HIS DARK MATERIALS PRODUCTION.
TENSIONS RISING Behind the scenes of Season 3 episode 2 – King Ogunwe and Lord Asriel planning war
On top of Joel Collins’ epic design and large-scale build on the Bad Wolf Studios backlot in Cardiff, the entire city and surrounding landscape needed a functioning CG asset from the outset. This was built throughout the prep and production phase, bridging both art department and VFX with a working design that could provide virtual set recces, detailed previs for set pieces, postvis shots and CG establishers. “It became a detailed turnover to
and design while the scripts were still being written. It was great to see some of that shine through to the finished piece.” PARTNERS IN ART Painting Practice partnered with VFX house Framestore for a number of key shots. Russell Dodgson, the latter’s VFX supervisor, would always begin during prep and ramp up as the team moved into previs and techvis. “We worked alongside Russell and his team to ensure that design intentions could be achieved in VFX,” McEwan says. “Season 2’s Cittàgazze – a city in another world, which acts as a gateway to parallel universes, becoming a major setting as Lyra and Will discover windows to other worlds – is probably the jewel in the crown of that collaboration.”
VISUAL STORYTELLING Erica McEwan, Joel Collins and Dan May from Painting Practice (left to right)
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