24: Diego Grimaldi -- Senior FX Artist, On Working for Disney, Weta & Into the Spiderverse
“Recording our twenty fourth episode, the guest of honor today is Diego Grimaldi. Senior FX Artist at Digital Domain, he has previously worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Weta Digital, Buck and more. He has done work on movies such as Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Frozen II, Justice League and Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse of Madness. Calling all the way from Los Angeles, a very special thanks to Diego for making the time.”
00:00:45 Meeting Through Rebelway
00:02:21 Backstory
00:07:30 Starting Out In FX
00:13:39 Specializing in FX
00:15:24 Working On Movies as an FX Artist
00:19:10 Crunch + Manpower
00:21:10 Creativity & Favorite Shots
00:23:14 Into the Spiderverse
00:24:13 Working at Disney Animation Studios
00:31:37 What Goals are Left At This Point?
00:33:26 Realtime Work
00:36:57 Favorite Types of Projects
00:41:12 Immigrating to America
00:42:35 Favorite Career Moment (Into the Spiderverse)
Diego’s Curriculum
