Paul Franklin
@paulfranklin.bsky.social
Filmmaker, 2x Oscar winning visual effects designer, Inception, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, various Harry Potters, Venom etc. Creative Director at beloFX. Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291518/
Rather more than 25 minutes in, but still my all time favourite inter-title card
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Rather more than 25 minutes in, but still my all time favourite inter-title card
Absolutely - amazing baroque organic imagery, like nothing else. The Biogs were a triumph - blew my 10 year old mind.
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Absolutely - amazing baroque organic imagery, like nothing else. The Biogs were a triumph - blew my 10 year old mind.
Appears to have the same diodes as my Cambridge Universal calculator (purchased 1976)
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Appears to have the same diodes as my Cambridge Universal calculator (purchased 1976)
Tough day, amused ourselves by getting ChatGPT to make stupid ads for old cars.
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Tough day, amused ourselves by getting ChatGPT to make stupid ads for old cars.
Starburst, Omni, Science Fiction Monthly, + the occasional issue of Interzone kept me going. This cover was painted by an art teacher at my brother’s school in the 80s :-)
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Starburst, Omni, Science Fiction Monthly, + the occasional issue of Interzone kept me going. This cover was painted by an art teacher at my brother’s school in the 80s :-)
I’m not sure why whatever benighted algorithm it was served this up to me today (perhaps image searches for weird creature references?) - do people actually wear these things? Is it even real?
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m not sure why whatever benighted algorithm it was served this up to me today (perhaps image searches for weird creature references?) - do people actually wear these things? Is it even real?
It does look a bit like the Kosmoskrator from the 1960 film The Silent Star :-)
October 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It does look a bit like the Kosmoskrator from the 1960 film The Silent Star :-)
If you see this, post a dragon 🐉
September 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you see this, post a dragon 🐉
For old-school space nerds visiting the @sciencemuseum.org.uk in London - lower right of the CSM control panel on display next to the Apollo 10 Command Module.
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
For old-school space nerds visiting the @sciencemuseum.org.uk in London - lower right of the CSM control panel on display next to the Apollo 10 Command Module.
Director Iain Softley and Fisher “The Plague” Stevens on stage at the @princecharlescinema.com last night for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Director Iain Softley and Fisher “The Plague” Stevens on stage at the @princecharlescinema.com last night for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers
In a packed @princecharlescinema.com waiting for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers!
September 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In a packed @princecharlescinema.com waiting for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers!
Holy hooting heck - 30 years today since this baby was released into the world. This is where my career in feature film VFX began.
Hack the planet!!!
Hack the planet!!!
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Holy hooting heck - 30 years today since this baby was released into the world. This is where my career in feature film VFX began.
Hack the planet!!!
Hack the planet!!!
I found this one in Nob Hill cafe in San Francisco a few years ago
July 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I found this one in Nob Hill cafe in San Francisco a few years ago
I think this classic cover for the seminal Synners, by @patcadigan.bsky.social may have been created in part with the Pluto
July 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I think this classic cover for the seminal Synners, by @patcadigan.bsky.social may have been created in part with the Pluto
I see a lot of miseryguts comments in my timeline about the Doctor Who finale. I had a joyous time watching it last night with my (big) kids in a packed Leicester Square cinema. Anyway, somebody sent me this - I guess it was inevitable.
June 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I see a lot of miseryguts comments in my timeline about the Doctor Who finale. I had a joyous time watching it last night with my (big) kids in a packed Leicester Square cinema. Anyway, somebody sent me this - I guess it was inevitable.
For the beat where the mercenaries go up through the ceiling we shot green screen elements of stunt performers at New Deal and added them to plates of the miniature set and to the interior of Applied Sciences (the car park of the LA Convention Centre).
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For the beat where the mercenaries go up through the ceiling we shot green screen elements of stunt performers at New Deal and added them to plates of the miniature set and to the interior of Applied Sciences (the car park of the LA Convention Centre).
As a bonus we stole a shot from a bit of test footage of the miniature which was used in the movie as Batman's bleary POV of the ceiling through the falling water just before Bane hits the detonator.
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As a bonus we stole a shot from a bit of test footage of the miniature which was used in the movie as Batman's bleary POV of the ceiling through the falling water just before Bane hits the detonator.
Nathan Crowley's set at Cardington in the UK was huge, must have been 80 feet tall, but it didn't have a ceiling, hence the miniature to start the beat - When the Tumbler hits the deck that's a full-size car dropped through the UK set. Me in front of the set, and the full-size car.
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nathan Crowley's set at Cardington in the UK was huge, must have been 80 feet tall, but it didn't have a ceiling, hence the miniature to start the beat - When the Tumbler hits the deck that's a full-size car dropped through the UK set. Me in front of the set, and the full-size car.
Was rooting through my photo library, came across some images from the miniature stage on The Dark Knight Rises. 1/5th scale Bane's Lair + Tumbler at New Deal's old Marina del Rey facility, January 2012. We used the miniature for the shot when Bane blows the charges and the Tumbler drops through.
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Was rooting through my photo library, came across some images from the miniature stage on The Dark Knight Rises. 1/5th scale Bane's Lair + Tumbler at New Deal's old Marina del Rey facility, January 2012. We used the miniature for the shot when Bane blows the charges and the Tumbler drops through.
They probably know these guys.
May 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
They probably know these guys.
At De Martino in Fitzrovia, London, celebrating Dickie Bain's VFX BAFTA win for Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 2!
May 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
At De Martino in Fitzrovia, London, celebrating Dickie Bain's VFX BAFTA win for Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 2!
Ravillious's painting compresses space, giving a multi-viewpoint sense of place, instantly recogniseable
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ravillious's painting compresses space, giving a multi-viewpoint sense of place, instantly recogniseable
Only marginally less probable than the Dalek’s Death Ray lolly!
May 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Only marginally less probable than the Dalek’s Death Ray lolly!
