Y Crazy Mind

From the time he was a child, Jyothi Kalyan Sura loved drawing. He always doodled, sketching his favorite cartoon characters and world’s he imagined in his mind. It seemed only natural for him to find a way to explore this innate talent as a career, but as he grew, he found himself drawn to creating art not on paper, but on a computer in the world of virtual design. It didn’t take him long to realize he could use these talents as a visual effects artist, a job in the field of filmmaking that he had long admired. Now, as a renowned VFX artist in his home country of India and abroad, he spends each and every day doing what he has loved since his earliest years. “Though CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) is a younger branch of the visual arts, visual effects is as old as cinema itself. From the early days of cinema, in-camera visual effects have captured audience’s amazement. Today, visual effects is an indispensable tool for filmmakers, as it enables them to create awe-inspiring v...

James Chen has spent his entire life looking at things differently. That’s not to say that he has an altered reality view of things but more that he looks at things intently and investigates, he imagines what they could be. As a VFX Artist of recognition with a great deal of success in his home country of Taiwan, he has used his talent to blur the lines between imagined illustrations and real life. Whether he is creating a new robot, enabling the audience to travel back in time, or revealing the way emotions alter our perception, Chen’s work is exhibited with such skill that it’s often difficult to discern where reality begins and imagination ends. While the tools of a VFX Artist are advancing rapidly, there’s no price tag that allows one to purchase the type of imagination that exists in a mind like that of James Chen. He has spent his entire life discovering the means to transfer the ideas in his head onto a platform that allows us all to see the exciting and amazing things he alway...