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Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin sit down with a delicious cup of Chai tea….”What did you just say? Chai tea? Chai means "tea", bro! You are saying "tea tea"! Would I ask you for a "coffee coffee" with room for "cream cream"?
Okay, he’s got a point. Check out the latest episode of the VFX Show on FX Guide. We discuss the #VFX in Sony Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects of Guardians of the Galaxy - Vol. 3. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the future of visual effects with the advent AI and machine learning tools. The medium is the massage. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin take a deep dive into the Pedro Pascaliverse. We talk about the visual effects in the HBO series “The Last of Us” as well as Disney’s “The Mandalorian” season 3. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the five nominees for the Visual Effects Oscar. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin go all in and discuss the visual effects on the Star Wars / School House Rock spin off of Conjunction Junction, “ANDOR”. It turns out it can get you pretty far. Conjunction junction, what’s your function….
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, & Matt Wallin have their faces ripped off on Gordy’s birthday as they discuss the visual effects in Jordan Peele’s epic new film, Nope.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond & Matt Wallin discuss the Disney+ Lawrence Kasdan documentary series “Light & Magic”. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the Russo brothers big budget Netflix film, “The Gray Man”. We talk about the visual effects and the overall quality of the film. Listen for free online at FX Guide.
Mike Seymour (the thunder from down under), Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love & Thunder” on the latest episode of the VFX Show.
In this special episode of the VFX Show we look at Love, Death + Robots with Blur’s Supervising Creative Director for the series Jerome ‘Jed’ Denjean from Los Angeles. We’re also joined by Autodesk’s Håkan ‘Zap’ Andersson from Sweden.
The Love, Death + Robots series is an adult animated streaming anthology created by Tim Miller for Netflix. The series is produced by Blur Studio, and it consists of stand-alone episodes in wildly different styles with varied stories connected in some way to the title. Each episode is produced by a different animation studio from around the world.
Mike Seymour in Sydney, Jason Diamond in New York City, and Matt Wallin in Richmond, VA talk with Jed and Zap about how the episodes are made and what makes this anthology series so compelling. Listen for free at FX Guide.
I was invited back this year to MARS 2022 as an alumni. The conference this year was held at the Ojai Valley Inn. It was another amazing and inspiring year with some old friends and lots of new ones.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin seek out new life in the latest episode of the VFX Show. We explore both Picard and Strange New Worlds. Listen for free at FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part 1”. Listen for free on FX Guide.
Mike Seymouruski, Jason Diamondetski, and Matt Wallinoffka form a dysfunctional family of Soviet super spies as we defy physics, logic, and character development in this week’s VFX Show discussing Marvel’s Black Widow. Listen for free online at FX Guide.
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin are caught in a time loop that leads to a conversation about the Marvel/Disney streaming television show, Loki. We talk VFX, franchise fatigue and what’s next. Listen online at FX Guide.
“The real key to doing the special effects on this or any other picture is the experience
and ingenuity of the people involved. It is not the equipment.”
— David Dryer
This quote from Special Photographic Effects Supervisor David Dryer really resonated for me. It’s from an article in the July 1982 issue of American Cinematographer. It’s a great read for any student or fan of visual effects and it details the tenacity, teamwork, and gumption required for complex creative problem solving.
Ridley Scott has long been one of my all time favorite filmmakers. While he certainly has laid a few eggs along the way, his films are the ones that I return to more often than any others. Ian Nathan wrote this coffee table style book that is really a broad survey of all of Scott’s work to date. It goes deep in a few key sections and glosses over some lesser received projects. I highly recommend the book to any big fans of his work. Its a must have for the home library.
This is the coolest thing I think I’ve ever seen.
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