Posted by marcoadmin in on June 14, 2022
"Ad Astra" has been such a nice surprise for me. As a start, the whole VFX production of the film was supposed to happen in a different location. Hence, I knew very little about the project, until I received a phone call from the VFX supervisor. He explained what they were trying to achieve and [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on February 20, 2017
Since I loved working on Prometheus, I was very excited at the prospect of contributing to its sequel: Alien Covenant. Despite the fact that I knew it would have been a much more marginal involvement, as this time the bulk of the work was supposed to be done by the MPC Montreal office...and...I was about [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on December 21, 2016
As most of my colleagues, I'm very passionate about Sci-Fi and 'Passengers' has been a very enjoyable experience, which gave me the opportunity to go back to a couple of subjects I hold very dear: Space and Spaceships In fact, these two things were the subjects of two of my very first attempts to create [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on April 15, 2016
Jungle Book has been an incredible endeavour for the London based team at MPC, one that pushed all of us above and beyond what we had done before for scale and complexity. A lot of technology has been created and implemented into the pipeline and new ways of working have been tried, becoming the blueprint [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on August 13, 2015
Who had the pleasure of working on a Marvel movie, probably knows that this studio is use to keep the creative process fluid until the very end of the show. Early decisions are kept open for changes and new directions are often taken, sometimes steering entire sequences of the film away from the original concept [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on May 2, 2015
300 : Rise of an empire is based on the latest Frank Miller graphic novel and follows the visual style of the first film from 2006. Originally the VFX were supposed to be provided mainly by Rhythm & Hues studios, but when the company -sadly- filed for bankruptcy and all the work was confiscated by [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on April 28, 2015
Prometheus has been the show in which Ridley Scott came back to the Sci-Fi genre after delivering master pieces such as Blade Runner and Alien. Hence everyone involved was determined to make a new masterpiece and I rarely saw the same amount of excitement and drive. We also felt that the project was a unique [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on October 22, 2011
Delivering a trailer is always good fun, as often the clients pick some very big shots to tease the audience and publicly declare how epic their film is going to look like. Wrath of the Titans couldn't be an exception and this laborious shot with the main character and his son walking into a gigantic [...]
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Posted by marcoadmin in on December 15, 2010
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The third chapter of the Chronicles of Narnia "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was a 900+ shots project for MPC and this was the first time I was leading a team for them. At that time the company plan was to slowly introduce Nuke in the compositing department [...]
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