Latest Chaosgroup Podcast Episodes
Episode 480 - Chad Wanstreet - VFX Supervisor
CG Garage - July 08, 2024 19:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsChad Wanstreet and Chris Nichols have experienced similar career trajectories — but this is the first time they’ve sat down together. Like Chris, Chad transitioned from architecture to VFX, and his experience spans working at notable firms including Blur Studio and FuseFX. Along the way, Chad ha...
Episode 479 - Nikola Todorovic - Co-Founder & CEO, Wonder Dynamics
CG Garage - July 01, 2024 17:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsNikola Todorovic always wanted to make films, but encountered a familiar problem: the sci-fi screenplays he wrote would require $200 million budgets. Aiming to reduce this cost, Nikola co-founded Wonder Dynamics with Ready Player One actor Tye Sheridan to develop Wonder Studio, a platform that s...
Episode 478 - Andy Fowler - Creative Producer & Production Innovation Consultant
CG Garage - June 24, 2024 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAndy Fowler’s career has combined his creative eye with his incredible production skills. Beginning in London’s burgeoning VFX scene with titles such as Lost in Space, 300, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Andy picked up an Emmy for his work on The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. T...
Episode 477 - Joel Hynek - VFX Supervisor
CG Garage - June 17, 2024 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsOver a 40-year career, Joel Hynek has helped bring some incredible VFX to life, beginning with optical effects for Xanadu, then making the Predator a terrifying opponent for Arnie, and moving onto a range of movies, including xXx, Judge Dredd, Stealth, plus blockbusters from India and China. He ...
Episode 476 - Kathryn Brillhart - Virtual Production Supervisor & Cinematographer
CG Garage - June 10, 2024 16:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsKathryn Brillhart has always been ahead of her time. As a teen, she assisted her father in shooting documentaries; then she combined her sharp eye as a cinematographer with her passion for VFX to become a virtual production and volume capture expert. Projects she’s worked on include Las Vegas’ g...
Episode 475 - Liz Hitt - VFX Producer, CBS VFX
CG Garage - May 28, 2024 17:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsLiz Hitt has worked across VFX departments on some very cool movies — and she’s not stopping there. Beginning at the legendary Dream Quest Images on Deep Rising and Mighty Joe Young, Liz built a name for herself as a talented production coordinator and producer via movies including Hollow Man, S...
Episode 474 - Junaid Baig - Head of Applied Technology, DNEG
CG Garage - May 20, 2024 16:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWhile most five-year-olds were playing with Legos and Barbies, Junaid Baig was taking his first steps with 3D Max. From this early start, Junaid developed an incredibly in-depth understanding of 3D, lighting, and rendering from working on VFX for movies, including Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of...
Episode 473 - Dan Ring - Senior Machine Learning Team Lead, Chaos
CG Garage - May 13, 2024 15:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsDan Ring is an expert in empowering VFX artists with cutting-edge research. He began his 20-year career by creating tech to analyze surgery videos (so that no one else would have to), then moved to Foundry to develop CopyCat, the Nuke machine-learning tool that applies corrections to sequences b...
Episode 472 - Phil Galler - Principal & Founder, Lux Machina Consulting
CG Garage - May 07, 2024 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsPhil Galler is a true virtual production guru. From the nuts and bolts of LED screens to the 3D software that provides the imagery to the business decisions and financial trends that help fund this new wave of VFX filmmaking, Phil understands it all. In this podcast, Phil talks about his histo...
Episode 471 - Chris MacLean - Overall VFX Supervisor, “Foundation”
CG Garage - April 29, 2024 16:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsChris MacLean’s incredible career in VFX has transported him from documentaries on Cretaceous dinosaurs to the far-flung future for Foundation, Apple TV+’s bold adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s genre-defining sci-fi novels. Along the way, Chris has created and supervised VFX for movies and TV series...
Episode 470 - Hugo Guerra - Director, VFX Supervisor, YouTuber, & Podcaster
CG Garage - April 22, 2024 17:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsHugo Guerra is the dictionary definition of multitasking. Having taken his eye for compositing into directing short films and commercials, and supervising VFX, Hugo fills his spare time with producing content for his successful YouTube channel and recording the VFX Notes podcast with Ian Failes....
Episode 469 - Doug Trumbull, Joe Kosinski & Tim Miller Revisited
CG Garage - April 08, 2024 19:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAs Chris is tied up with a really cool Chaos project, we’re revisiting some of the older episodes of the CG Garage podcast. And we’re starting big with true luminaries of Hollywood revealing how they got their projects off the ground. First up is Doug Trumbull, the 2001: A Space Odyssey VFX ge...
Episode 468 - Alex Yolov & Gosho Genchev — Product Managers, V-Ray for Maya & Houdini
CG Garage - April 02, 2024 13:25 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWith V-Ray 6 for Maya and Houdini, update 2, Chaos adds an important feature to its powerful renderer: MaterialX support. With this addition, artists and studios can seamlessly use materials across different DCCs and get identical results, removing many of the pain points of increasingly complic...
Episode 467 - Julian Levi - VFX Producer, “The Creator”
CG Garage - March 25, 2024 15:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsOver his 30-year career, Julian Levi has produced VFX for Hollywood movies, beginning with Braveheart, moving into O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Day After Tomorrow (with Chris), Speed Racer, X-Men: First Class, Prometheus, and many more. Most recently, he helped director Gareth Edwards bring t...
Episode 466 - Tom Grimes - Product Manager, Chaos Corona
CG Garage - March 20, 2024 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsArchviz artists love Chaos Corona. This renderer has become a go-to for visualizing everything from compact kitchens to sky-scraping towers, giving users stunning results straight out of the box. But what’s on the horizon for this popular renderer? In this podcast, Product Manager Tom Grimes d...
Episode 465 - Tram Le-Jones - Vice President Solutions - Creative, Backlight
CG Garage - March 11, 2024 17:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsTram Le-Jones has an eye for detail, a people-centric personality, and a passion for computer science — making her perfect for VFX production roles. After getting a job on The Matrix Revolutions via craigslist (no, really), she became a sought-after coordinator and then moved into producing VFX ...
Episode 464 - Casey Pyke - Visualization Supervisor, Halon Entertainment
CG Garage - March 04, 2024 23:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsVFX visualization might just be the closest you can get to being a film director without stepping behind the camera. This technology has become a key part of the VFX process, with previz storyboarding growing into pitchviz (to get movies greenlit), techviz (to figure out logistics), and postviz ...
Episode 463 - Richard Crudo, ASC - Cinematographer & Director
CG Garage - February 26, 2024 20:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsRichard Crudo began his career in New York City, learning from some of the best in the business, including László Kovács and Gordon Willis, and helping shoot movies such as Ghostbusters 2, Raising Arizona, and Broadway Danny Rose. He then served as cinematographer on movies including American Pi...
Episode 462 - Paolo Berto Durante - CEO, J CUBE
CG Garage - February 20, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsCould Paolo Berto Durante really be Chris, but from another dimension? These outspoken CG enthusiasts have a lot in common: an extensive knowledge of 3D software and render engines stretching back decades, a history in VFX and teaching CG, and strong opinions on the current state of the industry...
Episode 461 - Robert Moggach - Creative Activist, Dashing
CG Garage - February 13, 2024 17:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsRobert Moggach has experienced the full arc of the VFX artist career, from being treated like a rockstar in the early days of CG to working on personal, small-scale indie projects today. Along the way, he’s racked up credits on movies including Harry Potter, I, Robot, and Stealth, created ads fo...
Episode 460 - Vikkal Parikh - Creative Director & Founder, Ataboy Studio
CG Garage - February 05, 2024 15:52 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsIn this podcast, Vikkal breaks down his career so far, from his beginnings in architecture and on MTV series Room Raiders, to founding Ataboy Studios and making use of the latest VFX and motion graphics technology to create eye-catching ads in a variety of formats. Vikkal and Chris also discuss ...
Episode 459 - Ben Hansford - Director & USC Professor
CG Garage - January 22, 2024 19:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsBen Hansford has his finger on the pulse of filmmaking — the prognosis is excellent. Beginning his career in VFX, Ben moved into directing short films and commercials for the likes of Old Spice, Starfield0, Call of Duty, Nike, and many more. He also teaches AI at the University of Southern Calif...
Episode 458 - Kat Dawes - NOWism
CG Garage - January 16, 2024 16:19 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsHere’s the perfect start to 2024: Kat Dawes and NOWism’s particular blend of positivity for creative people. From busking in her native Brisbane to traveling through Africa, Kat has combined her love of performance art and spirituality to create NOWism, a playful philosophy that embraces the pre...
Episode 457 - Jonas Ussing - No CGI is really just invisible CGI
CG Garage - January 08, 2024 16:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratings2024 gets off to an explosive start with this week’s guest: CG supervisor Jonas Ussing, who is on a quest to give visibility to the VFX artists and studios who create invisible effects. He’s doing this via his YouTube channel, The Movie Rabbit Hole, where his impeccably researched and presented ...
Episode 456 - Faruk Heplevent - Founder and CEO, The Scope
CG Garage - December 18, 2023 17:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsFaruk Heplevent has spent his career perfecting the art of car photography. His experience in traditional photography transferred smoothly into CGI, and he set up his company, The Scope, to create breathtaking renders for the world’s biggest car companies. Now, he’s released Scope City, a ground...
Episode 455 - Kim Davidson - President and CEO, SideFX
CG Garage - December 11, 2023 20:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsSideFX President and CEO Kim Davidson has been a luminary of the computer graphics industry since the 1980s. In this podcast, Kim delves into his history, recounting his early days with the PRISMS procedural graphics application and the subsequent development of Houdini, SideFX’s popular and Osc...
Episode 454 - Joe Letteri - Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Wētā FX
CG Garage - December 04, 2023 22:10 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsMeet the legend behind some of the movie industry’s most iconic creatures: Joe Letteri. From Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs to Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, Avatar’s Na’vi, and the Planet of the Apes’ simian stars, Joe has constantly pushed VFX boundaries and technology to deliver utterly believab...
Episode 453 - Peter Sohn - Director, “Elemental”
CG Garage - November 27, 2023 15:49 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe universal language of cinema has proved a constant in Pixar director Peter Sohn’s life, and with Elemental, he used it to tell a story close to his heart. Born in New York City to Korean parents, Peter’s mother fell in love with the visual storytelling of Disney movies. He then carved out a ...
Episode 452 - Joaquim Dos Santos - Director, “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse”
CG Garage - November 20, 2023 16:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse left some big spider-boots to fill — but director Joaquim Dos Santos was clearly the man to fill them. With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the director expanded the Spider-Verse in new and unexpected directions while, crucially, staying true to the first f...
Episode 451 - Benjamin Renner - Director, “Migration”
CG Garage - November 13, 2023 15:56 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAs Illumination Studios' duck tale Migration prepares to take flight on the big screen, Chris had a conversation with its director, Benjamin Renner, at the VIEW Conference in Italy. Benjamin turned his passion for drawing into a career in animation via Macromedia Director and rose to prominence ...
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