IndieWire Craft Roundtables: VFX Supervisors Discuss TV's Diverse Visual Effects Landscape
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Christian Zilko
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IndieWire's Craft Roundtables VFX panel, moderated by Jim Hemphill, brings together VFX supervisors from major TV productions including Betsy Paterson ("Stranger Things"), Hnedel Maximore ("Spider-Noir"), and Hoyt Yeatman to discuss the diverse and collaborative nature of visual effects work in television. The panel highlights how VFX teams handle everything from creating superpowers and horrifying backgrounds to crafting entire characters, serving as the connective tissue between multiple production departments.
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· 3 pulledThe best TV of 2025 and 2026 proves that no two visual effects jobs are ever alike.
A VFX department can be tasked with giving an actor visible superpowers, creating horrifying backgrounds, or literally crafting the main character of a sitcom from scratch.
No matter what the story requires, the VFX team is often the glue holding multiple departments together.
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