Showing entries tagged with "special effects"

Today, the final composites for our cell scenes arrived. Tobias and the Light Works crew did it again. In over 50 green screen plates, showing the cell´s window, an onimous and cloudy dusk or [...]

Although we have this rule of not giving away too much until the film´s done completely, we decided to share with you a little finished vfx shot in our "behind the scenes" section...

Key grip Hanno Gerken filling in as another Securicon guard in a shot we needed for the chapel scene. This shot was taken during the filming of the cell scenes in our studio, in addition to [...]

If something needs to be blown up in a movie, directors need an experienced special effects man who takes care of the dangerous business. Dennis Kron has the reputation of being one of the [...]

30 takes or so later, it´s in the can. It´s 4 am again. What´s left for today are some detail reshoots we missed while editing the phase I material. One shot is blood dripping down from a [...]

We did two more explosions, all from different angles. We´re almost done for this night. What follows, is basically a repetition of the shot before. Everything is set up again, another camera [...]

We rehearse carefully. The shot has to be timed exactly. Mark is a the dimmers for two 2K Arri´s while Dennis operates the air blast and a wind machine at the same time. We plan to start with [...]

Finally, it´s time for some special effects shots again ! Dennis Kron, our SFX guy, has been setting up his equipment hours ago, waiting the whole night to do these shots. It´s an explosion´s [...]