Talks

VFX of Project Hail Mary

PAUL LAMBERT (Visual Effects Supervisor) is a four-time Oscar winning visual effects supervisor with more than 25 years of experience in the motion picture industry. He won his Oscars consecutively with Blade Runner 2049, First Man, Dune, and Dune: Part Two. He has collaborated with some of the most acclaimed directors in Hollywood and has also won and been nominated for multiple BAFTAs, EMMYs and VES awards. Throughout his career, Lambert has excelled in combining both the creative and technical aspects of visual effects, and many novel techniques and memorable visuals have originated from his projects. Notably, he is the sole inventor of the blue-screen keying algorithm “IBK,” which is used in Nuke, the visual effects industry’s compositing software of choice. 

Lambert recently spent two years working on the upcoming Project Hail Mary and now has returned to Arrakis to finish up the Dune trilogy.