We go all the way back the 1990's in this 2 part interview with Sean Cunningham, a veteran of the VFX industry whose credits as an FX Artists include films such as True Lies, Strange Days, The Fifth Element, Godzilla, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and who has directed and produced independent feature films in his own right.This journey takes us from the excitement of the Commodore Amiga, missed proms, the inspiration of T2 and the founding days of James Cameron's Digital Domain studios.We learn about the origins of industry standard tools SideFX Houdini and Foundry Nuke from someone who was using both in their earliest incarnations as SideFX Prisms and Digital Domain's in house compositing tool - Nuke.We go deep and geeky so be warned.00:00 : What to Expect01:53 :  Meet Sean Cunningham03:01 :  How I got started in the industry05:29 : The importance of the Amiga for creative computing07:00 :  Sculpt 3D on the Amiga07:52 :  Lightwave14:10 :  The inspirational effect of T214:33 :  First VFX online bulletin board16:15 :  T2 Comes out, a turning point17:47 :  Calarts23:36 : : Metrolight Studios and Sexy Robot28:07 :  The Role of TD in the 1990's31:05 :  You had to build up an intuition - working without UI feedback36:22 :  Elastic Reality, morphs and splines39:28 :  James Cameron founds Digital Domain42:05 :  Digital Domain in Stan Winston's Creature Shop42:53 :  Stealing Artists and the pirate mentality45:18 :  True Lies49:51 :  Side FX Prisms (which became Houdini)51:51 :  Learning VFX software in the 1990's58:06 :  My Approach to learning at Digital Domain and sinceAs always, if you liked this episode, please like, comment, subscribe and share!Listen to all episodes on our websitehttps://www.thevfxartistspodcast.com/