Jaw Rip Shot
In this scene, Eric and Kate caught up with Talon, but they lost sight of him. While they look around, Talon attacks Eric. In this shot, Talon rips his jaw off with his bare hands. I composited the actor’s footage with his dummy head getting his jaw ripped and splashed with blood. I added blood and meat chunk elements to make the compositing seamless.
Wer(2013)
Wer is a 2013 American film directed by William Brent Bell and starring A.J. Cook as Kate, a defense attorney who discovers that her client Talan is a werewolf. Kate hires animal expert Dr. Gavin Flemyng. During an interview with Talan, Gavin is scratched by Talan while trying to shield Kate. In the middle of the medical examination, Talan escapes and kills everyone in the way. Gavin begins to feel ill from scratch and eventually gets the same affliction as Talan. Then he goes crazy and tries to speed up the process of becoming a werewolf himself by putting the werewolf’s DNA onto his eye. Finally, he becomes a werewolf and tries to stop Talon by fighting him in the climactic showdown scene at the end of the film. We were in charge of all of the Visual Effects for the entire film. I was the lead Compositor and worked on the most difficult shots in the film. This film has a lot of gore shots with blood and organs, and the director asked extreme effects for the gore. Therefore, we shot green screen elements of blood and organs squirting, splashing, dripping, etc from all angles and composited them with the plates of the Werewolf killing people in the fight scenes. We created our own original stock footage for gore elements. We used them for other movies and TV shows. Because I was working at the company that has both the Special Effects department and VFX department, I asked the makeup Artists to create and prepare for the practical effects. We shot the VFX elements at our own studio because we had good SFX artists and a lot of useful materials right beside us, so I could request them exactly what elements I wanted and how to do it for each shot. I supervised and shot the footage of them the way I thought would work the best so that I could composite them with the plates. Therefore, I could make custom-tailored elements designed for each shot. Some of the big Hero/Money Shots, the SFX artists make dummy heads, and the film crew or we shoot the Green Screen elements and composite them with the actors’ footage.
