Richard Kelly’s “The Box” features some impressive visual effects work, in particular the creation (or destruction, rather) of Frank Langella’s face used in 144 of the 450 VFX shots.
“We used an on-set motion capture process based on witness cameras,” Tannenberger explains about the work done two years ago. “We had at the very least four cameras trained on him that were set up in a semi-circle or, depending on his movements, to any given thing. And essentially what this does — and we used available software [Moviemento] as well as our own in-house software [at Gradient Effects with Tan serving as digital supervisor] — is triangulating his position in the space in front of camera.
