If your in the UK, then tonight on Film 4’s terrestrial television channel is one of my favourite films, The Hurt Locker. This explosive, war film is beautifully shot and carefully crafted from director Kathryn Bigelow. (Famous for Point Break) The film focuses on a US Army bomb-disposal team.
But what has this got to do with a 3ds Max blog?
Well, this 2008 Oscar-winning movie features some amazing VFX from Encore Hollywood. Tom Kendall is the VFX Producer at Encore, and worked with most of the 3d elements in the movie. You can find out more about him here. (I would also recommend having a look at Encore’s VFX showreel here.)
To read a full interview on the considerations and the processes involved, as well as the Autodesk applications used, (Smoke, Inferno, 3ds Max) then click below. For those of you pushed for time, then this quote from Tom says it all:
“For any work that involved any kind of 3D manipulation at all we used 3D Studio Max.”
Full article here.
Happy Max’ing
