Blake Rizzo 💫

New 3D VFX Reel!!! Endless thanks to all of the collaborators I’ve worked with throughout the years!! Really proud of the stuff we’ve made!!

The filmmakers are being very clear here, giving credit where credit is due, and being extremely generous with their public gratitude towards the digital visual effects artists that create the worlds you see on the big screen. Visual effects are made by artists.

We never needed you. Ever.

NEW VIDEO! ‘Project Hail Mary’ creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan on the magic of Rocky --> Neal goes behind the scenes on the puppets & animatronics, with some very fun b-roll also featuring puppeteer & performer James Ortiz. youtube.com/watch?v=J3V9e3…

Project Hail Mary behind the scenes with Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz

Just saw a Ryan Gosling interview where he says he liked the story of Project Hail Mary because it has the message that the future isn't something to be feared, it's something to be figured out. And that's a message he wants his kids to hear. Awesome.

cinematography by greig fraser

Phil Lord & Chris Miller explain how they wanted to make ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ feel different from other space movies. “Sometimes space movies feel like they need to be very formal, distant, and cold, and we wanted this to be warm, real, and authentic.”

@anishmoonka You wrote: “Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI.” That is not accurate. “Half of Rocky’s performance is CG animation.” Director Phil Lord.

Ryan Gosling popped in before the showing of Project Hail Mary that @JackKennedy and I are at. @ProjBigScreen

This was a very good question from Ryan - why does the Universe on the largest scales resemble the Universe on the smallest scales? The answer, for the case of the distribution of galaxies on the sky, is that the pattern we see has its origin in quantum mechanical fluctuations during inflation - before the hot big bang (at least according to inflationary cosmology, which is the most widely accepted model at present). Hail Mary is a very good film by the way :-)

Every AMC Coke Freestyle Machine right now:

@mannmiami Biggest L of the Oscars

cutting off that speech was gross as hell

Hayao Miyazaki talks about Kiki's Delivery Service

Love the innovation on AD ASTARA by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. To make it truly appear as if the footage were shot on the moon, he rigged up two cameras to capture identical frames. The first was a 35mm panavision film camera, and the second was an infrared Arri Alexa. This allowed them to shoot in bright daylight, which created shadows consistent with real moonlight, and then process the footage in post to replace the sky using the infrared footage. The result was a far more authentic look than they could have achieved with traditional film lighting. This approach was later refined by Hoyte van Hoytema for the extensive night exterior scenes in Jordan Peele’s NOPE, one of the best recent examples of the day for night technique.

Rewatched Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie last night. Was struck again by how moving the ending is. Very funny and clever obviously, but it's such a sweet movie about wanting to make art with your friends even if you never become the biggest artists in the world

it’s like watching the mona lisa be painted

I wish to add to the euphoric praise for 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie', an insanely charming goof of a film. I think I enjoyed it even more as a) I lived on King and Spadina in 2009 and b) I saw 'The Hangover' at the Scotiabank Theatre on opening weekend.

“Children of Men” is still stupidly good

Get ready for some spectral eye-candy! Volume scatter node with a physically based magic in #Blender Teamwork 💪 @samuel_krug