ABC’s ‘V’ returns from hiatus tonight, with special effects provided by Zoic Studios. This season focuses more closely on Anna and the aliens, with several new scenes inside the Mothership.
Zoic’s creative director, Andrew Orloff, discussed his excitement for the upcoming episodes: “It’s a big season, with a lot of surprises and a lot of new stuff. We’re spending a lot more time on the mothership,” says Orloff. “We’re getting a lot more into Anna, and the Vs and what they are really up to. We can’t give away too much, but there’s a lot happening, and a lot more to the visual effects — it’s going to be very cool. We’re continuing with the virtual set work we’ve been doing, and the virtual prosthetic work.”
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Visual Effects Supervisor Andrew Orloff sits down with vfxblog to discuss the contributions Zoic has made to ABC’s scifi drama ‘V’, and gets into the details of how they were able to render so much of the environment in CG and seamlessly match it to the actual photography and video. The secret: lipstick cameras.
The way that it works is we get all the designs from production, we add the lighting details by working with the DP, and then we use Lightcraft’s realt-time 3D graphics engine, like what you would find in a video game. We convert our digital sets, which would normally take hours to render, into something that works in the graphics engine much faster. There’s a little tiny lipstick camera attached to the main camera on set which shoots up into the ceiling to read a bunch of tracking markers and give us a real-time track of the set. It will make the set move around in the exact same way as the main camera is moving. We map all the lenses to give us real-time lens distortion and depth of field. It also does a real-time composite with the greenscreen. So what we're seeing on the day is real-time feedback of what the final shot is going to look like.
via vfxblog: Zoic’s Andrew Orloff on ‘V’.
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Zoic has launched a new Visual Effects blog entitled “I Design Your Eyes”, and celebrated the launch with a great writeup on the tools and techniques used in the new ABC series “V”.
The ship interiors were created before the related greenscreen shots were filmed. For the episodes shot after the pilot, Zoic provided the production with its new, cutting edge proprietary Zeus system, which allows filmmakers to see actors on a real-time rendered virtual set, right on the greenscreen stage. The technology is of immeasurable aid to the director of photography, crew, and especially the actors, who can see themselves interacting with the virtual set and can adjust their performances accordingly. Zeus incorporates Lightcraft Technology’s pre-visualization system.
via I Design Your Eyes.
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