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Paul Franklin

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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/

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 14h

There are awesome refracted light effects in Life Force, created by John Dykstra (Star Wars) - that informed part of what the team did for the Potter movie :-)

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 15h

I used the VFX in this movie as a reference for the Patronus Charm effect in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Had to warn the crew about Matilda May wandering around starkers. How on earth it ever got a greenlight is a mystery.

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 17h

Hopefully a shouty Prentis Hancock in a low cut space suit will soothe your troubles away

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 1d

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 :-)

A man in blue grey space armour stands in front of an exploding black and yellow space ship

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 3d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 6d

Ha ha! Should have known you’d have got there first!

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 6d

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?

A man’s legs clad in strange exoskeleton jogging trousers displaying bones and muscles

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 6d

It does look a bit like the Kosmoskrator from the 1960 film The Silent Star :-)

A sharp-pointed science fiction spaceship launches from the earth

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve not seen a reference to Barbapapa for a long time, perhaps never - all change!

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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 15d

🎵 Bluedot headliner Hannah Peel returns to #JodrellBank for an exclusive evening of music and discussion!

In conversation with Prof. Tim O’Brien, this event fuses science and storytelling to explore new ways of understanding the Universe through sound.

🎟️ www.jodrellbank.net/events/in-co...

Hannah Peel, a woman with red hair and a white shirt, performs on stage. Caption reads: ‘In conversation... with Hannah Peel and Tim O’Brien. Thursday 30 October, 19.30 - 21.00.’ The Jodrell at 80 and Real World Record logos are featured.

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 13d

If you see this, post a dragon 🐉

Idris, a cartoon image of a small red dragon emerging from a green smoke stack

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 18d

Wondering if the Crack Fox from The Mighty Boosh started out here?

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 18d

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.

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 19d

Yep, it’s within the optics of the lens, not a volume within the 3D space viewed by the camera. But it gets interesting when dealing with fantasy effects that combine the properties of lens effects with a 3D volume, the “lumos wand” effect in Harry Potter being an example.

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 21d

Joan Collins with a bowl of fruit on her head - what a great episode that was!

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 22d

Director Iain Softley and Fisher “The Plague” Stevens on stage at the @princecharlescinema.com last night for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers

Two men standing in front of a cinema screen with an illuminated image before an audience

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 23d

In a packed @princecharlescinema.com waiting for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers!

A cinema filling up with people who mostly weren’t born when the movie I helped make was released

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 26d

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!!!

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

Very sorry for your loss. You made beautiful music together.

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

The last album that Stephen Luscombe made with Neil Arthur as Blancmange, Blancburn in 2011, is sublime.

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

Yep, pretty much

Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

Sade! Anyone who lived around Highbury Fields in the 90s usually refers to how close their house/flat was to Sade’s place. (We were two streets away)

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

It's the 30th anniversary of Hackers - the mighty @princecharlescinema.com screens the movie on Thursday 18th Sept, with an in-person intro by director Iain Softley. 35mm sold out, but still tix for the digital screening. My first feature film VFX job!
princecharlescinema.com/film/6780863...

Hackers Film Times and Tickets | The Prince Charles Cinema

Browse film times and buy tickets for Hackers at The Prince Charles Cinema

princecharlescinema.com

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 28d

Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR orbits back to the PCC from Fri 19th Sep on 70mm. Few films demand the grandeur of celluloid quite like this one: a sweeping voyage across galaxies, black holes, and the limits of human endurance.

🎟️ : tinyurl.com/f5w59x96

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 27d

That's terrible news. Very sad.