Render, Rinse, Repeat. - VFX & Animation (with Lyndon Barrois & Michael Slemmons)
Release Date: 08/19/2022
Render, Rinse, Repeat. - VFX & Animation (with Lyndon Barrois & Michael Slemmons)
My Creative Careers
Lyndon Barrois is an accomplished artist, award-winning director, animator, and visual effects professional. A native of New Orleans, Lyndon played a pivotal role in creating groundbreaking visual effects for critically-acclaimed feature films such as The Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, Tree of Life, and The Thing, for which he received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination. Lyndon is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, a Commissioner for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, and a board member of the California...
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Jon Poll is a director, film editor, and producer. He attended the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 1981 with a major in film production. As an editor, Jon worked on 18 films between 1982 and 2004, including Weeds, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Mystery, Alaska, Meet the Parents, Scary Movie 3, Forever Young, and Death to Smoochy. Jon made his directorial debut in 2007 with the comedy-drama Charlie Bartlett. He was also executive producer for The 40 Year Old Virgin and co-producer...
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Can You Hear Me Now? - The Sound Editor (with Victoria Sampson & Andrew Macht)
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Victoria Rose Sampson has been a renowned Feature Film Sound Editor who learned her craft by working alongside her mother, Kay Rose, the first woman to win an Oscar for sound editing on the Mark Rydell film, The River. Victoria’s credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Speed, Donnie Darko and Return of the Jedi, and she now teaches post-production sound at Video Symphony in Burbank. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 of the IATSE, and serves on the...
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Krystina Figg has worked with some of the most notable directors in film today, including Quentin Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the Hateful Eight, Christopher Nolan on Tenet and Dunkirk, and Tom Ford on Nocturnal Animals. She got her start on The Bernie Mac Show and since then has worked on several big-budget and independent films. Krystina is also known far and wide as the ‘Badass Grip Girl!’ On My Creative Careers show this week, we talk with Krystina Figg, who shares the details of how she became interested in the film...
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Wendy is an Emmy-nominated casting director with more than 25 years of experience in feature films, movies for television, mini-series, and theater and has worked with many distinguished directors such as Paul Schrader, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, and Roland Emmerich, for whom she cast the blockbuster “Independence Day,” starring Will Smith. In 2013 Wendy launched College to Career Acting to help emerging BFA/MFA artists navigate the transition from Academia into the Entertainment Industry. Recently, Wendy joined PhilmCo Media as Head of Casting while also serving as Faculty at UCLA and...
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Hot Set! – The On-Set Dresser (with Eric Luling & Mack Smith)
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On this episode of My Creative Careers, Eric discusses the differences between his role and the responsibilities of the Props Department and where it sometimes overlaps. He gives us the lowdown on how he got into the film business (spoiler - show up and be persistent) and how he subsequently progressed in his career. Eric also gives his advice and insights to people interested in building a creative career in his area of the industry.
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Are We What We Wear? – The Costume Designer (with Isis Mussenden & LaShell Gibbs)
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Isis joins us to share her insights into character development and telling stories through clothes and costume. She discusses how she came to be the first costume designer credited on an animated film and describes the intricacies of what she does as a costume designer, particularly the differences between working with human actors versus animated characters. Isis also shares how she became interested in costume design and dives into the details of some of her favorite recent projects.
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“Copy That!” – The 1st AD (with Starr Victoria & Jada Merritt)
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On the podcast this week we welcome Star Victoria. Star dives into what the role of the 1st AD involves, how it differs from the director’s job, and why it is such a key position in filmmaking. She discusses potential routes into becoming a 1st AD, the key skills and qualities needed, and gives tips and advice on getting a foot in the door. Star also shares her story of the experiences in her early life that brought her to take on behind-the-camera roles rather than pursue her initial passion for acting.
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My Creative Careers – The Pilot Episode (with Tamika Lamison & Adam Leipzig)
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On the My Creative Careers podcast, we are going to be talking to a vast range of people who have all kinds of careers in the film industry. But today we’ll start with a short introduction to us, your hosts Adam and Tamika, and give you a brief insight into how our own creative careers have developed over the years.
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Welcome To My Creative Careers
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info_outlineLyndon Barrois is an accomplished artist, award-winning director, animator, and visual effects professional. A native of New Orleans, Lyndon played a pivotal role in creating groundbreaking visual effects for critically-acclaimed feature films such as The Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, Tree of Life, and The Thing, for which he received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination. Lyndon is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, a Commissioner for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, and a board member of the California Institute of the Arts.
This week, we welcome Lyndon to talk to us about how some of the amazing visual effects we see onscreen are created and how he got his start in the industry. He lets us in on the app he uses to shoot stop motion animation films on his iPhone and highlights that anyone with enthusiasm can leverage the tech they have in their pocket to get started. Lyndon also discusses his experiences of directing both animation and live-action movies, the differences between the two from his point of view, and shares why he prefers to direct animation projects.
“You have to adapt; that’s one of the things that we always have to do in this industry. You’ve got to adapt to the medium, the tools, the whole shebang.” - Lyndon Barrois
“Movies and TV shows are not so much about the way the world is, but the way we want the world to be. And VFX help us see anything that we can imagine.” - Adam Leipzig
“Visual effects are like alchemy — you have this little piece of something to work with, and you can turn it into anything that you want.” - Tamika Lamison
Highlights This Week:
- How Lyndon entered the film industry via graphic design and miniature modeling
- How he lost his first job before he even got started
- Lyndon’s opportunity with Disney and what he learned on the job
- Lyndon’s recent miniatures and stop-motion work and the other independent projects he is involved with right now
- When Lyndon is brought on board a project and why he prefers to get involved at the storyboarding and pre-visualization stage
- Why pre-visualization is so critical in the context of planning the film as a whole
- How Lyndon brings the context of the world we live in into the work that he does
- Lyndon gives his advice to a listener interesting in making a career in visual effects
- Some of Lyndon’s favorite projects to work on and why he enjoyed them so much
- Lyndon’s work at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and why they try and explain and correct omissions in the history of cinema