Nova Zembla - Stereoscopic Feature Effects
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Nova Zembla - Stereoscopic Feature Effects
Posted in News by Joe in November 2011
Eyeworks asked Hectic to do some serious Stereoscopic effects and beautiful titles for their film Nova Zembla.
Nova Zembla is the first 3D film to come from the Dutch film industry. Director/producer Reinout Oerlemans (“Komt een vrouw bij de doctor”) has instinctively steered the creative process with a confident hand, enabling the team to excel in a wide range of challenges, from beautiful titles to a myriad of demanding individual shots.
The titles are truly a master artwork, transitioning the live action shots of the leading stars into an etched, canvas composition, inspired by Jan Luyken’s 16th Century engravings of Nova Zembla.
We were privileged to work on the opening sequence, a one minute epic piece, immersing the audience in a stereoscopic universe full of stars and wonder, drawing them deeper into the 3D.
(more after the jump)
The rest of the shots had an equally challenging range; from subtle touches such as adding a coldness, atmosphere or natural effects (e.g. snow or sky replacement), to some serious rotoscoping.
This was a challenge both because each of the stereo cameras offer a different take on the same problematic shot, and because it was filmed in Iceland: where radical, dramatic conditions easily destroy continuity. For example, at one point a hero is mauled by a polar bear, whilst his companion searches for him. Shot at different times, (with a break in the clouds that destroys the continuity), the job of "equalising" the conditions involved bringing the weather and sky conditions from one scene, and painstakingly applying it to another.
We were very proud to be called up to work on this breakthrough piece, and it was a pleasure to work with such challenging and breath-taking scenes.
see http://www.novazembladefilm.nl/ for more.
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