Tag Team: Inside the World of VFX with Eric Leven
Bounce that Shield, Baby
This week we interview Eric Leven, Visual Effects Supervisor on Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Eric has had a long career doing special effects for properties such as F&TWS, Cloverfield, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and Starship Troopers. We discuss the evolution of VFX from stop-motion to CGI, the two camps of VFX - spaceships and lasers vs monsters and mummies - and the importance of reference material. When do you blow a car up for real? How do you best make a shield bounce? How do you start a career in VFX? Learn about that and more as we avoid the uncanny valley on Planet of the Meerkats.
Our theme song is by Tawny Frogmouth.
