{"id":41315,"date":"2014-06-13T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=41315"},"modified":"2014-06-13T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:43:53","slug":"visual-effects-breakdowns-from-pacific-rim-transformers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/visual-effects-breakdowns-from-pacific-rim-transformers-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Effects Breakdowns from Pacific Rim, Transformers and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"get-inspired-by-some-spectacular-visual-effects-work-with-these-insider-breakdowns\">Get inspired by some spectacular visual effects work with these insider breakdowns.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/06\/film-and-video-production.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41870\" title=\"film-and-video-production\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/06\/film-and-video-production.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/74730094\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<p>In this fast paced video from Rodeo FX you can take in a <strong>detailed explanation of how they created the MGM Grand crowd shots<\/strong> in the film <em>Now You See Me, <\/em>using The Foundry&#8217;s Mari and Nuke to \u201coff the shelf\u201d systems such as Kinect and PS3 cameras for motion capture and 3D scanning.<\/p>\n<p>In the next two videos you can <strong>see detailed layer-by-layer visual effects composites<\/strong>, which if you were to slow the video down, would give you a great view of just how many small details are involved in really selling a shot. For more details on Rodeo&#8217;s work on <em>Pacific Rim<\/em> <a title=\"Rodeo FX - Pacific Rim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rodeofx.com\/all-films\/pacific-rim\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">check out this post from their site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79212621\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/77822882\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pacific-rim-visual-effects-breakdowns\">Pacific Rim Visual Effects Breakdowns<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwU7io8Q7xo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The good people at <strong><a title=\"Industrial Light and Magic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Industrial Light and Magic<\/a><\/strong> have put together these <strong>fantastic interview led videos of the work they performed<\/strong> on destructive action epic, <em>Pacific Rim. <\/em>They cover creating the Kajiu and the Jaegers to tackling how to build Hong-Kong in order to destroy it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/De36ug7zMPk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHarrJ_1i8E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2yoTMUzBLY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-great-gatsby\">The Great Gatsby<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/82267248\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This first montage from Visual Effects Supervisor <a title=\"Chris Godfrey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0323967\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Chris Godfrey<\/a> showcases the work of all of the various vendors who worked on <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>. In the following videos it&#8217;s worth jumping over to Vimeo to check out Chris&#8217; comments under each one, <strong>explaining a bit more about the complex visual effects work involved<\/strong>. It&#8217;s great to be able to <strong>see cut scenes as the editor would have handled them<\/strong>, along side the finished shots.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No matter what the budget or how big the sets that art director Ian Gracie built &#8211; and he did go big \u2013 the scale was never going to be large enough for the vision. <\/em><em>The physical build cost just for Gatsby\u2019s mansion was over five million dollars. The biggest set build, which included the mansion hallway, ballroom, stairs and organ, then out to the breakfast patio and down to the dance-floor was more than 50 metres by 30 metres by 12 metres high. But that was just one specific set with 200 metres of bluescreen and blackscreen permanently hung. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Gatsby\u2019s mansion was in fact a mix of many locations and sets. The front gates and driveway were at Sydney&#8217;s Centennial Park, the building fa\u00e7ade (first two floors) was a school at Manly, the entry to the dance-floor was in stage one (Fox Studios), the stairs, the pool were stage two, the wharf was on stages three and one at various times, the beach and water were at Cottage Point and Nick\u2019s bungalow was built at Centennial Park, stage three and Mount Wilson (in the Blue Mountains).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79815103\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79815107\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79815843\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"transformers-dark-of-the-moon\">Transformers &#8211; Dark of The Moon<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgoqPd9PeFg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In these videos, again from the masterminds at ILM, you can get a look at their process for <strong>creating some unbelievably detailed visual effects work<\/strong> on <em>Transformers &#8211; Dark of The Moon<\/em>. Plus, stunning sound design too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L7r5mz9aTlA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOdKDRTC790?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6X2PfMbkb6c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up the behind-the-scenes breakdowns of some of the best special effects scenes in recent cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":41880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[715,79,78],"tags":[481,2847,2848,1899,756,2846,473],"class_list":["post-class-post-41315","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-industry","post-class-category-inspiration","post-class-category-roundups","post-class-tag-compositing","post-class-tag-great-gatsby","post-class-tag-now-you-see-me","post-class-tag-pacific-rim","post-class-tag-special-effects","post-class-tag-transformers-dark-of-the-moon","post-class-tag-visual-effects"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - 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