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How The Greatest Recreated Muhammad Ali's Fights | Chris Wright | 573
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About this podcast
Since 2014, CG Garage has brought lively, informal conversations with Oscar-winning legends, visionary artists, and the innovators driving the industry's biggest technological leaps. From in-depth interviews to spirited roundtable discussions, hosts Chris Nichols and Daniel Thron explore the art, craft, and future of filmmaking. With Hollywood in the middle of a major revolution, we talk to the filmmakers who are making that transformation possible, covering everything from behind-the-scenes stories on iconic movies to the cutting-edge tools reshaping the industry.
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- How The Greatest Recreated Muhammad Ali's Fights | Chris Wright | 573 · 1 h 5 minModern boxing shows fill their arenas with digital crowds. The Greatest lets them fall to black, the way they did in the fight photography of the 1960s, and keeps the camera on…
- The First Woman to Run Physical Production at a Major Studio | Donna Smith | 572 · 1 h 5 min · Episode 572Donna Smith was the first woman to serve as President of Physical Production and Post Production at a major Hollywood studio. Her years at Universal produced Jurassic Park…
- The Next Fincher Will Rise Above the Slop | Ed Ulbrich | 571 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 571Ed Ulbrich thinks the world needs more slop. Flood the market with AI-generated content and work with real taste becomes impossible to miss, which is how he expects the next…
- Why Half the Critics Got Tom Cruise's Digger Wrong | 570 · 1 h 51 min · Episode 570Digger opened to $8 million on a nine-figure budget, and critics split almost exactly in half. Chris and Daniel think Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise made one of the best…
- The Next Nolan and Scorsese Are Coming Out of YouTube | Episode 569 · 1 h 42 min · Episode 569Most VFX supervisors trained on tentpoles have no idea how to make an independent film. Ed Douglas (VFX supervisor on Kane Parsons' Backrooms) and Peter Timberlake (VFX on Curry…
- I Called CAA to See If My Agent Still Worked There | Jonathan Goldman | Episode 568 · 2 h 3 min · Episode 568Jonathan Goldman called CAA to find out if his agent still worked there, and the replies to his Threads post said more about Hollywood's middle layer than most trade coverage…
- A Record Summer, Yet Studios Still Can't Pick Winners | CG Garage #567 · 1 h 42 min · Episode 567Warner Bros. was ready to write off Coyote vs. Acme, and after a sale to another company it has taken in about $85 million as of this episode's release. That sits inside a summer…
- Backrooms VFX Was Built Around Kane Parsons' Blender Workflow | Edward Douglas #566 · 1 h 25 minKane Parsons was 19, had never worked inside a professional visual effects pipeline, and had taught himself the shots he needed in Blender in his bedroom. Edward Douglas, VFX…
- Widow's Bay's Invisible VFX: How a New England Team Fakes Nothing | Brian Drewes | Ep. 565 · 1 h 15 min · Episode 565Chris and Daniel are thrilled that Widow's Bay is now shooting its second season, and they've brought on Brian Drewes, the man whose team at Zero VFX made the show's VFX…
- Obsession's Secret VFX Behind Nikki's Uncanny Face | Peter Timberlake | Ep 564 · 1 h 31 min · Episode 564Nobody thinks Obsession has visual effects. That's the point. Peter Timberlake, the VFX supervisor behind one of the year's biggest indie breakouts, joins Chris and Daniel to…
- Easy Rider Is the Roadmap Hollywood Needs Right Now | Episode 563 · 1 h 23 min · Episode 563Easy Rider is not a good movie. It's a chaotic, half-improvised, drug-fueled mess that stumbles for its first half and only becomes a movie in retrospect, once the ending lands…
- CEO of Crafty Apes Alana Newell on What Actually Motivates Artists | Episode 562 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 562Alana Newell is CEO of Crafty Apes, a company that grew through the worst stretch this industry has seen in decades. She got there the rare way. She came up as a compositor, ran…
- Spider-Man's Record Weekend, the EU vs. AI Video, and the First Rule of Being a VFX Supervisor | Episode 561 · 1 h 25 min · Episode 561Spider-Man just posted the biggest opening weekend in box office history, and Chris, Daniel, and returning panelist Todd Perry dig into why, right after a year of everyone…
- Inside the VFX of Disclosure Day with Matthew Butler | Episode 560 · 1 h 10 min · Episode 560Steven Spielberg doesn't want you to know his aliens aren't real. That's the standard Matthew Butler had to hit on Disclosure Day: total photographic believability, zero…
- Nolan's Odyssey Is Really a Movie About Waiting | Episode 559 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 559Is it a good movie if you have to watch it ten times? That's the question Chris and Daniel keep circling back to as they take on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, skipping the…
- Split Diopters, Indie Film Private Equity, and the Rock and Roll of Making Movies | Episode 558 · 1 h 12 min · Episode 558Something is shifting in independent film right now, and Ron Cohen, one of the producers on June July and a veteran of physical production, is exactly the person to make sense of…
- Disclosure Day and The Secret Weirdness of Steven Spielberg | Episode 557 · 1 h 32 min · Episode 557Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker alive, which is exactly why almost nobody actually understands him. Chris and Daniel use Disclosure Day, Spielberg's new alien chase…
- A24, DeepMind, and the "No CGI" Marketing Lie Everyone's Tired Of | Episode 556 · 1 h 35 min · Episode 556A24 announced a $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind and framed it as R&D for production tools, not a content deal. Nobody cared about the distinction. Chris…
- He Cold-Called Kubrick's Secret Number | Doug Trumbull | Episode 555 · 1 h 8 min · Episode 555Doug Trumbull spent fifty years trying to convince Hollywood that the way movies are projected is fundamentally broken, and most of the industry never listened. The visual…
- What If Orson Welles Had a Steadicam? | Hnedel Maximore | Episode 554 · 1 h 14 min · Episode 554Hnedel Maximore did not come up through the traditional VFX pipeline. He started drafting floor plans in Liberia, studied architecture in Michigan, got laid off during the…
