One of a handful of videos I directed for this band. This was shot with no budget at all across a number of weekends in central London. Of course, London is never empty so I did a lot of painting out of people, taxis and buses. I turned off the screens in Piccadilly Circus and all street lamps and shop window lighting, tracked in a load of demolition tape and then comped the explosions from the news footage of the US “shock & awe” bombing of Baghdad onto the view of London from Parliament hill (And knocked over the Shard – which had been completed that week). I also replaced all of the skies with moody clouds to hide the fact that the weather was different every day that we shot.
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W.I.C - 'Nowhere Flag'
Director: Leo Weston
Camera: Alex Pyper
Editor: Leo Weston
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Jack Mcginity
Hyundi - 'Big'
A car drives past loads of stuff that is big. Most of the VFX work was done by Matt Jackson. I comped the sequence with the chandelier above the roundabout.
Agency: M & C Saatchi
Creative Director: Simon Dicketts
Production Company: Serious Pictures
Director: John Pardue
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Matt Jackson & Leo Weston
Al Jazeera - 'Stars'
This was created entirely out of stills and a load of paint flying around.
Director: GotGotNeed
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Matt Jackson & Leo Weston
Biffy Clyro - 'Many of Horror'
The facial effects in this music video were created through a combination of warping frame cut plates and light effects. Great track.
Director: Andy Morahan
Production Company: Bikini
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston , Matt Jackson, Rufus Blackwell
W.I.C - '100 Years'
One of several videos we made for the band Whales in Cubicles. This one features the band performing with TVs for heads.
Directors: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson
Post Production Company: Rushes
Editor: Matt Jackson
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson
Annie Lennox - 'Shining Light'
Annie Lennox x 5 performs a cover of Ash’s hit ‘Shining Light’. We keyed and rotoscoped the various motion control plates together and added lens flares, glows and other coloured lighting effects.
Director: Phil Griffin
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Kings of Leon - 'Notion'
Kings of Leon play in an exploding building, Weirdly this is the single AFTER “Sex on Fire”. Directed by Phil Griffin. All of these effects shots were filmed on green screen. A back plate of a wall falling down in stages was also shot separately, along with some rubble and falling brick plates. No fire, flames, embers or explosions were filmed on set. We added all of that in Flame. In fact, I even shot some of the exploding coal elements you see hitting the floor in the wides in my back garden after a barbeque.
Director: Phil Griffin
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston , Adam Watson, Matt Jackson
By leo Posted on September 1, 2009 in Concert Visuals, Director, SD, VFX Artist, VFX Supervisor, Work
Muse - 'Space Dementia' (Concert Visual)
This is one of the first (of many) concert visuals I created for the band Muse. There was no 3D CGI package used for this. Just Flame. At the time I made this, it was definitely pushing Flame’s (and mine) 3D abilities to the maximum – not least because it’s all one shot and is over 6 minutes long. This was conceived, directed and executed by me and luckily the band liked it. They don’t really play this track live much anymore so this visual is long dead – so I think I’m safe to put it online by now. It’s all basic sphere geometries wrapped with planet textures, and then a particle generator creating the trails for the light streaks. I like the end when we discover that the universe is all contained within a big glass orb (which is in fact one of my acrylic juggling balls I had lying around). Although at the time way better 3D was possible on other platforms and now the 3D capabilities of Flame have massively advanced, looking back, I’m still pretty proud of this.
Production Company: Banoffee Sky
Directed: Leo Weston
Post Production Company: Rushes
Visual Effects: Leo Weston
Executive Producer: Tom Kirk
By leo Posted on September 1, 2009 in Concert Visuals, Director, SD, VFX Artist, VFX Supervisor, Work
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Muse - 'Map of the Problematique' (Concert Visual)
Another concert visual I made for Muse.
Production Company: Banoffee Sky
Directed: Leo Weston
Post Production Company: Rushes
Visual Effects: Leo Weston
Executive Producer: Tom Kirk
By leo Posted on September 1, 2009 in Concert Visuals, Director, SD, VFX Artist, VFX Supervisor, Work
Muse - 'Newborn' (Concert Visual)
Another concert visual for Muse. Again made entirely in Flame. I was inspired to make this by the opening titles and set design of Stephen Fry’s ‘QI’.
Production Company: Banoffee Sky
Directed: Leo Weston
Post Production Company: Rushes
Visual Effects: Leo Weston
Executive Producer: Tom Kirk
