The VFX Process

Jamie Bakewell chats with Arturo Brena, the Emmy award winning, founder of KeexFrame, a company that merges outstanding design with the latest technology. From real-time motion graphics to 3D animation, and shadow sculpting. Join us as we dive into one of Arturo's Unreal Engine Fellowship-developed short films, "The Thief". Using Metahuman and motion capture, Arturo enhances storytelling and immerses viewers.

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Director and Animator Sara Gunnarsdóttir shares her experience of making the Academy Award-nominated animated short 'My Year Of D***s' with the writer of Moana, Pamela Ribon. Sara provides a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process of preparing for The Oscars and the challenges of rotoscoping. Discover the secrets of how this talented team achieved their Oscar nomination.

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Dave Macomber is a Hollywood Fight & Stunt Coordinator with an impressive list of Blockbusters under his belt. We take a look at his combination of action sequences and VFX in both his professional work and his personal projects.

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Connor Buchanan is a Freelance Cinematic Artist, specialising in realistic facial/dialogue animation, environment composition and character animation in Unreal Engine 5. He is completely self taught and has already achieved an incredible amount in only 1 year.

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Jamie chats with Senior 3D/VFX Generalist and punk rocker Andy Lefton about his short film 'World Suicide'. Andy shares some knowledge from his 20 years in the industry and explains what it was like to use Unreal Engine for the first time to create a short film.

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Jamie talks with Chris Suddaby about a few of his '50 Second Films' that he created while taking part in Unreal Engines 'Unreal Fellowship'.

He also talks us through the details of his new virtual art department role (VAD) and how it will streamline the film making process in the future.

If you are a film maker, you won't believe what VAD can do to benefit your production time and cost!

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50 Second Film | Awakening

50 Second Film | Arctic Journey

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Jamie talks with Miran Dilberovic about a stunning Star Wars chase sequence from his ongoing personal project. They speak about the wonders of Unreal Engine and the importance of taking care of your mental health in the industry.

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Kris Theorin is the Creative Director and Animator of 'Something's Awry Productions'. Their recent animated horror short 'Unlucky Charms' has reached a massive online audience after going viral across multiple channels on YouTube.

As Kris' unique and impressive animated shorts gain more deserved attention across social media, Jamie sat down to talk about what went in to a project of this calibre.

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Martin Bell is a Previs Supervisor, Independent Filmmaker and Screenwriter who has made his own short film inside Unreal Engine under his company ‘Yes, Commissioner?’.

Martin has worked on films such as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Little Mermaid, No Time to Die and 1917, to name a few.

Jamie sat down to talk to him about a personal project, his short film Prazinburk Ridge.

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