Valen Sgro

Women have been figuring it out for centuries Sam

The program so far includes: • VFX: Hollywood's Underdog - featuring Todd Vaziri - Compositing Supervisor at ILM and Valentina Sgro - Production Manager.\

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YouTube video by DemNikoArt How 3 artists created an AMAZING Alien animation - Made in ZBrush & Blender

CGI is art, and talented CG artists can come up with amazing things when they have a clear goal & vision.
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I blame a lot of it on the marketing of movies like mission impossible always framing injuries as commitment. I do hope we shift away from it, it is absolutely wild the amount of horror stories we hear

Absolutely agree this whole ‘the horror is real’ well it shouldn’t be cause this is a freaking gig

CGI set extensions are just modern matte paintings, human artists creating movie magic. Here's how they work, using Wicked as an example.

Im gonna have to make a video explaining how a set being built doesn’t mean a smaller scope of VFX work 😫 I’ll also have to define scope in that probably…

Emma: “I treasure the version of her I grew up with”
Joanne: EMMA U DUMB BITCH

Like jeezzzz Joanne calm down… she could’ve also just said nothing

A year ago today, I was having TikTok fights about tulips that turned into me having TikTok fights over weird takes about VFX lol

“Not a green screen in sight” - filmbro on the internet probably

Or no VFX at all, let us not forget the insane witch hunt that went on the Legend of Ochi because the puppet *checks notes* was too symmetrical and had shinny hair and eyes

I think online gurus who guess a movie’s methodology based on the placement of wires and blue screens are my supervillain origin story

Imagine if every time a behind the scenes show had an orchestra the press would go and write “No artificial digital sound mix, this movie features an all practical score”

I think we ARE turning a corner, just gotta make sure these kinds of headlines keep getting pushback

We were so close to an honest summer 🤣 Honestly, one thing that caught my attention was the fact that Del toro corrected him despite the stuff he himself said a few days before - I ran to the comments on the Hollywood reporters TikTok and most believe it or not are not finding this charming

They’re having this same argument on comment sections with F1 hahaha It’s killing me, who is the source… And why aren’t they a skit on my channel yet. Someone needs to snitch

Where is this Cg masking thing coming from it’s the latest filmbro lingo and it’s driving me actually bonkers

When I tell you I have been WAITING for this. I’m gonna reschedule my entire posting slate

Yup and no amount of fiction will let you reach the level of detachment and blissful unawareness and innocence of childhood either

A lot of it is comparing movies to the sense of wonder you had when watching them as a child.. which is never going to come back, nothing will ever compare. But they’re seeking that sense of wonder and instead of letting it go and enjoying things differently, they’re looking at someone to blame

I made a video on this but I think titling your videos “Great, Good and Bad VFX” conditions your audience into thinking all VFX can only be one of those 3 things removing all nuance from the discussion and normalising the moving goal post behavior that anti cg bros have online

🥹🥹🥹 thanks guys 💙 I do try, someone out there has to explain in a short format why filmbros are making by stuff up haha

Or how “they made them grey so that nobody can key them”? Cause clearly, only blue and green are usable for VFX you see

Loving the name and shame hahaha

It SENDS ME any time I see one of these clickbait thumbnails

Hi yes so I would like to put my dog forward for any baby Krypto scenes that might come in the future

I think it’s specifically the fact that it’s a face made out of faces that made people think that, which… sucks. Just like any time something looks crisp it ‘feels cg’ to internet experts

Its been 5 years since Naga came into my life, to many more years with you best friend 💙

I genuinely think the pushback has started to leak to the general public. I’ve started to see ‘CGI is not a real term anyways’ comments on some promo videos… we just gotta keep going!

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