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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 more.
As one of the most notable Flame artists in the world, Vico is the winner of the first ever Autodesk Flame Award recognizing his vast contributions to the VFX industry over the past 25 years. Vico’s portfolio includes a wide range of commercials for fortune 500 companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Nike and AT&T, music-videos for Beyoncé, Coldplay, Niki Minaj, KanYe West, and work on dozens of films such as Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ocean’s 8, Tower Heist and Sex and The City, to name a few.
YUVAL LEVY is a Director, Creative Director and VFX Supervisor at The-Artery. With two decades of VFX experience, Yuval spent half that period of time steadily moving up the ranks at Gravity New York (formerly RhinoFX) as CG Supervisor / Head of CG to VFX and Digital Supervisor, as well as Creative Director. Along the way, he’s lent his talents to high-profile top-tier brands including BMW, Mercedes, and Coca-Cola, commercials and documentary films for National Geographic and The History Channel, and multiple successful feature films such as The Other Guys, Crazy Stupid Love and The Adjustment Bureau.
Vico and Yuval co-supervised the VFX on Paramount Pictures’ recent horror film SMILE which has crushed it in the box office. Globally, the film grossed over $137.5 million with a $17 million production budget in just the first two weeks.
In this Episode, the Founder and Creative Director of The-Artery Vico Sharabani and VFX Supervisor and Creative Director Yuval Levy talk about their collaboration on Paramount Pictures’ recent film SMILE, creating its realistic visuals, the most challenging horror sequences and so much more!
The Artery: https://www.the-artery.com/
Vico Sharabani on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2288491/
Yuval Levy on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2302021/
Vico Sharabani on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicoshar/
Yuval Levy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuval-levy-59bb496
Interview with Vico Sharabani on Post-Perspective: https://postperspective.com/tag/vico-sharabani/
EPISODE 405 – SMILE – THE-ARTERY TALKS ABOUT THE FILM’S EPIC VISUALS
Hi, everyone!
This is Allan McKay. Welcome to Episode 405!
I’m sitting down with the Founder and Creative Director of The-Artery Vico Sharabani who, along with VFX Supervisor and Creative Director Yuval Levy, collaborated on Paramount Pictures’ recent film SMILE.
I’m really excited to sit down with these two Supervisors. Vico has been on the Podcast before: www.allanmckay.com/232.
Vico and Yuval talk about a lot of cool topics:
- The recent slate of projects at The-Artery: Armageddon Time, Causeway, Hocus Pocus 2;
- Their creative journey making SMILE;
- The most challenging sequences in the film;
- Creating realistic effects in the film;
- How to choose your clients;
- The innovations and disruptions they’re excited about today;
- And so much more!
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Let’s dive in!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM ALLAN McKAY:
[01:20] 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!
[46:59] 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 Vico and Yuval for joining me on the Podcast. This was a lot of fun to sit down with both of them.
Next week, I’ll be talking about How to Make Money in VFX. I’ll be busting the myth that a VFX Artist cannot make a lot of money in visual effects, as well as my insight as a VFX Supervisor, Producer and Studio Owner. I’ll be back next week!
Until then –
Rock on!
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