The latest 3D World magazine includes my piece on Animal Logic’s vfx for Peter Rabbit. Check out the magazine here.
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A candid chat with the director of Peter Rabbit
“We did a lot of planning and then I threw it all out, and then I planned it again, and then I threw it all out.”
I had a really frank discussion with Will Gluck, the director of Peter Rabbit about working on the hybrid cg-live action feature, with VFX by Animal Logic. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.
The story behind those crazy dioramas in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A unique scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has Ego (Kurt Russell) explaining to the Guardians his history of universe travel and his many lovers. This is told in a sequence featuring visual effects by Animal Logic, which created 3D picture dioramas with characters inside resembling almost porcelhine-like statues.
Academy Award nominee Christopher Townsend was the overall visual effects supervisor for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The other Oscar nominees for visual effects for that film are Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick. Here Townsend outlines the creative process behind the dioramas, including the false start in their design.
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The things you find when you’re doing retro vfx research…
Love these old ads for Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic (from a publication called Cinema Papers, June 1999.)
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