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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Battling Zombies and Witches


After a few small advertising gigs with BPG Advertising and others, I headed across the northern frontier in early 2015 to snowy Montreal to work as a Comp Supervisor.  Sadly, on arrival, I was informed no such position was currently available.  So I jumped into the role of compositor for the feature, Pride, Prejudice and Zombies.   


Crowd Extensions Lessons

Now these were crowd multiplication shots comprising multiple plates, shot with running extras, without any consideration of depth layering, so zombies were sort of running through one another when the shot was slapped together.  A lot of roto by a very talented group of artists, some tracking, lots of color adjustments and .... fini.

Plates for crowd extension require rotoscoping out sections of each plate and