Making Of: Jim Knopf
Über das Video
Ein ambitioniertes und vor allem aufwändiges Projekt. Lummerland wurde im Filmpark Babelsberg gebaut, die Wüstensequenzen wurden in Kapstadt gedreht – und die Mandala-Szenen in einer Halle vor Green Screens. Der Rest entstand am Computer.
Über ein Jahr lang arbeitete ein Team von knapp 20 Personen an dem Projekt. Natürlich hatten sie fast alle das Buch schon mal gelesen. Und jeder hatte sich sein eigenes Bild von Mandala gemacht, in der Fantasie. Denn es existiert gerade mal eine einzige Illustration davon.
Die prachtvollen Häuser mit den bunten Fahnen und den Lampions, der Palast, selbst das Einfügen der kleinen Kinder der Kindeskinder. „Das war für uns alle eine echte Herzensangelegenheit“, sagt Jan Burda, VFX Lead Compositor.
Mein Beitrag
Ich arbeitete an diesem Projekt als Compositing Artist.
Making Of: The Dark Tower
About the Video
This reel showcases the visual effects work created at RISE | Visual Effects Studios for the motion picture The Dark Tower.
My Position
I worked on this project as a compositing artist.
Making Of: Game of Thrones - Season 7
About the Project
Together with a team of talented artists at Mackevision, I worked on some of the signature shots for Game of Thrones – Season 7. We created a full CG armada, CG soldiers and horses, set extensions and much more.
My Position
I worked on this project as a senior compositing artist.
Making Of: Pacific Rim
About the Project
Together with a team of talented artists at ILM Vancouver, I was responsible for the creation of the opening sequence, in which one of the Kaijus attacks and destroys the Golden Gate Bridge. Some of the shots are featured in the Video above.
My Position
Lead Compositing Artist
Making Of: The Lone Ranger
About the Video
Industrial Light & Magic Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander and Digital Environments Supervisor Dan Wheaton discuss the effects challenges presented on Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger. The film’s primary visual effects challenges involved the creation of the hundreds of photorealistic CG environments seen throughout the film’s dramatic action sequences.
My Position
I worked on this movie as a Compositing Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
Making Of - G.I. Joe Retaliation
Greenscreen Shoot
Final Sequence
About the Videos
The first video shows how the stunts were captured in front of a large greenscreen. The second video features the final sequence. I was part of a team of artists at ILM, creating the digital environments for the iconic cliff battle.
My Position
Senior Compositing Artist
Making Of - Avengers
About the Project
ILM’s crew, lead by visual effects supervisor Jeff White, associate visual effects supervisors Jason Smith, Nigel Sumner and Brennan Doyle and Animation supervisor Marc Chu, were tasked with creating The Hulk, based on equal parts on-set performance capture and key frame animation and creating Iron Man’s iconic suit for every shot we worked on, as well as hero digital doubles for each of the film stars.
ILM also created the entirety of the midtown Manhattan environment which features heavily throughout the film. The crew completed a 275,000-photo survey mapping a massive swath of Manhattan in order to painstakingly recreate the location for the film’s action-packed end battle.
My Position
I contributed to the creation of Avengers as a senior compositing artist. Some of the shots I worked on include the destruction of Grand Central Station in New York.
Making Of: 2012
About the Video
This video shows how Scanline VFX created the tidal waves and tsunami for Roland Emmerich’s 2012.
My Position
I worked as a compositing artist on some of the iconic tidal wave sequences.
Making of: Gotthard
Ein Jahrhundertbauwerk entsteht
2016 arbeitete ich zusammen mit dem Team von Mackevision am zweiteiligen Historienfilm über die Entstehung des Gotthard-Tunnels in den Schweizer Alpen. Mackevision war mit über 220 VFX-Shots in die Produktion des Filmes eingebunden und schon in der Vorbereitungszeit beim Scouten der Location beteiligt, um vor Beginn des Drehs ein digitales 3D-Set der Umgebung zu erstellen.
Making Of: Transformers - Dark of the Moon
Part 1
Part 2
About the Videos
This two-part series of videos breaks down ILM’s visual effects work for the third installment in the Transformers series, “Dark of the Moon.”
My Position
Senior Compositing Artist