When I first saw the new promo for the newest season of Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel, I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone broke it down and told us how they did it. FXGuide came through with the details, including the involvement of one Eric Alba.
We then took the 30 objects out of the mix that would be shot practically. That left about 90 objects, of which we agreed we would be happy to do 30. It was then a painstaking set of choices that the guys at Discovery had to whittle down from the list. Pretty much a day before we had to shoot we had a definitive list of the objects we would be creating in 3D.
Of course the next bit of fun was deciding where these objects were going to go. In the previs, Ceri put circles and arrows across everything and told us where he’d like specific objects – it just evolved from there. It was a good flexible way of working. It certainly grew totally beyond all the realms we envisaged, once we knew how good it would look. I mean, at one point we said we would absolutely not be doing CG liquid out of the fish bowl and no flames on the matches or foam coming out of the fire extinguisher. You can take a look at the spot and you’ll see all those things are in there.\
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