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James McPhail
@jamesmcphail.bsky.social
I'm a VFX artist at ILM originally from New Zealand and I've been calling Canada home for a while now.
Just cover the dong up with the electric screwdriver. It wouldn’t be worse at all.
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Using someone's likeness like that without their permission is disgusting.
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
That quote was such a tiny part of that article as well and yet that is the quote they choose to pull to try and get people to read it. Variety should do better.
August 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Weird choice of a pull quote to focus on out of that article. It is such a tiny part of it.
August 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Your post reminded me what was in the last box of stuff my mum sent over to me. I listened to these so many times when I was little.
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
That looks fantastic.
July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just wait until they release 28 months later and complicate everything🤣
June 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I got sent one of those Amazon surveys about the show after they had already announced it was cancelled. Filled it out anyway on the slim chance they are still looking at it. It was a very detailed survey going into all the characters and storylines etc. I’m really disappointed it’s cancelled.
June 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yeah it's even more infuriating when the director or producer are bragging about how they didn't use CGI. Sometimes while we are hard at work doing vfx work on their movie. I miss the time when cg work was celebrated in BTS features etc.
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It is so frustrating that so much online commentary has made CGI = bad for so many people that you get these sorts of contortions trying to say an incredibly well executed visual effects shot has "No CGI". I would love for these folks to see the work that artists put into shots like this.
June 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by James McPhail
one thing the AI uptick has shown is that people resent creatives so much for what they perceive to be "not real work." and that means creating a narrative that people are overpaid for things they don't perceive as important/valuable, but still form entire consumer identities around.
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Demand naming rights.
May 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I want to believe!
April 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Just barge in
March 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM