CG Garage Podcast | Kevin Tod Haug — VFX Supervisor
Kevin Tod Haug has served as VFX supervisor on movies including Fight Club, The Cell, Panic Room, and Quantum of Solace, and pioneered creative VFX shots that allowed cameras to move through tiny spaces or make the unbelievable look real. Kevin talks about his career and how he’s managed to catch successive waves of VFX technology from the 1970s to today, sharing how he used new technology to create convincing effects for low-budget Italian war movie Comandante.
0:00:00 CG Garage Intro
0:04:31 Getting started in the VFX industry
0:08:55 How motion control revolutionized VFX
0:13:18 Using a plotter for VFX
0:19:35 When SIGGRAPH was about getting images on film
0:26:22 Shooting "Comandante"
0:33:50 The transition from electro-mechanical to digital
0:39:20 Moving to movies including "Fight Club"
0:46:23 Doing something no one's done before
0:48:23 Shifts in the VFX industry
0:56:09 A modern approach to low-budget VFX movie-making
1:02:35 Artificial intelligence
Links:
Kevin Tod Haug on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369265/
Kevin Tod Haug on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_T...
Kevin Tod Haug’s Vimeo (NSFW): https://vimeo.com/kevintodhaug
CG Garage Podcast homepage: https://www.chaos.com/cg-garage
