Interview With "Alien: Romulus" Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba & FX Designer Alec Gillis

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"Alien: Romulus" was released over the summer to praise from critics for its visual and practical effects, which horrified, disgusted, and exhilarated audiences. Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba & FX Designer Alec Gillis were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on Fede Alvarez's entry in the long-running and beloved franchise, which you can listen to or watch below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Hulu and is up for your consideration in all eligible categories at this year's Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.1	and this is Will Mavity's interview
0:19.8	with the visual effects supervisor
0:21.8	for Alien Romulus, Eric Barba, and the special effects designer, Alec Gillis.
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1:05.0	What the hell is this?
1:09.0	I don't know. Obviously, you know, this film has been probably from the terms of perspective of just purely VFX and SFX, one of the most talked about productions this year, I would say up there with Dune and New Plan to the Apes.
1:28.3	It's, you know, it's a pretty impressive combination of groundbreaking in old school.
1:34.3	Before we really get into some of the specifics of the designs you both put together,
1:39.3	I'd love to know a little bit about what some of the early conversations were with the team behind this project,
1:48.6	kind of what they told you about what they wanted Alien Romulus to be.
1:53.6	Did Fedé know from the start he wanted this to be very practical heavy?
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