Today I am featuring another of the 2014 Palenque Norte lectures. This one was delivered by Niles Heckman who has been an On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor, responsible for overseeing plate photography with New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Marvel Studios. And over his more than 15 year-long career he has been a member of three Academy Award winning teams. In his talk, Niles provides us with some of the nitty gritty details involved in creating some of the more spectacular special effects used by the motion picture industry. And in particular he explains how difficult it is to create psychedelic art using computer graphics.
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