For just a moment, contemplate a big blockbuster you love without its visual effects. Imagine the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park just being non-existent or perhaps the various sights of Mad Max: Fury Road just not existing period. Those wonders are realized through a variety of means, but they all come back to the world of visual effects artists.
Documentaries About VFX Artists Are Entertaining and Informative The simplest reason why we need more visual effects artist documentaries is that they’re just incredibly entertaining works of art. Making any aspect of a movie is an arduous task requiring lots of effort and passion.
Conversely, the world of documentaries offers a great chance to hear stories from masters of older visual effect artforms. Not to be too morbid or weird, but we won’t have the likes of Phil Tippett around forever. We need to hear stories and creative advice from this master artist whenever we can while he’s still on this mortal coil.
Whether it’s all the hardships facing the visual effects artists tasked with the various Marvel Studios projects or the horror stories from animators who worked on Sausage Party, it’s clear visual effects technicians and artists are often viewed as expendable by studios. They’re perceived as just easily replaceable cogs in a machine, which couldn’t be further from the truth.