Filming in the can

So we finished filming Friday, what a day. Having agreed to collect our DOP and gear from London we expected a bit of time in traffic but no one had expected it to take 5 hours. The roads were jammed across the city. Ouch. We got back to the set by 14.30 and we were losing the sun fast. So we shifted things around and ended up doing a night shoot and the results turned out even better because of it being dark.

Our cinematographer Eben Bolter was fantastic as well as his AC, AJ Golesworthy. The results they achieved with such little time were amazing and I hope we can work together again sometime.

Below are some stills from the shoot.

Shoot day

Shoot day is this friday so I'm definetly feeling the nervous energy. After a week of worrying Ive finally got the location locked down, a great abandoned factory, plenty of debris, broken windows and derelict industrial towers.

Monster animation clip

This is a video Pawel put together showing how he used pose space deformation techniques to animate realistic muscle movements in his monster.

Monster

So Pawel has been working on the monster and the wall destruction shots and they are coming together very nicely. Here's a few pics, I'll get Pawel to write a few words about his process for later.

Video clip of armour

The helmet needs some foam inserts to stop it slipping but its not looking too bad. the optical flares look pretty awesome.

Testing the costume on

This is the full costume, except I've since changed the arm and knee pads for real military ones and I should have been wearing a balaclava to hide the skin around my neck etc.

Hotel Roof model

The shot on the rooftop is going to be shot against greenscreen. The scene will be CGI and heres the rooftop ready for compositing at a later stage.

here it is a bit brighter

This is it without any fancy mental ray rendering techniques.