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So, often, I just found out myself through speaking to my teachers, you know, I had a very close relationship with my Art tutor and through that was where I learnt what I wanted to do really and how to progress and then it's really by being, just meeting people, talking to people as I've gone through my academic journey and then into my career now to where to go next to do further what I want to do.
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I guess when I was at school, the careers advice was very hard for somebody who wanted to go into a creative field and so I could never – I always felt like the person that it was hard to direct as to where to go or what to go and what to do. So it's amazing and to sit at the premiere at the end and see the finished result and hear the audience react hopefully positively to what we've done is, you know, the greatest part of the job really.
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So, often I'm on a film for a couple of years and in that process we're helping to design creatures, helping to design action sequences, helping to work out how to integrate everything, work out what the effects will be, being on set working with, you know, the whole team to get what the director wants on the day and make sure that we can actually do something with the picture and then, when we get into post-production, I'm a leader of many people – about 1,500 artists will be on film like Fantastic Beasts across multiple facilities across the world and I'm working with supervisors and team leaders at all of those places to make sure they're doing what I'm after and, ultimately, obviously what the director's after to be in the finished picture. I made tea and worked at a VFX facility (Framestore) where I am now to this day and, through seeing all of the jobs that were going on around me, I began to learn what I kind of was interested in and now, as a visual effects supervisor on a film like Fantastic Beasts, visual effects basically is all the stuff that is put into the picture in post-production that is meant to look like it was shot there during the production. I always loved television and film and I had a love for, I guess, what I eventually discovered was visual effects, but I had no access to that world because I didn't know anybody so it's only through doing my degree course, my Illustration degree, meeting a tutor who was a BBC graphic designer and doing this job, which is, yeah, I still definitely have Imposter Syndrome.īefore I started my job, I didn't really know what – I kind of knew what visual effects was, I knew VFX stood for visual effects, but I didn't know exactly what it was, you know, I started my job as a runner. I'm Christian Manz and I'm a BAFTA and Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor.