Tomorrowland
Partnering once again with Industrial, Light and Magic, we combined digital effects and miniatures shot in-house to deliver visual effects for a magical and futuristic world
50 Shots
67 Crew Members
3 Sequences
Project Info
Client
Director
Brad Bird
Distributor
Walt Disney Pictures
Overall VFX Supervisors
Craig Hammack
Eddie Paquarello
Overall VFX Producer
Tom C. Peitzman
Rodeo FX Crew
VFX Supervisors
Ara Khanikian
Xavier Fourmond
VFX Producer
Audrey Boivin
CG Supervisor
Mikaël Damant-Sirois
Compositing Supervisor
Xavier Fourmond
Our work on this film includes digital matte painting, bluescreen compositing, scene enhancements, CG effects and simulation, and a thrilling sequence in which the central characters escape in a rocket-propelled bathtub pod moments before their farmhouse explodes. The house, silo, pod, and its plasma trail are all CG, while the background environment is a digital matte painting.
We also created a sequence in which Frank, as a boy, flies using a jet pack, for which we replaced and enhanced the sky, added a CG jet trail, stitched plates, and added practical debris and particles to show the boy’s point-of-view as he flies through grass and over a fence, before crash-landing into a cornfield. For a sequence with the principal characters in the Eiffel Tower, we took plates of actors shot against a bluescreen, then stitched live plates from the production shoot in Paris and re-projected them as a matte painting.