Artists and Their Work: Conversations about Mograph VFX and Digital Art

Rob Garrott interviews storyboard artists, animators, VFX artists, and other film-industry pros in this series of creative conversations.

Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott

• Full Interview
• Part 1: Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott
• Part 2: Nick Campbell with Rob Garrott

Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott

• Full Interview
• Part 1: Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott
• Part 2: Marc Potocnik with Rob Garrott

Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott

• Full Interview
• Part 1: Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott
• Part 2: Tim Clapham with Rob Garrott

Cantina Creative

• Full movie
• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Avengers: Age of Ultron Breakdown
• Part 3: Need for Speed Breakdown

Kris Pearn

• Full movie
• Part 1: Finding and identifying fun ideas for storyboarding in a script
• Part 2: Throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks
• Part 3: Getting started as an artist
• Part 4: Communicating through storyboarding
• Part 5: Solving problems and pitching ideas

Aaron Limonick

• Full movie
• Part 1: Concept design in Modo
• Part 2: Basic polygon modeling in Modo
• Part 3: Refining the idea in Photoshop

Mike Lowes

• Mike Lowes: VFX artist
• Part 1: VFX background
• Part 2: Houdini project breakdown
• Part 3: Transition from gaming to VFX industry

Lorcan O'Shanahan

• Full movie
• Part 1:
• Part 2: CINEMA 4D XPresso rig

Scott Keating

• Scott Keating: Illustrator and 3D artist
• Part 1: From fine art to 3D animation
• Part 2: Building a simulation in Houdini
• Part 3: Future challenges

Clear Menser

• Clear Menser: Visual effects artist
• Part 1: Illustration to computer graphics
• Part 2: Into the visual effects industry
• Part 3: Houdini, tools of VFX

John Robson

• Full movie
• Part 1: Epoch
• Part 2: The filmmaking process
• Part 3: Balance

Grant Miller

• Full movie
• Part 1: Ingenuity engine
• Part 2: The Pipeline

Tomasz Opasinski

• Full movie
• Part 1: The Batman poster
• Part 2: How it all started
• Part 3: Tomasz's work