The Art of VFX settles down with Sue Rowe, VFX Supervisor at Cinesite, to discuss work on John Carter. How was the collaboration with director Andrew Stanton? It was a very open collaboration. I was onset with Andrew and his team in UK studios and in Utah and back at facility we would have daily […]
Go behind the scenes of Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature and long-awaited Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation. Before Star Wars and Avatar and all the rest was Edgar Rice Burroughs’ influential Under the Moons of Mars, which later became the more familiar novel, A Princess of Mars, followed by 10 more in the “Barsoom” series. Pixar’s […]
An epic journey to the Red Planet, 100 years in the making. It might seem odd to picture a mile-long city crawling along the surface of Mars, if not for the 12-foot tall barbarians, fantastic environments and exotic creatures also featured in Andrew Stanton’s “John Carter.” The new Disney/Pixar film tells the story of a […]
What does it take to create a planet? A lot more effort than can fit in a seven day week. Ask the hundreds of artists at Cinesite who spent two years creating Martian environments, cities and airships for Disney’s film John Carter, or the 120 animators plus several hundred in the supporting cast at Double […]
The Infinite Staircase Cinesite built an integral part of the interior of Hogwarts, the great marble staircase where a large portion of the action, battles in particular, takes place. It was built as a very large CG asset that could appear in many scenes through out the film at different times of day, and also […]
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 […]