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November 28, 2009 by admin
Prime Focus VFX Adds Sparkle to New Moon (Making Of)
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Prime Focus VFX Adds Sparkle to New Moon (Making Of) Details
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- Description:
Prime Focus VFX, formerly Frantic Films VFX, has completed 175 visual effects shots for the Summit Entertainment release, The Twilight Saga: New Moon directed by Chris Weitz. Prime Focus contributed a majority of the films most frequently featured visual effects, including CG water, atmospherics, CG matte painting and environment work, and the Diamond Skin effect on Edward and the other vampire characters. The Twilight Saga: New Moon is based on the popular series of novels by Stephenie Meyer.
Prime Focus Vancouver studio also collaborated with its Digital Matte Painting department in Los Angeles (headed by Ken Nakada) on recreating the movies Forks High School, as well as craggy cliffs overlooking the ocean and other 100-percent CG environments depicting the movies Washington State locale. Prime Focus also contributed CG water for multiple scenes and two elaborate time passage sequences featuring the Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) character in complicated multipart motion control shots.
For the cliff scenes, Nakada and his team designed the entire landscape using several locations in Vancouvers Whytecliff Park as reference material. The team also provided on-set VFX supervision for MacLeod and Weitz on a greenscreen shoot at Vancouver Film Studios of a stuntman jumping 70 feet off a tower as a camera rig does a 270-degree tilt, following him from the top of the cliff until he hits water. Additionally, Prime Focus created several digital doubles and did face replacement for the actors jumping off the cliff.
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