G20
Production Supervisor - Sean H Farrow
Terrorists take over the G20 summit with President Sutton, bringing her governing and military experience to defend her family, company, and the world.
Multiple action sequences and location extensions using real and CG elements executed by 8 VFX Vendors - a movie that survived 2 strikes!
BLOWING UP AN ICON
Farrow was tasked with blowing up yet another Presidential Limo, after London Has Fallen, this new version provided different challenges to "destroy" the most protected car in the world.
He Pre-Viz'd and choreographed every shot in the sequence regardless of whether the execution was CG or 2nd Unit night shoot, so everyone had all the info to get everything required in camera before VFX started work.
Farrow designed the methodology of using the custom built "pole-truck" so each camera would follow the correct height of the exploding car using LED and on-set lighting cues.
VFX also employed combustion and explosive scientists to bring as much realism to a crazy physical event.
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Production Supervisor - Sean H Farrow
The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
Dozens of location extensions and enhancements, extensive Soldiery and war enhancements, and period Fireworks across 4 epic episodes.
CATHERINES BOAT
Catherine famously took a trip down the Dneiper River on her boat followed by a flotilla.
Starting in the wintery North and ending in the Crimea revealing a Russian Navy fleet.
Farrows team spent four weeks in Croatia and Sweden shooting plates and references to replace the bluescreen set-build of Catherines boat.
CG Flotilla and extensive Ice FX work as well as atmospherics all contributed to the pallette and feel of the journey south.
TOTAL RECALL
Vendor Supervisor - Sean H Farrow
As a Vendor Supervisor Sean and his team at Lipsync VFX tackled a handful of sequences in the movie, designing graphic, gadgets and tattoo FX contributing to the overall show.
KILL CODE
Near the end of post production Sean and his team was challenged with designing the “Kill Code” sequence in Total Recall.
Sean created the editorial story-telling beats and the accompanying visuals and final look all in parallel due to the short turn around.
The sequence comprised of 10 carefully choreographed sets of animated holographic screens telling the story of memory extraction, decryption and destruction.
All of which was not only Supervised, but also design from drawings, animated and developed by Farrow.
