VFX Show 274: Foundation

This week on the VFX Show, Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin use maths and psychohistory to wrap our heads around the visual effects in the Apple TV+, David Goyer series “Foundation” based on the books by Isaac Asimov.

The story chronicles the waning days of a future Galactic Empire, the mathematician Hari Seldon spends his life developing a theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematics of sociology. Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a Dark Age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises. Although the momentum of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which "the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little" to eventually limit this interregnum to just one thousand years.

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VFX Show 272: Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1

Your mission, listener, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin on this week’s VFX Show #272 on Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1. As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This podcast will self-destruct in five seconds…🔥

VFX Show 271: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects in the latest Lucasfilm adventure, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.” Listen for free on FX Guide.

VFX Show 263: Light & Magic

Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond & Matt Wallin discuss the Disney+ Lawrence Kasdan documentary series “Light & Magic”. Listen for free on FX Guide.

VFX Show 260: Love, Death, & Robots

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.

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