Interviews

Miguel Lee worked for over 7 years in the motion design. As a freelance artist, he worked for several studios as Logan, Capacity or Imaginary Forces. In 2011, he joined the team of Imaginary Forces as Creative Director.

John "DJ" Desjardin began his career in visual effects 20 years ago. He worked on projects like TIMECOP, BROKEN ARROW, RELIC or MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II. He becomes Production VFX Supervisor on the two MATRIX sequels. Then he took care of the VFX for films such as like FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND or THE KINGDOM. MAN OF STEEL is his third collaboration with director Zack Snyder.

Jessica Norman began her career in visual effects in 2001 at MPC. She has worked on projects such as LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, ALIEN VS PREDATOR, CORPSE BRIDE, many HARRY POTTER or NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN.

Before joining ILM in 1996, Hal Hickel had worked at Will Vinton Studios and Pixar. At ILM, he participated on many of the major projects of the studio such as STAR WARS EPISODE 1 and 2 and also on the first three PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. He receives an Oscar for his work on PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST. He then work on IRON MAN and especially to RANGO and also SUPER 8.

Lindy DeQuattro worked at ILM for over 15 years. She has participated in projects such as DEEP IMPACT, MINORITY REPORT, HULK or VAN HELSING. As visual effects supervisor, she took care of movies like RUSH HOUR 3, CLONES or THE GREAT GATSBY.

In 2011, Raffael Dickreuter explained the work of Pixel Liberation Front on GREEN LANTERN. He has just finished a two years work on MAN OF STEEL and talks to us about his work on it and the use of the virtual camera.

A few months ago, Kevin Baillie explained the work of Atomic Fiction of Robert Zemeckis' FLIGHT, for which they won the Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects. This time he talks about his work for STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS.

A few months ago, Ara Khanikian explained to us the work of Rodeo FX on JACK THE GIANT SLAYER. Today he talks about the magical effects for NOW YOU SEE ME.

Two years ago, Matt Johnson had told us about the work of Cinesite on X-MEN FIRST CLASS. To talk about WORLD WAR Z, he is accompanied with Anthony Zwartouw (CG Supervisor) and Thomas Dyg (Environment Supervisor).

Last year, Max Ivins had told us about the work of Look Effects on LIFE OF PI. He then worked on the third season of GAME OF THRONES. He speaks to us today about his work on MAN OF STEEL.