Teague wrote:Paul, could you elaborate?
Yeah sure! I love the format of the show, the film drives the discussion and keeps everything moving. But sometimes a topic makes me just go, "Fuck, if they paused the movie right now I could listen to them talk about that one thing for two hours". Such as:
* Tippett's philosophy of deeply motivated, reverse engineered animation design, or whatever you want to call it. As mentioned in Starship Troopers and Constantine. Eh, let's just say anything relating to the arts of puppetry and animation.
* Following the history of a certain kind of visual effect through time. Something like the history of vfx environments from Tron to Double Tron, or how lightsaber effects changed from A New Hope to Sith or whatever.
* In a similar vein, I don't remember where (fxphdod?) but Mike Seymour recently mentioned how you can follow the Harry Potter franchise as a really accurate reflection of how visual effects have advanced over the last decade. Particularly the rise of the London houses (DNeg, MPC, Framestore, The Mill). Could be a neat thing to examine.
* Editing in general, experiences solving creative or story problems. In your own productions. Might have been from DiF, but I've been turned on to the idea that it's very difficult to comment on editing of a piece unless you know what was available and wasn't included.
Feels like I'm pitching show ideas, which isn't my intention. Just trying to elaborate on some of the kinds of things I would enjoy hearing you guys expound on.
If they were bonus episodes for-purchase or something, I totally would.