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The Futur with Chris Do

026 - Determination and Persistence — with Chris Edwards

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In October 2004, Chris Edwards spearheaded the founding of THE THIRD FLOOR, Inc. in Los Angeles. Since then, the company has become the most prolific previs studio in the world, contributing to Hollywood projects from Avatar to Gravity with credits on wide-ranging film and television projects such as Game of Thrones, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Marvel’s Iron Man, Captain America,Thor and Avengers franchises. In this episode, the two Chris's meet and discuss the long road from being a dreamer to being a creator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One has to take chances in order to make one's life extraordinary, I guess, and with that comes some risk.

0:09.2

So if it did work out, great.

0:12.6

If it didn't work out, then hey, it's not the end of the world.

0:15.8

You're still kind of young and you can reinvent yourself. Fearing for its survival, Sky Knight sends a cyborg assassin back in time to 1984 to kill the mother of the yet to be born

0:34.9

John Connor, the leader of the resistance. The T-800's single objective is to

0:40.7

terminate his target, Sarah Connor. He is cold, methodical, and relentless,

0:45.6

singular in his pursuit. Though he has stabbed, shot, and burned, he is

0:50.7

undeterred. He has no regard for his own safety or who he has to kill in order to achieve his objective.

0:58.0

Okay, that might be a little bit dramatic.

1:01.0

As far as I know, my next guest has never killed anyone off screen, but he is as determined and persistent as the Terminator.

1:08.0

Welcome to the show.

1:10.0

I am Chris Edwards, the CEO and co-founder of a company called The Third Floor, Incorporated.

1:18.6

The Third Floor is named after our time at the Third Floor of the Sky Walker Ranch House where we worked

1:25.7

live every day with George Lucas and it was just a band of brothers and sisters where we got a chance

1:31.8

to work on Star Wars episode 3, War of the Worlds for Stephen Spielberg,

1:36.4

and a couple of other movies.

1:39.2

And so what we do is we're the directors digital artisans behind the scenes coming up with designs not only for shots but entire sequences and in the case of Star Wars and many of the other projects that we work on entire movies as a sort of a digital animated blueprint known as pre-vis.

1:59.0

Okay, so there are a lot of industry people who are probably listening to.

2:02.6

And for me, when I think of pre-vis, and I've seen pre-vis done before,

2:06.0

and you guys do it in a whole different way.

2:08.0

It may be the industry is catching up to you.

2:09.7

I don't know where it is today, but when we first first were introduced I saw pre-vis as

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