Creating the Impossible: Co-Founder of DNEG on Pushing the Limits of VFX

Are you a VFX Artist dreaming of working for DNEG? Or are you thinking of starting your own studio or business?

Then check out this Allan McKay interview with Peter Chiang, Co-Founder of DNEG and a critically acclaimed Visual Effects Supervisor. He is one of the leaders in his field with over 30 years experience in the industry!

Starting out as a graphic artist, animator and later visual effects art director, he moved quickly into visual effects supervision on films including Pitch Black (DNEG’s first project), Chronicles of Riddick, Flyboys, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, John Carter, Total Recall, Pacific Rim: Uprising, as well as Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings and Justin Lin’s Star Trek: Beyond.

DNEG is one of the world's leading visual effects, animation and stereo conversion companies for feature film and television, with studios in London, Vancouver, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Chennai and Montréal. The studio has been honored with 4 Academy Award wins, 4 BAFTA Awards and 8 Visual Effects Society Awards for their visual effects work on shows like Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Ex Machina, Interstellar, Inception and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

In this video, Peter speaks to Allan about the beginnings of DNEG, the growth of the studio into its international presence, making the necessary changes to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of that; as well as working on F9: The Fast Saga throughout the pandemic.

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[AllanMcKay]

Peter and I spoke during COVID-19, so some of the content of what he's saying related to the transition the VFX industry went through during the pandemic. But it was really cool to hear Peter talk about the beginnings of DNEG, the growth of the studio into its international presence; as well as his work on F9: The Fast Saga. Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below. Thanks for listening!

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I love all these new "Creation Tools" in open source AI and VR ....I am now a one man VR - Movie, Music Studio and I can express myself a 100% in Sound and For sure: I cannot make a movie like "Dune" on my own, but the time this will be possible is not far away....I think AI will finally kill the big Studios....Happy colored greetinx!