BRAVE CREATURES PRODUCTION.
Nine-inch tales
One of the world’s leading VFX specialists explains how he filmed nine-inch creatures for a solo project
WORDS. Robert Shepherd IMAGES. Adam Valdez
G rowing up in California meant Academy Award-winning VFX supervisor Adam Valdez lived in the shadows of the production facilities where Disney created its celebrated animations. Yet it was his love for the worlds and creatures imagined 5000 miles northeast of the Golden State that instigated his artistic fervour. “I consumed fantasy books such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and all
the Narnia stories,” he says. “Then, when movies like Time Bandits came out, things like that resonated with me. The original Watership Down animated series, too. I had a lot of British influences on my life as young person. Monty Python was one of my favourite comedy things to watch.” Having now lived in the UK for 20 years, Valdez says there’s something about these shores that lends itself to mythical worlds.
WISH GRANTED With the help of Epic MegaGrants, Valdez has created a teaser for a fantasy world he’s long hoped to get off the ground
51. AUGUST 2023
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