18: VFX Supervisor at DNEG TV London Andy Hargreaves - Creating VFX for TV

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Do you want to know what it's like to supervise a department that produces VFX for some of the biggest TV shows in the world? Do you want to know what it takes to be a successful VFX artist?  Well, you'll want to stick around to end of my interview with VFX supervisor and Co-Head of 3D at DNEGTV Andy Hargreaves.  DNEGTV is the TV branch of the Oscar award-winning DNEG, who produce computer generated visual effects for some of the biggest movies in the world, such as Avengers End Game, Tenet, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Fast & The Furious movie F9: The Fast Saga, the Bond movie No Time to Die and many, many more.  Andrew started out in the early 2000's working on movies such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The League of Extra Ordinary Men. He now heads up the London team at DNEGTV.  DNEGTV have produced content for shows such as Chernobyl, Cursed, Star Trek: Picard and West World to name but a few and one of Andrew's latest projects was working as the DFX supervisor for two years on Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance for Netflix.  In this interview, we talk at length about his life as a VFX supervisor, how he got his first break, some of the projects he's worked on and of course there's plenty of advice for those who are looking to get into the VFX industry.  Find out more here: https://www.dneg.com/tv-vfx/