Films, commercials and television drama, Visual Effects has ventured into all the spaces possible to enhance the visual outcome of various projects. Creating structures and destroying the same, both can be done using CGI and VFX techniques and recently, more than creation, destruction of various elements has taken the lead.
The iconic Mercer Arts Center performance space was made to collapse digitally in HBO’s TV series Vinyl. As the series is set in 1970s era of New York, VFX work included environmental enhancements for an authentic 70s aesthetic, including creating a CG theatre marquee, set extensions, matte paintings and covering a subway station with digital graffiti.
Deluxe’s Method Studios delivered approximately 250 VFX shots for this series which mainly included creating the graffiti walls of the subway station, trains and New York city.
Backgrounds, stores, street corners and various outlets were created digitally keeping the base reference which were visually pale and dull. The CGI work is subtle yet quite essential in order to depict the whole setting of the series.
VFX supervisor Jim Rider, CG supervisor John Kishaw and VFX producer Shaina Holmes led the visual effects work for this project. The HBO series has been created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen and Terence Winter debuted with a two-hour series directed by Scorsese.
