And so we come to the time that $100 million is considered a moderate budget for a large-scale epic. This was the production for Hercules, but compare that to the $250 million for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, or even the $170 million budgets for Guardians of the Galaxy and Dawn of The Planet of The Apes. One way that MGM/Paramounts Hercules, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson, manages to look as large as it does on its relatively modest budget is through careful and clever use of CG that doesnt look like CG. Make no mistake. There are plenty of CG creatures in Hercules, but some of the most compelling effects in Hercules are in the family of whats increasingly commonly called invisible effects. At its most simple, these might include sky replacements, although as the VFX team at Method Studios discovered, those are anything but simple when there are hundreds of elements in the scene that need to be rotod first, and scenes that need relighting as the sky changes. On a more complex level, the CG in Hercules was used by Milk VFX to create entire environments, including the city of Athens and the collection of elaborate buildings atop the Acropolis, including the Parthenon -- but also the surrounding hills, shore, and sea. Together, Method Studios and Milk VFX are two of the companies that helped create a full, realistic world for Hercules, from the sky, to the Acropolis, to the sea.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:03:28 +0000
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