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 Many facilities have worked on this wonderful film. Below is a commentary from eyeon's own Sean Konrad, who worked on the film with various other artists while at Frantic Films.
"Fusion's role came into play by taking the rendered element (that was rendered in float depth EXRs), colour correcting it to match the plates, and then applying it to the background. The cables were rotoed and linked to trackers and, using the shadows tool in Fusion, a gradient matte was created so that the particle effect looked as though it was the mist that would come off dry ice. The goal was to make it seem as though the cables were actually creating the element."
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"The actors themselves were rotoed in Fusion. The effect's alpha and luminance was also used as a displacement matte in Fusion to give a feeling of being underwater. That same matte was also offset and used, in certain shots, as caustics on the faces of Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling. In the street, you can also see streaks of light that were created in 3DSMax."
"The coloration was chosen to create a duality of heaven and hell. The scene was supposed to be an artistic representation of Ryan Gosling's character's synapses splitting (his own death)."
"The entire sequence had a set of 15 'levels' that we were supposed to adhere to, so that as the action rose and fell, the effect would become more or less prominent (the notes during production frequently were "this is about a 12, we need more of a 10"). The only way we were able to do this was because of Fusion's handling of float depth -- by being able to easily animate colour and preserve the colour information throughout the workflow, we were able to use the same element to create a huge dynamic colour range."
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| Many thanks to Doc (Richard) Bailey of Image Savant, for aiding in this project by creating a multi-billion particle array to work from. |
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(All Images Courtesy 20th Century Fox and Frantic Films.) All rights reserved. eyeon Fusion, Fusion and Fusion DFX+ are registered trademarks of eyeon Software Inc. All other trademarks, company names and products are the property of their respective holders.
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