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return from London
I just moved back from London where I was working at Double Negative. Most people out of the FX industry probably haven’t heard of it but you’ve definitely seen the movies they’ve worked on…
Dark Night
Hellboy 2
Harry Potter
Quantum of Solace
…all the way back to Pitch Black in 1998
During my time there I did effects work for Angels & Demons and 2012. I was also on the company softball team. The thing about London is that they don’t have any real baseball fields so we just played at the park and did our best not to hit people sleeping in the middle of the field. This was hindered a bit by the fact that you can drink in all the parks. So we did and it makes the game much more interesting but also makes people pretty much terrible at sports. I would also recommend playing with bottles, rather than beer in cups, so that it doesn’t spill when you run to catch a ball.
So back to the movie stuff. Below are a few of the shots I worked on for Angels & Demons. In the first two I did the smoke, atmospherics and embers. In the last two I did the dust and debris flying at the large screens and covering up the bad acting of the extras.
To give you an idea of how long some of this stuff takes, in the Vatican fly-by with the large smoke plume it would take three days just to do a simulation of the smoke. The final version that’s in the film is four separate simulations. In all I spent about a month just on that one effect.