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Todd Vaziri
Personal blog · fxrant.blogspot.comdesignculture
Todd Vaziri writes FXRant, a personal blog at fxrant.blogspot.com about design and culture. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to this blog for VFX commentary from ILM compositor Todd Vaziri, including his criticism of marketing that claims films used mostly practical effects when they did not.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blogtacular blog filled with words, images, and whipped cream on top. Written by Todd Vaziri.
Most-linked posts?
- The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25
What Hacker News says?
ILM Compositor Todd Vaziri talks a lot about stuff like this both on his blog [1] and on X [2]. One of his pet peeves is marketing campaigns claiming mostly practical effects when in fact the opposite is true. [1] https://fxrant.blogspot.com/ [2] https://x.com/tvaziri
Comment linking /
on “Fury Road's Practical FX Myth”Submitted The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" as a story · 456 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle as a story · 403 points
HN discussionSubmitted Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see as a story · 235 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death Star and the Final Trench Run as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FXRant: "Halloween: The Night of Terror Ends", a Seamless Edit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oscar Pool Ballot, 98th Academy Awards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FXRant: Lens Flares Don't Always Scale as a story · 1 points
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