THE DINOSAURS

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with the lead editor and VFX editor of the Netflix documentary series 'The Dinosaurs'.

Today on Art of the Cut, we have the lead editor and the VFX editor of the documentary series, The Dinosaurs , from Netflix and Amblin’ Entertainment. Ben Lavington Martin, BFE was the lead editor on the series and cut the first episode. His other work includes The World According to Jeff Goldblum, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, One Strange Rock , and Nova , among many others. Matt Howorth was the visual effects editor. His other credits include shorts: Rodents and Bull Shark Bandits . Our discussion today is about walking the line between animation editing and natural history documentary storytelling… and calibrating science, entertainment, and emotion over eons of evolution. If youre interested in reading along with this interview and seeing the trailer and clips and images from the docu-series, check out BorisFX's blog site: borisfx.com/blog/aotc

People in this episode

Host: Steve Hullfish

Guests: Ben Lavington Martin, Matt Howorth

Topics covered

• editing
• visual effects
• documentary storytelling
• animation
• natural history
• science
• entertainment

Keywords

• editing
• visual effects
• documentary
• animation
• natural history
• science
• entertainment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netflix, Amblin’ Entertainment, BorisFX

Books & works: The Dinosaurs, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, One Strange Rock, Nova, Rodents, Bull Shark Bandits

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