There were a few presentations on the VFX involved in creating Avatar at FMX this year. Here’s my notes on the talks given by Shawn Dunn (Weta Digital), Paul Kavanagh (ILM) and John Bruno.

Notes from the Foundry presentation at last weeks FMX in Stuttgart, Germany.

Trees in a rather large puddle, Hyde Park, London.
Geeky factoid – Shot on a Canon 5dMk2 with a Sigma 75mm 2.8 (Bronica ETR mount).
Done years ago as a rather abstract piece. Smoke, backlit and tinted. This is my attempt at something of a film-noir piece.…

I’m a film-maker, lay-about photographer, back-in-business visual effects wizard and frustrated cinematographer. I’ve worked on a bunch of films.