fxguidetv #58: Star Trek Plus Now ILM !

Episode 58 of fxguidetv is live for your viewing pleasure, covering this weekend’s release of Star Trek. The show features interviews with director director J.J. Abrams and actor Karl Urban (Dr. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy), including a discussion about how they created the abundant anamorphic lens flares and some cool old school techniques.

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UPDATE MAY11th: Also now live is our interview with ILM VFX sup. Roger Guyett about the filming and visual effects Star Trek. We discuss VFX – second unit directing and about JJ Abrams doing roto himself.
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12 thoughts on “fxguidetv #58: Star Trek Plus Now ILM !”

  1. guys what happened to ep 57. i saw it listed and was keen to watch, when i got round to have a watch it was gone, thought i was going mad but googles cached page still has the anouncement (but no the actual video)

  2. You thought that we didnt cover VFX in this podcast? I am surprised Lars, we discussed working with actors with effects, previz, doing effects in camera and film making issues such as anamorphic – never once did we discuss ship designs, beaming, ears or conventions. I thought the interview was an interesting piece but dont worry this week we have a one hour in depth fxpodcast with ILM about the VFX effects !!

    thanks for the post

    Mike

  3. Very nice podcast ..
    I like to see different perspective about the film , the director and his vision

  4. It’s just awesome to have fxguide tv covering other non-too-technical bits of the industry. I would really love too see more interviews with actors and directors exposing their perspective and approach to the whole production. Especially their take on vfx.

    The people that are complaining about it not being a “tech episode” are simply not looking at a broader picture and are simply stuck to push buttons and follow orders without even trying to develop the capacity to talk to and argue with an director.

    Most talk to supervisors, but supervisors on the other hand do have to talk to directors! So having their pov on things to understand them is crucial to any good professional on this business.

    With that in mind I would say that this was probably the first fxguide tv episode geared towards vfx sups.

    And for that I’m thankful 😉

    Congrats!

    ps: Please keep it up.

  5. You guys really shouldn’t be afraid of calling and putting people from different areas of this business on fxguide tv.

    Colorists, film developers, writes, hairdressers, makeup artists, sound engineers, practical effects people, producers, dp, whatever. They all have far more to add to us than interviewing people that do the exact same thing that we do.

    Because in the end of the day it’s not the work of famous vfx sup or internationally acclaimed digital artist that have a real production impact on our work, but the work of every single professional involved in a project since it’s birth and funny enough are not directly related to what we do at a first glance.

  6. I found the episode really neat actually. I am not exactly a star trek fan, but the trailers of the new movie have definitely looked promising, hope to see it soon. And yeah, the whole thing about the interaction with and of the actors I found quite interesting.
    But I’m certainly also looking forward to that talk with ILM, Mike, that sure sounds great.

  7. Just got around to watching this. I didn’t expect an interview with the actor, I would prefer not having this in FxGuideTV.

    On other subject, isn’t the Angie intro overly bright? I’m watching it in iTunes on Windows.

  8. When talking about the ‘old school’ method of shooting the actors on the mirror for the falling sequence, you briefly mentioned another old trick from MI3 that he did. What exactly were you talking about there?

  9. I loved the interviews – both with J.J. and Roger. If this film doesn’t get nominated for VFX the system is definitely broken. Simply gorgeous work all around. kudos to Roger and J.J. they really nailed it.

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