Method studios

Simon Carr 

Visual effects supervisor, method studios.

Based in London, Method Studios have worked on many VFX projects including the recent Exodus gods and kings. this is the run down of how the studio were involved in the production!

There are 55 Artists in which this number is gradually growing. the reason for the growth is down to the amount of shots that the studio has to deal with.

For exodus, there were 162 shots that the studio had to composite and add effects. this was achieved using a number of software's:

Maya

Hudini, for effects

Mari, for textures

Z-Brush

Nuke, for compositing

The studio were responsible for adjusting the footage to make it more like what the director had visualised. for example, one shot was of a field of dead goats, and the director asked them to include more dead goats, so through a process of compositing and 3D modelling and texturing and corrections, they added CG elements to create the visuals that the director wants.

So in this presentation I really only learnt about how these companies use different processes in the VFX world, and an insight as to which programmes they use to achieve different effects. programme specific effects. and I did learn some valuable names, these I will research into further.