A Love of Film with Carolina Jiménez García, Lead Layout Artist, Scanline | TVAP EP25

This week Daniel caught up with Layout Artist who has 7 Oscar Nominated films, as well as an Emmy and a Goya under her belt!

Many of our Spanish speaking audience may already be familiar with Carolina as she runs an incredibly popular VFX and film Youtube, blog and Twitter account as Okingrafia. Carolina is a Lead Layout Artist at Scanline, most recently on projects like Free Guy, Moonfall and Eternals. Her career spans the Globe and major studios such as Dneg in London, Scanline in Canada, and Weta in New Zealand where she fulfilled her dream by working with the Lord of Rings crew on the Hobbit trilogy.

In this episode we roll back the curtain on the Layout Department, a little understood and vitally important part of VFX and animation pipelines. We find out what it takes to become a Layout Artist and Layout Lead, hear Carolina’s advice for artists, learn a little about working in Canada and find out about her favourite projects.

From Matchmove Lead to Lighting TD - How I did it - Maik Pham Quang | TVAP EP21

In this episode we chat to Maik Pham Quang, a Matchmove lead at Framestore London, about his career progression, as a runner, through to becoming a matchmove lead, with a decade's experience, to transitioning and changing departments to pursue his interest in the lighting department as a lighting TD.

Maik tells us about how it is leading and managing teams, managing pressure and expectations, fitting into a new department, and more.
We hope you enjoy the show!



 - Getting into the matchmove department


 - Seniority progression through the matchmove department


 - Watch Maik's 2021 Lead Matchmove reel


 - What artists think about you as a lead


 - What are the common mistakes matchmove artists make


 - What do matchmove leads and supervisors expect to see in showreels?


 - Which matchmove tasks are requested more lately on shows?


 - Switching from matchmove to the lighting department


 - Do you see yourself transitioning to another department in the future?


 - What advice would you give to the aspiring artists?


 - Should artists work at different studios to validate their skills?


 - Extras

#vfxpodcast #matchmove #lighting

Matchmove for film, AR, VR & XR with Sarah Gatefield | TVAP EP06

In this episode, I chat to senior matchmove artist and supervisor Sarah Gatefield about her experience and journey into the VFX industry. A journey which begun as a runner at Framestore London, leading on to freelancing at VFX studios such as MPC, DNEG, Trixter, Method Studios, Prime Focus Film, Pixomondo, Rise and more, on incredible films such as Harry Potter, Iron Man 3, Total Recall, The Martian, Jungle Book and many more!

We also go on to touch base on Sarah's route to dabbling a bit in the VR and AR industry.

Overall, an incredible experience and journey Sarah has been on and is still on, and one that can inspire generations to come!

Matchmove & Layout