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The VFX Artists Podcast

The VFX Artists Podcast

The VFX Artists Podcast, hosted by Kofi Opoku-Ansah and Daniel Mark Miller is the spot for artists to share, learn and discover other artists in the VFX industry. We aim to bring artists from different levels and departments to discuss industry practice, software, processes, journey and more. We are a podcast made by artists for artists.

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41:47

Share Knowledge - Keep Learning with María Carriedo |...

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2022/10/17

In this episode, we chat to María Carriedo, CG Lead at Freefolk and former colleague of Daniel's at The Mill.Born in Mexico, María studied VFX at the prestigious Gnomon School in LA before working at Psyops on commercials. Since then she moved to London to work at The Mill before her current role. In this interview we learn about María's journey into VFX and her approach to continuous learning and development.As a lead María is involved in the hiring process so her showreel advice will be

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105:25

On-Set in Extreme Environments with Jörundur Rafn...

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2022/10/10

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71:39

How I manage being a VFX artist and a mother of two -...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/09/26

In this episode, we chat to Rebecca Holdstock, senior matchmove and rotomation artist at Cinesite London about her VFX career, spiralling over a decade in some of London's well known and biggest studios, through to becoming a mother of two and the change that comes with being a working mother.I had the privilege of working with Rebecca at Cinesite on The Witcher season 2, and for the first time in my life, I was working with a mother, who was signing on in the middle of the day, on a customised

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54:10

How We Created 3DEqualizer For The VFX Industry, with...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/09/12

In this episode, I had the biggest opportunity to chat to Rolf Schneider, owner of Science-D-Visions, about how he Created 3DEqualizer For The VFX Industry.Looking back at the evolving digital scene in the 80's and 90's, we discuss working on the Commodore 64 and Amiga, to creating the first version of 3DEqualizer in 1996, to MPC and ILM purchasing their first licenses in 1996 and '97. We do a deep dive about the whole journey and how it all happened.An episode not to be missed!As

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34:57

Being An Artist In The Chinese VFX Industry | TVAP EP39

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/08/24

In this episode, I chat to Yin Wu, a Junior CG Artist at The Mill, Shanghai, about his experience and journey into the Chinese VFX industry.My curiosity of the Chinese industry, leads me to chase for comparisons between the U.K. VFX industry - Finding similarities and differences on topics like work-life-balance and how the industry differentiates itself between Beijing and Shanghai. Yin's story is that of dedication and merit. As a developing CG artist, with background in Blender, we dive in

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24:56

How I Became A VFX Coordinator | TVAP EP38

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/08/17

In this episode, we chat to Atem Kuol about how he became a VFX coordinator. Starting up as a witness camera operator and venturing into VFX production before embarking on 'Death on the Nile' as assistant coordinator, Atem gives us the low down on his experiences and how he made it into the VFX industry from his early beginnings in the live TV industry.One not to be missed, from anyone looking to understand what VFX coordinators do, and the ins and outs of how one gets to be one.As always,

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71:36

Drinking from a fire-hydrant the ups and downs of...

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2022/07/28

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49:42

Becoming a mother made me an efficient VFX Animator -...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/07/06

Part 2 of our discussion with Christina Mandia continues, with this last part focusing on Christina's VFX industry journey, going all the way back to her first interests and influence, education, as well as showreel and general advice for current and aspiring mothers and animators.Christina’s journey as a VFX animator, begun with an entry into the VFX industry as a runner, following the completion of an animator degree at Ravensbourne university, leading on to a progression into the matchmove

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60:34

Becoming a mother made me an efficient VFX Animator -...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/06/29

This week, we have the amazing Christina Mandia, animator at Cinesite London, giving us an insight into how she tackles her maternal role, whilst being a better, more efficient animator.Christina goes on to share some very important information on maternity leave pay for employees and freelancers through the government schemes, as well as employee entitlements. Some really useful info for employees and freelancers in any career.Christina’s journey as a VFX animator, starts with an entry into the VFX

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31:36

Perception - Behind the HUD & Title sequences of your...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/06/15

In this episode, we chat to Jeremy Lasky & Danny Gonzalez, founders of Perception to learn more about the creation of what's become one of the most influential and important VFX & creative studios globally.Perception has brought us title sequences and HUD's (heads up displays) for films such as Iron Man, Black Panther, Loki, Wandavision, Spiderman Homecoming, Eternals, and many more. In fact, the list is endless!Title sequences and great HUD's play a great part in the

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63:50

Founding a Games Studio: VFX Entrepreneurs with...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/06/08

Have you got an idea for a game you would love to bring to life?This week we catch up with VFX Supervisor, Mohsen Mousavi and Look Dev Artist, Hugh Behroozy who are doing exactly that with their new venture, Blinkmoon. We discuss their impressive VFX careers and their time at Scanline, where they met and worked on projects such as Game of Thrones, The Meg, Guardians of The Galaxy and more...Despite the wide availability of tools such as Unreal Engine and Unity, game dev is still hard - in this

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36:12

Not Your Starving Artist, with VFX Generalist Vicki...

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2022/05/23

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67:24

Becoming the Best Compositor You Can With Shonda Hunt...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/05/10

With credits including The Batman, Walking Dead: Worlds Beyond Thor, Love and Thunder its's no wonder we've been wanting to catch up with Freelance Compositor, Shonda Hunt. But in the end she got in touch with us after we asked about the issues facing mothers working in the VFX industry.So in this two pronged interview Daniel and Shonda discuss the challenges of parenting while working compositing. We also discuss Shonda's career and inspirations. This interview gives valuable

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56:21

Perspective of a Senior Houdini FX TD, with Baptiste...

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2022/04/20

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95:01

Sean Cunningham Part 2, From Digital Domain to Indie...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/04/14

In the second installment of our interview with veteran VFX Artist and filmmaker, Sean Cunningham we go into detail about the process used on the 1990's action movie True Lies for the missile sequence - featuring some of the earliest uses of Nuke digital compositing at Digital Domain as well as an early version of SideFX Houdini (Prisms).We talk about his role supervising on Strange Days and working on Oh Brother Where Art Thou with the first use of full DI on feature film. We discuss how he

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59:30

From the Amiga to Houdini, Nuke and Digital Domain...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/04/09

We go all the way back the 1990's in this 2 part interview with Sean Cunningham, a veteran of the VFX industry whose credits as an FX Artists include films such as True Lies, Strange Days, The Fifth Element, Godzilla, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and who has directed and produced independent feature films in his own right.This journey takes us from the excitement of the Commodore Amiga, missed proms, the inspiration of T2 and the founding days of James Cameron's Digital Domain studios.We

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79:55

An Unreal Engine Discussion, with Filipe Magalhães,...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/03/29

In this episode, Kofi chats to Filipe Magalhães, Realtime supervisor at NVIZ about Unreal engine and all things realtime.We do a deep dive into Unreal engine in the use for previs, VFX, and Virtual production, compare it to Unity, and retrace Filipe's journey into the industry.Following up on that, we discus the education, diversity and representation in the VFX industry, neurodiversity and more. A very well packed episode, not to be missed!As always, if you liked this episode, please like,

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91:45

What is Previs, and why it's important - with Jamie...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/03/02

On today’s episode, we have Jamie Bakewell in the hot seat to discuss all things previs and postvis, starting from his journey into the industry , to the decisions which led to the creation of his Previs studio in the midlands - Bigtooth Studios.Jamie’s incredible first job with Aardman, soon after graduating in 2009 from Staffordshire University led him to work on The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, spiralling a great friendship with Pawl Fulker, co-owner of Proof Inc, (before it was

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57:19

A Love of Film with Carolina Jiménez García, Lead...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/02/16

This week Daniel caught up with Layout Artist who has 7 Oscar Nominated films, as well as an Emmy and a Goya under her belt!Many of our Spanish speaking audience may already be familiar with Carolina as she runs an incredibly popular VFX and film Youtube, blog and Twitter account as Okingrafia. Carolina is a Lead Layout Artist at Scanline, most recently on projects like Free Guy, Moonfall and Eternals. Her career spans the Globe and major studios such as Dneg in London, Scanline in Canada, and Weta

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52:51

How Animation Changed My Life - Michael Morgan - Part...

The VFX Artists Podcast ·

2022/02/10

In this episode, we conclude our two-part episode with Michael Morgan, a U.K. based senior character animator and animation mentor about his journey into the industry and working with some of the most highly respected studios in the world.Michael has over two decades of experience in the VFX industry, and has contributed to some of your favourite movies and characters on the big screen, ranging from Marvel's Black Panther, Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol 2, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Venom, Pacific

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