You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the Oscar nominated visual effects team for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.

Stefan Karatei, Alexis Washbrot, Guy Williams, Theo Fialek.

I'm going to tell you something.

I'm Starlord.

I formed the guardians.

Met a girl fell in love.

That girl died.

But then she came back.

Came back a total dick.

Oh, please.

He left out some important information, but that is the gist of it.

So this had some kind of record, I think, both in terms of VFX shots and also in terms

of, although they're a different team in terms of prosthetics used.

So this was pretty massive scale on both counts.

I think I read, what does this have, like 3,300 VFX shots? Does anyone have a number for me?

Yeah, I have a number. It's actually 3,06. But, you know, if you count the shots that we didn't finish because we cut them out, it's around 3,300.

And actually, we're doing the Christmas special at the same time, which was about another 600 shots that we did.

So, yeah, it was a lot of work. And I want to talk for our friends at Legacy and all the makeup team, but they did break

a record apparently in terms of the number of prosthetic appliances they've done, you know, it

was kind of crazy, the amount that they've done for the film.

Yeah, I was sad that they weren't nominated along with you guys, you know, but I'm glad

at least your

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