Invisible effects
Artifex performed several facial manipulation shots.
Stern says the director’s aim was for a realistic, moody and dark film. “He wasn’t really interested in herky jerky stuff, he wanted it to be be quite poetic, like he could be with cinematography and lighting. He didn’t want anything very overt.” Sole vendor Artifex ended up contributing a wide range of effects shots, from greenscreen comps to clean-up and wire removal, to more complicated facial manipulation and creature work for CG moths and for glimpses of the demon – known as Abizo – which possesses the main character, Em (Natasha Calis).
One facial manipulation shot involved Em turning to camera with her mother’s boyfriend over her shoulder. “He’s standing oblivious as she turns around to us,” says Stern, “and we see her eyes start rolling back and this hand starts crawling up underneath her skin up her neck and into her face. The hand was animated in Maya and it drove Maya cloth, and that was sent to comp. We used the Maya cloth sim and a sequence of OBJs from Maya to generate and drive UV maps and occlusion in Nuke.”
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