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Todd Vaziri

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I work on movies and talk about movies. Co-host of Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast. http://www.tvaziri.com

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 4h

several Watergates-per-day

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 14h

shhhhhhhh

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 15h

Framed #1307
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 15h

Thank you!!

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 19h

Ron Dean, terrific Chicago actor, RIP. Dean was one of the many key components that make "The Fugitive" (1993) the masterpiece that it is.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22h

Thanks!!

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23h

gotcha

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

that's so nice of you to share the video - i'm gonna go cry now

(thanks for all the lessons in computer graphics and art, by the way)

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

hahahaha

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 1d

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

Thanks, Anil! So kind of you.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

awww Stu

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

that's nice of you to say - thanks!

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

huh?

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

I also wrote a short blog post about the video, which includes links to the full ILM credits of all the films I mentioned in the video.

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Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years. watch T...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

sorry it took so long

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

hahahahahahaha

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

all can now be revealed

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · Nov 2

There's a shot in the "Skeleton Crew" trailer that I did with the help of practical effects I filmed in my house so you know it will be good (you'll never guess the shot or the element so don't even

https://youtu.be/f19gfOMZTtg?si=ifYeOQjY51z_VbQZ

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

youtu.be

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

gulp

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

"The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot", by Duncan Rudd

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The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot

An award winning animated short film showing how Earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us. Made using the amazing FREE 3D software, Blender.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

2016

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

My buddy Zelda has very strong opinions on this stuff. A reminder that her dad left explicit instructions that he did NOT want corporations to be able to do this to him and that means us too. The bare minimum here is to respect the wishes of those who said NO.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Yes!!!