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Modern VideoFilm Works on 'LXG'

By Catherine Feeny

Aug 19, 2003, 15:21

20th Century Fox recently contracted Modern VideoFilm for visual effects work on their summer release, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Modern VideoFilm worked on 40 shots of more than 600 hundred in the film, which consisted of everything from creating the Invisible Man to an intricate battle sequence between Captain Nemo and Dr.Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.

Modern VideoFilm had a team of 16 artists working on "LXG." Eroc Morales, compositing supervisor, was responsible for supervising the artists and ensuring that the work matched the look of the film. Morales also composited the shots and set the color for them on the Inferno 5.0. Mark Spatny, visual effects producer, is responsible for overseeing the animators. The visual effects work was done in Maya and Boujou. All of the shots were screened for quality control in Modern VideoFilm's digital theatre facility.

"We send digital files of the finished shots to Cinesite to do the actual transfer to film for the clients," says Spatny. "They get prints and we get prints. We can actually look at them and critique them. The clients can give us notes of things they want changed, and we can also go in ourselves and find things that they might not have noticed."

One of the most challenging undertakings facing the team at Modern VideoFilm was working with the Imax plates that the filmmakers shot. As opposed to the normal 2K plates, Imax cell film frames are 5K. The filmmakers wanted certain camera moves, but they didn't want to do them on set. "They shot Imax plates so that we could create an artificial camera move," says Spatny. Shooting the plates this way kept the filmmakers from having to motion control shots, which shaved countless dollars off of the production costs.


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