Digital Domain has been a visual effects success story since their founding in 1993, for both artistry and science. In fact, the company has split its seven Academy Awards between the arts and the sciences: Best Visual Effects Oscars for Titanic, What Dreams May Come and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and four Scientific and Technical Achievement awards for proprietary technology for tracking, compositing (aka, Nuke! Yep, that Nuke), volumetric rendering, and fluid simulation. Digital Domain has in fact done over 100 features (as well as advertising and games), and you own a good number of em, from early successes like Apollo 13, The Fifth Element and True Lies, to recent hits like Iron Man 3, X-Men: Days of Future Past and, now, Maleficent. Visual Effects Supervisor Kelly Port worked on many of those, and a few more whose names we can drop: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings, Star Trek (2009), and Thor among a few dozen others. And now, Maleficent. Kelly came on to the project in July 2012, as live-action shooting began. Maleficents first motion capture shoot followed three months later. As many as 500 members of Digital Domains teams worked on parts of the film, with a peak of 300 or so through much of production. Read more...
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:07:28 +0000
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