It’s a booming industry encompassing tech and art, and where training is readily available. So why aren’t there more women working in visual effects?
When Nell Lloyd-Malcolm worked on set of dystopian science fiction film Ready Player One, she was in charge of monitoring facial capture data – the result of tracking devices placed on actors’ faces to help create expression in the animated characters. “After one scene, Steven Spielberg said: ‘Yep, that’s the one,’ and I had to tell him the camera had slipped during filming and was staring up the actor’s nose. We couldn’t use the data. Terrifying.”
Happily it hasn’t held her back and her credits include Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Bohemian Rhapsody, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and more. But although Lloyd-Malcolm’s work might be par for the course in visual effects – an intriguing sector that mixes logistics and technical wizardry with painstaking detail – she herself is unusual.
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