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At PIDS Enghien 2024, we sat down with VFX Supervisor Guillaume Rocheron, who was awarded several Academy Awards, BAFTA and VES Awards.
He began his career in the early 2000s at BUF in Paris, France, before moving to the UK and joining MPC. H He worked at MPC for 17 years before joining DNEG.
He worked on movies such as Matrix Reloaded, Batman Begins, Sunshine, Sucker Punch, Life of Pi, 1917, Nope, Ad Astra, Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, and alongside various directors including Ang Lee, Sam Mendes, Jordan Peele, Gareth Edwards and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
00:00 – Intro, working as a Production VFX Supervisor
01:44 – Nope
04:25 – Life of Pi
05:49 – Life of Pi – Academy Awards
06:49 – Protests, unions
09:13 – BUF – early days
10:16 – Education – Ecole Georges Méliès
12:22 – Studio marketing, DNEG ambassador
13:58 – “No CGI” marketing
15:03 – VFX with a purpose
18:27 – AI
Huge thanks to PIDS Enghien and the Centre des Arts – Enghien-les-bains.
