Movie - Automatareleased - 2014Director - Gabe IbáñezCinematography - Alejandro MartinezVFX - Wordwide FX
starring Antonio Banderas &
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster and Tim McInnerny, Automata is a movie about the incidents that takes place in a near future not far away from us.
it's 2030 & the sun's high radiation has killed almost all the human population & the remaining gather into safe areas & build robots called pilgrims. The movie has these pilgrims throughout the story & the sandy visuals are all thanks to the magic of visual effects.
Worldwide FXs team delivered more than 800 Computer generated visual effects shots which included CG environments, CG set extensions, holograms, painting out puppeteers & some robot creatures work.
more than 100 of the pilgrims were built with different variations and stages of damage. these animatronic models were then shot on green screen where possible & CGI models were used in some shots where the models were not smooth enough to pull the visual effects or jumps & actions that required.
Movie - Unbroken
released - 2014
Director - Angelina Jolie
Cinematography - Roger Deakins
VFX - Industrial Light & Magic | Rodeo FX
Rodeo FX delivered 240 staggering visual Effects shots for Angelina Jolie's biopic Unbroken, including the amazing air battle between the B24s and the Zero fighter aircraft, and in addition the arrival scene of the harmed B24 Superman plane at the Funafuti airstrip.
In light of the top rated memoir by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken recounts the narrative of war saint, Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell), whose B24 plane crshed in to Pacific. Zamperini was caught and put in more than two years in awful conditions in Japanese POW camps. With the supervision & Acting skills of Director Jolie, to essayists Joel and Ethan Coen, DP Roger Deakins, and to Zamperini himself, who was still alive amid creation – this is a prominent venture that required Visual effects from more than 100 craftsmen who dealt with the film at Rodeo FX. The Director chose a visual styling that was true to the day and age with imperceptible VFX that did not occupy the viewer from the intense movie.
Rodeo FX constructed high detailed 3D models of the B24 utilizing blueprints and verifiable photographs as references. "The plane resource was a test since we just had a set number of recorded photographs," Matthew Rouleau, VFX administrator at Rodeo FX.
One of the difficulties Rodeo FX confronted was making these completely CG successions look photoreal, The cockpit insides were shot utilizing an incomplete model set on a gimbal, encompassed by a whitescreen to give more common light. Rodeo FX made the impact of appearance in the glass, and additionally compositing scratches, earth, and surfaces.
Rodeo FX has a long history of working with ILM, having made visual effects together on such movies as Pacific Rim, Terminator, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, and Red Tails. ILM's Bill George was additionally VFX manager on The Planet of the Apes (2001) and won an Oscar for the VFX in Innerspace (1987).
