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Episode 406 – How to Make More Money

  Episode 406 – How to Make More Money Some people argue that you can’t make more than $50K in VFX. Others compare their lives to the curated lifestyles on social media and demand to get paid more. It really comes down to your WHY: Why do you need more cash? The quickest pay rise […]

Episode 405 – SMILE – The-Artery Talks About the Film’s Epic Visuals

  Episode 405 – SMILE – The-Artery Talks About the Film’s Epic Visuals VICO SHARABANI is a Creative Entrepreneur, award-winning Creative-Director, Director, and Producer. He is also the Founder and CCO of The-Artery, a New York based media production company that creates high-end visual content for brands, feature films, commercials, digital experiences, art installations and […]

Episode 404 – ARwall – Co-Founder and CEO Rene Amador

  Episode 404 – ARwall – Co-Founder and CEO Rene Amador ARwall is a group of indie filmmakers based in LA who are on a mission to democratize their virtual production tech that has previously only been accessible to major studios. ARwall is a virtual production, software and solutions company.  Since its founding 7 years […]

Episode 403 – Wonder Dynamics – Co-Founder and CEO Nikola Todorovic

  Episode 403 – Wonder Dynamics – Co-Founder and CEO Nikola Todorovic Wonder Dynamics is utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to develop cutting-edge technologies, innovate production tools and create original content for Film and TV Industry. A startup founded in 2017 by Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan and VFX expert Nikola Todorovic aims […]

Episode 402 – Move.ai – Co-Founder Anthony Ganjou

  Episode 402 – Move.ai – Co-Founder Anthony Ganjou Move.ai develops patented AAA quality marker-less motion capture technology powered by computer vision and deep learning. Their software runs off any mobile device or camera, can capture any relative volume size and can be deployed in any environment on the planet.  It’s been tested to be […]

Episode 400 – ANNIVERSARY EPISODE – Ash Thorp Interviews Allan McKay

  Episode 400 – ANNIVERSARY EPISODE – Ash Thorp Interviews Allan McKay Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print. Most recently, Ash worked on the concept for the Batmobile and the Batcycle, for the 2022 film The Batman directed […]

Episode 398 – Revolutionizing AI – Interview with Pindar Van Arman

  Episode 398 – Revolutionizing AI – Interview with Pindar Van Arman Pindar Van Arman is an award-winning AI Artist who builds, codes and experiments with robots that paint in a variety of styles. Pindar was a winner of the Robot Art Competition for his home-made robots that use AI to paint artworks. He is […]

397 – Crush the Interview – Advice to Nail Your Next Job

  Episode 397 – Crush the Interview – Advice to Nail Your Next Job When it comes to job interviews, the number one thing to think about is putting yourself in the interviewer’s shoes. The more you can think like them – the pain points they may have, their wants and needs – the more […]

Episode 396 – Important Looking Pirates Co-Founder Niklas Jacobson

  Episode 396 – Important Looking Pirates Co-Founder Niklas Jacobson Important Looking Pirates (ILP) is a visual effects and digital animation studio located in central Stockholm founded in 2007 by Niklas Jacobson, Yafei Wu, Carl Hermelin and Eric Hermelin. The studio has more than 200 artists and have worked on big titles like Jurassic World: […]

Episode 395 – Sir Wade Neistadt – From Animation School to Cannes

  Episode 395 – Sir Wade Neistadt – From Animation School to Cannes Sir Wade Neistadt is a Freelance Animator, VFX Artist and YouTube Creator. Currently, his YouTube Channel has over 205K followers. In 2014, after his short film about a sick superhero brought him to the Cannes Film Festival, he completed Animation Mentor’s Character […]

Episode 394 – Chris Zammit Talks TOP GUN: MAVERICK VFX

  Episode 394 – Chris Zammit Talks TOP GUN: MAVERICK VFX Christopher Zammit is a VFX Supervisor and Art Director. He’s worked on many films like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Tomorrowland, Ghostbusters, and of course films in the Transformers franchise Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Age of […]

Episode 393 – 2023. Is This the Year VFX Dies?

  Episode 393 – 2023. Is This the Year VFX Dies? It is amazing how far Artificial Intelligence has progressed just in the last year! No one could’ve predicted the speed of this innovation. A lot of artists are now worried about being replaced with machine learning. While AI can automate and speed things up, […]

Episode 392 – How Hollywood is Using Voice Cloning with Respeecher AI

  Episode 392 – How Hollywood is Using Voice Cloning with Respeecher AI Respeecher uses deep learning (AI) techniques to produce high quality synthetic speech.  The company was launched in 2018 by Alex Serdiuk, Dmytro Bielievtsov and Grant Reaber. In March 2020, Respeecher received $1.5 million in startup funding from ff Venture Capital, Acrobator Ventures, […]

Episode 391 – The Future of VFX – Lon Molnar of MARZ

  Episode 391 – The Future of VFX – Lon Molnar of MARZ The mission of Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) is to deliver feature-film quality visual effects on television timelines by harnessing GPU clusters, game engine technology, AI and senior industry talent. Leveraging these pillars allows us to consistently execute with both speed and […]

Episode 390 – Stable Diffusion’s Creative Director

  Episode 390 – Stable Diffusion’s Creative Director Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, a powerful, free and open-source text-to-image generator that launched in August 2022. Since launching, Stable Diffusion has been downloaded and licensed by more than 200,000 developers globally. Stability AI’s consumer-facing product DreamStudio quickly grew to well over a million […]

Episode 389 – Should I Go to a VFX School?

  Episode 389 – Should I Go to a VFX School?  The most commonly asked questions that get asked are:  “Should I go to school to study VFX?”  “Should I study online?”  “What school / online community should I join?” Attending a school is a more traditional way of learning. However, because of the speed […]

Episode 388 – Brendan Kane – One Million Followers

  Episode 388 – Brendan Kane – One Million Followers Brendan Kane is the Bestselling Author of ONE MILLION FOLLOWERS: HOW I BUILD A MASSIVE SOCIAL AUDIENCE IN 30 DAYS and HOOK POINT: HOW TO STAND OUT IN A 3-SECOND WORLD, as well as the Founder and Managing Director of Hook Point. Since 2005, Brendan […]

Episode 387 – Stop Sabotaging Your Career!

  Episode 387 – Stop Sabotaging Your Career!  Perfectionism holds artists back. It gets the best of us, both junior and senior artists like. It’s part of the inability to manage ourselves.  It also ends up costing more: You’re spending so much time on the project, you burn through the budget. You end up paying […]

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