Technology & AI Impact
Why VFX Giants Collapsed?
Ft. Syam · 30:49 · 19 Mar 2026
Watching a film is easy; making it is a different story. Vijay Rangu and Syam talk about how VFX is really made, how tools are changing it, and what AI means for jobs in the industry.
Key discussion points
- Seeing The Mummy, and moving from BSc computers to 3D
- The 3D pipeline: design, model, texture, lighting, render, compositing
- Avatar and motion capture
- Tata Elxsi car visualization: from clay model to CAD to visuals
- Ad films: live plates, CG and camera tracking
- Asset libraries such as Megascans changing the workflow
- Unreal Engine, PCG and MetaHuman
- PBR, Substance Painter, and ZBrush in jewellery and 3D printing
- Technicolor, Rhythm & Hues, and why big studios collapsed
- Are jobs in danger because of AI? Tools change, fundamentals stay
Guest's personal views and experiences.
