Todd Vaziri

@tvaziri
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I make visual effects for movies and talk about movies a lot.
on the webhttp://www.tvaziri.com
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Watching “Oldboy” (2003) with four first-timers, including me!

Why didn’t they “just” build a five story Death Star interior for just one shot instead of “relying” on visual effects trickery?

“Star Wars” (1977)

Oh, look!

“The End of Oak Street” (2026) teaser
https://youtu.be/IoHWPAN6FPg?si=L-2GqItGIyel0Zg_

The End of Oak Street | Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube
boom - something like this is clearer without any additional distracting noise or crowding. I'm NOT a graphic designer.

Why is having two dots wrong? Because there are three outs to an inning. I mean, why have TWO GREY DOTS when there are zero outs? Even after the third out, Netflix doesn't change the graphic - it remains as TWO DOTS.

How Netflix shows how many outs there are:

Netflix - you didn’t pass the test.

The outs graphic should have three dots, not two. Because there are three outs to an inning.

from 2014:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2014/10/fox-box/

What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.

The New York Times

It is starting to feel like an industry famous for horrible workplaces is starting to be recognized as an industry famous for being a horrible workplace.

Working in a kitchen as celebrated as this takes a huge amount of dedication, discipline, and desire to stick it out. This echoes across all creative pursuits that become businesses. From video games, to film, VFX, cooking, writing. The desire to be a part of something incredible can subsume a sense of self respect.

https://apple.news/As-xtnLv8QZGmpXJGm396IA

Napa Valley’s famed French Laundry sued for alleged labor violations — San Francisco Chronicle

A former French Laundry employee has sued the three-Michelin-starred restaurant over lost wages and several other alleged California labor code violations.

Turns out, The Future of Hollywood™ only lasted 1.28 years.
Sora is cooked.