We go all the way back the 1990's in this 2 part interview with Sean Cunningham, a veteran of the VFX industry whose credits as an FX Artists include films such as True Lies, Strange Days, The Fifth Element, Godzilla, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and who has directed and produced independent feature films in his own right. This journey takes us from the excitement of the Commodore Amiga, missed proms, the inspiration of T2 and the founding days of James Cameron's Digital Domain studios. We learn about the origins of industry standard tools SideFX Houdini and Foundry Nuke from someone who was using both in their earliest incarnations as SideFX Prisms and Digital Domain's in house compositing tool - Nuke. We go deep and geeky so be warned. 00:00 : What to Expect 01:53 :  Meet Sean Cunningham 03:01 :  How I got started in the industry 05:29 : The importance of the Amiga for creative computing 07:00 :  Sculpt 3D on the Amiga 07:52 :  Lightwave 14:10 :  The inspirational effect of T2 14:33 :  First VFX online bulletin board 16:15 :  T2 Comes out, a turning point 17:47 :  Calarts 23:36 : : Metrolight Studios and Sexy Robot 28:07 :  The Role of TD in the 1990's 31:05 :  You had to build up an intuition - working without UI feedback 36:22 :  Elastic Reality, morphs and splines 39:28 :  James Cameron founds Digital Domain 42:05 :  Digital Domain in Stan Winston's Creature Shop 42:53 :  Stealing Artists and the pirate mentality 45:18 :  True Lies 49:51 :  Side FX Prisms (which became Houdini) 51:51 :  Learning VFX software in the 1990's 58:06 :  My Approach to learning at Digital Domain and since As always, if you liked this episode, please like, comment, subscribe and share! Listen to all episodes on our website https://www.thevfxartistspodcast.com/