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Episode 422 – Ingenuity Studios – Partner Grant Miller
Grant Miller is a Partner and an Executive VFX Supervisor at Ingenuity Studios.
Grant brings a deep level of technical and artistic acumen to his role as Executive VFX Supervisor at Ingenuity Studios. He oversees the studio’s CG, FX, and Pipeline teams, ensuring that final results meet the exacting demands of sophisticated clients. Working closely with directors and creative decision-makers, Grant provides guidance and methodology during preproduction, supervision on set, and ensures seamless collaboration and high-quality results through post.
Over the years, Grant has supervised visual effects for a long list of notable clients, including episodic television shows such as The Night Agent, The Orville, The Boys, and Westworld; films such as Get Out and A Star is Born; music videos for Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Lady Gaga; and Super Bowl commercials for Fox Sports. Grant got his start working in video games in 2007, a background that he pulls from as the industry moves toward real-time VFX.
Based in Los Angeles, Grant is a member of the Visual Effects Society and Film Independent. He received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Promotional in 2017, and is frequently called upon to share insights at industry events and conferences.
In this Podcast, Allan McKay interviews VFX Supervisor and Partner at Ingenuity Studios Grant Miller about how up-and-coming Artists can launch their career: the importance of following your dreams, how to train your eye in visual effects, why keeping it simple always wins and some job interview red flags.
Ingenuity Studios Website: https://www.ingenuitystudios.com
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EPISODE 422 – GRANT MILLER – INGENUITY STUDIOS
Hi, everyone!
This is Allan McKay. Welcome to Episode 422!
I’m interviewing VFX Supervisor and Partner at Ingenuity Studios Grant Miller about how up-and-coming Artists can launch their career: the importance of following your dreams, how to train your eye in visual effects, why keeping it simple always wins and some job interview red flags.
I’m really excited to talk to Grant! Grant and I talk about:
- Following Your Dreams;
- The Economy of Artists;
- Red Flags at a Job Interview;
- As well as:
- The History of Ingenuity Studios;
- Their Work on THE BOYS and THE WALKING DEAD;
- The Studios’ Creative Pipeline;
- What a VFX Sup Brings to Set;
- And so much more!
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Let’s dive in!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM ALLAN McKAY:
[01:26] Have you ever sent in your reel and wondered why you didn’t get the callback or what the reason was you didn’t get the job? Over the past 20 years of working for studios like ILM, Blur Studio, Ubisoft, I’ve built hundreds of teams and hired hundreds of artists — and reviewed thousands of reels! That’s why I decided to write The Ultimate Demo Reel Guide from the perspective of someone who actually does the hiring. You can get this book for free right now at www.allanmckay.com/myreel!
[44:57] One of the biggest problems we face as artists is figuring out how much we’re worth. I’ve put together a website. Check it out: www.VFXRates.com! This is a chance for you to put in your level of experience, your discipline, your location — and it will give you an accurate idea what you and everyone else in your discipline should be charging. Check it out: www.VFXRates.com!
Okay, what did you think? I want to thank Grant for joining the Podcast. I’d love to have him back, as well as the other Partners at Ingenuity.
Next week, I’m talking with Caleb Ward, the Co-Founder of Curious Refuge. You might have seen all the viral trailers that Curious Refuge made. Caleb and I talk about the latest tools including AI, about his starting the company as a positive change, going viral on YouTube, the profound change of AI and its future; as well as the timely question of: Should one embrace AI or fear it?
Again, thank you, Grant for joining the Podcast.
I’ll be back next week. Until then –
Rock on!
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