Season 1 of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire is finished, and if you saw it then you probably enjoyed some of Brainstorm Digital’s fantastic VFX work. Ranging from bluescreens to scenery and backdrops, through to facial reconstruction and 3d modeling work, they’ve posted a great VFX breakdown video on vimeo. Check it out below.
Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1 from Brainstorm Digital on Vimeo.
aetuts has a great collection of VFX breakdowns covering films as new as Avatar and Alice and Wonderland, and going back through several reels we’ve covered in the past.
I say it time and time again, these are seriously some of my favorite roundups to do. Watching these amazing making ofs, behind the scenes content, and VFX breakdowns really give you a look into how a shot was made, or what really goes into a production. You can take a lot away from just seeing a couple of shot breakdowns… so check em out!
Weta has updated their website with around 8 different breakdowns of their contributions to the visual effects of Avatar. Showing the multiple passes and plates used in the shots, they showcase not only their CG work but the motion tracking work used for the mech robots.
The popular “Skating Babies” commercial for Evian was done by MPC, and their latest podcast shows how they did the commercial and interviews some of the Visual Effects wizards behind the magic.
MPC has updated their website with some behind-the-scenes VFX breakdowns of what you can see in the upcoming film Dorian Gray.
Rising Sun Pictures has posted a pair of new VFX breakdowns for Harry Potter 6 and Terminator Salvation.
Rising Sun Pictures Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince VFX Breakdowns. and Terminator Salvation
Just found this via some fellow Twitter-ites, it’s a video comparison of various stages of the REndering & Compositing of various Ice Age 3 scenes. Compiled by Jeff Gabor of Blue Sky Studios, it shows the animators acting the scenes, two different stages of modeling and pre-rendering, and the final rendered scenes.
View the video at his site.
IE Effects has updated their website with a breakdown video showing one of their scenes for the horror movie “Drag Me To Hell”. In it they show the original greenscreen footage, and the several levels of VFX they created (Removing greenscreens, adding backgrounds, removing cables, and adding foreground objects).
@alba tipped me off to a pair of videos on Vimeo from Sorin Voicu that show an augmented reality interface on the streets of Rome (I think). Called “Realta Aumentata”, it has some interesting ideas on how an augmented reality interface could work. The VFX breakdown is interesting as well to see how the VFX were implemented.
I’m unable to translate the captions & credits. Anyone care to post a translation?
See both videos after the break.
An impressive video of a planetary implosion done by Mark Theriault while he worked for Blur over the course of three weeks. The specs:
See the video after the break.
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