Blackmagic Design today announced that LA based Muse VFX uses Fusion Studio for their VFX work on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, the hit television show from El Rey Network and Miramax .
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series centers on the story of the Gecko Brothers and expands on the horror film franchise developed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. In a world filled with crime and Culebras (immortal reptilian vampires), the television series requires skilled VFX work from the team at Muse VFX. Tackling every thing from Culebra transformations, blood splattered scenes and vampire immolations, the Muse VFX team uses Fusion Studio and Generation, Fusions multi-user management software, as the backbone for its pipeline.
Episodic work requires feature film quality, said Fred Pienkos, founder and VFX supervisor. Fusion has a long track record of being fast and scalable, giving the highest quality results with the quickest rendering and processing and that still holds true. That type of productivity and intuitiveness in our tools is whats needed to keep pace with todays post production schedules.
Operating as a tight knit team, Muse VFX is owned and run by artists.
The Hollywood VFX boutique tackles big work without having to have a huge team, and relies on Fusions customization abilities to collaborate and speed up the VFX process. With Fusion, they are able to design an effect and then efficiently repurpose the nodes, macros and elements across the team and project to maintain high quality and consistency from shot to shot.
The combination of good special effects and visual effects always leads to the best results, said John Gross, founder and Creative Director. On From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, the make up FX team did a fantastic job designing the Culebra look. One of our jobs with Fusion is to handle the transition from human to Culebra both seamlessly and believably, mixing reality with the supernatural.
Its also up to us to tackle the non-practical blood. With horror at its core, blood is a large part of the shows storytelling. It can be subtle or hit the audience over the head, but its look has to be consistent and authentic throughout the series. There was attention given to trying to get the color exactly right and Fusion guarantees the blood will be the exact crimson color that we need every time, regardless of the different environments and lighting conditions added Pienkos.
Recently, the Muse VFX team was challenged with a particularly tricky scene that required a CG shot of an eight foot long, two headed snake. An actress was shot holding a real snake and then the Muse VFX team was charged with replacing its tail with a secondary head.
Doing VFX for half of the snake posed certain challenges because it had to match the lighting and coloring of the real half, down to how light refracted off its scales, explained Pienkos. Whats nice about using Fusion is the stability and speed, empowering us to get things done. Without having to worry about technical issues, were able to focus on the task at hand in this case, a mythical and mysterious serpent.
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Blackmagic Design today announced that LA based Muse VFX uses Fusion Studio for their VFX work on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, the hit television show from El Rey Network and Miramax . 
