Thursday, 14 November 2013

Digital Domain - Research

After tons and tons of vfx breakdowns I decided to just look at some companies that deal with this stuff. 
Digital Domain is one of them. They are a Visual Effects and Animation company, funded  in 1993 so they've been around for a while. They do all sorts, like special effects and animations etc for movies, advertisements game and music productions. 
They worked on things like: The Day After Tomorrow, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End, Thor, Iron Man 3, and many many more. I only mentioned the ones I love :') 
But my absolute favourite one is The Law Of The Jungle that they did, for Bungie!
Cause obviously, with me being a Bungie lover... This has to be my favourite.
I had a read about it and what I found is that Jay Barton and Richard Morton were supervising all of it.
Jay Barton worked on things like Tron and X-men, and many ad campaigns for example Audi and Volkswagen.
Richard Morton also worked in both ad's and film, involved in things like Speed Racer, Ender's Game, Tron, music videos like Linkin park's Castle of Glass etc etc. The list is very long for both of the artists :')
For the Law of The Jungle they used reference material from Bungie's game engine along with CG game assets. They re-rendered the whole material in really high resolution and re-designed bits and pieces.
They used motion capture, it was shot in DD's studio using a virtual camera so they could see the actors within the environment. This studio of theirs is apparently really amazing "with creative's comprehensive services and capabilities that can't be found anywhere else under one roof... Studio offers performance driven facial capture and the largest dedicated motion capture sound stages in LA"
They've gt a good team lead by Gary Roberts too. But they're not selfish you can sort of hire it and use all the equipment as well as get expert advice and help. Which sounds like a win win to me.
Well anyways... back to the Trailer...
After they shot their footage they went to town on creating the lighting, cloth simulations and badass explosions to make it all come together, make it more realistic. And lets face it it's pretty amazing, I love the whole thing the story and the visuals, I mean I could rant on forever how I love what Bungie are doing so I'm going to stop right here.
Just watch it, and hopefully you'll turn into this impatient person I am when thinking about Destiny c: And if that's what it's doing to people, then I think they did their job right! It's supposed to make you want it so much!!


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