Interviews

After several years of freelance, Thilo Ewers joined the team of Pixomondo in 2008. He has worked on films such as NINJA ASSASSIN, 2012 or THE LAST AIRBENDER. In the following interview, he discusses his work on SUCKER PUNCH.

Stephane Paris began his career in Paris in many studios like Duran Duboi on films like ASTERIX & OBELIX: MISSION CLEOPATRE or IMMORTAL (AD VITAM). He then worked at MPC and Weta Digital. In 2006, he joined the teams of Cinesite. He supervised the CG of movies like CLASH OF THE TITANS, PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME or THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER.

Paul Butterworth has worked at Animal Logic in 1993 as compositing artist and later became the first Australian VFX supervisor! He also directed numerous commercials and do a lot of matte paintings. In 1998, he oversee 1300 shots in 8 months for the TV series FARSCAPE. In 2000, he founded with Dave Morley, Andrew Hellen, Simon Maddison and Jason Bath, the studio Fuel VFX. He oversaw the effects of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE and is currently working on Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS. In the following interview, he talks about his work on THOR.

After explaining to us his work on THE PREY, Laurens Ehrmann of Plug Effects is back on The Art of VFX and tells us their contribution on X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.

Jonathan Harb began his career as a production assistant in the art department at ILM in 1996, he later became concept artist, matte painter, supervisor of the matte painting department and VFX supervisor. At ILM, he worked on such films as MEN IN BLACK I and II, the new STAR WARS trilogy, THE PERFECT STORM, or I.A. In 2007, he founded Whiskytree and oversaw the effects of movies like TERMINATOR SALVATION or TRON LEGACY. In the following interview, he talks about his work on THOR.

Eric Fernandes has worked in many studios such as Industrial Light and Magic, Weta Digital or Dreamworks Animation and Digital Domain. He has worked on such films as STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS and RETURN OF THE KING but also on KUNG FU PANDA and AVATAR.

Kelly Port began his career in 1995 at Digital Domain on APOLLO 13. He participated in many projects of the studios such as TITANIC, RED PLANET or THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. He will also oversee the effects of movies like WE OWN THE NIGHT, STAR TREK or THE A-TEAM.

Rodolphe Guenoden is working in animation for over 20 years. Within Dreamworks Animation, he participated in projects such as THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, THE ROAD TO EL DORADO, SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS or KUNG FU PANDA. In the following interview, he talks about his work on KUNG FU PANDA 2.

Vincent Cirelli and his brilliant team at Luma Pictures are back on The Art of VFX. After given life to the impressive Destroyer on THOR, Vincent discusses his work on the super-heroes of X-MEN FIRST CLASS.

After his great work on PRINCE OF PERSIA at MPC, Stephane Ceretti joined the team of Method Studios. He oversaw the shooting of the second unit for CAPTAIN AMERICA. Working with the VFX legend John Dykstra, Stephen talks about his work as supervisor on X-MEN FIRST CLASS.