Interviews

After he has discussed about his work on THE GREEN HORNET, Greg Oehler is back on The Art of VFX and explains his work on the new Jack Sparrow adventure, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES.

Simon Stanley-Clamp began his career in feature film at Mill Film with LOST IN SPACE. He remained there until 2003, he has supervised the compositing of movies such as GLADIATOR and BLACK HAWK DOWN. He joined Cinesite in 2003 and oversees movies like MOON or CLASH OF THE TITANS.

François Ferracci has worked for 10 years as a graphic designer and has created many film credits as FROM PARIS WITH LOVE or Sheitan. He founded Pik.sel with David Goldenberg.

Vincent Cirelli and his team are back on The Art of VFX. This time, they talk about their work on THOR.

Yanick Wilisky worked nearly 10 years at Hybride where he participate in projects like SPY KIDS, 300 or SIN CITY. In 2007, he founded with Marc Bourbonnais, Modus FX. He supervised the effects of films as MR. NOBODY, BARNEY'S VERSION or THE AMERICAN.

Before overseeing movies, Louis Morin was a freestyle skier then began working on commercials. In 2000, he joined Buzz Image where he oversaw such films as THE AVIATOR, THE FOUNTAIN, or THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. In 2006, he became freelance supervisor and supervised the VFX for films like I'M NOT THERE, THE AMERICAN or MR. NOBODY.

Derek Spears begins his career in 1994, the movie LITTLE NICKY marks his debut as VFX Supervisor at Rhythm & Hues, since then he has oversees the effects of films such as THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, DAREDEVIL, SUPERMAN RETURNS, or THE MUMMY 3. In the following interview, he discusses his work on RED RIDING HOOD.

Ben Hibon was born in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1996, he moved to London to study at Central Saint Matins College of Art and Design. He worked later as artistic director. In 2007, he directed a miniseries for Sony based on the game HEAVENLY SWORD. In 2010, he made for Warner a segment of 3 minutes for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOW PART 1. The animation is done at Framestore.

After working many years at BUF on projects such as ALEXANDER, MATRIX 3, HARRY POTTER 4, BATMAN BEGINS, or THE PRESTIGE, Nicolas Bonnell and Laurens Ehrmann founded in 2007 the VFX studio Plug Effects. They have since worked on films like THE DIVIDE and TWILIGHT ECLIPSE.

Guilaume Pondard joined in 1998. For almost 10 years he worked there as Flame artist and 2D supervisor on commercials and music videos. In 2009, he participated in the installation of Mikros Image Liege and worked on films such as COCO BEFORE CHANEL, DON'T LOOK BACK and THE OTHER WORLD.