The Art of VFX settles down with Simon Stanley-Clamp, VFX Supervisor at Cinesite, to discuss work on « On Stranger Tides » What is your background? I began my career creating high-end VFX, idents and graphics for commercials and TV. My first feature film project was a pre-visualisation role for « Lost in Space » (1998). Before joining Cinesite […]
CGsociety’s Paul Hellard gets a look in on Cinesite’s work for the Battle: Los Angeles. The film follows a marine platoon that’s battling against an alien invasion. Cinesite’s Ben Shepherd was that facility’s VFX Supervisor, responsible for a tally of 110 shots. There was also a fair bit of asset swapping between the studios too. […]
Sony/Columbia’s new Jonathan Liebesman directed disaster movie Battle: Los Angeles centres on a series of striking visual effects from Cinesite. The VFX giant created many of the film’s intricately detailed battle sequences as well as the Commander Alien character. Liebesman chose Cinesite after seeing its work on HBO’s Generation Kill and being impressed by the […]