Re: Various VFX Rumours

Thanks for all of the updates, icarus.
They do give a good idea of the scope and scale of work being done on VDT. I hope some of these end up as featurettes somewhere: the DVD would be nice. 


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Narnia_Fan12 wrote:Have you been able to uncover if Weta has ANY ties to Dawn Treader this time around, Icarus?
Chris Martin - Senior Props Builder (Ref.)
Ian Kath - Props/Model Maker (Ref.)
Ron Mendell - Model Maker
Applied Model Making Services / Adam Grace - Props and Models (Ref.)
Skite Vikingr / Tamara Rewse - Costume Props
FX Industries - Model Making (Ref.)
Cassini Design - Props and Models
Creative Works Australia - Unknown
Porter Models - Props and Set Components
Mattes and Miniatures UK - Models / Miniatures (Ref.)
Savvy Designs - Sewing - Props/Set Decoration
Talerwin Forge - Blacksmiths - Swords/Armor etc
John Cox's Creature Workshop - Unknown (Ref.)
KNB EFX Group - Prosthetics/Creatures/etc
Weta Workshop - Minor Work on Props
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JMB FX Studio - Special Make-Up
Gymfan15 wrote:Just wanted to make the random observation that I would almost want to say that VdT will have far more VFX shots than PC did simply because they're going to have to add in much of the ocean landscape to nearly every outdoors ship scene. Everything in the tank = VFX.
Maybe I'm confusing VFX with another term for what the digital addition of landscapes would be, but that's just my initial reaction.
This is one of the movies I am working on lately. I worked on the Sea of Lilies, which appears in a couple of shots at the end of the trailer.
Narnia's trailer here; http://www.narnia.com/ Reepicheep is looking good!
Jon Ferguy wrote:On the Walden feature we are currently working on, there's about 1200, 1300 visual effects in that
J0shie wrote:I was just wondering what everyone thought of the F23 and the films that Dante Spinotti has been shooting? I'm currently working on the new Narnia film being shot in Australia (electrics department) and I just don't understand why Dante loves the camera so much. Personally i just think it forms a rough/raw looking picture that's extremely ugly and hard to look at. I'm a big fan of Dante's work (Heat's one of my favourite films) and I'm just dumbfounded about his choices.
Work Experience, View-D Compositor, Prime Focus World, London
Productions:
– The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3D (2010)
– Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (2010)
– Shrek: The Third 3D (2010)
– Gucci Man, Gucci Woman 3D (2010)
Key Tasks:
Converting 2D footage into 3D. Generating image Z-Depth. Stereoscopic and 2D
compositing. Integrading CG elements in live action footage. Tracking/Matchmove.
Keying. Replacing backgrounds. Clean plating/Painting/Rotoscoping, etc.
Notable Projects
The Chronicles of Narnia 3 “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” Trailer 3D Stereoscopic conversion – Production Manager at STEREOPICTURES
Experience
2010-Current; Production Manager / Senior Coordinator, STEREOPICTURES, Chunahn, KOREA
Roled in major Communication between Walden Media and STEREOPICTURES And Managed conversion artists to finish 3D digital conversion for 2minutes trailer, All shots confirmed by Walden Media and FOX.
Animator; MPC Vancouver (2010)
Responsible for animating the mouse character, Reepicheep, and leg replacement / animation for background actors. [Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
Working on Narnia song.. post last night's power-session with Walter A, Chris Mann, Michelle Lewis and Jorgen Elofsson
August 18th, 2010
Singing for# mickeymouse again today. Really great new flick.
August 28th, 2010
The new Narnia film "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" hits the theaters this December. Greg contributed significant amounts of artwork to the visual development of the film, working intimately with director Michael Apted. ... This evening, just as we have arrived from a whirlwind trip to SF we will be attending a special preview on the lot in Century City. In the meantime from what we can see of the trailer much of Greg's work was used. Unlike The Golden Compass film where his work was cut when the producers decided to shift the ending to a second film the new Narnia film is rich with his vision.