Brian Drewes
@BrianVFX
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Entrepreneur and VFX Supervisor. 2 exits, 1 via Google. Creative and technology / product consulting.
Boston, MA
Joined April 2014
Love it or hate it, you have to admit, it’s a new way to see tennis! . I oversaw all VFX on Challengers and thanks to great direction from Luca and amazing artists @ZeroVFX it’s unlike any sports movie ever made! . More breakdowns to come. Go watch the movie on Prime!!!
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RT @beforesmag: In-depth on face replacement, environments and that crazy tennis ball POV shot in 'Challengers' --> A new podcast with @Zer….
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RT @beforesmag: A brand new full VFX breakdown from @ZeroVFX for 'Challengers' is now out. I've added it to the @beforesmag coverage. Such….
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RT @zoegphillips: 'Challengers' VFX director @BrianVFX and his team stitched together 23 shots for the movie's viral 24-second tennis ball….
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VFX director Brian Drewes and his team stitched together 23 shots for the viral 24-second scene. "There's no reference for it in the real world," he says.
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Standing on the shoulders of giants!.
Before 3D printing there was the photo sculpture, a process invented in the XIX century for the reproducing subjects in 3-dimensions by taking a series of photos in the round. This is a 1939 footage . [📹 British Paté].
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RT @IndieWire: ‘Be the Ball’: Inside Those Crazy Tennis Ball POV Shots in ‘Challengers’
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‘Challengers’ VFX supervisor shows IndieWire how they pulled off Luca Guadadigno’s vision of the camera and tennis ball becoming one.
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RT @fasc1nate: The wreck of the Costa Concordia photographed in 2012. 32 people sadly lost their lives after the ship collided with a subme….
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RT @Dragonmaurizio: 🌬️ At some points chaos connects. In fluid dynamics Spectral Submanifolds (SSM) are continuations of a spectral subsp….
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Candidate for next week’s installment of “This Week in Balls”! @theallinpod @chamath @Jason @DavidSacks @friedberg.
Love it or hate it, you have to admit, it’s a new way to see tennis! . I oversaw all VFX on Challengers and thanks to great direction from Luca and amazing artists @ZeroVFX it’s unlike any sports movie ever made! . More breakdowns to come. Go watch the movie on Prime!!!
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Full CG takeovers were done to smooth camera motion and correct time of day changes. Stunt double faces were replaced with a combination of full CG heads and additional photography.
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•Highly detailed LiDar and photogrammetry scans of the tennis court environment were captured to help create the final models. 100+ actors and background extras were also photoscanned to populate the stands of our CG environment.
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•Filmed during a 5 hour window with an Arri Alexa LF on a 30' technocrane. •23 !!! individual shots were stitched together to create the final 24 second shot seen in the film.
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•Started with a previs pass, animated to the timing of an actual tennis volley, which was approved by Luca prior to filming. •Filming was overseen by the VFX team including VFX editorial support on set to confirm cut points were working as filming occurred.
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This is gonna be awesome.
First look at Dwayne Johnson in his A24 film ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’. Directed by Benny Safdie.
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