VFX Supe Paul Franklin (Dark Knight, Inception) is at Escape Studios on Wednesday October 15

Heath ledger in Dark Knight - VFX supervised by Paul Franklin

On Wednesday 15 October at 10am VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin, who has worked on Inception, the Dark Knight Trilogy and most recently Interstellar, will be giving a talk at Escape Studios in London. The event is completely free, and is a unique opportunity to meet one of London's leading visual effects experts. A VFX Supervisor has responsibility for all the visual effects on a film - these folks really know their stuff, and can give a unique insight into how the visual effects on a film actually gets put together.

What Does a Visual Effects Producer Actually Do?

Below is a 2013 blog post from our sister blog FLiP, which interviews visual effects producer Martin Gabriel on what a VFX producer actually does for a living. When I first started working in VFX, I genuinely had no idea. Martin carefully explains the process, and in doing so reveals the nuts and bolts of how the VFX industry actually works.

Martin Gabriel is a visual effects producer with a long list of successful feature films on his resume, including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,  X-Men, The last Stand, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He also worked on the TV series Band of Brothers and The Prisoner.