Dan Rucinski, executive producer, Entity FX, said, “This year alone, our artists used our Autodesk bag of tricks on four feature films and eight television projects, most recently to create — in a very short time frame — 2D and stereo 3D effects for the Michael Jackson movie.
” The effects work created by CBS Digital (CBSD) this season spans the gamut from straightforward green screen on the new hit show “Modern Family” — where artists used Flame to help composite exterior views — to the complex opening shot for the acclaimed bio-pic “Georgia O’Keeffe,” where artists re-created 1920s New York. CBSD transformed footage of a city block in New Mexico using Maya to authentically model the buildings and Inferno to combine multiple 3D layers, green screen extras and period cars.
Six-time Emmy-winning post house LaserPacific looked to the Lustre digital color grading system to shape shows such as “Mad Men,” “The Good Wife” and “Eastbound & Down” as well as two made-for-television movies, “Wizards of Waverly Place -- The Movie” and “Georgia O’Keeffe,” for which Maya was also used.
The London-branch of Prime Focus was commissioned by design agency Ingredient to create opening and closing credits and bumpers for the rebrand of Europe’s soccer championship, the new UEFA Europa League (previously UEFA Cup). The sequences feature a dusk-lit sky as the camera moves through rural locations while giant projected images of Europe’s top players serve as the backdrop. With RED camera-captured football source footage, Prime Focus modeled 3D architecture in Maya and used Flame to help map the 3D camera moves. Flame was also used for compositing, color correction, sky replacements and realistic finishing touches of moving clouds and city traffic.
