Mark Spatny
@markspatny.bsky.social
Emmy winning VFX Supervisor/Producer. Shows: THE PERIPHERAL, HEROES, DOCTOR WHO, STATION 19, LETHAL WEAPON, TOUCH, GRACEPOINT, RUNAWAYS. Nine years on the board of the TV Academy. Comic book and sci-fi fanboy. Representation: https://innovativeartists.com
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Mark Spatny
@markspatny.bsky.social
· Sep 29
How The Roddenberry Archive is preserving 'Star Trek' history - befores & afters
A new podcast with OTOY's Mark Spatny.
beforesandafters.com
Please enjoy the latest Befores & Afters podcast, where I talked with Ian Failes about what The Roddenberry Archive is doing to preserve the history of Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry's legacy in television and films. @beforesmag.bsky.social
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Daaaaaaamn!
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Daaaaaaamn!
When I was VFX Supervising STATION 19, they had a draft script where a long conversation took place between fire fighters and a homeowner in front of a burning Christmas tree. I showed them videos of burning trees like this and pointed there's no time to talk. They rewrote the scene.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When I was VFX Supervising STATION 19, they had a draft script where a long conversation took place between fire fighters and a homeowner in front of a burning Christmas tree. I showed them videos of burning trees like this and pointed there's no time to talk. They rewrote the scene.
This guy 🙄
Maybe he could try reading?
Maybe he could try reading?
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This guy 🙄
Maybe he could try reading?
Maybe he could try reading?
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
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British James Cameron:
A£IEN
A£IEN
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
British James Cameron:
A£IEN
A£IEN
I'm never going to understand "World VFX Day". Globalization is killing our industry in the state where it was essentially born. Not sure why I'd want to celebrate that.
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm never going to understand "World VFX Day". Globalization is killing our industry in the state where it was essentially born. Not sure why I'd want to celebrate that.
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Forever reminder that all awards competitions for art are dumb but the absolute dumbest one of all is the golden globes
December 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Forever reminder that all awards competitions for art are dumb but the absolute dumbest one of all is the golden globes
I will forever be annoyed that NBC marketing randomly created this red vortex promo image that wasn’t scripted and wasn’t motivated by the story, and then insisted we change our realistic aurora borealis effect so that the pilot VFX would match the poster for no reason just days before the upfronts.
This might be the worst menu selection I've seen. Instead of labelling things like episode selection or subtitles we just use small icons that don't say what they are.
December 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I will forever be annoyed that NBC marketing randomly created this red vortex promo image that wasn’t scripted and wasn’t motivated by the story, and then insisted we change our realistic aurora borealis effect so that the pilot VFX would match the poster for no reason just days before the upfronts.
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Thank you so much. And thank you for supporting the shows.
@marcguggenheim.bsky.social This month, the Arrowverse will be leaving Netflix, little by little, with Arrow being the first to go. Thank god for physical media, and thank you, Greg, and the other producers, and all the performers for doing the shows in the first place.
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thank you so much. And thank you for supporting the shows.
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
THE LOST BUS has some of the best fire effects I’ve ever seen. Great work by everyone involved.
In my latest article for ILM, I interviewed Dave Zaretti about ILM's astounding visual effects work on THE LOST BUS.
www.ilm.com/the-lost-bus...
www.ilm.com/the-lost-bus...
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
THE LOST BUS has some of the best fire effects I’ve ever seen. Great work by everyone involved.
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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
science.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
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Flash Gordon was released 45 years ago today!
"A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."
"A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Flash Gordon was released 45 years ago today!
"A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."
"A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."
I howled when I saw this:
More bad DS9 memes
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I howled when I saw this:
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
Pantone execs picking their color of the year:
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pantone execs picking their color of the year:
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A famous guy I was a fan of sent an email during the pandemic just being like "hey I like your show, great job" and it meant a ton to me. So ever since I've tried to reach out whenever I really like something and just tell the people who made it "I really like this, thanks for making it!"
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A famous guy I was a fan of sent an email during the pandemic just being like "hey I like your show, great job" and it meant a ton to me. So ever since I've tried to reach out whenever I really like something and just tell the people who made it "I really like this, thanks for making it!"
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Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
NETFLIX QC: 00:27:03:15 There's a 10 pixel tall reflection in a champagne glass the waitress is carrying in the back of the room that may be literally anything in the room -OR- it could be a boom mic, so blur it out just in case.
HBO QC: You expect us to watch EVERY SCENE??? REALLY?
HBO QC: You expect us to watch EVERY SCENE??? REALLY?
This is absolutely real. The current HBO Max version of this "Mad Men" episode "remastered for 4K" did not include an updated visual effects shot, which originally painted out the crew and equipment. Not just that, the HBO Max episode titles/order is jumbled for s01.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NETFLIX QC: 00:27:03:15 There's a 10 pixel tall reflection in a champagne glass the waitress is carrying in the back of the room that may be literally anything in the room -OR- it could be a boom mic, so blur it out just in case.
HBO QC: You expect us to watch EVERY SCENE??? REALLY?
HBO QC: You expect us to watch EVERY SCENE??? REALLY?
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Meet two heroes of our times.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet two heroes of our times.
Why does this always seem to happen at HBO? They need a better QC department.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why does this always seem to happen at HBO? They need a better QC department.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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As in so many things, the British public is wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
As in so many things, the British public is wrong.