Taking a break from the news-o-rama of the reviews, press conferences and premieres for a moment, we wanted to direct you to a story in the LA Times about the effects for The Forbidden Kingdom!
More after the cut…
It’s a formidable image: The legendary Middle Kingdom, perched atop the looming, hand-shaped Five Element Mountain range of director Rob Minkoff’s martial arts epic, “The Forbidden Kingdom.” Atop the lowest of the five peaks sits the sinister palace, built of fitted stone, with five-tiered Asian temple-style roofs that grow progressively wider toward its base, which plunges about 25 floors down the cliff face.
Four FX houses — Illusion Arts, DTI, Macrograph and Svengali — worked together to invoke the fortress using the same digital model as a basis for their 3-D matte paintings, which had to line up seamlessly for certain scenes. Working from production designer Bill Brzeski’s concepts, matte artist Michelle Moen created a bible of continuity art that the companies followed.
Read more at the LA Times: ‘Digital wizardry makes a palace but the film’s artists make it look old and sinister’ by Ron Magid
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