Among the absolutely fascinating things you’ll learn from this video put together by Brainstorm Digital, the VFX firm behind Boardwalk Empire, is that Richard Harrow’s face is done in post-production, and that virtually the entire set is green screen. It’s hard to know how good a visual effects team is until you see the before and after images, and the video (after the links) is eye-opening.
The 12-ish Best Films of 2012 — (Film Drunk)
How Every Character On ‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Known Colloquially — (UPROXX)
GQ Sent A Reporter To Hang Out With Female Raider Fans, And I’m In Love — (With Leather)
A Compendium Of Cool Comics Cosplay: Best Of 2012 — (Gamma Squad)
The 2012 Finale: 112 Unforgettable Songs We Enjoyed — (Smoking Section)
The 2012 Least Bowl Roster — (Kissing Suzy Kolber)
The 15 Pop Culture Moments That Made Us Cry in 2012 — (Pajiba)
Steve Martin Has A Pretty Snazzy Pair Of New Shoes — (Buzzfeed)
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Six Secondary Video Game Characters Who Should Have Their Own Games — (Unreality)
Jenny McCarthy Made Out With a Sailor Who Might Have Herpes — (Hypervocal)
10 Wisdom Nuggets (From Nickelodeon Sitcoms) — (Smosh)
Cindy Crawford is pictured spraying champagne all over her body before taking a swig and letting it dribble down her face. — (Fark)
How to Put Out a Boat Fire Like a Boss — (Brobible)
The Photographs Behind Norman Rockwell’s Illustrations — (High Definite)
Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 2 from Brainstorm Digital on Vimeo.
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Such a great show, I always forget how much of it is done in VFX. Next video should focus on the effects used to make Michael Shannon creep/scare the piss out of me so much.
I’m so disillusioned. I just assumed they destroyed half of Jack Huston’s face for the role.
Of all of those things I think Harrow’s face is the least impressive. There was another really cool VFX demo reel that blew me away as well because I just had no idea how many things that look like a perfectly normal shot of someone walking down the street in New York for 4 seconds are actually a person walking in front of a piece of green cloth on a sound stage.
Really, it’s the attention to little things like adding two ladies tanning on the beach in an establishing shot that makes you think “oh there’s no way there are any VFX involved in that shot…” Makes Avatar less and less impressive every day.
Pretty damn amazing video.
This came on yesterday and I nearly fell off my chair seeing Richard Harrow as a spokesman:
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Yeah, every time I see this commercial I wonder “hey, what happened to his face?”