Pipeline Development Engineer / Artist Will Anielewicz talks about Pepsiman, Phantom Menace, Iron Man, and art in CGI Fridays Episode 8.

In part two of his interview, digital painter and animator Adam Howard tells Ed Kramer about his work on the Star Wars prequels with Industrial Light & Magic and working with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and director Alejandro González Iñárritu to create the seamless one-take fake of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in CGI Fridays Episode 7.

From a firefighter’s mosaic to phasers and photon torpedoes, digital painter and animator Adam Howard reveals a passion for pyro in CGI Fridays Episode 6.

From answering the phones at ILM to previs on The Phantom Menace, Alia Agha tells Ed Kramer how she became a “matchmove master” in CGI Fridays Episode 5.

Probably the only person at ILM to prefer Star Trek over Star Wars, Henry LaBounta shares his incredible visual effects career with Ed Kramer on CGI Fridays Episode 4.

From pitching Disney's Tron to opening the Stargate, all way through to Judge Dredd and X-Men, Frank Vitz discusses how he got started in the visual effects industry and how his career in CGI evolved with the changing technology. He contributed to the visual effects of the late Doug Trumbull’s multimedia Luxor Las Vegas attraction, and its spiritual successor, Roland Emmerich’s ancient astronaut action movie and accidental franchise-starter, Stargate (1994). 

From Tron and Tide to Stargate's breathtaking transformations, Jeff Kleiser shares his story with Ed Kramer in the second episode of his CGI Fridays podcast.

From clown college to CGI, Mark Siegel talks Ghostbusters, Star Wars, ET, and getting into the industry in Ed Kramer’s CGI Fridays podcast. If you’re looking for entry points into the industry, then Mark Siegel is a pretty unorthodox example, but perhaps that’s what makes it so inspiring. His career goes from a slapstick starting point to puppeteering some of 80s cinema’s craziest critters, and then into the emerging field of CGI as a stalwart of Industrial Light and Magic.