The Emmy’s are coming up soon and while the main focus is generally on the categories of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Television Drama, Comedy, etc and award that is oftentimes overlooked by the general public, but plays a tremendously huge role within the television and film industry is those for VFX. VFX (visual effects) is so incredibly important to help create the final product for nearly every film and television series you see, even if you are not consciously aware, they are there in nearly every scene and they take a tremendous amount of work to create, as everything must flow together seamlessly. We were recently able to catch up Pixomondo’s VFX supervisor Nhat Phong Tran to speak about his work on the hit HBO series “Westworld” which has earned him an Emmy nomination, alongside “Westworld’s” overall VFX supervisor Jay Worth. Jay brought Nhat and the...
- 8/31/2020
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Film and TV projects got the green light to resume production in La County last week — but the coronavirus still rages on while producers and studios/networks scramble to find ways to keep cast and crew safe. That’s where VFX will come into play, at a time when location scouting, intimate scenes and large crowd shots are discouraged. “We’ve already seen a big change of how our services are being utilized,” Nhat Phong Tran, VFX Supervisor at Pixomondo and two-time Emmy nominee for his visual effects work on HBO’s “Westworld” and Fox’s “The Orville,” told TheWrap. “With this whole Covid situation, there are problems arising from different angles and several different levels. On the creative side, it’s much more difficult; creative can’t be as intuitive anymore because of the physical limitations due to the safety measures. We recently got a lot more interest in...
- 6/18/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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