Listen online for free at FX Guide.
VFX Show #219: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
We are Groot in this special episode of the VFX Show. Angie Seymour, Lucas Diamond and Thor Wallin explore the galaxy and themes of family in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show #218: Kong Skull Island
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin traverse the storm and arrive at Skull Island to discuss the visual effects in Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong: Skull Island. Listen online at FX Guide.
VFX Show #217: Logan
Jason Diamond, Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin reveal their claws and discuss the visual effects in James Mangold's film "Logan". Click on the image below to listen online at FX Guide.
