Whilst Industrial Light and Magic may not have been nominated for their work on No Time to Die at the VES awards this year their work onthe twenty-fifth James Bond feature isn’t without note. The visual effects online magazine beforesandafter.com sat down with ILM CG supervisor Stephen Ellis (Rogue One’s CG supervisor) who details how ILM’s work was integrated with the live action production to create some of the most exhilarating scenes seen in the sixty-year-old franchise.
“The way it was edited, we tried to use as much of those remarkable stunts as we could, but we then came in to supplement. Maybe there was an angle that they didn’t quite capture that the director wanted. It’s very fast paced, so a lot of our shots slot into this high pace, high action, very “frenetic” sequence. I think when you look back at the body of work, you’d be quite pushed to see any of the shots that actually stood out as visual effects shots. I’ve worked on a couple of Bond films, and it’s always about creating effects that are seamless to the viewer, which as a visual effects artist is absolutely what I strive for. I’m really passionate about those really truly invisible effects.”
The article goes to show how ILM’s work doesn’t always need to be front and centre in the shot but can help maintain the illusion of film everything as live action whilst not compromising on the director’s creative vision.
Mark has been a fan of the saga since the early 1990s after rediscovering the original trilogy on VHS and dived right into the first Grand Admiral Thrawn Trilogy, he has been an avid Star Wars reader ever since. He’s been a member of the Star Wars costuming community since 2007 when he joined the Rebel Legion’s Elstree Base, the Base he now runs as Base Commanding Officer as well as also being a member of both the 501st UK Garrison and the Mandalorian Mercs Vok Chi clan here in the UK.
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Whilst Industrial Light and Magic may not have been nominated for their work on No Time to Die at the VES awards this year their work onthe twenty-fifth James Bond feature isn’t without note. The visual effects online magazine beforesandafter.com sat down with ILM CG supervisor Stephen Ellis (Rogue One’s CG supervisor) who details how ILM’s work was integrated with the live action production to create some of the most exhilarating scenes seen in the sixty-year-old franchise.
“The way it was edited, we tried to use as much of those remarkable stunts as we could, but we then came in to supplement. Maybe there was an angle that they didn’t quite capture that the director wanted. It’s very fast paced, so a lot of our shots slot into this high pace, high action, very “frenetic” sequence. I think when you look back at the body of work, you’d be quite pushed to see any of the shots that actually stood out as visual effects shots. I’ve worked on a couple of Bond films, and it’s always about creating effects that are seamless to the viewer, which as a visual effects artist is absolutely what I strive for. I’m really passionate about those really truly invisible effects.”
The article goes to show how ILM’s work doesn’t always need to be front and centre in the shot but can help maintain the illusion of film everything as live action whilst not compromising on the director’s creative vision.
Mark has been a fan of the saga since the early 1990s after rediscovering the original trilogy on VHS and dived right into the first Grand Admiral Thrawn Trilogy, he has been an avid Star Wars reader ever since. He’s been a member of the Star Wars costuming community since 2007 when he joined the Rebel Legion’s Elstree Base, the Base he now runs as Base Commanding Officer as well as also being a member of both the 501st UK Garrison and the Mandalorian Mercs Vok Chi clan here in the UK.
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