JO PLAETE - VFX Supervisor

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 122 - Jo Plaete - VFX Supervisor

VFX supervisor Jo Plaete (HERE; ALIEN: ROMULUS; FURIOSA) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Jo is also the Chief Innovation Officer at Metaphysic, and we spend much of the episode discussing the company’s AI technology and its use in several recently-released films. Having come up through the VFX world, Jo compares the techniques of more traditional VFX artists to what he does today using artificial intelligence, and he likens the recently spotlighted technology to “proceduralism on steroids”. We get a deep dive into the tech behind the de-aging AI used on HERE, and Jo shares how the technology integrated itself into the production process to let the crew see what the final effect would look like in real-time. Jo also reflects on some of the troubleshooting that occurred between departments during production, and we discuss whether the filmmakers were working around the AI or if the AI was working with them. Jo also shares how data is fed into the technology to build out the model’s understanding of a person’s face, and Jo shares what they do with all that data once the show wraps.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast,
0:07.0	a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Aperture. listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.8	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
0:33.8	Aperture recently announced the new storm family of lights.
0:38.0	With LED white light quality that matches natural daylight and classic tungsten bulbs,
0:43.7	plus extreme low-end dimming while maintaining color quality.
0:48.4	Discover more about the new storm lights and the complete Aperture lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com.
0:59.0	Today we're speaking with the visual effects supervisor and AI specialist.
1:04.2	He's the director of product innovation at metaphysics.
1:07.8	His credits are many and include here, Alien Romulus, and Ready Player 1. We're pleased to
1:14.3	welcome, Yo, play it. Yo, thank you for doing this. Thank you for having me.
1:19.9	We'd like to start by asking you, how did you get to where you are today? Was this something that
1:26.9	when you were a kid, you liked to make your dinosaurs fly?
1:32.8	Or was this something that you found later in life?
1:36.6	No, it started fairly early, actually.
1:40.4	Well, mostly.
1:42.3	I've kind of fascinated by technology.
1:44.7	My kind of youth, like growing up, building websites and things like that.
1:48.8	And kind of started to do a computer science at university, kind of very multimedia kind of geared.
1:58.0	And we kind of got my first kind of tasters in kind of 3D graphics and computer
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