Fenner is legit. I worked with him for a while, he's a true natural. He always seems to work effortlessly and comes up with sick looking stuff. He's going to elevate the VFX game at Corridor.
@Real28 he might be a composer (of music) but you probably mean compositer i.e he collates all the work of other people & the various products together and sets into the scene. You need to have a very good eye because this is one of the final stages in the integration of the VFX into the shot plates I assume you all know the history of Gareth Edwards who started at the BBC making the VFX for shows like the Vikings then went on to making Monsters by shooting an acting couple on a trip around Mexico and spent a year at home making all the VFX shots at home, where he would give himself half a day to do each shot & would do as best as he could do in that time. That movie became the showreel that got him helming (directing) the effects heavy Godzilla, that lead to directing Rogue One and I believe the his first movie of his own since monsters the soon to be released (as of October 23) Creators - another VFX heavy movie Anyhow back to compositing. If you want an example of bad compositing and how critical a senior compositer is look at the last Indy movie. The scene where Indy and someone else falls out of the plane in the trailler, they do an appalling job of composition the scene and matting it into the live plate. That should never have gone gold. To be honest I didn't go see the movie because of it, because if they had let that through the movie must have gone badly, badly wrong as in Generation Z wrong. They should have kicked Indy back at least another year to give themselves time to sort out the post I suspect that our new VFX artist has gone to Corridor because it allows him to learn all aspects of building a movie not just VFX, corridor for him could very well be what the BBC was for Gareth Edwards. I would not be surprised if I am going to be watching a tent pole movie a decade from now. In the past we have seen big name directors coming from making Commercials on limited budgets for time & sets like Ridley & Tony Scott and Robert Rodriguez, we see them coming from stunt directors like the Hong Kong movies and of course cinematographers moving to second unit directing . What we may be seeing is the rise of senior VFX people shooting Netflix movies with Netflix cameras and doing there own VFX and that leading to helming released to theatres movies. I suspect that coming up really soon will be movies from RU-vid creators funded by Streaming services like Nebula that will be resteamed by Netflix which will lead to 'real' budget films funded by 'proper' movie studios
I watched the whole Storyblocks ad before realizing I'd been Hypnotoaded by Jake's shades. Careful with those, man. The "welcome to America bro" story is hilarious
One time I was deep sea fishing and we hooked up on a jack crevalle - crazy fight lasted almost 30min. I finally got it up to the boat when a shark came up and bit it in half. As we were pulling it up to release the hook, I looked at the fish and realized I could see its heart still beating - pumping blood to a body that was no longer there! What a gnarly way to go!
I have almost the exact same story as Fenner up until actually working in the industry. I'm in school studying to be a VFX artist rn and this is crazy inspiring to see! I've been a long-time viewer of corridor and like Fenner they are the whole reason I am pursuing VFX, Cheers to you Fenner! and cheers to many more videos to come!
I usually don't watch pod/vid casts but the title caught my attention and I ended up watching almost the whole video. I had to stop to get some rest for the next day work and long drive. I have to say, as far as casts go Corridor does the best job of any I've attempted. This new guy is very interesting too, I'm very anxious to see some of his work. I really hope they spotlight his talents eventually.
You should check out the X-wing trench run video he was in a couple months ago if you have't seen it, he goes into his comp pipeline and its actually really cool to see just how big a difference it makes to the shots.
I have to say Corridor is also a big influence on me on my vfx career. They showed me along with Freddie that I can do the effects that I saw in the movie screen with my friends. Good old day!! 🙌
Very enjoyable episode! I liked the mix of some specific industry and tech knowledge (regarding Nuke, WETA and Fenner's career path up to this point) with real-life work/nature/life experience in professional fishing. Great one!
Y'all shouldn't laugh off leaving candidates hanging for 3 months. They have lives. They're people with their own needs. Just please reply back promptly with a "we can move forward" or "we can't"
I really like Fenner, love all the new videos of him too! Glad to see stuff like this and just dudes having fun making art. Love it. Defiantly gonna apply!
You were talking about deep composting. A mate of mine implemented it in Nuke, it was one of the things she got her Oscar for. But when she was implementing it I was one of the few people on Lj that understood what she was actually doing. BTW I have never worked in post, as I'm seriously disabled but I got really deep into understand post that I started to get the post eye. You guys must have it at times - the inability to watch a movie because the effects stand out so much that it breaks the movie reality
Such a shame Fenner didn't get to work at Wellington. The studio is an incredibly magical place. And NZ is heaven on earth. Oh well, this lad has enough going for him.
Your currently talking about UK languages & accents. I remember coming back from the Netherlands on a ferry and I was sitting near a bunch of people speaking German. Then after sitting with them for 20 minutes I realised they were speaking English! They were speaking Geordie i.e they were from Newcastle, Not to be confused with Makem which is spoken in Sunderland (which is the other side Tyne from Newcastle) & is a VERY different place, its confusing some one from New York with someone from New Jersey. Or in my case I grew up in Boston, Mass Not Cambridge! Just like I live in the home of Oxford University not where Lowlands Poly (Cambridge University) is based. Anyway don't confuse Makam or Geordie with Pitmatic which is spoken in rural County Durham not like in the big cities, a mate of mine grew up in Stockton on Tees near Middlesborough & she speaks Smoggie. That's 4 or 5 separate languages in about 40 miles. Meanwhile my housemate is from Carlise which is utterly utterly different again. Carlise is due west 60 miles along Hadrians Wall on the other coast.
Man it’s so nice to hear Fenner talking about familiar places like Haida Gwaii, so much content is American that it’s cool to hear someone talk about places close to home
I tried to move to Canada for a VFX job and got rejected at the border. It's rough. Glad it went smoothly for him. I had an extremely angry power tripping border guard, one of the worst experiences in my life.
loved the shoutout to the northern ireland accent. the funniest part is when someone asks where you're from, you tell them and they say "you don't sound irish"
Announcing the new Corridor movie: Fish-n-Film: A mockumentary on the life of a salmon-fishing, shark-pee-onner, Canuck amuck turned American VFX artist.
I salmon trolled for 9 seasons. Salmon trolling is the fishery you get into when you want to dip your toes into the commercial fishery world. It's definitely the easiest and most fun commercial fishery that I've done. It's too bad that there aren't enough salmon to make it worth the price in fuel though. Unless Alaska decided to actually let some fish through...
Would love to know the name of the boat Fenner worked on while salmon fishing. I've been a commercial salmon troller on the West Coast British Columbia for 9 years now, curious if I know fenners boat
Anyone wondering about the Bubble Feeding - this is fascinating Also: Killer Whales are straight assholes. Smart, but assholes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JNhldKgPRg0.html Also, looking forward to seeing what Fenner can add to the team! Corridor is a force! Jordan: Yea, A lot of sharks have the ability to sense the electrical currents in the water. Most sharks don't want anything to do with us because we aren't good meat for them. They want the blubber and fish meat, not us. That's why most people die from blood loss from bites - shark bites, says "nope, I don't want that" and leaves you to die.
Actually they are called Beefeater because they got a bigger portion of Beef than the regular conscript. I know people think 150 years ago meat was rare. The reason the Irish famine killed so many people was because the only land that Irish only had scraps of land as most of the land went for animals which were then taken in taxes by the British and fed to the Beefeaters ( yes as a brit I am responsible for having caused tens of thousands of Irish people starving to death). So Irish grew potatoes to maximise food available & mixed with whatever meat you could get gives Irish stew! So potato blight killed thousands due to starvation. Basically until humans developed Agriculture 10,000 years ago starvation was unknown. Also the Sahara desert didn't exist. The Sahara used to be lush green fields full of life & water, just like most of the USA was green not desert. Agriculture causes climate change. The native Americans got thrown off their land so that farmers could grow corn etc. And that was all in the last 150 years. Before that everybody ate meat at every meal. People don't recognise how modified vegetables are they are denuded of all the protections from things that protect them from predation. Which is why they need all those chemicals that kill anything that might attack them, which also means the soil is also killed in the process which then causes climate change
