Chris Godfrey, VFX supervisor on the film “The Great Gatsby, has released an amazing before and after reel so you can see the insertion of special effects. He writes:
Baz has graciously agreed to let us release this ‘before and afters’ reel to show our peer group the VFX work completed on his film ‘The Great Gatsby’. While this specific reel was the work of Animal Logic (as my primary vendor), in total I worked with 7 vendors including Animal Logic, Rising Sun and Iloura in Australia, ILM in San Francisco and also Prime Focus and Method Vancouver. We also ran an amazing internal SWAT team that completed over 400 shots. Congratulations to all who did such fabulous work on almost 1500 shots.
And it IS amazing:
The Great Gatsby VFX from Chris Godfrey on Vimeo.
Here are some other examples from movies:
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 before and after:
HBO’s John Adams:
Jurassic Park before and after:
Special effects of The Avenger:
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