Behind The Worlds

Behind the Worlds is a podcast about the people who build the worlds we escape to.From video games and films to VFX, animation, and immersive virtual spaces, each episode goes deep with the creators shaping modern culture. We explore the ideas, failures, rules, and breakthroughs behind the worlds that make us feel something, and the builders who dared to imagine them.

Behind The Worlds is a technology podcast hosted by Ahmed Ahres, with 7 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ahmed Ahres hosts Behind The Worlds, a technology show with 7 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Avatar. Matrix Revolutions. Life of Pi. The Untold Story of the Man Who Made Them Real.

  Apr 15, 20261h 18mS1

  <p>Kenneth Nakada has spent his career building the worlds you thought were real. He painted environments for The Matrix. He designed worlds for Avatar. He helped make the ocean, the tiger and the sky in Life of Pi look so real that the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He built one of the largest LED volume stages in North America. And he showed up to every job knowing something most people never learn — that the magic isn't in the technology, it's in knowing what looks right before you touch a single tool.Now he's leading AI...

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  Episode #6

  Inside Harry Potter, Family Guy and Dead Space. One Producer Tells Everything.

  Mar 25, 202658 minS0

  <p>Andrew Green has spent his career inside the rooms most people never get access to. He negotiated the Harry Potter mobile license when no one had ever extended J.K. Rowling's universe without her writing it herself. He worked with Matt Groening and the original Futurama cast to create brand new content for a mobile game. He voice directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in his guest house, Benedict Cumberbatch on his way to dinner, and got kicked out of a recording session by LeVar Burton.</p><p>He helped build games that did hundreds of millions of dollars. He became a...

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  Episode #5

  Warcraft. StarCraft. VRChat. Nilo. Blizzard's 5th Employee Finally Tells His Story.

  Mar 11, 202657 minS0

  <p>Ron Millar (also known at Ron the Alien) is one of the most influential people in the history of gaming. He was among the first 5 employees at a small company called Silicon & Synapse, which you know today as Blizzard Entertainment. He helped turn Warcraft from a military strategy game into orcs and humans. He was the original lead designer of StarCraft. Then he left, started his own company, and was quietly removed from the credits of one of the biggest games ever made.</p><p>Years later, he walked into a three-person startup called VRChat and helped grow it...

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  Episode #4

  Why Pokémon Go is NOT Augmented Reality (And the Future of AR)

  Mar 4, 202640 minS0

  <p>Willem Helmet Pickleman is a creative technologist who has spent his career living at the intersection of art and technology. He taught himself to code on YouTube, pushed augmented reality into advertising agencies that had no idea what it was, and ended up at Snapchat building AR tools used by millions, selling watches on wrists that weren't really there, and solving problems nobody had solved before.</p><p>Now he's building multiplayer worlds out of colored blobs that you can actually walk through together.</p><p>In this episode, we explore why Pokemon Go is not actually an AR...

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  Episode #3

  Inside Pixar: What It Really Takes to Build a World

  Feb 25, 202643 minS0

  <p>Shubha Jagannatha is a builder who has always lived between two worlds: engineering and art. She spent three years at Pixar as a technical director, working on Turning Red, Lightyear, and Elemental, fixing individual pixels in films watched by tens of millions, watching orchestras score movies live, and seeing firsthand what happens when a film gets quietly shut down after years of work.</p><p>Then she left it all to found her own company.</p><p>In this episode, we explore what it actually looks like inside Pixar, why she felt like a creative plumber at her dream...

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