mocha artist, Chris Heuer used mocha to help breathe new life into this classic of world cinema.
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Jason Knight, Independent VFX Artist
Independent VFX artist, Jason Knight, has a number of Hollywood credits on his distinguished resume. But what that really means is, he’s seen it all. Over the years, Knight has expanded his VFX tool kit and is proficient with the multitude of apps on the market; as a compositor, Shake has become a tool he relies on most for much of his work. But it wasn’t until a couple of years ago, when he was hired on to do the effects for the Wayans Brothers movie, “Little Man,” did he start to see the limitations in his current workflow.
How’d They Do That?!
The assignment: a banking commercial. The objective: promote the bank’s new premiere services and refinancing services. Seems pretty straightforward. In fact, given that most banking or financial services commercials on television today seem just that; the challenges for this project were not obvious -- at first. Shoot it, edit it and get it out to air. But this particular ad for Webster Bank was in no way straightforward. Which is why renown editor and VFX artist, and owner of New York City’s Formation an Editing Laboratory, Sasa Jokic was called in.
The Most Impressive VFX You’ll Never See
Sometimes the most impressive, technically challenging VFX are the ones you never see. There’s no question, Hollywood has dazzled us with some of the most astonishingly realistic and mind-blowing visual effects in the endless stream of block buster films coming out of tinsel town. But there’s a rising tide of visual effects artists redefining a rapidly growing segment of television production — the automobile commercial.
Time-Slice Films
Artists at UK-based Time-Slice Films have perfected the technique of rotoscoping some of the most challenging archival footage using Imagineer’s motor on two recent high profile television broadcasts. On the BBC TV show “Duet Impossible”, today’s pop stars digitally perform duets with some of the biggest names in music history. The results have created unique new musical collaborations such as: Roy Orbison & Westlife, Dusty Springfield & Sugababes and Lulu & McFly.
Peerless
Peerless Camera Company, the London based post production house, purchased mokey in August 2006 for use in the 21st James Bond movie “Casino Royale”. An important part of London’s Peerless Camera visual effects workflow, mokey allows operators to perform undetectable wire and rig removals with accuracy and speed that would be difficult or even impossible by hand.
CIS Hollywood
Hollywood-based facility, CIS Hollywood, purchased monet late 2005. At the time, Visual Effects Supervisors Bryan Hirota and Patrick Kavanaugh were in the middle of overseeing an aerial shot for Eight Below that needed the path of the dogs removed in the snow in front of them so it looked like untouched snow rather than the path that had been worn from take after take.
Duckling
Copenhagen-based facility, Duckling, purchased monet early 2005 and have since used the tool on around 80% of all their commercials projects.
Most recently monet was used in a project for Friendly Films to track elements into screens in a 45 second commercial for "Expert". The commercial consisted of around 20 scenes, all with one or more screens into which elements had to be tracked and monet reduced the tracking time from an estimated 2 days to half a day, allowing the project to be completed in 1.5 days, according to compositor Per Mørk-Jensen at Duckling.
Paprika
Belgium-based facility, Paprika, purchased monet when it was first introduced in 2004 and have since used it on numerous projects. When mofex for Shake started shipping in September 2005 they immediately bought into this solution as a way of bridging the power of monet and Apple's Shake. They put their new toolset to the test straight away on three Kellogg's All-Bran commercials requiring package replacements. To no surprise, the mesh warper in mofex came in handy!
ACHT Frankfurt
Frankfurt-based facility, ACHT Frankfurt, is the latest German customer to purchase monet. Within a short period of having installed the software it was used for two jobs to produce stunning results.
LAB 601
Atlanta-based facility, LAB 601, purchased monet and mokey in 2005 and have since used the products on more than 70 shots.
In a recent project for Nice Hat Productions, monet was used to composite almost 60 DVCProHD originated handheld shots totalling 2.5 minutes of challenging tracking. The shots were edited and finished in SD on Avid DS 7.6. LAB 601 hit the delivery time for the project by completing the shots in less than three eight-hour days. The results were perfect for the client and this would not have been possible without monet according to President and Creative Director Dave Ballard at LAB 601.
The Post Production Office
The Post Production Office, a Hong Kong-based full service facility, is running monet software alongside its existing Avid DS Nitris. As with many monet customers, the company bought the software for a specific job when it found its existing tracker of choice was under-performing, and is now using and benefiting from monet's many features on a regular basis.
The first job, for multinational American company York International, required air-conditioning units to be tracked into frames hanging on a wall. Normally this would be a fairly simple task for any software, but the way the sequence had been shot made it tricky.
Mac Million
The feature film "Room 36" was shot on 35mm but the negative was damaged in the scanning process. This lead the producers to look to the Digital Intermediary route and as a result signed up Mac Million of London for the editing and repair work that was needed. Mac Million were set to edit the job on their Sony Xpri system but knew they needed additional tools for the repair work, so they turned to Imagineer Systems and mokey.
The Moving Picture Company
When producing the Tetrapak "Forests" commercial in November 2003, The Moving Picture Company's highly regarded commercials division relied on mokey for some particularly tough cleanup jobs.
PSYOP
PSYOP Creative Collective New York used mokey to remove tracking markers and mokey:grainsurgery to complete the look of these difficult shots.
Ascent Media
Ascent Media Management services in London have been using mokey for its restoration projects for the past 6 months and according to Chris Watson, Ascent's Technical Manager "it has become an essential tool in our ever growing restoration business."
Subvoyant
Subvoyant, the New York based post production house were working on the latest Sunkist campaign for Young & Rubicam, when they came across mokey. The tracking software was used in the advert to solve a particular problematic shot where a character needed removing and mokey saved them from having to create a clean plate by hand saving valuable time and money. "We were talking to our reseller Tekserve who told us about mokey and after downloading the Learning Edition we soon realised we knew immediately that this was a new and unique tool," said Jason Cacioppo, owner of Subvoyant.
VillageFX
Deon was asked to do the near-impossible task of removing the beads of sweat from the forehead and face of the talent.