Tag: post production

Cadbury's Cream Eggs - 'Gala'

A visit to the 3D cinema turns to mayhem when all the eggs in attendance embark on a mass suicide with inevitable gooey results. A lot of this was ‘in camera’ stop frame animation. We smoothed out some of the moves and added the finishing touches like camera flashes, steam, reflections, 3D tracked exploding ‘Goo’ text and goo. Loads of goo. Goo on the lens. Goo on the walls. Goo. (If you have some 3D glasses handy, the Ready, Steady, Goo text is actually fully stereoscopic)

Prod Comp: Partizan
Director: Chris Cairns
Post Production Company: Rushes
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

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

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

ERT - 'Shadows'

One of a series of channel brand idents made by Red Bee for the Greek TV channel ERT. I shot the birds for this in Trafalgar Square on my own camera and transformed them into the shadows that are in the final comp.

Creative: Red Bee
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

ERT - 'Lanterns'

One of a series of channel brand idents made by Red Bee for the Greek TV channel ERT.

Creative: Red Bee
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Mother Of Pearl - 'Spring Summer '09'

Promo for the Spring Summer collection of Mother of Pearl. I combined multiple plates of hi speed phantom footage, extended the water out to cover a larger surface area and added light effects.

Agency: RSA Films
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Discovery - 'Chop Shop'

Promo for the series “Chop Shop” on Discovery channel. One shit car transforms into something a bit more swish looking. Lots of sparks and flickery wipes.

Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Matt Jackson & Leo Weston

Enel - 'Working for the Future'

Commercial for the energy company ENEL created from stock footage with a variety of VFX across the spot.

Post Production Company: Rushes
Visual Effects: Leo Weston & Marcus Wood