PROJECT TYPE: Commercial Feature
PROJECT DURATION: 2 Years
ROLE: Visual Effect Supervisor, Compositor, Producer
SOFTWARE/TOOLS: Aftereffects, Maya, Mari, Nuke, Octanerender, Photoshop, PFTrack
RELEASE DATE: 2015
The Unkind is the first commercial feature from Bitwave Media/Defiant Films, it is a movie that ushered in a completely new VFX driven production workflow that has subsequently become production model.
The Unkind is the first local feature films to have all its CGI shots rendered exclusively on the GPU, it contains over 300 VFX shots and over 120 of those shots contained CG elements. The VFX shots ranged from set extensions, rig removal, day to night shots, sky replacements, gunfights, blood and gore and even some cosmetic VFX.
“I worked on over 300 shots which involved a considerable amount of work and stands as one of the most ambitious VFX undertakings in Nollywood…”
As the visual effects supervisor I was in charge of everything that had to do with VFX. I was responsible for collecting onset data (HDRIs, scene measurements, camera data, reference photos) and liaising with the director, cinematographer, production designer and other members of the team to ensure that scenes which would require posts are shot properly as well as ensuring that anything that could be done onset to aid the visual effects was done.
As the visual effects supervisor for the production and the movie being an in-house project that relied heavily on visual effects to accomplish a considerable amount of the intended visuals I also acted as a co-producer.