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Dumbo: How we made the visual effects

Moving Picture (MPC) company's Richard Stammers, the Overall VFX Supervisor for the Walt Disney film Dumbo, tells Al Moloney how the digital effects for the movie were put together.

The film tells the classic story of the elephant with oversized ears that enable him to fly.

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29 April 2019

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