In this special episode of the VFX Show, we talk with former ILM general manager and Digital Domain co-founder Scott Ross. Scott has a new book entitled: UPSTART: The Digital Film Revolution Managing the UnManageable. We discuss the book, the #VFX industry, and the current challenges facing artists and companies around the world.
VFX Show 292: Oscars and Alien: Romulus
Mike “Better Man” Seymour, Jason “Wicked” Diamond, and Matt “Cornelius” Wallin discuss the #VFX Oscar race and explore the visual effects of Alien: Romulus. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 291: Better Man
On the latest VFX Show, Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin go ape for the #VFX in the new film “Better Man”. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 290: Wicked
On this VFX Show Mike “Tinman” Seymour, Jason “Scarecrow” Diamond, and Matt “Lion” Wallin discuss the holiday box-office juggernaut “Wicked”. Listen for free online at FX Guide.
Godland
This sequence from Hlynur Pálmason’s 2022 film Godland is so powerful. If you have not seen this film, I highly recommend it.
VFX Show 289: Here
“Robert Zemeckis’ 2024 film “Here” could be one of the worst movies ever made. A sad sack melodrama of joyless people, perpetual victims, who possess no agency in their own lives trapped in a single room akin to a prison cell. One could make the case that the film is about the prison of the “American dream” fantasy and the distortions, self-deceptions, and lies required to believe it exists. The endless deaths and tragedies suggest that the house they live in is likely built on a Native American burial ground, a-la Poltergeist. Cuesta Verde anyone? I found myself hoping a nuclear bomb would go off outside their widow vaporizing their self-inflicted misery and mine. All the characters are cursed to live an unfulfilled life, vapid, and void of any kind of fulfillment only to die unable to remember anything but tragedy (unless they’re suffering from dementia).” —Matt Wallin
‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the film and its visual effects in this episode of the VFX Show. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 288: The Penguin
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin dive deep into the criminal underworld of Gotham City to discuss the visual effects in HBO’s “The Penguin”.
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VFX Show 287: Deadpool and Wolverine
Mike “Deadpool” Seymour, Jason “Wolverine” Diamond, & Matt “Mr. Paradox” Wallin discuss the #VFX in the highest grossing movie of the Summer, Deadpool & Wolverine. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 286: Alien and Aliens (Retro)
When listening to the VFX Show, no one can hear you scream. Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss (my all-time favorite film) Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien and it’s action-packed follow up, James Cameron’s Aliens.
PRIORITY ONE
INSURE RETURN OF ORGANISM FOR ANALYSIS.
ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS SECONDARY.
CREW EXPENDABLE.
VFX Show 285: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga
Break a deal and feel the wheel… Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin travel the wasteland in search of visual effects on the latest VFX Show. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 284: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
VFX Show together strong. Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin travel to Earth’s future and discuss Wes Ball’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 283: The Fall Guy
Check out the latest VFX Show with Mike “Airbag” Seymour, Jason “Breakaway” Diamond, and Matt ”Ratchet” Wallin as we “cowboy up” and discuss the visual effects in David Leitch’s film, The Fall Guy. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 282: 3 Body Problem & Shōgun
On this episode of the VFX Show, Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin explore quantum mechanics and the ritualistic world of feudal Japan. We dive deep into Netflix’s 3 Body Problem and FX’s Shōgun. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 281: Dune Part 2
Fear is the mind killer in the latest episode of the VFX Show. Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, & Matt Wallin discuss the absoultely stellar visual effects in the highly anticipated Denis Villeneuve film, Dune: Part 2. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 280: Masters of the Air
On this latest episode of the VFX Show, Mike Seymour and Matt Wallin enlist to fly B-17 bombers over occupied Europe. We dive deep into the spectacular visual effects of Apple TV+’s latest episodic, Masters of the Air. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 279: Godzilla Minus One
On this week’s VFX Show Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin go back to the dawn of the atomic age to discuss the amazing low budget #VFX in Godzilla Minus One. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 278: Poor Things
On this holiday VFX Show Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin have been reanimated with the brains of infants to discuss the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things. Union VFX in London, headed the complex and fascinating #VFX work.
VFX Show 277: Napoleon
On the latest VFX Show Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin discuss the #VFX in Sir Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 276: No One Will Save You
On the latest VFX Show Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin talk about the #VFX in Brian Duffield’s original film No One Will Save You. Listen for free on FX Guide.
VFX Show 275: The Creator
On the latest VFX Show Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond, and Matt Wallin journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory… only to discover the incredible #VFX of Gareth Edward’s original new film, The Creator. Listen for free on FX Guide.
