All Episodes

The Next Nolan and Scorsese Are Coming Out of YouTube | Episode 569

I Called CAA to See If My Agent Still Worked There | Jonathan Goldman | Episode 568

A Record Summer, Yet Studios Still Can't Pick Winners | CG Garage #567

Backrooms VFX Was Built Around Kane Parsons' Blender Workflow | Edward Douglas #566

Widow's Bay's Invisible VFX: How a New England Team Fakes Nothing | Brian Drewes | Ep. 565

Obsession's Secret VFX Behind Nikki's Uncanny Face | Peter Timberlake | Ep 564

Easy Rider Is the Roadmap Hollywood Needs Right Now | Episode 563

CEO of Crafty Apes Alana Newell on What Actually Motivates Artists | Episode 562

Spider-Man's Record Weekend, the EU vs. AI Video, and the First Rule of Being a VFX Supervisor | Episode 561

Inside the VFX of Disclosure Day with Matthew Butler | Episode 560

Nolan's Odyssey Is Really a Movie About Waiting | Episode 559

Split Diopters, Indie Film Private Equity, and the Rock and Roll of Making Movies | Episode 558

Disclosure Day and The Secret Weirdness of Steven Spielberg | Episode 557

A24, DeepMind, and the "No CGI" Marketing Lie Everyone's Tired Of | Episode 556

He Cold-Called Kubrick's Secret Number | Doug Trumbull | Episode 555

What If Orson Welles Had a Steadicam? | Hnedel Maximore | Episode 554

Obsession, Backrooms, and the 1970s Moment Hollywood Needs Right Now | Episode 553

Why Hollywood Keeps Getting Its Audience Wrong | Trina Renee & Julianna Politsky | Episode 552

Mocking AI With AI: Sergio Cilli on Why the Joke Only Works If You Actually Use It | Episode 551

How to Make and Distribute a Gothic Horror Film on a Shoestring | Justin Denton | Ep. 550

Filmmaking Needs a New Revolution. Bill Warner, Founder of Avid, Is Building It | Ep. 549

The Devil Wears Prada Predicted 20 Years of Cultural Stagnation | Episode 548

Your VFX Skills Are Your AI Advantage | Marc Rienzo | Episode 547

VidViz, a Pocket Watch, and the Character That Rewrote June July | Episode 546

Episode 545 - Victor Varnado: Why Every Creator Needs to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Episode 544 - Jay Worth: Fallout Season 2, 500 Episodes of Hard Lessons, and when to say no

Episode 543 - Stan Szymanski and Susan O'Neal: What VFX Talent Actually Needs to Look Like Now

Episode 542 - Refuge VFX: How a Portland Boutique Landed Fallout, Shogun, and One Piece

Episode 541 - Ashay Javadekar: The Clapperboard Is 100 Years Old and Nobody Fixed It

Episode 540 - Sean Rourke: The Third Floor and the Tuesday Night Writers Group

Episode 539 - Ryan Kelsey on Why Boutique Cloud is the Secret Weapon for Indie VFX Studios

Episode 538 - Jess Loren on Gaussian Splats, AI Actors, and the Real Future of Virtual Production

Episode 537 - Lights, Camera, VidViz! Richard Crudo Joins Chris and Daniel to Plan Our Western: June July

Episode 536 - Stop Waiting for the Studio to Save You: Andy Cochrane on the New Media Frontier

Episode 535 - Rob Nederhorst and Ben Hansford: The end of "good enough" in filmmaking

Episode 534 - Why Safdie and PTA are Saving Cinema: Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another Breakdown

Episode 533 - Jeff Okun's Decades-Long Battle for VFX Respect and the Future of the VES

Episode 532 - Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme and the Invisible Mastery of Eran Dinur

Episode 531 - Deconstructing Juliano: Michael Moshe Dahan's Yes, Repeat, No

Episode 530 - The 2026 Forecast: CG Garage Predicts the Future of Tech and Hollywood

Episode 529 - Efficiency, Artistry, and the LED Wall: Ivan Reel, Executive Leader in Virtual Production, StradaXR

Episode 528 - Why Gen V VFX Looks So Real: A Deep Dive with Supervisor Karen Heston

Episode 527 - Ben Mauro: Expanding the World of Huxley

Episode 526 - Hoon Kim of Beeble AI: How Switchlight Creates 'Relightable Footage' for Real-Time Filmmaking

Episode 525 - Dennis Berardi on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein & Resurrecting Mr. X

Episode 524 - VFX Soldier & Scott Ross: The Subsidy Wars

Episode 523 - David Morin, Executive Director of the ASWF, on His Journey from Softimage to Securing Open Source

Episode 522 - Gabriel Regentin: How Ingenuity Studios Made Weapons Unbelievably Real

Episode 521 - Tim Miller Gets Real About Hits, Misses, and What's Next

Episode 520 - Dan Fowler on 20 years of Virtual Production on the Avatars

Episode 519 - Sean Faden, VFX Supervisor - Murderbot

Episode 518 - Scott Ross: "You Got It Wrong About James Cameron"

Episode 517 - Ken Perlin - Professor of Computer Science, NYU

Episode 516 - Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC - Cinematographer, "Sinners"

Episode 515 - Daniel Thron, Chris Nichols, and Lily Nichols - CG Garage's new home, Monstrous Moonshine

Episode 514 - Armen Kevorkian - Ingenuity Studios, President

Episode 513 - Siggraph 2025 - Simeon Balabanov & Georgi Zhekov on Chaos Vantage & Arena

Episode 512 - Susan O'Neal - VFX, Post, and Technology Recruiter, BLT Recruiting

Episode 511 - Chad Wanstreet & Allan McKay - Co-Founders, Version Zero

Episode 510 - Industry Roundtable — James Cameron, AI, Sinners, and Indie films

Episode 509 - Marti Romances - Co-Founder and Creative Director, Territory Studio San Francisco

Episode 508 - Michael Ralla - VFX Supervisor, "Sinner"

Episode 507 - Jess Loren - CEO, Global Objects

Episode 506 - Johnson Yan — Real-time CGI Pioneer

Episode 505 - Sebastian Sylwan - VFX and Technology Executive

Episode 504 - Scott Ross - UPSTART: The Digital Film Revolution – Managing the Unmanageable

Episode 503 - Joshua Lastine - Lastine Entertainment Law

Episode 502 - Oliver Markowski - Head of 3D, RISE

Episode 501 - Eric Barba - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor, Alien: Romulus

Episode 500 - Steve Preeg - Academy Award winning VFX Supervisor

Episode 499 - Jake Maymudes - Founder & CEO of Wylie Co. VFX

Episode 498 - Todd Perry - Visual Effects Supervisor, "For All Mankind" & "Star City"

Episode 497 - Andy Boyd - VFX Supervisor Jamm Visual, Brothers

Episode 496 - Jason Smith - Senior VFX Supervisor, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Episode 495 - Jo Plaete - Chief Innovation Officer & VFX Supervisor at Metaphysic.ai

Episode 494 - Daniel Thron, Erick Schiele, and James Blevins — BTS Ray Tracing FTW

Episode 493 - Jared Sandrew - Creative Executive & Visual Effects Supervisor

Episode 492 - Debbie Kennard & Ron Eli Cohen - Line Producers for Ray Tracing FTW

Episode 491 - Richard Crudo & Esther Woodworth - Director of Photography & 1st Assistant Camera

Episode 490 - Matthias Christen - Head of CG Design, The Scope

Episode 489 - A.J. Wedding - Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Orbital Virtual Studios

Episode 488 - Ed Ulbrich - Chief Content Officer & President of Production, Metaphysic.ai

Episode 487 - Kevin Tod Haug - VFX Supervisor

Episode 486 - Ian Dawson - Founder & Executive Producer, IDGRAFX

Episode 485 - Gary Marshall - Vice President of Virtual Production, NantStudios

Episode 484 - Alex & Tim Porter - CEO & CTO, Mod Tech Labs

Episode 483 - Erick Geisler — CTO, Global Objects

Episode 482 - Todd Terrazas - Founder, AI LA & Co-Founder, FBRC.ai

Episode 481 - Jeff Kleiser - VFX Supervisor

Episode 480 - Chad Wanstreet - VFX Supervisor

Episode 479 - Nikola Todorovic - Co-Founder & CEO, Wonder Dynamics

Episode 478 - Andy Fowler - Creative Producer & Production Innovation Consultant

Episode 477 - Joel Hynek - VFX Supervisor

Episode 476 - Kathryn Brillhart - Virtual Production Supervisor & Cinematographer

Episode 475 - Liz Hitt - VFX Producer, CBS VFX

Episode 474 - Junaid Baig - Head of Applied Technology, DNEG

Episode 473 - Dan Ring - Senior Machine Learning Team Lead, Chaos

Episode 472 - Phil Galler - Principal & Founder, Lux Machina Consulting

Episode 471 - Chris MacLean - Overall VFX Supervisor, "Foundation"

Episode 470 - Hugo Guerra - Director, VFX Supervisor, YouTuber, & Podcaster