Knowing
Knowing had it’s opening weekend and pulled up as No. 1 with $24.8 million! This film was directed by Alex Proyas (I Robot, The Crow) and stars Nic Cage. In it, Cage plays an astrophysicist, (you won me over already with that move) and, after discovering a cryptic numerological note left in a time capsule (won me over again), discovers that he has a road map to all the major disasters of the last 50 years… (again!) and the numbers haven’t run out yet. (!!!)
Animal Logic was the main VFX vendor for this film, responsible for over 95% of them. Well, I won’t sing the praises of my own studio too loudly. Well ok yes I will, the effects were awesome! I hope you can go see them for yourself (theater experience is a must on this one). A lot of good friends spent many a weekend doing overtime to get them done. I was supposed to work on this project when I first arrived at Animal Logic- but the producers shuffled some cards so I went straight on to our animated feature ‘Guardians of Ga’Hoole’ instead. Didn’t know what I was missing until I went to a special screening a few weeks ago. (Guardians will be great also, by the way)
Once you’ve seen the movie (and I do recommend seeing it first), come back here and read this for a good write up on the VFX process: http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3941&page=1
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