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Speaker 1: Another day at the office for the geniuses at where

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Speaker 1: To Workshop. This year they got three nominations for the Oscars, Alien, Romulus,

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Speaker 1: Better Man, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

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Speaker 1: Head of Video Effects, Matt Haigen as will as Matt.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I remember doing interviews over many, many years, and you

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Speaker 1: guys every year get nominated. Does it become sort of

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Speaker 1: run of the mill and something would be wrong if

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Speaker 1: you didn't get nominated? Is that the sort of excellence

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Speaker 1: you dabble in it Wetter these days?

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Speaker 2: Oh? No, we never take it for granted. It is

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Speaker 2: great giving this level of recognition. Three, you know, three

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Speaker 2: of the films nominated for visual effects this year are

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Speaker 2: projects that were effects worked on. You need to pick

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Speaker 2: up one thing you said in the intro there make

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Speaker 2: it's Wetter Effects Jackson's Digital visual effects and animation company

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Speaker 2: that we're celebrating today, not wet A Workshop, which is

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Speaker 2: Sir Richard Taylor's physical effects Workshop.

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Speaker 1: My confusingly, it is confusing, but that's that's on makes

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Speaker 1: some I apologize for that. The workload generally in the

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Speaker 1: movie industry. How's it feeling at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's challenging times. People are going to

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Speaker 2: the cinema less there. The Hollywood strikes had a real

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Speaker 2: impact on our business. We feel that we are digging

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Speaker 2: away out of that. There's more films going into production,

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Speaker 2: but in our particular area, we never can take it

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Speaker 2: easy that there there are always headwinds and so to

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Speaker 2: you know, to have an opportunity to celebrate the way

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Speaker 2: we do today is a really is a really great opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Where are we at tech wise? Is it evolutionary or

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Speaker 1: revolutionary in terms of advance I think it's gone.

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Speaker 2: From being revolutionary to being evolutionary. I think we're consolidating

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Speaker 2: as an industry. We you know, when I first started

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Speaker 2: at Whether Effects thirty years ago, we had nice heal

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Speaker 2: what we were doing. We were making it up as

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Speaker 2: we went along. We were getting a project that had

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Speaker 2: like King Kong, a giant Harry gorilla, and then we

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Speaker 2: were writing the software to do the as we went

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Speaker 2: But these days it's more about adding finesse, adding quality.

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Speaker 2: You know, we have a very established pipeline now for

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Speaker 2: this kind of work and we just have our great

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Speaker 2: technology and research department adding finesse and adding quality.

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Speaker 1: With the work that they do for us in that space,

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. Will go well to today. We wish you

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Speaker 1: all the very best. Matt aik And who is the

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Speaker 1: head of video effects that we're to FX three nominations today.

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