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The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Disney brings in two VFX Supervisors to break CGI barriers in the second Narnia.
o create the sophisticated and demanding CGI effects for Prince Caspian, the recently released second film in the Chronicles of Narnia series from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, required not just one but two top visual effects supervisors—Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers. The duo, worked relentlessly for nearly two years to oversee the intricately synchronized efforts of over 1,000 digital artists working all over the world.
In Caspian, the Pevensie children are whisked from a London subway station in World War II back to Narnia. To their amazement 1,300 years have passed. In the film, more epic and darker than its predecessor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the kids join the Prince and a legion of Narnians and forest creatures to take back the kingdom from King Miraz and his hordes of Telmarines in a climactic battle. Wright and Rogers recently talked with CGSociety.org about the enormity of the challenge in creating the CG world of Caspian, with digital effects far more complex than what was required for the first Narnia.
“This is one of the biggest visual-effects films ever made,” declared Wright, who was also the VFX supervisor on Wardrobe, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for best achievement in visual effects along with his team. Caspian required 1,800 VFX shots, compared with some 1,600 for its predecessor. “But the order of complexity increased fourfold,” said Wright. “The amount of work itself was much greater, and we had less time to do it.”
To meet director Andrew Adamson’s exacting requirements and deadlines, Wright added Rogers as a co-supervisor for VFX. Her collaboration with Adamson, who helmed and scripted both of the Narnia films, goes back 15 years. She last worked with Adamson on Shrek, which he also directed. With an extensive background in computer animation, Rogers spent most of the last decade working at Dreamworks Animation in Los Angeles. Most recently she was visual effects supervisor on Flushed Away.
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