In this webinar, Florian Gellinger from RISE Visual Effects dissects one of their shots from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by director Chris Columbus. He walks us through the design process and Rise FX's use of NUKE and Sapphire to construct the the lightning bolt.
There are multiple layered effects involved - as illustrated in the image above. Florian will show us all the processes involved in making the shot work on screen. RISE Visual Effects were brought in to create some last-minute 3D environments and animate the title giving lightning bolt in numerous shots. The original reference design of the bolt came from Digital Domain and was then created at RISE Visual Effects using NUKE and the Sapphire plug-ins.
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Florian is an established friend of The Foundry having presented his work on This is Love for us at IBC in 2009. He was subsequently roped into our Stereo NUKE Master Class in March 2010 and is still coming back for more.
After working for several years as Compositor Florian Gellinger kick-started his career supervising the Visual Effects work on Oliver Twist by Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski at age 26. With a background in both 3D and Compositing he was an early supporter of NUKE. Two years later, in 2007, he founded RISE Visual Effects together with three friends in Berlin, Germany. Since then RISE has grown to become the biggest Visual Effects facility in Germany's capital with space for up to 60 artists and a second office in Cologne. His latest credits as VFX Supervisor include Chris Columbus' Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin and the critically acclaimed This is Love by director Matthias Glasner.