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In this episode, I chat with model maker Jim Davidson about his journey from a dinosaur-obsessed kid in the 1970s to working on some of the...
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In this episode, I chat with model maker Jim Davidson about his journey from a dinosaur-obsessed kid in the 1970s to working on some of the...

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Episode 113 is up. My conversation with production eesigner, art director, concept designer and VFX artist Kevin Jenkins . We swap stories a...

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