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Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin return to discuss Sony Pictures Animation’s animated feature, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. We discuss the look, style, techniques, and carve out a little time to speculate on the Oscars. Listen online at FX Guide or click on an image below.
Emmy Award Winner Jason Diamond, Emmy nominee Mike Seymour, and the humble Matt Wallin have a symbiotic discussion about Venom, visual effects, First Man, Ang Lee’s Hulk, Tex Avery, and Tom Hardy’s difficulty speaking clearly. Click on the image below to listen for free at FX Guide.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin as they discuss Christopher McQuarrie's Mission Impossible: Fallout, SIGGRAPH, real-time raytracing, and action movie tropes. This podcast will self destruct in 5 seconds.
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Jason Diamond, Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin talk dinosaurs, destruction sims, #vfx and the chaos of J.A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Click on the image below to listen online for free at FX Guide.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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