Filmnut – Episodes – Special FX & Designers

VFX Supervisor Stephan Fleet of the ABC show, The River

Visual effects are constantly evolving. Tonight we got to hear from Stephan Fleet, VFX Supervisor for the new ABC show, The River on some of the creative and business realities of VFX. The River is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Paranormal Activity writer/Director Oren Peli. Fleet brought his VFX knapsack with him more »

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Hollywood Movie Car Designer Fireball Tim

Fireball Tim (his legal name) is well-known in the automotive community having been commissioned by film studios over the years to concept design Hollywood Movie vehicles ranging everything from one of the original Batman Batmobile models (1989 film) to the Ghostbusters wagon to more recently the Knight-Ridder tv series Mustang, promo collaboration providing cars for more »

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Jeff Dawn

Oscar winning makeup artist Jeff Dawn has worked on seven Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movies and prior to that nineteen Arnold Schwarzenegger films including all three Terminators. Jeff Dawn talks about his on-set experiences, both memorable and disastrous. We get a quick Arnold impression out of him as well as a few stories about The Govenator. more »

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Keith Adams

Stunt coordinator, Stunt Man, Stunt driver, Stunt double Keith Adams will was the guest last night on Filmnut. His credits include: Meet The Spartans, Live Free or Die Hard, Kill Bill I & II, Nacho Libre, Transporter 2, Spider-Man, Alias, and many more. Stay tuned to the Filmnut by liking us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/filmnutshow Feed more »

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Dan Romero

The Transportation Coordinator has more responsiblities then you think. Dan Romero has great stories and information. He has worked on the following features: The Mummy: Tombs Of The Dragon, Must Love Dogs, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Last Samuri, Swordfish, Amistad, Lethal Weapon 3 and more… Stay tuned to the Filmnut by more »

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D.A. Young

If you’re a fan of SouthPark, check out this episode with D.A. Young who does sound design for the show. Yes we talk sound but also about some good SP episodes. Stay tuned to the Filmnut by liking us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/filmnutshow Feed the following on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/thefilmnut Keep up with all the excitement by more »

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Great Visual Effects Links: Mark Kochinski

Filmnut 214 Guest: Mark Kochinski Crew Position: Visual Effects Supervisor Projects: Founder Extreme Filmmaker 48 Hour Film Festival Websites: http://extremefilmmaker.com/ http://www.myspace.com/extremefilmmaker http://web.mac.com/markkochinski/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/profiles/MarkKochinski/ IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462513/ Well tonight you got two shows for the price of one. We talked about short filmmaking and visual effects with Mark Kochinski who is deeply involved in both. Some more »

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Animation, Star Wars: Ross Shuman

Guest: Ross Shuman Stop Motion Animator, Model Maker, Artistic Director Company: www.shadowmachine.com Stop motion animation, CGI, cell animation? Tonight we touched on all three with guest Ross Shuman who has worked on projects by Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas (Planet of The Apes, Artificial Intelligence and Star Wars II Attack of The clones). more »

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