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Episode 248 – Maxon – Red Giant Hello, everyone! This is Allan McKay. Welcome to Episode 248! I’m sitting down with Maxon and Red Giant to discuss their recent merger and everything else industry related. I’m so excited to sit down with Paul and Aharon. Maxon created Cinema 4D and recently acquired Reds

  Episode 247 – COVID-19 and the Future of VFX – with Todd Sheridan Perry Todd Sheridan Perry works in the film industry as a freelance VFX Supervisor / CG Supervisor as well as digital artist, screenwriter, editor and director. He is a classically trained artist, as well as both a traditional and digi

  EPISODE 246 — THE POWER OF EMPATHY Looking back at the beginning of his own career, Allan examines what he should’ve done differently: Instead of sending out his reel over and over, he could’ve been asking for feedback: “I realize my reel sucks. Tell me what an ideal reel would be to you.” The [&he

  EPISODE 245 — OVERWHELM: QUITTING BEFORE GETTING STARTED Looking at other people’s work can be really inspiring. If you’re looking at it from a place of “Where I want to go” — rather than comparing yourself to everyone else — you’re going to be fine. If, however, you’re looking at e

  Episode 244 — Jordan Mechner — PRINCE OF PERSIA American author, game designer, graphic novelist and screenwriter Jordan Mechner is best known as a pioneer of cinematic storytelling in the video game industry and as the creator of Prince of Persia, one of the most successful and enduring video game f

  EPISODE 243 — GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN How confident are you that your reel is going to stand out of thousands of reels? Where do you stand in that spectrum? This is the big problem: We just send in our reel and we feel that someone owes us a job. And then we get […]