
VFX Legion Creates Effects For Welcome to Blumhouse' Film, Black Box'
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Brie Clayton January 12, 2021
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The LA/B.C. Company produces 200 effects for the sci-fi/thriller, for Welcome to Blumhouse,' an anthology of theme-related films marking Amazon Prime's first global to service deal.
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VFX Legion created over 200 visual effects for Black Box,' one of the series of films in the Welcome to Blumhouse' anthology that tapped the LA/B.C.-based company's end-to-end services. The thematically connected package of dark genre movies marks Amazon's first-ever global direct to services deal.
Director/Writer Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.'s psychological thriller is the story of Noland (Mamoudou Athie), an amnesiac desperate to return to his former self. Dr. Brooks (Phylicia Rashad) offers to help the main character regain his memory with the Black Box, an experimental device that immerses him in virtual memories of pivotal life events.
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Dylan Yastremski, Head of Production at VFX Legion's studio in British Columbia, managed all of the effects for the film. VFX Supervisor James David Hattin and Head of Production and Nate Smalley oversaw the B.C. studio from Los Angeles, seamlessly interfacing with the director, on-set supervisor, and the pioneering remote company's team of work-from-home artists based throughout B.C., and the world.
Close creative collaboration with Emmanuel was critical to bringing his very specific vision to life, says Hattin. Working from the director's original concepts, we delivered a large volume of effects including some very complicated sequences in less than four weeks.
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Throughout the procedure Dr. Brooks tracks data on medical monitors as electrodes transmit fluxes in her patient's brain activity. Guided by the detailed readouts, she controls the Black Box, immersing him deeper into virtual memories and extracting him when vital signs reach dangerous levels. VFX Legion created animated story-driven screen replacements mirroring the look of state-of-the-art medical monitors.
The treatment begins with a computer-generated environment that takes shape as Nolan looks into the Black Box. Artists defined the digital space with CG grid patterns positioned to create the illusion of a three-dimensional space. A plus sign appears at its center, moving back and forth with increasing speed as it deconstructs into lines that emanate light and exit the environment.
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The illuminated bars change shape, outlining faintly visible objects as practical footage reveals the new surroundings with photorealistic clarity. This safe room' materializes throughout the film, interfacing with environments where events manifested by the Black Box play out. Legion's team animated these cyberspaces into existence using elements created for the staging area' with 3D tools in After Effects.
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The film called for transitional effects with distinct looks that snaps Nolan into a series of memories. For one of the passages, artists merged elements from two green screen sho
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