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Mocking AI With AI: Sergio Cilli on Why the Joke Only Works If You Actually Use It | Episode 551
Sergio Cilli is going to get hate from both sides. The pro-AI crowd thinks he's mocking their tools. The anti-AI crowd thinks he's a hypocrite for using them. He's fine with that. Cilli is a director…
How to Make and Distribute a Gothic Horror Film on a Shoestring | Justin Denton | Ep. 550
Gothic horror is having a moment, and Justin Denton got there before the wave. His feature The Curse of the Sin Eater is now streaming on Prime, built for under a million dollars with 19 shooting…
Filmmaking Needs a New Revolution. Bill Warner, Founder of Avid, Is Building It | Ep. 549
The man who invented nonlinear editing is not done disrupting filmmaking. Bill Warner, founder of Avid Technology and the engineer behind the tool that unlocked the indie film revolution of the…
The Devil Wears Prada Predicted 20 Years of Cultural Stagnation | Episode 548
A movie from 2006 looks like it could have come out last year. The cars are the same. The computers are the same. The fashion, the cinematography, the music -- all of it effectively unchanged. Chris…
Your VFX Skills Are Your AI Advantage | Marc Rienzo | Episode 547
Marc Rienzo is a veteran VFX artist and supervisor with his roots deep in compositing -- the kind of career that runs through Digital Domain, Sony, Weta, and the first Spider-Man's web-swinging…
VidViz, a Pocket Watch, and the Character That Rewrote June July | Episode 546
Hollywood isn't dying. It's being deconstructed and reassembled into something nobody has a blueprint for, and the people falling into the water right now are the ones who have to figure out what the…
Episode 545 - Victor Varnado: Why Every Creator Needs to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Hollywood has been gatekept for decades, but a multi-hyphenate who has appeared in films with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Werner Herzog, co-written a screenplay with Stan Lee, and produced for VH1 and…
Episode 544 - Jay Worth: Fallout Season 2, 500 Episodes of Hard Lessons, and when to say no
500 episodes of television is a number that stops people cold, and Jay Worth hit that milestone last year without slowing down. Worth came up through the pressure cooker of Digital Domain's…
Episode 543 - Stan Szymanski and Susan O'Neal: What VFX Talent Actually Needs to Look Like Now
The job market for visual effects and CG artists has not just contracted, it has fundamentally restructured. The skills that guaranteed a career five years ago are not the skills that will get anyone…
Episode 542 - Refuge VFX: How a Portland Boutique Landed Fallout, Shogun, and One Piece
Portland, Oregon is not where you expect to find a VFX studio with credits on Fallout, One Piece, Shogun, and The Peripheral. Fred Ruff built Refuge VFX there anyway, starting with six freelancers…
Episode 541 - Ashay Javadekar: The Clapperboard Is 100 Years Old and Nobody Fixed It
Most filmmaking tools are built by engineers who have never made a film. Ashay Javadekar has done both. A PhD chemical engineer who directed two internationally awarded independent features on…
Episode 540 - Sean Rourke: The Third Floor and the Tuesday Night Writers Group
There's a Tuesday night writers group that has quietly shaped the careers of some seriously talented people working in Hollywood right now, and CG Garage is slowly pulling back the curtain on it.…
Episode 539 - Ryan Kelsey on Why Boutique Cloud is the Secret Weapon for Indie VFX Studios
Most people who end up in VFX spent years obsessing over frames and film. Ryan Kelsey spent 13 years in telecom in Cincinnati, selling fiber and managed IT services, before stumbling into an industry…
Episode 538 - Jess Loren on Gaussian Splats, AI Actors, and the Real Future of Virtual Production
Jess Loren has built one of the most-followed voices in the entertainment technology space on LinkedIn, and she has earned it by calling industry shifts before they become consensus. Her read on…
Episode 537 - Lights, Camera, VidViz! Richard Crudo Joins Chris and Daniel to Plan Our Western: June July
Here is a radical idea: what if you rehearsed the movie before you shot it? Not storyboards. Not an animatic. Live actors, real cameras, and actual creative decisions being made in the room. That is…
Episode 536 - Stop Waiting for the Studio to Save You: Andy Cochrane on the New Media Frontier
Why are we still waiting for a green light from people who do not understand our craft? This reality is at the heart of our conversation with Andy Cochrane, a creative who has spent twenty years…
Episode 535 - Rob Nederhorst and Ben Hansford: The end of "good enough" in filmmaking
The "good enough" era of streaming is hitting a wall, and a new rebellious streak in Hollywood is reclaiming the theater as the primal source of the cinematic experience. We are joined by two…
Episode 534 - Why Safdie and PTA are Saving Cinema: Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another Breakdown
If the movies you're seeing lately feel like they were assembled by a committee rather than a creator, you're looking at the wrong side of the lens. We are dusting off a classic format today, leaning…
Episode 533 - Jeff Okun's Decades-Long Battle for VFX Respect and the Future of the VES
Long before he was codifying the industry in the VES Handbook, Jeff was a kid in Los Angeles pouring ketchup on his friends to stage fake street fights for a hidden camera. His journey into the heart…
Episode 532 - Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme and the Invisible Mastery of Eran Dinur
Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme transports audiences to a vibrant 1950s world of professional ping pong, yet many viewers remain unaware that the film contains over 500 visual effects shots. Eran Dinur,…
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