From the release:

RASCAL has hired VFX supervisor Alfie Vaughan, one of the most-watched creators in UK visual effects, joining its VFX team, further strengthening its integrated AI VFX workflow.

Alfie joins RASCAL from Coffee & TV, where he rose from VFX lead to VFX supervisor, working closely with artists across the studio and supervising on set. His credits include The Chemical Brothers’ Free Yourself, LEGO DREAMZzz and Coors Fresh Climb.

He went straight into the industry rather than university and was leading VFX by 23. Recent work includes a film marking 25 years of LEGO Star Wars, using VFX to emulate a range of animation formats, from stop motion and puppetry to claymation.

Alongside his studio work, Alfie has built a following of more than 70,000 on YouTube, where he remakes effects from films and breaks down how they’re done for fans and aspiring artists. He’s spent years working in professional pipelines with cutting-edge AI tools, and teaches those workflows, hands-on, to a genuinely engaged community.

At RASCAL he will supervise VFX projects and add to AI expertise in the team led by Chris Tobin, working alongside the studio’s colour, sound and music departments in its Shoreditch headquarters.

Alfie Vaughan said:

“I’ve spent my career doing some amazing work for brands and musical artists, pushing what’s possible on my YouTube channel and showing people how it’s done. At RASCAL I get to do all of that alongside a team that shares the same passion and enthusiasm. We’ve got access to some amazing new tools and I look forward to working with artists and clients to get the most out of them while maintaining the craft that makes our work worth watching.”

Gareth Brannan, Founder and Managing Director of RASCAL, said:

“We’re growing our VFX team around artists who push the craft forward and Alfie is exactly that. He’s a brilliant supervisor, he’s been putting new tools to work on real jobs for years and he’s taught thousands of artists how he does it. The technology will keep changing. What makes the work great is the artist using it.”