The Colosseum, tigers and more.Coming up this week is the release of Ridley Scotts Gladiator II. So, we thought wed go back to the first Gladiator with the VFX supervisor of that film, John Nelson. John of course won the visual effects Oscar for Gladiator, alongside Tim Burke and Rob Harvey of Mill Film, and SFX supervisor Neil Corbould.In this chat we dive deep into a number of the big sequences, starting with that very famous Steadicam shot of the Gladiators entering the Colosseum. We also talk about the Rome builds, the amazing tiger fight, and the forest battle in Germania. John shares a few fun memories from Oscar night as well. This is a really informative chat looking back at the VFX process from around the year 2000. I have to say also that Gladiator was one of those films that had an amazing DVD release with very very thorough VFX featurettes looking over the shoulder of artists at The Mill working on SGI machines, and working with tools like Softimage and Flameso try and find those featurettes if you can.This episode of the befores & afters podcast is sponsored by SideFX. Looking for great customer case studies, presentations and demos? Head to the SideFX YouTube channel. There youll find tons of Houdini, Solaris and Karma content. This includes recordings of recent Houdini HIVE sessions from around the world.The post The making of Gladiator: a look back with VFX supervisor John Nelson appeared first on befores & afters.